" 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

Qaboos bin Said Al Said ( ; born 18 November 1940 ) is the Sultan of Oman and its Dependencies.

Sultan Qaboos bin Sa ‘ id was born in Salalah in Dhofar on 18 November 1940.

Saud bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (), also known as Saud Al Faisal () ( born 2 January 1940 ), has been the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia since 1975.

Saud bin Faisal was born in Taif on 2 January 1940.

W. H. D. Rouse in 1940 wrote an ironic end note to Book 40 of his edition of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca about a very syncretistic hymn sung by Dionysus to Tyrian Heracles, that is, to Ba ‘ al Melqart whom Dionysus identifies with Belus on the Euphrates ( who should be Marduk!

The traditional definitions of transudate as a pleural effusion due to systemic factors and an exudate as a pleural effusion due to local factors have been used since 1940 or earlier ( Light et al., 1972 ).

* 1940: Essays in Sociology with C W M Hart, and Talcott Parsons et al., Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Dilworth ( 1940 ) was the first to study antimatroids, using yet another axiomatization based on lattice theory, and they have been frequently rediscovered in other contexts ; see Korte et al.

** The Queen's Colours: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 15 ' 17 ' 18, Hill 60, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916 ' 18, Albert 1916 ' 18, Arras 1917 ' 18, Cambrai 1917 ' 18, Hindenburg Line, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917-18, Landing at Helles, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18, Kut al Amara 1915 ' 17, Mesopotamia 1915-18, North West Frontier India 1915 1916-17, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Caen, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, Abyssinia 1941, El Alamein, Tebourba Gap, Hunt's Gap, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1940-42, Malaya 1941-42, Hong Kong, Defence of Kohima, Burma 1943-45

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.

( in addition to the pieces already mentioned ): Piccolo Concerto, for 12 wind instruments, timpani, percussion and piano, orchestral works such as Musica Sinfonica, Bafadis, and Trittico, 8 symphonies ( No. 1: The River — May 1940, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, No. 2: Sinfonia giocosa, No. 3: Facets, No. 7: Sinfonia concertante, for 11 wind instruments ); concertos for flute, harp, percussion, piano, trumpet, violin, 2 oboes, 2 soprano-saxophones, 3 trombones ( Piccola musica concertata ), 2 string orchestras, electronic organ and for violin, viola and double-bass ; 3 oratorios ( inter al., Anthropolis ) and many other choral pieces ( inter al.

In 1939 – 1940, based on their studies, Leow et al.

The first ones are the ALF ( Atlas Linguistique de la France ) by Jules Gilliéron ( 1902 – 20 ), the AIS ( Sprach-und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz ) by Karl Jaberg and Jakob Jud ( 1928 – 1940 ), the DSA ( Deutscher Sprachatlas ) by Ferdinand Wrede et al.

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood ( otherwise written as Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood, ; born 1940 ) SI, is a Pakistani nuclear engineer and Islamic-scholar educated in Lahore, West-Pakistan ( now Pakistan ) and Manchester, United Kingdom.

Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood was born in Amritsar, British Punjab, sometime in either 1940 or 1939.

** HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921 – 1 April 2012 ), married in Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on 26 September 1940 to her cousin HE Damat HH Prince / HRH Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi ( Alexandria, Montaza Palace, 20 February 1899 – Istanbul, 1 / 2 December 1979, buried in Cairo ), Heir Apparent to the Throne of Egypt from 1899 to 1914, created HH in 1922, created HRH in 1952, Regent of Egypt from 1952 to 1953, and had issue.

He is best remembered for his roles as the Sultan in The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ), the poetically-inclined hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ) and as Dr. Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ).

* The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) as the Sultan

** HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Constantinople, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921 – 1 April 2012 ), married in Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on 26 September 1940 to her cousin HE Damat HH Prince / HRH Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi ( Alexandria, Montaza Palace, 20 February 1899 – Constantinople, 1 / 2 December 1979, buried in Cairo ), Heir Apparent to the Throne of Egypt from 1899 to 1914, created HH in 1922, created HRH in 1952, Regent of Egypt from 1952 to 1953, and had issue

** HIH Princess Zehra Hanzade Sultan ( Constantinople, Dolmabahçe Palace, 12 September 1923 – Paris, 19 March 1998, buried on 26 March 1998 ), married in Cairo in September 1940 to HE Damat HH Prince Muhammed Ali Ibrahim Beyefendi ( Cairo, 29 April 1900 – Paris, 2 July 1977 ), and had issue:

The state secretariat building — Sultan Ibrahim Building — was completed in 1940 as the British colonial government attempted to streamline the state's administration.

Married in 1940, they had one daughter, Tunku Miriam binti al-Marhum Sultan Sir Ibrahim ( born 18 September 1950 ) ( married, 1978-1980, to British rock star Barry Sapherson, aka Barry Ryan )

Prince Muhammad Abdul Moneim was married to his twice cousin HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921-2 April 2012 ) at the Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on September 26, 1940.

* Tehseen Jehan, married in 1940 to Shaukat Sultan, principal of Shibli College, Azamgarh.

The 28 years old young Sultan negotiated terms and conditions with 60 years old governor, Dr Lucien Adam, for four months from November 1939 to February 1940.