Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
3
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
4
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
7
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
8
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
Poet
9
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
10
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
11
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
12
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
13
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
14
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
15
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
16
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
17
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
18
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
19
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
20
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
21
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
22
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
23
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
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Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
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Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
27
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
28
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
29
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
30
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
31
Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
32
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
33
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
34
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
35
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
36
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
37
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
38
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
39
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
40
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
41
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
42
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
43
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
44
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
45
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
46
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
47
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
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