" 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

* 1940 – Larry Brown, American basketball player and coach

Larry Lujack ( born June 6, 1940 ), a Top 40 Music radio disc jockey, was known for his world-weary sarcastic style, " Klunk Letter of the Day " and darkly humorous " Animal Stories " along with " sidekick Little Tommy ", and " Cheap Trashy Show Biz Report.

Lawrence Harvey " Larry " Brown ( born September 14, 1940 ) is an American basketball coach, who is currently the head coach at Southern Methodist University.

* " Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led To " ( 1999 ), from Gara, Larry and Lenna Mae Gara, eds., A Few Small Candles: War Resistors of World War II Tell Their Stories.

* Larry Clinton and his orchestra ( recorded February 20, 1940, released by Victor Records as catalog number 26521, with the flip side " Bread and Butter ")

Larry McCormick ( January 4, 1940 – May 3, 2011 ) was a Canadian politician.

Truth or Consequences was an American television show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards ( 1940 – 1957 ) and later on television by Edwards ( 1950 – 1954 ), Jack Bailey ( 1954 – 1955 ), Bob Barker ( 1956 – 1975 ), Bob Hilton ( 1977 – 1978 ) and Larry Anderson ( 1987 – 1988 ).

" In 1939, " Gower and Jeanne " danced to the music of Larry Clinton and his Orchestra in a Warner Brothers & Vitaphone film short-subject, " The Dipsy Doodler " ( released in 1940 ).

* Larry Young ( musician ) ( 1940 – 1978 ), jazz organist

He changed his name to Larry Rivers in 1940, after being introduced as " Larry Rivers and the Mudcats " at a local New York City pub.

After the production of their first feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, with its highly successful score by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, which included the songs ' Whistle while you work ', ' Some Day My Prince Will Come ', and ' Heigh-Ho ', the mould for a combination of animation, fairy tale and distinctive songs was set that would carry through to the 1970s with songs from films such as Pinocchio ( 1940 ) and Song of the South ( 1946 ).

After the production of their first feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in 1937, with its highly successful score by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey, the mould for a combination of animation, fairy tale and distinctive songs was set that would carry through to the 1970s with songs from films such as Pinocchio ( 1940 ) and Song of the South ( 1946 ).

* Larry Brown ( basketball ) ( born 1940 ), NCAA, ABA and NBA player and coach

* Larry Brown ( infielder ) ( born 1940 ), former Major League Baseball infielder

Following the arrival of Larry Gilbert as Vols manager in 1939, the Vols won their first pennant in 24 years in 1940 with Johnny Sain as pitcher and batter.

A woman showing how census data was transcribed using a keypunch | keyboard punch circa 1940