Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
3
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
4
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
5
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
6
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
7
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
8
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
9
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
10
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
11
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
12
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
13
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
14
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
15
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
16
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
17
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
18
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
19
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
20
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
21
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
22
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
23
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
24
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
25
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
26
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
27
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
28
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
29
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
30
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
31
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
32
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
33
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
34
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
35
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
36
Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
37
Earl Hurd (1880-1940)
38
Ferdo Sisic (1869-1940)
Historian
39
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
40
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
41
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
42
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
43
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
44
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
45
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
46
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
47
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
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