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
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
7
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
8
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
9
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
10
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
11
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
12
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
13
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
Screenwriter
14
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
15
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
16
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
Architect
17
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
18
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
19
Jorge Bravo de Rueda (1895-1940)
Composer
20
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
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Charley Chase (1893-1940)
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Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
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Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
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Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
26
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
27
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
28
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
29
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
30
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
31
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
32
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
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Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
34
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
35
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
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Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
37
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
38
Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940)
39
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
40
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
41
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
42
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
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Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
44
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
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Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
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Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
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