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Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
2
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
3
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
4
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
5
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
6
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
7
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
8
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
Novelist
9
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
Entrepreneur
10
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
Entrepreneur
11
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
12
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
13
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
14
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
15
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
16
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
Novelist
17
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
18
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
19
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
Movie Actor
20
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
21
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
Novelist
22
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
23
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
24
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
25
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
Movie Actor
26
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
27
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
28
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
29
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
30
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
Screenwriter
31
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
Politician
32
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
33
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
Novelist
34
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
Poet
35
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
36
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
37
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
War Hero
38
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
Novelist
39
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
40
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
Poet
41
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
42
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
Poet
43
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
Novelist
44
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
45
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
Movie Actress
46
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
Architect
47
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
48
Edward Harkness (1874-1940)
Entrepreneur
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