" 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

He has two brothers, Barry Voight ( born 1937 ), a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Wesley Voight ( born 1940 ), known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who penned " Wild Thing " and " Angel of the Morning ".

* 1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor

** Barry Sadler, American author and musician ( b. 1940 )

* Ellie Greenwich ( 1940 – 2009 ), Brill Building songwriter and performer, who with her then-husband Jeff Barry, created a number of popular hit records during the 1960s

* Barry Corbin, though usually associated with Lubbock, where he graduated from Monterey High School, was born in 1940 in Lamesa.

Admiral Sir Barry Domvile was interned in 1940 as someone who might " endanger the safety of the realm ".

The series began in 1940 with The Adventures of Red Ryder, played by Don " Red " Barry, who got his nickname " Red " from the role and Tommy Cook as Red Ryder's young Indian sidekick Little Beaver.

The then Marquess of Tavistock married on 20 June 1961 at St Clement Danes in London Henrietta Joan Tiarks ( born London, 5 March 1940 ), daughter of Henry Frederick Tiarks III ( born Woodheath, Chislehurst, 8 September 1900-died Marbella, 2 July 1995 ), a merchant banker with Schroders, who had married firstly on 27 April 1930 ( divorced in 1936 ) Lady Millicent Olivia Mary Taylour ( died 24 December 1975 ), daughter of Geoffrey Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort ; Henry Frederick Tiarks married secondly ( 3 October 1936 ) Ina Florence Marshman Bell ( born London, 5 November 1903-died Marbella, 10 April 1989 ), an actress known as Joan Barry, who had married firstly Henry Hampson.

Barry Tompkins ( born c. 1940 ) is a well-known American sportscaster.

Barry University is a private, Catholic university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, United States, a suburb north of Downtown Miami.

The construction of what was then the Barry College for Women began in 1940, in what had previously been " a tract of tropical vegetation.

Married in 1940, they had one daughter, Tunku Miriam binti al-Marhum Sultan Sir Ibrahim ( born 18 September 1950 ) ( married, 1978-1980, to British rock star Barry Sapherson, aka Barry Ryan )

* Barry Smith ( motorcyclist ) ( born 1940 ), Australian motorcycle racer

* Barry Moser ( born 1940 ), American illustrator

Barry Sadler ( November 1, 1940 – November 5, 1989 ) was an American soldier, author, singer and songwriter.

* Barry Tompkins ( born c. 1940 ), American sportscaster

Barry Moser ( born 1940 ) is a renowned artist, most famous as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature.

* Adventures of Red Ryder ( 1940 ) with Don ' Red ' Barry

Barry Hoban ( born 5 February 1940 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire ) is a former English professional cyclist who rode during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

* 1940: Du Barry Was a Lady