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Eldar- various of the eldren "space elves" from various Michael moorecock's books
pretty much all of the chaos gods and forces, the chaos from Michael moorecocks books again as with the elder with only slight name variations
Look at the older catalogues and you'll notice that they actually even used to sell eternal champion models. they pulled a LOT from his books. to be honest, read through some of his books anyway, they are good reads and you'll ind a lot of ways he influenced fantasy as well. One of the old GW novelcovers actually is a scene from a hwkmoon book featuring Baron Malaidious.
arbites-judge Dredd.

read a few of the moorecock novels. try the hawkmoon trilogy and elric. You will see khorne and slannesh. I can see lovecraft for nurgle and tzeentch. Like I said, those are good reads in their own right and you will see fantasy and 40k in a whole new light.

Chaos is lifted straight out of Michael Moorecock's eternal champions books. They use the same iconography, symbols, personalities and only slight change in spellings.
The same goes for the elder which are also pulled from the same source, same imagery, same everything (aloof space elves) with only the slight name spelling difference of going from eldren to elder.

Those who have ben around since the beginning of GW will know that they don't even try to hde or deny this. Many of the models and such even started out as eternal champion models that were later renamed. Look at the high elves and melnibonians as an example of this.