" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat

* 1940 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

* 1857 – Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Burt Young, American actor

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist ( Last Exit ) ( d. 1994 )

* 1940 – Estonia was illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.

* 1940 – Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician

* 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress

* 1857 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* 1940 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian doctor and activist ( d. 2006 )

* 1940 – Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer

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* 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire

* 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director

* 1940 – World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

* 1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player

* 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor

Óscar Arias Sánchez ( born 13 September 1940 ) is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010.

Óscar Manuel Espinosa Chepe ( born November 29, 1940 ) is a Cuban economist and dissident.

Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid ( August 15, 1901 – August 10, 1988 ) was a Panamanian politician, doctor, writer and president of Panama on three occasions: 1940 – 41, 1949 – 51, and for two weeks in October 1968.

He belonged to the National Revolutionary Party ( PNR ), acting as President and " Supreme Leader " of the party, until in 1940, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, became President of Panamá.

With former President Harmodio Arias Madrid, he was the founder, architect, and for several years, main leader, of the National Revolutionary Party ( PNR ), until for health reasons he stepped down in 1940 after organizing the party for Arnulfo Arias Madrid.

Ezequiel Fernández Jaén was succeeded as leader and President of the party by Arnulfo Arias Madrid, who became President of Panamá in 1940.

* Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, ( 1900 – 1970 ), physician, social reformer, president of Costa Rica 1940 – 1944

The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently, but Costa Rica had no university proper until 1940, when those four schools were re-united to establish the modern University of Costa Rica ( UCR ), during the reformist administration of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría ( born 9 January 1940 ) is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician.

* Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, president of Costa Rica from 1940 to 1944

He served as President of Costa Rica from 1936 to 1940.

In 1940, those four schools were re-united to establish the modern University of Costa Rica ( UCR ), during the reformist administration of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia.

It has won three Costa Rican championships, in 1923, 1936, and 1940.

Ever since that championship, Cartaginés has been unable to win any league titles in Costa Rica, something which some believe to be the result of a curse set on the team by the priest at the Basílica de Los Ángles when 1940 players stormed the Basilica ridding on top of their horses, celebrating their championship ; many others credit the lack of titles to the curse of " el muñeco ", a strange voodoo-like doll that was supposedly buried under Cartaginés ' turf at the " Fello Meza " stadium in order to prevent them from winning further titles and bringing bad luck to the club.

* José da Costa Nunes ( 1940 – 1953 )

Her book West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870 – 1940 relates the history of the U. S .- based companies which built railroads and cultivated bananas on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica and merged to form United Fruit in 1899.

* West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870 – 1940.

Hugo Sánchez Bonilla ( born February 1, 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica ) is an artist.

In 1940, the first Commonwealth Literary Awards were given by President Manuel L. Quezon to Salvador P. Lopez for " Literature and Society " ( essay ), Manuel Arguilla for " How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Stories " ( short story ), R. Zulueta da Costa for " Like the Molave " ( poetry ), and Juan C. Laya for " His Native Soil " ( novel ).

Beatriz Costa, 1940