Explore 4728 historical events from 1940–1949.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer, philanthropist, and statesman. As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the…
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (born 1860)
Yefim Moiseyevich Fomin was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately exec…
Yefim Fomin, Belarusian politician (born 1909)
Aleksander Tõnisson VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander during the Estonian War of Independence.
Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (born 1875)
Friedrich Karl Akel was an Estonian diplomat and politician who served as State Elder of Estonia in 1924.
Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (born 1871)
Antoni Marian Łomnicki was a Polish mathematician. He contributed to applied mathematics and cartography. He was the author of several textbooks of mathematics and was an influenti…
Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1881)
Moses Schorr, Polish: Mojżesz Schorr was a rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist. Schorr was an expert on the history of the Jews in Pol…
Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (born 1874)
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz's…
Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1890)
Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies.
Huntley Wright, English actor (born 1868)
Ilmar Raud was an Estonian chess master.
Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (born 1913)
Spiridon "Špiro" Bocarić was a Serb painter.
Špiro Bocarić, Serbian painter, victim of Genocide of Serbs
Lew Fields was an American actor, comedian, vaudeville star, theatre manager, and producer. Partnering with Joe Weber, they formed the comedy double-act of Weber and Fields. He als…
Lew Fields, American actor and producer (born 1867)
Bohdan Teodor Nestor Sylvestrovych Lepky was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist.
Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian poet and scholar (born 1872)
George Lyman Kittredge was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th cent…
George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (born 1860)
José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzáles was a Peruvian military aviator who posthumously became a national hero for his actions at the Battle of Zarumilla during the Ecuadorian–Peruvian Wa…
José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (born 1914)
Henri Léon Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between a…
Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (born 1875)
Hugo Celmiņš was a Latvian politician, a public employee, agronomist, twice the Prime Minister of Latvia. Arrested and deported to the USSR after the Soviet occupation of Latvia in…
Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1877)
Mihály Babits was a Hungarian poet, writer, essayist, and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927)…
Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (born 1883)
Richard (Richie) Goss (1915–1941) was an executed Irish Republican born to Patrick Goss and Margaret Clinton who had married at Inniskeen Roman Catholic Church In 1909. His parents…
Richard Goss, Executed Irish Republican (born 1915)
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governo…
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada…
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, was a New Zealand artist and art teacher, who spent the majority of his life in Dunedin. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, he was one of the…
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (born 1858)
Rabindranath Tagore, was a British Indian poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaiss…
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
Robert Peel was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire between 1883 and 1897. Primarily a left-arm spin bowler, Peel was also an effective l…
Bobby Peel, English cricketer and umpire (born 1857)
Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr. He volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in …
Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (born 1894)
Paul Sabatier was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard. Sabatier was honoured for his work i…
Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)