" 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

* 2012 – Janet Carroll, American actress ( b. 1940 )

But this argument is not supported by Janet Morgan's biography, Agatha Christie, or by Laura Thompson's biography, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery ; both biographers state unequivocally, without further explanation, that Sleeping Murder was written in 1940.

But according to Jared Cade and Janet Morgan the manuscript was written in 1940 and Christie did not undertake these alterations until early 1950.

Her nickname, Tipper, derives from the lullaby " Tippy, Tippy, Tin ", originally sung in the 1940 Our Gang short " All About Hash " by child actress Janet Burston.

* Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1860 – 1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972.

* Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1860 – 1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972.

* Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C. 1860 – 1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972.

* Janet Burston ( made guest appearances from 1940 until she replaced Darla in 1942 )

At some point, the studio wanted Brian Aherne for the male lead, and Joel McCrea, Madeleine Carroll and Paulette Goddard were under consideration as of July 1940, but in August 1940 Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll were announced as co-stars.

* Vail M. Delony, state representative from East Carroll Parish, 1940 – 1967 ; Speaker of the Louisiana House, 1964 – 1967

John Carroll attracted massive growth and University Heights soon became recognized as a city in 1940.

In 1937, the Australian-born Thomas Carroll, working for Massey-Harris in Canada, perfected a self-propelled model and in 1940 a lighter-weight model began to be marketed widely by the company.

Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: Rebecca ( 1940 ), Suspicion ( 1941 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and North by Northwest ( 1959 ).

His father was a tenant farmer, but shortly after the Ohio River flood of 1937, the family moved to Heath, Kentucky where Buster Carroll sold tractor implements and opened a automobile repair shop in 1940.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

Edward Carroll Sr. purchased the abandoned park in 1939 and after making improvements, reopened Riverside Park on May 29, 1940.

It was assigned again by Hay ( 1902 ), H. F. Osborn in 1918, Hay ( 1930 ), Stirton ( 1940 ) and Carroll ( 1988 ); and to Anchitheriinae by MacFadden in 1998.

* Robert Carroll ( Australian politician ) ( 1876 – 1940 )

* William Alfred Carroll Hughes ( 1877 – 1940 ), American bishop

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

In 1940, during World War II, when the Scottish shipyards near Dunbarton were being bombed by German forces, her father joined the Black Watch Regiment and sent the family to Black Rock, Ireland for safety reasons, where they remained until the conclusion of the War ; thereupon returning to Scotland where Miss Carroll and her sisters resumed their studies at Clerkhill.

General Carroll joined the FBI in October 1940, where he served as a special agent in field offices at Memphis and Knoxville, Tennessee, before assignment to the Chicago, Illinois field office.

Carroll was married to Broadway lyricist June Carroll from 1940 until his death.

The Carroll rearrangement ( 1940 ) in the presence of base and with high reaction temperature ( path A ) takes place through an intermediate enol which then rearranges in an electrocyclic Claisen rearrangement.