Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
3
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
4
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
5
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
6
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
7
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
8
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
9
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
10
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
11
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
12
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
13
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
14
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
15
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
16
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
17
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
18
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
19
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
20
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
21
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
22
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
23
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
24
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
25
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
26
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
27
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
28
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
29
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
30
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
31
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
32
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
33
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
34
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
35
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
36
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
37
Dimitrija Cupovski (1878-1940)
38
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
39
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
40
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
41
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
42
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
43
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
44
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
45
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
46
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
47
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
48
Celebrities Born in 1940
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