" 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

* 1936 – 1940 Aston Martin 2-litre Speed Models ( 23 built ) The last 8 were fitted with C-type bodywork

* 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14

On 7 May 1940, Ribbentrop founded a new section of the Foreign Office, the Abteilung Deutschland ( Department of Internal German Affairs ), under Martin Luther, to which was assigned the responsibility for all anti-Semitic affairs.

* 1940 – World War II: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

* 1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director

* 1940 – Dewey Martin, Canadian drummer ( Buffalo Springfield and The Standells ) ( d. 2009 )

* Martin Mauthner: German Writers in French Exile, 1933 – 1940, London: 2007 ; ISBN: 9780853035404.

Willkie asked Martin to take on the task of Republican National Committee chairman, a post that Martin held simultaneously with his House leadership role from 1940 – 1942.

Mary Martin reprised her famous fur coat striptease of " My Heart Belongs to Daddy " in the 1940 movie Love Thy Neighbor and the 1946 Cole Porter biopic Night and Day.

Other historians, such as the German historian Wolfgang Michalka, the Anglo-German historian H. W Koch and the Israeli historian Martin van Creveld, have contended that Hitler's efforts to form an anti-British Eurasian " continental bloc " that was to include the Soviet Union in late 1940 as a diplomatic prelude to the " Mediterranean plan " were sincere, that until December 1940 Hitler's first priority was in defeating Britain, and that it was only when Hitler gave his approval to Operation Barbarossa that he finally lost interest in the " Mediterranean strategy ".

Another proof of this kind was obtained by Hellmuth Kneser in 1940 and simplified by his son Martin Kneser in 1981.

* Nilsson, Martin P. Greek Popular Religion 1940.

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez ( born August 3, 1940 ), better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performance as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing ( 1999 – 2006 ).

Congressman Martin Dies was investigating possible Communist influence in Hollywood in 1940 ; he in fact had a cordial meeting with Cagney.

* Dewey Martin ( musician ) ( 1940 – 2009 ), Canadian drummer

In 1940 as American involvement in World War II loomed, the Army Air Corps chose Offutt Field as the site for a new bomber plant that was to be operated by the Glenn L. Martin Company.

Carbon-14 was discovered on 27 February 1940, by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, although its existence had been suggested by Franz Kurie in 1934.

Grunert's air force in July 1940 consisted of 28 Boeing P-26A " Peashooter " fighters ( out of 34 originally shipped to the Philippines in 1937 ), 17 Martin B-10 bombers, 10 Douglas O-46 observation planes ( the newest planes in the department ), five 1920s-vintage Thomas-Morse ZO-19E observation craft ( the " Z " modifier indicated they were unfit for front-line duty and could only be used as trainers ), and three fabric-covered biplanes used for liaison, transport, and courier duties.

Eric Hilliard Nelson ( May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985 ), better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor, starring alongside his family in the long-running television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ( 1952-1966 ), as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks ' Western feature film Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

In 1940 this faction, led by Max Shachtman, James Burnham, and Martin Abern, split from the SWP to form the Workers Party.

While a prisoner of war in 1940 and 1941, Sartre read Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, an ontological investigation through the lens and method of Husserlian phenomenology ( Husserl was Heidegger's teacher ).

Edward James Martin " Ted " Koppel ( born February 8, 1940 ) is an English-born American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline from the program's inception in 1980 until his retirement in late 2005.