Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
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
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
8
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
9
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
10
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
11
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
12
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
13
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
14
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
15
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
16
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
17
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
18
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
19
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
20
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
21
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
22
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
23
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
24
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
25
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
26
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
27
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
28
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
29
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
30
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
31
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
32
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
33
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
34
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
35
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
36
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
37
Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
38
Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
39
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
40
Lewis Yancey (1895-1940)
41
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
42
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
43
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
44
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
45
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
46
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
47
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
48
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