" 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 – 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

* Rufus Ada-George ( born 1940 ), Nigerian politician

She was being treated by the famed Swiss doctor Auguste Rollier in 1940, when the Nazi armies rapidly conquered Europe.

Hugo Spadafora Franco ( September 6, 1940 – September 13, 1985 ) was an Italian and Panamanian doctor and guerrilla fighter in Guinea-Bissau and Nicaragua.

She qualified as a doctor in 1940, and, the following year, married solicitor and company director Sir Geoffrey Barnett, who was knighted for political and public services to the city of Leicester in 1953.

After Mohr married in 1937, she was required to resign her position ( the BDM required members to be unmarried and without children in order to remain in leadership positions ), and was succeeded by Dr. Jutta Rüdiger, a doctor of psychology from Düsseldorf, who was a more assertive leader than Mohr but nevertheless a close ally of Schirach, and also of his successor from 1940 as HJ leader, Artur Axmann.

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.

* doctor Wincenty Harembski, shot in NKVD prison in Kharkiv in 1940

A doctor by the name of Burton D. Myers, previously at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was hired to be the head of the Department of Anatomy in Bloomington ; Myers would later serve as dean of the medical school from 1927 to 1940.

* Robin Cook ( 1940 -), a medical doctor and prolific author of " medical thrillers " is most known for his fiction novel, Coma ( 1977 ).

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.

In 1940, aged 15, she was granted a scholarship to study in an advanced placement program at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools where she finished high school and the first two years of college, followed by completion of her degree at the University of Chicago, where she earned a bachelor of philosophy degree in 1944, a bachelor of science degree in 1946, and doctor of medicine degree in 1948, aged 23.

Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott ( March 18, 1869 – September 2, 1940 ) was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease.

A medical doctor by the name of Ernst Sternfeld was sent from Sandakan to station in Tawau in 1939 – 1940, but lasted only a few months.

* 1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary

* 1940 – John Lewis, American politician and civil rights activist

* 1940 – Ruth Messinger, American political activist

* June 18 – Craig Rodwell American gay activist ( b. 1940 )

** Phil Ochs, American folk singer and political activist ( Outside of a Small Circle of Friends ) ( b. 1940 )

* Bernard Lafayette ( born 1940 ), American civil rights activist and organizer

* Anne Moody ( born 1940 ) is a civil rights activist and author.

* Anne Moody ( 1940 -), civil rights activist, author Coming of Age in Mississippi based on her work with CORE

1940 ), a Canadian-American dual citizen, is an Internet activist against Holocaust denial.

Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay ( born 30 January 1940 in Budapest, Hungary ) is an American author, activist, journalist, playwright and song-writer of Hungarian origin who writes about feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name and religious name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest.

* 1940, 31 July: Udham Singh, an Indian independence activist, at Pentonville Prison.

Henry Flynt ( born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina ) is a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism.

* John Lewis ( U. S. politician ) ( born 1940 ), American civil rights activist and member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Georgia

John Sewell, CM ( born 1940 ) is a Canadian political activist and writer on municipal affairs ; he was the mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1978 to 1980.

c. 1940 ), Indian journalist & activist

Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma, OLG commonly referred to by his initials as Dr AB Xuma ( 8 March 1893, Transkei – 27 January 1962 ) was a South African leader and activist and president-general of the African National Congress ( ANC ) from 1940 to 1949.

From 1940 until September 1944, under Lithuanian professor and activist Mykolas Biržiška, the University of Vilnius was open for Lithuanian students under supervision of the German occupation authorities.

Peter H. Irons ( born 1940 ) is an American political activist, civil rights attorney, legal scholar, and professor of political science.

Horace Julian Bond ( born January 14, 1940 ), known as Julian Bond, is an American social activist and leader in the American civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer.

Abraham H. Foxman ( born May 1, 1940 ) is a Soviet-born American activist.

* Stephen Jones ( attorney ) ( born 1940 ), American attorney and activist

Wangari Muta Maathai ( 1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011 ) was a Kenyan environmental and political activist.

* Richard D. Ryder ( born 1940 ), British animal rights activist

Benjamin Elijah Mays ( August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984 ) was an American minister, educator, scholar, social activist and the president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1940 to 1967.