List of Famous people who died in 1940

Edwin Carewe was an American motion picture director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. His birth name was Jay John Fox; he was born in Gainesville, Texas.

Eisuke Yoshiyuki was a Japanese author.

Fernand Sabatté was a French painter and sculptor who is best known for his architectural painting and portrait work, as well as salvaging church monuments and bombed out churches in the zone rouge during World War One.

George Periolat was an American actor.

George Thomas Regas was a Greek American actor.

William Anthony McGuire was an American playwright, theatre director, and producer and screenwriter, including The Kid From Spain (1932) starring Eddie Cantor. McGuire earned an Oscar nomination for the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld, the Best Picture Oscar winner of 1936.

Gladys Buchanan Unger was an American author who also lived in England, and who wrote plays for Broadway and the West End, as well as screenplays for Hollywood.

Lieutenant Colonel Magnus Peder Wilhelm Dyrssen was a Swedish Army officer. Dyrssen is best known as one of the initiators of the Swedish Volunteer Corps during the Winter War in Finland where he was killed in action.