Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
3
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
4
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
7
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
8
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
9
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
10
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
11
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
12
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
13
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
14
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
15
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
16
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
17
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
18
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
19
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
20
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
21
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
22
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
23
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
24
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
25
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
26
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
27
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
28
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
29
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
30
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
31
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
32
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
33
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
34
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
35
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
36
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
37
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
38
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
39
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
40
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
41
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
42
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
43
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
44
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
45
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
46
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
47
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
48
Celebrities Born in 1940
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