Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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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
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
7
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
8
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
9
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
10
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
11
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
12
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
13
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
14
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
15
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
16
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
17
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
18
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
19
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
20
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
21
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
22
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
23
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
24
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
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Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
26
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
27
Lewis Yancey (1895-1940)
Pilot
28
Earl Hurd (1880-1940)
Director
29
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
30
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
31
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
32
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
33
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
34
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
35
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
36
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
37
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
38
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
39
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
40
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
41
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
42
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
43
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
44
Jorge Bravo de Rueda (1895-1940)
45
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
46
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
47
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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