" 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

* 1882 – Eric Gill, British sculptor ( d. 1940 )

* 2005 – Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist ( The Quarrymen ) ( b. 1940 )

* 1940 – Eric Gill, English sculptor ( b. 1882 )

Away from the professionals, Epitaph for a Spy ( 1938 ), " The Mask of Dimitrios " ( US: A Coffin for Dimitrios, 1939 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1940 ) by Eric Ambler, concern the fortunes of amateurs entangled in espionage.

* February 22 – Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer ( d. 1940 )

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ( 22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940 ) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

* Eric Gill ( 1882 – 1940 ) at Identifont

During this period, Eric Bartholomew won numerous talent contests, most notably in Hoylake in 1940, the prize for which was an audition with Jack Hylton.

In 1940, Eric left school at the age of 14.

Eric Hilliard Nelson ( May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985 ), better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor, starring alongside his family in the long-running television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ( 1952-1966 ), as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks ' Western feature film Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

In 1940, the year he first met Eric Morecambe, then known as Eric Bartholomew, he appeared with British comedian Arthur Askey in his Band Waggon radio show, billed as Britain's Mickey Rooney.

* Eric Wilson ( author ) ( born 1940 ), Canadian author

In 1940 Eric Temple Bell published his The Development of Mathematics.

It has been said that there was originally an arrow here to complement Eric Aumonier's Archer statue at station, and that this was stolen shortly after the station opened ; however, East Finchley was not served by the Underground until 1939 and the statue was not erected until 1940.

The fictional character of Lassie was created by English American author Eric Knight in Lassie Come-Home, first published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and later as a full-length novel in 1940.

*" A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " — a 1940 song written by Manning Sherwin and Eric Maschwitz, associated in England with singer Vera Lynn or in America with the Glenn Miller Band, and a 1979 film directed by Ralph Thomas.

( British efforts to get Turkey as an ally against Germany are a central element of Eric Ambler's classic spy thriller Journey Into Fear, published in 1940, in which a fictional head of the MAH, Colonel Haki, plays an important role.

Hawtrey's rave notices in music revue continued for Eric Maschwitz's, New Faces ( 1940 ) at the Comedy Theatre in London, particularly for his " chic and finished study of an alluring woman spy ".

In 1940 he enlisted in the Army, and was sent for training with the Royal Artillery in Llandrindod Wells in mid-Wales, where he trained alongside his friend Eric Ambler.

He was preceded by Sir Eric Drummond of the United Kingdom, who was general secretary between 1920 and 1933, and he was succeeded by the Irish diplomat Seán Lester, who was general secretary between 1940 and 1946, when the League was dissolved.

In 1940, Weaver began a Ph. D. in English at Louisiana State University ( LSU ), whose faculty included the rhetoricians and critics Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, and the conservative political philosopher Eric Voegelin.

In 1940 Eric Wilson was 27-years-old, and an acting captain attached to Somaliland Camel Corps when Italian forces invaded British Somaliland ( now Somalia ).

The psychologist Eric Jaensch ( 1883 – 1940 ) contributed the racist book The Anti-type ( 1933 ).