" 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

* 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

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

An early source of ammunition for both sides of the debate was a 1940 interview of Whitehead's wife Louise.

* McNeill, G. D. ( Douglas ), The Last Forest, Tales of the Allegheny Woods, n. p., 1940 ( Reprinted with preface by Louise McNeill, Pocahontas Communications Cooperative Corporation, Dunmore, W. Va. and McClain Printing Company, Parsons, W. Va, 1989.

Esther Louise Rantzen, CBE ( born 22 June 1940 ) is an English journalist and television presenter, who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life !, and for her work in various charitable causes.

Johnson was born in 1940 in Penzance, Cornwall, the son of Osman Wilfred Johnson and Irene, daughter of Stanley F. Williams of Bromley, Kent, and Marie Louise ( née de Pfeffel ).

Louise Sorel ( born August 6, 1940 ) is an American actress.

In 1940, he married the former Ardath Louise " Dolly " Kleinhans.

Here their four children were born — Louise ( 16 August 1931 ), Harry ( 1934 ), Peter ( 20 July 1940 ) and George ( 25 February 1943 ).

Louise Dacquay ( June 25, 1940 -) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Born in New York City, New York, he married in 1940 actress Anita Louise Fremault ( 1915 – 1970 ) with whom he had two children.

The first fellowship was awarded to Louise Houssiere for graduate study at MIT in 1940.

Countess Marie Louise Larisch von Moennich ( also known as Countess Marie Louise Larisch-Wallersee and Countess Marie Larisch ) ( 24 February 1858-4 July 1940 ) was

He married Mary Louise on January 24, 1940, and they later had six children.

Born in Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of George Rista and Hilda Louise ( McCrum ), he attended Lord Byng Secondary School, graduating in 1940.

Princess Tatiana Louise Ursula Therese Elsa of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg ( born 31 July 1940 ) is the fourth child and second daughter of Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, and his wife, Margareta Fouché d ' Otrante, and younger sister of Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, the husband of Princess Benedikte of Denmark.

Michael, born 11 November 1865 ( Toodjay ), died 6 July 1940, married on 17 July 1896 to Beatrice Margaret Forbes born 20 June 1871, daughter of Col. Charles D ' Oyley and Mary Louise ( née Slade ), children: Leo born 1889.

* 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 )