Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
3
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
4
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
7
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
8
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
9
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
10
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
11
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
12
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
13
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
14
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
15
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
16
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
17
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
18
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
19
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
20
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
21
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
22
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
23
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
24
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
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Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
26
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
27
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
28
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
29
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
30
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
31
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
32
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
33
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
34
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
35
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
36
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
37
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
38
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
39
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
40
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
41
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
42
Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
43
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
44
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
45
Lewis Yancey (1895-1940)
46
Jorge Bravo de Rueda (1895-1940)
47
Earl Hurd (1880-1940)
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