Editing 1940 (section)

===October===
*[[October 5]]
**[[Ballington Booth]], American co-founder of Volunteers of America (b. [[1857]])
**[[Lincoln Loy McCandless]], Hawaiian politician, cattle rancher (b. [[1859]])
**[[Silvestre Revueltas]], Mexican composer (b. [[1899]])
*[[October 6]] – [[Michitarō Komatsubara]], Japanese general (b. [[1885]])
*[[October 8]]
**[[Robert Emden]], Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (b. [[1862]])
**[[Henry Head|Sir Henry Head]], English neurologist (b. [[1861]])
*[[October 9]] – [[Wilfred Grenfell|Sir Wilfred Grenfell]], English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. [[1865]])
*[[October 10]] – [[Berton Churchill]], Canadian actor (b. [[1876]])
*[[October 12]] – [[Tom Mix]], American actor (b. [[1880]])
*[[October 15]] – [[Lluís Companys]], President of the [[Generalitat of Catalonia]] (executed) (b. [[1882]])
*[[October 17]] – [[George Davis (baseball)|George Davis]], American baseball player, [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r (b. [[1870]])
*[[October 20]] – [[Gunnar Asplund]], Swedish architect (b. [[1885]])
*[[October 22]] – [[Charles Harington (British Army officer, born 1872)|Sir Charles Harington]], British general (b. [[1872]])