Explore 6096 historical events from 1940–1949.
George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, librettist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the…
George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)
Filip Mișea was an Aromanian activist, physician and politician. Mișea became an Ottoman deputy, with him and Nicolae Constantin Batzaria being the only Aromanians to ever enter th…
Filip Mișea, Aromanian activist, physician and politician (born 1873)
Christian Wirth was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of P…
Christian Wirth, German SS officer (born 1885)
Willem Jacob van Stockum was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity.
Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1910)
Erich Marcks was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He authored the first draft of the operational plan, Operation Draft East, for Operation Barbarossa, the inv…
Erich Marcks, German general (born 1891)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch was a French historian. He was a founding member of the Annales School of French social history. Bloch specialised in medieval history and published wid…
Marc Bloch, French historian and academic (born 1886)
Dénes Berinkey was a Hungarian jurist and politician who served as 21st Prime Minister of Hungary in the regime of Mihály Károlyi for two months in 1919.
Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1871)
George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls…
George Stinney, wrongfully convicted African-American teenager (born 1929)
María de Luz Flores Aceves, known by her stage name Lucha Reyes, was a Mexican singer and actress. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she was popular in the 1930s and 1940s and was call…
Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer and actress (born 1906)
Milan Hodža was a Slovak politician and journalist, serving from 1935 to 1938 as the prime minister of Czechoslovakia. As a proponent of regional integration, he was known for his …
Milan Hodža, Czech journalist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (born 1878)
Friedrich Karl Albert Dollmann was a German general during World War II who commanded the 7th Army during the Invasion of France and the early phases of the Allied invasion of Norm…
Friedrich Dollmann, German general (born 1882)
Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenwriter. Mayer wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe …
Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (born 1894)
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leni…
Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (born 1930)
Theodore Roosevelt III, often known as Theodore Jr., was an American brigadier general and politician. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Ro…
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (born 1887)
Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C., was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada.
Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (born 1885)
William James Sidis was an American child prodigy whose exceptional abilities in mathematics and languages made him one of the most famous intellectual prodigies of the early 20th …
William James Sidis, American mathematician and anthropologist (born 1898)
Thomas Sturge Moore was a British poet, author and artist.
Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1870)
Ludwig August Theodor Beck was a German general who served as Chief of the German General Staff from 1933 to 1938. Beck was one of the main conspirators of the 20 July plot to assa…
Ludwig Beck, German general (born 1880)
Mildred Harris was an American stage, film, and vaudeville actress during the early part of the 20th century. She began her career in the film industry as a child actress at age 10…
Mildred Harris, American actress (born 1901)
Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who is best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wol…
Claus von Stauffenberg, German soldier who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler (born 1907)
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (born 1900)
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who served as the second president of the Philippines from 19…
Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (born 1878)
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom severa…
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (born 1921)
Maurice Joseph Lawson Turnbull was a Welsh cricketer who played in nine Test matches for the England cricket team between 1930 and 1936.
Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (born 1906)