Editing 1940 (section)

===June===
[[File:ArthurHarden.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Arthur Harden]]]]
[[File:Janusz Kusociński.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Janusz Kusocinski]]]]
[[File:Paul Klee 1911.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Paul Klee]]]]
*[[June 7]]
**[[James Hall (actor)|James Hall]], American actor (b. [[1900]])
**[[Hugh Rodman]], American admiral (b. [[1859]])
*[[June 10]] 
**[[Marcus Garvey]], Jamaican-born publisher, entrepreneur and black nationalist (b. [[1887]])
**[[Thomas Hudson Beare|Sir Thomas Hudson Beare]], British engineer (b. [[1859]])
*[[June 11]] – [[Alfred S. Alschuler]], American [[architect]] (b. [[1876]])
*[[June 13]] – [[George Fitzmaurice]], American director (b. [[1885]])
*[[June 12]] – [[William Lashly]], English sailor (b. [[1867]])
*[[June 14]] 
**[[Henry W. Antheil Jr.]], American diplomat (b. [[1912]])
**[[Alice Golsen]], German quantum physicist (b. [[1889]])
*[[June 17]] – [[Arthur Harden|Sir Arthur Harden]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1865]])
*[[June 19]] – [[Maurice Jaubert]], French composer (b. [[1900]])
*[[June 20]] – [[Charley Chase]], American comedian (b. [[1893]])
*[[June 21]]
**[[Smedley Butler]], U.S. general (b. [[1881]])
**[[Janusz Kusociński]], Polish athlete (killed in action) (b. [[1907]])
**[[John T. Thompson]], United States Army officer, inventor of the [[Thompson gun]] (b. [[1860]])
**[[Édouard Vuillard]], French painter (b. [[1868]])
*[[June 22]] 
**[[Walter Hasenclever]], German poet and playwright (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Taussig |first=Michael |date=April 13, 2010 |title=Walter Benjamin's Grave |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ki6fD2DUZP8C&pg=PT24 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |page=12 |isbn=978-0226790008}}</ref>
**[[Wladimir Köppen]], Russian-born German geographer and climatologist (b. [[1846]])
*[[June 15]] – [[J. B. Johnson (Florida politician)|J. B. Johnson]], American attorney and politician (b. [[1868]])
*[[June 28]] – [[Italo Balbo]], Italian Fascist leader (b. [[1896]])
*[[June 29]] – [[Paul Klee]], Swiss artist (b. [[1879]])