Explore 3063 historical events from 1940–1949.
William Franklin Knox was an American politician, soldier, newspaper editor, and publisher. He was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936 and Secretary of the Navy unde…
Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1874)
Gottfried Wilhelm Bitzer was an American cinematographer, notable for his close association and work with D. W. Griffith.
Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (born 1872)
Pyotr Solomonovich Stolyarsky was a Soviet violinist and eminent pedagogue, honored as People's Artist of UkSSR (1939). He was a member of CPSU from 1939.
Pyotr Stolyarsky, Soviet violinist (born 1871)
Napoleon Soukatzidis was a Greek communist, trade unionist and one of the 200 prisoners executed at the firing range of the Athens suburb of Kaisariani by the Nazi occupation force…
Napoleon Soukatzidis, Greek communist and trade unionist (born 1909)
Themistoklis Diakidis was a Greek track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.
Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (born 1882)
Han Yong-un was a twentieth century Korean Buddhist reformer, poet, and independence activist against colonial rule. This name was his religious name, given by his meditation instr…
Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (born 1879)
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a British writer and literary critic who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monument…
Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (born 1863)
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)
Frederick Schiller Faust was an American writer known primarily for his Western stories using the pseudonym Max Brand. As Max Brand, he also created the popular fictional character…
Max Brand, American journalist and author (born 1892)
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)
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)
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)
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)