Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
4
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
7
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
8
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
9
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
10
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
11
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
12
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
13
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
14
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
15
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
16
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
17
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
18
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
19
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
20
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
21
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
22
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
23
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
24
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
25
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
26
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
27
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
28
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
29
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
30
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
31
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
32
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
33
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
34
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
35
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
36
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
37
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
38
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
39
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
40
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
41
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
42
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
43
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
44
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
45
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
46
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
47
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
48
Celebrities Born in 1940
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