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
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
6
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
7
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
8
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
9
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
10
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
Poet
11
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
12
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
13
Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
Religious Leader
14
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
15
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
16
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
17
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
18
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
19
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
20
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
21
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
22
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
23
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
24
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
25
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
26
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
27
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
28
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
29
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
30
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
31
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
32
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
33
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
34
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
35
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
36
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
37
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
38
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
39
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
40
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
41
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
42
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
43
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
44
Helene Chadwick (1897-1940)
45
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
46
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
47
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
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