Editing 1940 (section)

===August===

[[File:Trotsky Portrait.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Leon Trotsky]]]]
[[File:paul-nipkow.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Paul Nipkow]]]]
[[File:J.J Thomson.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[J. J. Thomson]]]]
*[[August 1]] – [[Temulji Bhicaji Nariman]], Indian physician and [[Obstetrics|obstetrician]] (b. [[1848]])
*[[August 3]]
** [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]], Russian Zionist philosopher and intellectual (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ze-ev-vladimir-jabotinsky|title=Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>
** [[Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV]], Indian royal, Maharajah of Mysore (b. [[1884]])
*[[August 4]] – [[Joaquina Maria Mercedes Barcelo Pages]], Filipino [[Roman Catholic]] nun and venerable (b. [[1857]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Frederick Cook]], American explorer (b. [[1865]])
*[[August 8]] – [[Johnny Dodds]], American jazz clarinetist (b. [[1892]])
*[[August 13]]
**[[James Fairbairn]], Australian pastoralist, aviator and politician (b. [[1897]])
**Sir [[Henry Gullett]], Australian politician (b. [[1878]])
**[[Geoffrey Street]], Australian politician (b. [[1894]])
**Sir [[Brudenell White]], Australian general (b. [[1876]])
*[[August 16]] – [[Henri Desgrange]], French racing cyclist and founder of the [[Tour de France]] (b. [[1865]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eurosport.fr/cyclisme/tour-de-france/2020/cyclisme-henri-desgrange-laccoucheur-du-tour_sto7840270/story.shtml|title=Cyclisme : Henri Desgrange, l'accoucheur du Tour|date=August 16, 2020|website=Eurosport}}</ref>
*[[August 18]] – [[Walter Chrysler]], American automobile pioneer (b. [[1875]])
*[[August 21]] – [[Leon Trotsky]], Russian communist revolutionary (assassinated) (b. [[1879]])
*[[August 22]]
**Sir [[Oliver Lodge]], British physicist (b. [[1851]])
**[[Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland]], Maltese politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Malta]], 23rd Governor of New South Wales, 15th Governor of Western Australia and 9th Governor of Tasmania (b. [[1861]])
**[[Mary Vaux Walcott]], American artist, naturalist (b. [[1860]])
*[[August 24]] – [[Paul Gottlieb Nipkow]], German technician and inventor (b. [[1860]])
*[[August 28]] – [[William Bowie (engineer)|William Bowie]], American geodetic engineer (b. [[1872]])
*[[August 30]]
**[[Thomas Snow (British Army officer)|Sir Thomas Snow]], British army general (b. [[1858]])
**[[J. J. Thomson]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1856]])
*[[August 31]]
**[[Ernest Lundeen]], American lawyer, politician (b. [[1878]])
**[[DeLancey W. Gill]], American landscape painter, photographer (b. [[1859]])