Celebrity Deaths 1940-1949

Paying tribute to the famous people we've lost from 1940-1949 – in memoriam

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Hint	Year	Answer
The author of The Great Gatsby	1940	F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lenin's right-hand man	1940	Leon Trotsky
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940	1940	Neville Chamberlain
Author of Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake	1941	James Joyce
The ruler of Germany during World War I	1941	Kaiser Wilhelm II
Author of A Room Of One's Own	1941	Virginia Woolf
Indian polymath and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature	1941	Rabindranath Tagore
Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927	1942	José Raúl Capablanca
The electrical genius who invented alternating current	1943	Nikola Tesla
Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor	1943	Isoroku Yamamoto
Creator of the Peter Rabbit children's books	1943	Beatrix Potter
Author of The Little Prince	1944	Antoine de Saint Exupéry
"The Desert Fox" of World War II	1944	Erwin Rommel
The leader of Nazi Germany during World War II	1945	Adolf Hitler
Longtime companion and later the wife of the leader of Nazi Germany	1945	Eva Braun
German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage	1945	Anne Frank
The president who led the U.S. through World War II	1945	Franklin Roosevelt
Italy's dictator during World War II	1945	Benito Mussolini
Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945	1945	Joseph Goebbels
US Army general who commanded in the Mediterranean theatre in WWII	1945	George S. Patton
Head of the Gestapo during World War II	1945	Heinrich Himmler
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922	1945	David Lloyd George
Commander of the Nazi Luftwaffe in World War II	1946	Hermann Göring
American gangster known as "Scarface"	1947	Al Capone
German physicist who originated quantum theory	1947	Max Planck
American industrialist, business magnate and founder of a Motor Company	1947	Henry Ford
Non-violent leader of Indian independence	1948	Mahatma Gandhi
New York Yankee hero and home run king	1948	Babe Ruth
Serbian physicist and mathematician and the first wife of Albert Einstein	1948	Mileva Marić
German composer who shares the last name with more famous Johann	1949	Richard Strauss

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