Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
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
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
8
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
9
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
10
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
Movie Actor
11
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
12
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
13
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
14
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
15
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
16
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
17
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
18
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
19
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
20
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
21
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
22
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
23
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
24
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
25
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
26
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
27
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
28
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
29
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
30
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
31
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
32
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
33
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
34
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
35
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
36
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
37
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
38
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
39
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
40
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
41
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
42
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
43
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
44
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
45
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
46
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
47
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
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