Explore 4729 historical events from 1940–1949.
Alice Charlotta Tegnér was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She is the foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the late 19th century and the first half of t…
Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (born 1864)
Joseph Gordon Coates served as the 21st prime minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928. He was the third successive Reform prime minister since 1912.
Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1878)
Leslie Howard Steiner, better known as Leslie Howard, was an English actor, director, producer, and writer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorke…
Leslie Howard, English actor, director, and producer (born 1893)
Wilfrid Berthold Jacob Israel was an Anglo-German businessman and philanthropist, born into a wealthy Anglo-German Jewish family, who was active in the rescue of Jews from Nazi Ger…
Wilfrid Israel, English-German businessman and philanthropist (born 1899)
Kosta Apostolov Solev, primarily known by his pen name Kočo Racin, was a Macedonian poet, writer and communist who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature. He is al…
Kočo Racin, Macedonian author and activist (born 1908)
Sava Kovačević was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement.
Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander and People's Hero of Yugoslavia (born 1905)
Ilias Degiannis was a Greek navy officer Resistance leader during the Axis occupation of Greece.
Elias Degiannis, Greek commander (born 1912)
Camille Roy was a Canadian priest and literary critic. He wrote extensively about the development of French-Canadian literature, and its importance in the promotion of French langu…
Camille Roy, Canadian priest and critic (born 1870)
Arthur Goldstein was a German journalist and communist politician.
Arthur Goldstein, German Jewish left-wing activist (c
Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian-American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He emigrated with his family to New York in 1923 at the age of 55 for professional opportunities, …
Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
Willem Johan Cornelis Arondéus was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam…
Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (born 1894)
Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader. Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promote…
Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (born 1881)
Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski was a Polish stage and film actor. He was a legendary figure in Polish cinema who had appeared in the earliest Polish films in 1902. Junosza-Stępowski w…
Kazimierz Junosza-Stępowski, Polish actor (born 1880)
Karin Swanström was a Swedish actress, producer and director.
Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer (born 1873)
Jean Pierre Moulin was a French civil servant and hero of the French Resistance who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the Resistance in World War II. He served as the firs…
Jean Moulin, French soldier and leader of the French Resistance (born 1899)
Saul Raphael Landau was a Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist.
Saul Raphael Landau, Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist (born 1870)
Yekaterina Vasilyevna Budanova, nicknamed Katya (Катя), was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Usually credited with five or more aerial victories, along …
Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (born 1916)
Carlo Zangarini i was an Italian librettist, poet, and academic. He lived his entire life in the city of Bologna, and is best remembered today for penning the libretti for the oper…
Carlo Zangarini, Italian poet and opera librettist (born 1873)
Charles William Paddock was an American athlete and two-time Olympic champion.
Charley Paddock, American runner and actor (born 1900)
Louis Vauxcelles was a French art critic. He is credited with coining the terms Fauvism (1905) and Cubism (1908). He used several pseudonyms in various publications: Pinturrichio, …
Louis Vauxcelles, French art critic (born 1870)
Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket…
Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (born 1905)
Chaïm Soutine was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris…
Chaïm Soutine, Belarusian-French painter and educator (born 1893)
Vittorio Sella was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, whose photographs of mountains are regarded as some of the finest ever made.
Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (born 1859)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from thirteen …
Lydia Litvyak, Soviet lieutenant and pilot (born 1921)