page_title: 1940
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Hessenin prinssi Friedrich Karl English: Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
context_page_description: 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
  A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
context_section_description: May 7 – George Lansbury, British Labour politician (b. 1859)
  May 11 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master (b. 1880)
  May 14 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
  May 15 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (b. 1902)
  May 16 – Zhang Zizhong, general of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army (b. 1891)
  May 19 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895)
  May 20 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
  May 24 – Louis Fles, Dutch businessman, activist and author (b. 1872)
  May 25 – Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
  May 26 – Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (b. 1906)
  May 27 – Bolesław Roja, Polish general (executed) (b. 1876)
  May 28
  Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
  Walter Connolly, American actor (b. 1887)
  May 29 – Mary Anderson, American stage actress (b. 1859)
caption: Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
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