List of Famous people who died in 1940

Erik Gunnar Asplund was a Swedish architect, mostly known as a key representative of Nordic Classicism of the 1920s, and during the last decade of his life as a major proponent of the modernist style which made its breakthrough in Sweden at the Stockholm International Exhibition (1930). Asplund was professor of architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology from 1931. His appointment was marked by a lecture, later published under the title "Our architectonic concept of space." The Woodland Crematorium at Stockholm South Cemetery (1935-1940) is considered his finest work and one of the masterpieces of modern architecture.

Professor Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.

Robert William Theodore Gunther was a historian of science, zoologist, and founder of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

Thomas Edwin Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies. He was Hollywood's first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.

Charles Edgar du Perron, more commonly known as E. du Perron, was a famous and influential Dutch poet and author of Indo-European descent. He is best known for his literary acclaimed masterpiece Land van herkomst of 1935. Together with Menno ter Braak and Maurice Roelants he founded the short-lived, but influential literary magazine Forum in 1932.

Elizabeth Mary Rolleston, known as Mary Rolleston, was a New Zealand homemaker, political hostess and community leader.

Édouard Claparède was a Swiss neurologist, child psychologist, and educator.

Max Askanazy was a German-Swiss pathologist.

Dionisije Njaradi was a Yugoslavian Greek Catholic hierarch of Rusyn origin. He was auxiliary bishop and Apostolic Administrator from 1914 to 1920 and bishop from 1920 to 1940 of the Eastern Catholic Eparchy of Križevci and Apostolic Administrator of Slovak Catholic Eparchy of Prešov from 1922 to 1927.