" 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 – Luis Tiant, Cuban baseball player

Luis Muñoz Marín founded the Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) in 1940.

Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld ( December 28, 1940 ), better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States.

* F. Luis Mora ( 1874 – 1940 ), Hispanic American artist and illustrator

In 1929 Foster moved to New York City, where he played with the bands of Luis Russell and Louis Armstrong through 1940.

1900 ( Luis Casali, Barcelona ; see ) and 1940 ( August Förster, see ).

Uqbar is a fictional place in Jorge Luis Borges's 1940 short story " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ".

In addition, he collaborated with the Nobel Prize laureate Luis Alvarez in early nuclear research, and was the co-discoverer of neptunium on 8 June 1940 with Edwin McMillan.

Adalberto Luis Brandoni ( born April 18, 1940 ) is an Argentine theater, film, and television actor.

Olaya Herrera is a member of the " Centennial Generation " which date from 1925 to 1940 and grouped a bunch of ideologues and leaders in which were notable Alfonso López Pumarejo, Laureano Gómez, Eduardo Santos, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez, Luis López de Mesa, Luis Eduardo Nieto Caballero and others.

In an interesting example of literary tribute, Jorge Luis Borges translated the complete novel into Spanish as Las palmeras salvajes ( 1940 ), a work that influenced a good number of leading Latin American novelists.

Leganes was created a Municipality pursuant to Executive Order No. 241 of then Commonwealth President Manuel Luis Quezon on January 1, 1940.

Pop Tops ( or Los Pop-Tops ) were a vocal / instrumental band, formed in 1967 in Madrid, Spain and consisting of José Lipiani, Alberto Vega, Ignacio Pérez, Julián Luis Angulo, Enrique Gómez, Ray Gómez plus lead singer Phil Trim ( born January 5, 1940, Trinidad and Tobago ).

* Luis B. Gementiza 1934 – 1937, 1938 – 1940, 1946 – 1951

These were the municipal district presidents after Datu Manuel: Alfredo Lindo ( 1929 – 1931 ); Luis Yabut ( 1931 – 1933 ) ; Teodoro Panuncialman ( 1933 – 1939 ); Carlos Badolato ( 1939 to the Outbreak of World War II ); Sixto Carreon ( 1940 onward to the Japanese Occupation ); Cresencio Tuballa ( 1944 – 1945 time of the Philippine Commonwealth military and Recognized Guerrillas ); Claudio Libre ( 1945 – 1946 ); Cresencio Tuballa ( 1946 ); Carlos Badolato ( 1946 – 1947 ).

* " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ", a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published in 1940

* Luis Otero Mujica ( 1879 – 1940 ), Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army