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
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
7
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
8
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
9
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
10
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
11
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
12
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
13
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
14
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
15
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
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Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
17
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
18
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
19
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
20
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
21
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
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Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
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David F. Houston (1866-1940)
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Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
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William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
26
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
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Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
28
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
29
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
30
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
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Nathanael West (1903-1940)
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Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
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Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
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Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
35
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
36
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
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Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
38
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
39
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
40
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
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Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
42
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
43
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
44
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
45
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
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Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
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