" 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

* 1940 – Ken Danby, Canadian realist painter ( d. 2007 )

The former main Animation building was built and completed in 1940 and designed by Ken Webber.

* Ken Preston – builder, 1990 ( Queen's University as player 1936 – 39 ; Winnipeg Blue Bombers as player 1941 – 42 ; Ottawa Rough Riders as player 1945 ; Saskatchewan Roughriders as player 1940, 1943, player / coach 1946 – 48, and general manager 1958 – 78 ).

* Ken Goodland ( born 1940 ), former Australian rules footballer

Hourman ( spelled Hour-Man in his earliest appearances, also referred to as the Hour-Man, and the Hourman ) is the name of three different fictional DC Comics superheroes, the first of whom was created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily in Adventure Comics # 48 ( April 1940 ), during the Golden Age of Comic Books.

* Ken Brown ( musician ) ( 1940 – 2010 ), English guitarist for The Quarrymen

* Ken Danby ( 1940 – 2007 ), Canadian artist

Ken Done, AM, ( born 29 June 1940 ) in Sydney, is an Australian artist best known for his design work.

Ken Danby, ( March 6, 1940 – September 23, 2007 ) was a Canadian painter in the realist style.

Ken Jenkins ( born August 28, 1940 ) is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Bob Kelso, the Chief of Medicine on the American comedy Scrubs.

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

In 2001, scholar Philip Jenkins drew attention to a popular novel by James Hunter entitled The Mystery of Mar Saba, that first appeared in 1940.

In 1940, Jenkins, affectionately called Mr. George by his employees, mortgaged an orange grove to build Florida's first supermarket.

Scholars Philip Jenkins and Robert M. Price noticed parallels between The Secret Gospel of Mark and a novel by James Hunter published in 1940 entitled The Mystery of Mar Saba.

* Charles Robert Jenkins ( born 1940 ), U. S. soldier who defected to North Korea

On May 10, 1940, Ambers defended his title against the wild, free swinging, Lew Jenkins.

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on April 26, 1940 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then with a slightly different content in the United States on May 10, 1940 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.

Scholars such as Philip Jenkins and Robert M. Price pointed out parallels between The Secret Gospel of Mark and a novel by James H. Hunter published in 1940 entitled The Mystery of Mar Saba .< ref >

Jenkins was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio in 1940, 1944.