Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
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Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
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Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
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Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
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Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
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Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
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George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
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John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
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Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
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Robert Grant (1852-1940)
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William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
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Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
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Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
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Nathanael West (1903-1940)
Screenwriter
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Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
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David F. Houston (1866-1940)
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Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
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Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
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Charley Chase (1893-1940)
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Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
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Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
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Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Jorge Bravo de Rueda (1895-1940)
Composer
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Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
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Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
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Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
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Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
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Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
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Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
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Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
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Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
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Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
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Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
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Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
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Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940)
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Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
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Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
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Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
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Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
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Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
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Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
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Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
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Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
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Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
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Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
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