" 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

2 # 1 ( Jan., 1940 ), pp. 87 – 104 in JSTOR

* 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

2nd Edition 1940 by Frank Schlesinger and Louise F. Jenkins.

In 1940 he published Reason and Revolution, a dialectical work studying G. W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx.

* 1867 – E. F. Benson, English writer ( d. 1940 )

Cade was appointed captain, Australian Army Medical Corps, A. I. F., on 1 July 1940 and posted to the 2nd / 9th Field Ambulance.

* 1940 – Dieter F. Uchtdorf, American religious figure

* 1940 – Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator

This edition is the basis of Ephraim Emerton's selection and translation in English, The Letters of Saint Boniface, first published in New York in 1940 ; it was republished most recently with a new introduction by Thomas F. X.

* 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author ( d. 1940 )

That g ( 3 ) = 9 was established from 1909 to 1912 by Wieferich and A. J. Kempner, g ( 4 ) = 19 in 1986 by R. Balasubramanian, F. Dress, and J .- M. Deshouillers, g ( 5 ) = 37 in 1964 by Chen Jingrun, and g ( 6 ) = 73 in 1940 by Pillai.

** Mary Jo Kopechne, American campaign aide to U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( b. 1940 )

* September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer ( d. 1940 )

* F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ) and his wife Zelda first visited the Riviera in 1924, stopping at Hyères, Cannes and Monte Carlo, eventually staying at St. Raphaël, where he wrote much of The Great Gatsby and began Tender is the Night.

The hottest temperature recorded in Osborne was 116 ° F ( 47 ° C ) in 1940 ; the coldest temperature recorded was-31 ° F (- 35 ° C ) in 1989.

The hottest temperature recorded in Plainville was 114 ° F ( 46 ° C ) in 1940 ; the coldest temperature recorded was-29 ° F (- 34 ° C ) in 1989.

It was not until June 1940 that the first resident pastor, Father J. F. Siegienski, was assigned.

" On 29 June 1940, eleven weeks after the birth of her fourth son Max, Diana was arrested ( hastily stuffing Hitler's photograph under Max's cot mattress when the police came to arrest her ) and taken to a cell in F Block in London's Holloway Prison for women.

* F. W. Bain ( 1863 – 1940 ), writer of fantasy stories

At the end of 1936, the George F. Lee Coal Co. still worked both the Chauncey mine and breaker, producing 38, 712 tons of coal, but by 1940, the company was bankrupt and in receivership.

* F. Luis Mora ( 1874 – 1940 ), Hispanic American artist and illustrator

He starred opposite Jessica Tandy in the 1940 Broadway production of Jupiter Laughs and in 1944, he was chosen by Darryl F. Zanuck to star in Wilson, the biographical film about US President Woodrow Wilson, for which he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The stories and novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ) capture the restless, pleasure-hungry, defiant mood of the 1920s.

Semon made more than 5, 000 other synthetic rubber compounds, achieving success with Ameripol ( AMERican POLymer ) in 1940 for the B. F. Goodrich company.