Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
2
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
4
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
5
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
6
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
7
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
8
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
9
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
10
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
11
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
12
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
13
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
14
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
15
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
16
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
17
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
Poet
18
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
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Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
20
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
21
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
22
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
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Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
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Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
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Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
26
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
27
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
28
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
29
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
30
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
31
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
32
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
33
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
34
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
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Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
36
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
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Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
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Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
39
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
40
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
41
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
42
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
43
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
44
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
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Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
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Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
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