" 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

Alan Turing in 1940 used similar ideas as part of the statistical analysis of the breaking of the German second world war Enigma ciphers.

* Dobson, Alan P. U. S. Wartime Aid to Britain, 1940 – 1946.

Alan Turing in 1940 used similar ideas as part of the statistical analysis of the breaking of the German second world war Enigma ciphers.

Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the ACE computer project.

Don Brash was born to Alan Brash, a Presbyterian minister and son of prominent lay leader Thomas Brash, and Eljean Brash ( née Hill ), in Whanganui on 24 September 1940.

Sir Alan Cunningham: 7 August 1940-7 October 1940

* Robert Alan Johnson ( 1940 – 2001 ) English businessman

* 22 July 1940 – 3 May 1941: East African Field Force: General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham

* Robert Alan Napier, 6th Baron Napier of Magdala ( b. 1940 )

Both of these were produced by Alan Lomax on General, the label that had issued his Jelly Roll Morton recordings in 1940.

The initial design of the bombe was produced in 1939 at the UK Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing, with an important refinement devised in 1940 by Gordon Welchman.

In January 1940, the British cryptanalyst Alan Turing spent several days at PC Bruno conferring with his Polish colleagues.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

Robert Alan Dahl ( born 17 December 1915, Inwood, Iowa ), is the Sterling Professor emeritus of political science at Yale University, where he earned his Ph. D. in political science in 1940.

* Alan Caddy: Lead guitar-( born 2 February 1940, Chelsea, London — died 16 August 2000 ).

* Atlantic Company ( 1940 ), writing as Alan Gould

He also wrote the music for the less remembered Broadway shows, Hold On to Your Hats ( 1940 ), Laffing Room Only ( 1944 ), and Carmelina ( 1979 ), the latter with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, who had also written lyrics to Lane's music for On a Clear Day and the film Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).

GOC: Lieut-Gen Alan Brooke ( until 30 May 1940 ) Maj-Gen Bernard Montgomery ( acting from 30 May 1940 )

The remaining sheets were completed on January 7, 1940, and were couriered by Alan Turing to France shortly thereafter.

Peter, a junior doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, was killed in the Blitz in 1940, while Alan died of tuberculosis in 1945, shortly after the Second World War.

After the fall of British Somaliland, General Archibald Wavell's plan for the counter-offensive by British and Commonwealth forces included a " northern front " led by William Platt ( who was promoted to Lieutenant-General in early January 1941 ) and a " southern front " led by Lieutenant-General Alan Cunningham who had taken over the East African Force at the start of November 1940.

* Alan Derek Clifton published his memories of being evacuated to Northern Rhodesia in 1940 in the book entitled, From Cockney to Colonial ( And Back Again ) ( 2010 ).

* The song is the theme of the 1940 movie The Fighting 69th by Warner Bros. 1940 starring James Cagney, Pat O ' Brien and Alan Hale which chronicles the World War I exploits of the 69th Infantry Regiment, New York National Guard, ( the famed " Fighting 69th " ) and appears numerous times throughout it.