" 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 – 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

* Bill of Divorcement, 1940

* 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1940 – Bill Kurtis, American journalist

* 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter ( The Righteous Brothers )

As 1939 wound down, Bill Paley announced that 1940 would " be the greatest year in the history of radio in the United States.

Clive Sinclair was born to George William Carter Sinclair ( known as Bill ) and Thora Edith Ella Marles in 1940 near Richmond, then in Surrey.

Individual performances continued to receive praise ; in 1987, Bill Collins analyzed The Letter ( 1940 ), and described her performance as " a brilliant, subtle achievement ", and wrote, " Bette Davis makes Leslie Crosbie one of the most extraordinary females in movies.

The first film was called Comin ' Round the Mountain ( 1940 ) and featured the McGees ' neighbors The Old-Timer ( played by Bill Thompson ) and Gildersleeve, as the mayor of the town.

About a year after Batman's debut, Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger introduced Robin the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics # 38 ( 1940 ).

* Bill Cash ( born 1940 ) — MP for Stone

In 1940, the Texas oilman and industrialist Bill Noël moved to McCamey, where he joined M. H. McWhirter of Monahans and J.

* Bill Hands ( born 1940 ), former professional baseball pitcher who was a 20-game winner for the Chicago Cubs.

* Bill Dance ( 1940 -), angler and host of " Bill Dance Outdoors ," who resided in Lynchburg during the summers of his childhood and learned to fish in Lynchburg's Mulberry Creek.

Because of Article 34. 3. 3 ° of the Constitution, the constitutional validity of the Offences Against the State ( Amendment ) Act, 1940 cannot be challenged in any court, since the Bill which became that Act was found by the Supreme Court not to be repugnant in the context of an Article 26 reference.

* Bill Winter ( linebacker b. 1940 ), played for the New York Giants ( 1962 – 1964 )

Home farming: Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.

In 1938 he teamed up with pianist Bill Doggett's group, and by 1940 had formed a completely new orchestra, which included Doggett and drummer " Panama " Francis.

The NPL's William " Wild Bill " Langer was elected to the governorship in 1932 and 1936 ( the two terms separated by his declaration of North Dakota's secession from the United States in 1934, and a jail term ), and served in the U. S. Senate from 1940 until his death in 1959.

On May 7, 1940, the Charter Bill sponsored by Assemblyman Tomas D. Dizon was approved by the second Philippine president-Manuel L. Quezon.

William Nigel Paul " Bill " Cash ( born 10 May 1940 )

The Bill was adopted by most of the States in India, Punjab being the first state to do so in 1940.

Bill Barnard, who had been elected Speaker in 1936, resigned from the Labour Party in 1940 but retained his position.

* Bill Dance ( television host ) ( born 1940 ), American fisherman