" 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

* 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

* Pedro del Valle, Class of 1940

In 1939 he resigned because President Pedro Aguirre Cerda named him ambassador to France first, then to Portugal ( 1940 ), and finally to Brazil ( 1942 ).

The eldest daughter of Dom Pedro de Alcântara of Orléans-Braganza, Prince of Grão-Pará, heir of the defunct Empire of Brazil ( 1875 – 1940 ) and of his wife, Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz ( 1875 – 1951 ), Isabelle was born in a pavilion of the Chateau d ' Eu in Normandy.

It is calculated that almost 300 rural teachers were murdered in this way between 1935 and 1939, while other authors calculate that at least 223 teachers were victims of the violence between 1931 and 1940, including the assassinations of Carlos Sayago, Carlos Pastraña and Librado Labastida in Teziutlán, Puebla, hometown of future president Manuel Ávila Camacho ; the execution of a teacher, Carlos Toledano, who was burned alive in Tlapacoyan, Veracruz ; and the lynching of at least 42 teachers in the state of Michoacan: J. Trinidad Ramírez in Contepec, Pedro García in Apatzingan, Juan Gonzalez Valdespino in Huajumbaro, José Rivera Romero in Ciudad Hidalgo, María Salud Morales in Tacambaro ; et al.

Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega ( 18 January 1940 – 11 July 1971 ) was a Mexican Grand Prix motor racing driver.

* Bethlehem Shipyard ( Southwest Marine Terminal at Berth 240 ), San Pedro, California ( 1940 – 1981 )

* Pedro Rodríguez ( racing driver ) ( 1940 – 1971 ), Mexican racing driver

Next he worked for Allied Engineers, Inc. of San Pedro from 1940 to 1942, where he met the architect Frederick Emmons, with whom he would later partner.

Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. ( April 6, 1940 – December 26, 2011 ) was a Mexican actor.

* Prince Dom Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza ( 1940 – 2007 ): Born in 1913, son of Dona Isabel's eldest son, who had renounced all rights to the Brazilian throne for himself and his descendants.

**** Dom Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão Para ( 1875 – 1940 )

Pedro Sanchez ( born 1940 ) is the Director of the Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program, Senior Research Scholar, and Director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

* 1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer

* John M. Walker, Jr. ( born 1940 ), former chief judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

With his third wife, Beryl, he had three children, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. ( September 23, 1940 – July 27, 2006 ), Wendy Anne Weissmuller ( b. June 1, 1942 ), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller ( July 31, 1944 – November 19, 1962 ).

* 1940 – Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., American author and educator

* Robert Walker, Jr. ( born 1940 ), actor noted for his roles in Ensign Pulver and Easy Rider

Jones and second husband David O. Selznick in 1957Jones's first marriage produced two sons, Robert Walker, Jr. ( born April 15, 1940 ; the only one of Jones's children who would not predecease her ), and Michael Walker

John Joseph Gotti, Jr ( October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002 ) was an American mobster who became the Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City.

Chrysler, Jr. was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1940 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.

* George B. McClellan, Jr. ( 1865 – 1940 ), American Democratic legislator and academic ; mayor of New York City ; Princeton lecturer and professor

How to obtain the shopping list of aircraft, aviation supplies, volunteers and funds for the Bank of China were discussed in a meeting held at the home of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Saturday afternoon, December 21, 1940, with Captain Chennault, Dr. T. V. Soong, and General Pang-Tsu Mow.

In 2001, Les Brown, Jr., born 1940, became the full-time leader of the Band of Renown.

* 20 Mule Team ( 1940 ) with Anne Baxter and Noah Beery, Jr.

William " Smokey " Robinson, Jr. ( born February 19, 1940 ) is an American R & B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive.

The complex in midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center was developed between 1929 and 1940 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on land leased from Columbia University.

George's younger brother was Henry W. Antheil, Jr., a diplomatic courier who was killed over the Baltic Sea by the Soviets on June 14, 1940.

* Gay Blackstone ( born 1940 ), widow of Harry Blackstone, Jr

In December 1940, Tuve invited Harry Diamond and Wilbur S. Hinman, Jr, of the United States National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ) to investigate Berkner's improved fuze.

The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School ( LAW ) student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U. S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.

The 1960s saw the emergence of Malcolm John " Mac " Rebennack, Jr. ( born November 21, 1940 ), better known by the stage name Dr. John a New Orleans born singer / songwriter, pianist and guitarist whose music combined blues, boogie woogie and rock and roll.

From 1940 to 1953, he was the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, during which time he became an advisor to James Lawson and Martin Luther King Jr.

* Singer Sammy Davis Jr. of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack performed with his uncle in Massena during the summer of 1940.

After Weston's 1926 election to President-General, he was succeeded by Frederick Augustus Toote ( 1929 ), Clifford Bourne ( 1930 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1931 – 1934 ), Henrietta Vinton Davis ( 1934 – 1940 ), Lionel Antonio Francis ( 1940 – 1961 ), Captain A L King ( 1961 – 1981 ) and Milton Kelly, Jr. ( 1981 – 2007 ).

They had two sons, Haskille Cherry ( 1940 – 2007 ) and Francis Cherry, Jr., and a daughter, Charlotte Cherry, then all of Washington, D. C. Margaret and older son, Haskille Cherry, were living in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the time of their deaths.