Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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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
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
7
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
8
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
9
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
10
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
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George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
12
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
13
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
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Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
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David F. Houston (1866-1940)
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Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
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Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
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Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
19
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
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Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
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Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
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Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
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Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
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Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
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Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
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Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
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Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
28
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
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Nathanael West (1903-1940)
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Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
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William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
32
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
33
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
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Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
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Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
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Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
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Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
38
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
39
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
40
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
41
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
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Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
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Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
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Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
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Lewis Yancey (1895-1940)
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Earl Hurd (1880-1940)
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Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
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