" 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 – 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

Homero Cápona, first engineer graduated from UTFSM, in 1940.

* 1940 – Manuel de Escandón, Mexican polo player ( b. 1857 )

Between 1940, till the 1980s worldwide spread of neo-liberalism through the Washington Consensus, the Mexican unions did not operate independently, but instead as part of a state institutional system, largely controlled by the ruling party.

* Eduardo Matos Moctezuma ( born 1940 ), Mexican archaeologist

" The dispute did not end until Trotsky's assassination in his Mexican villa by the communist assassin, Ramon Mercader in 1940.

Diego María de la Concepción Juan epomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez ( December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957 ) better known simply as Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, and husband of Frida Kahlo ( 1929 – 1939 and 1940 – 1954 ).

* Francisco Toledo ( b. 1940 ), contemporary Mexican artist

Many economists contend that ISI failed in Latin America and was one of many factors leading to the so-called lost decade of Latin American economics, while others contend that ISI led to the " Mexican Miracle ", the period that lasted from 1940 to 1975 in which economic growth stood at 6 % or higher.

Another major step occurred in 1940, when Cárdenas voluntarily relinquished all power to his successor Manuel Ávila Camacho, a legal transition that was unprecedented in Mexican history.

" The Mexican Revolution: 1910 – 1940 " Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Steinbeck inspired his book on a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had registered in a visit to the formerly rich in pearls region in 1940.

He was also a Stalinist and member of the Mexican Communist Party who participated in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.

The castle remain the official residence of Mexican presidents until 1940, when this function as moved to the Los Pinos residence and the Castle was converted into a museum.

María Elena Velasco Fragoso de Lipkies ( born December 17, 1940 ) is a Mexican actress, film director, award-winning screenwriter, producer and singer.

* In the 1940 census, Mexican Americans were re-classified as White, due to widespread protests by the Mexican American community.

But, in prior censuses and in 1940, enumerators were instructed to list Mexican Americans as white.

The race category of " Mexican " was eliminated in 1940, and the population of Mexican descent was counted with the White population.

* Carlos Slim Helú ( born 1940 ), Mexican businessman

From 1940 to 2002, according to the Mexican defense department, 513 Mexican soldiers in the Special Forces Airmobile Group, GAFE ( Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales ) were trained at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga.

The film Ahí está el detalle in 1940 made Cantinflas a household name and became known as the " Mexican Charlie Chaplin ".