Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
4
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
7
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
8
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
9
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
10
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
11
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
12
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
13
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
14
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
15
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
16
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
17
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
18
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
19
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
20
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
21
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
22
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
23
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
24
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
25
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
26
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
27
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
28
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
29
Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
30
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
31
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
32
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
33
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
34
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
35
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
36
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
37
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
38
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
39
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
40
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
41
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
42
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
43
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
44
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
45
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
46
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
47
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
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