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