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1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1940 - Births. See also Category:1940 births January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989) January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater < ...

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1940 - March-April

1940 - May-July

1940 - August-December

1940 - Date unknown

1940 - Nobel Prizes

1940, 1940 - August-December, 1940 - Births, 1940 - Date unknown, 1940 - Deaths, 1940 - March-April, 1940 - May-July, 1940 - Nobel Prizes

1940: Encyclopedia - 1940

1940

1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).

1940 - Births

See also Category:1940 births

January 4 - Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 4 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 6 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
January 14 - Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
January 20 - Carol Heiss, American figure skater
January 22 - John Hurt, English actor
February 2 - David Jason, English actor
February 3 - Fran Tarkenton, American football player
February 4 - George Romero, American film writer, producer, and director
February 5 - H.R. Giger, Swiss artist
February 6 - Tom Brokaw, American television news reporter
February 6 - Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian
February 8 - Ted Koppel, American journalist
February 8 - Joe South, American singer and songwriter
February 9 - J. M. Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate
February 12 - Richard Lynch, American actor
February 19 - Smokey Robinson, American musician
February 20 - Jimmy Greaves, English footballer
February 21 - James Wong, Hong Kong composer (d. 2004)
February 23 - Peter Fonda, American actor
February 24 - Denis Law, Scottish footballer
February 25 - Ron Santo, baseball player
February 28 - Mario Andretti, American race car driver
February 29 - Edward Frederic Benson, American writer

1940 - March-April

March 3 - Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist.
March 6 - Willie Stargell, baseball player (d. 2001)
March 7 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
March 9 - Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
March 10 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
March 12 - Al Jarreau, American singer
March 15 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
March 16 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film director
March 16 - Chuck Woolery, American game show host
March 17 - Mark White, Governor of Texas
March 22 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)
March 25 - Anita Bryant, American entertainer
March 26 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner
March 27 - Cale Yarborough, American race car driver
March 29 - Ray Davis, American musician (P-Funk)
March 30 - Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer
April 1 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
April 2 - Penelope Keith, English actress
April 12 - Herbie Hancock, American musician
April 16 - Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
April 18 - Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 20 - George Takei, American actor
April 25 - Al Pacino, American actor
April 26 - Giorgio Moroder, Austrian film composer

1940 - May-July

May 1 - Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
May 8 - Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985)
May 9 - James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
May 11 - Juan Downey, Chilean-born video artist (d. 1993)
May 17 - Alan Kay, American computer scientist
May 20 - Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born hockey player
May 20 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
May 22 - Bernard Shaw, American journalist and television news reporter
May 24 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
May 29 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
June - Carole Ann Ford, British actress
June 1 - René Auberjonois, American actor
June 2 - King Constantine II of Greece
June 16 - Neil Goldschmidt, Governor of Oregon
June 17 - George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 20 - John Mahoney, English-born actor
June 21 - Mariette Hartley, American actress
June 23 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (d. 2003)
June 23 - Lord Irvine of Lairg, Lord Chancellor of England
June 23 - Wilma Rudolph, American athelete (d. 1994)
June 25 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (d. 2005)
July 3 - César Tovar, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (d. 1994)
July 7 - Ringo Starr, English drummer (The Beatles)
July 10 - Gene Alley, baseball player
July 10 - Helen Donath, American soprano
July 13 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
July 18 - Joe Torre, baseball player and manager
July 22 - Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host
July 24 - Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
July 26 - Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Robert F. Kennedy (d. 1969)
July 27 - Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born novelist

1940 - August-December

August 3 - Martin Sheen, American actor
August 7 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium
August 9 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress
August 10 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
August 20 - Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
August 25 - José Van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone
September 5 - Raquel Welch, American actress
September 10 - David Mann, American artist (d. 2004)
September 12 - Mickey Lolich, baseball player
September 14 - Larry Brown, American basketball coach
September 13 - Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 9 - John Lennon, English musician and singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
October 13 - Pharaoh Sanders, American saxophonist
October 14 - Cliff Richard, English singer
October 15 - Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 19 - Michael Gambon, Irish actor
October 23 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
October 25 - Bobby Knight, American basketball coach
November 1 - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
November 15 - Sam Waterston, American actor
November 21 - Richard Marcinko, U.S. Navy SEAL team member and author
November 25 - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
November 27 - Bruce Lee, American martial artist and actor (d. 1973)
December 1 - Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
December 4 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer
December 5 - Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
December 12 - Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
December 12 - Dionne Warwick, American singer
December 21 - Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d. 1993)
December 22 - Noel Jones, British Ambassador to Kazakhstan (d. 1995)
December 25 - Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist
December 26 - Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1940 - Deaths

January 4 - Flora Finch, English-born actress and comedienne (b. 1869)
January 18 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (b. 1865)
January 27 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
February 11 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
March 5 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
March 16 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
March 20 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
March 31 - Tinsley Lindley, English footballer (b. 1865)
April 26 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
May 15 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (b. 1902)
May 20 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
May 25 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (b. 1873)
May 28 - Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
June 10 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (b. 1887)
June 17 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
June 21 - Smedley Butler, U.S. general (b. 1881)
June 29 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879)
July 4 - Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man in the world (infection) (b. 1918)
August 8 - Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinettist (b. 1892)
August 18 - Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer (b. 1875)
August 21 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
August 22 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (b. 1860)
August 30 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
September 27 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
October 10 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
November 9 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
December 5 - Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
December 19 - Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (b. 1873)
December 21 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
December 25 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)

1940 - Date unknown

December - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)

1940 - Nobel Prizes

Physics - not awarded
Chemistry - not awarded
Physiology or Medicine - not awarded
Literature - not awarded
Peace - not awarded

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