Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
3
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
4
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
5
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
6
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
7
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
8
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
9
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
10
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
11
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
12
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
13
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
14
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
Poet
15
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
16
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
17
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
18
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
19
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
20
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
21
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
22
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
23
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
24
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
25
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
26
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
27
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
28
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
29
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
30
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
31
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
32
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
33
Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
34
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
35
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
36
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
37
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
38
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
39
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
40
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
41
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
42
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
43
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
44
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
45
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
46
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
47
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
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