" 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

* Internment: The Diaries of Harry Seidler May 1940 – October 1941, Unwin Hyman 1987, ISBN 0-86861-915-9, in co-operation with Janis Wilton, Judith Winternitz ( out of print )

Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller, directing Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ), the haunting Oscar-winning Rebecca ( 1940 ), which is about the unusual romance between a young woman ( Joan Fontaine ) and an emotionally-distant rich widower ( Laurence Olivier ) – overshadowed by a vindictive housekeeper ( Judith Anderson ), Suspicion ( 1941 ) about a woman in peril from her own husband ( Cary Grant ), Saboteur ( 1942 ) and Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer.

His smooth, upper-crust English accent and sleek British manner, along with a suave, snobbish and somewhat threatening air, put him in demand for American films throughout the following decade. He played supporting roles in high-end productions such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca ( 1940 ), in which he and Judith Anderson played cruel foils to Joan Fontaine's character.

Judith Ann Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox ( born 31 October 1940 ) is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

* Judith ’ s Love ( 1940 )

Judith Mary Troeth AM ( born 3 August 1940 ) has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1993, representing the state of Victoria.

He went to St. Bartholomew's hospital to start his medical training in 1940, treated air raid casualties, and met and married a non-Jewish nurse, named Judith Martin.

Her screen roles meanwhile included Judith Bentley in The Girl in the News ( 1940 ), Marcia Royd in Anthony Asquith's comedy Quiet Wedding ( 1940 ), Atlantic Ferry ( 1941 ), Sabotage At Sea ( 1942 ) and Alicia in the Gainsborough Pictures melodrama, Fanny By Gaslight ( 1944 ).

Lawrence Schoonver had four daughters with his wife, Gertrude Hedwig Bonn: Judith Hedwig Schoonver ( 1940 ), married to James D. Regan ; chilren: James L. Regan ( 1964 ) and Tracy Regan ( 1966 ) Mary Elizabeth Schoonover ( 1942 ), married to George Marshall ; children: Christopher Marshall ( 1966 ) Caroline Grace Schoonver ( 1944 – 2005 ), married to Herve J. Pensec ; children: Danielle A. Pensec ( 1965 ), Monique S. Pensec ( 1968 ), Michele H. Pensec ( 1968 ); married to Alois J. Mathe Virginia Schoonover, ( 1946 )

* 1940 – James Tyler, American guitarist, composer, and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1940 – Dennis Tito, American engineer and businessman, founded Wilshire Associates

* 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Galen Hall, American football player and coach

* 1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter and actor

* 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress

* 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – William Cohen, American politician and author, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

* 1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor

* 1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary

* 1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver ( d. 1984 )

* 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate

* 1940 – Lennie Pond, American race car driver

* 1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer ( Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive )

* 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter ( The Righteous Brothers ) ( d. 2003 )