Timeline Saturday 16 March 1940

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Saturday 16 March 1940

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1858 – 1940 Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) Died 16 March 1940, aged 81 Swedish author of "The Wonderful Adventures of Nils" and "Gösta Berling's Saga". In 1909 she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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