" 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

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

* 1940 – Richard Edlund, American special effects photographer

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O ' Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

* 2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor ( b. 1940 )

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

Since the inception of the two terms, their meanings have been revised several times and the term macroevolution fell into limited disfavour when it was taken over by such writers as the geneticist Richard Goldschmidt ( 1940 ) and the paleontologist Otto Schindewolf to describe their orthogenetic theories.

* 1940 – Cliff Richard, English singer

In January 1940, Menzies dispatched potential leadership rival Richard Casey to Washington as Australia's first " Minister to the United States ".

Richard and Frances Hughes had five children: Robert Elyston-Glodrydd ( born 1932 ), Penelope ( 1934 ), Lleky Susannah ( 1936 ), Catherine Phyllida ( 1940 ) and Owain Gardner Collingwood ( 1943 ).

After George Washington Slept Here ( 1940 ), Kaufman and Hart called it quits, although throughout the 1930s, Hart worked both with and without Kaufman on several musicals and revues, including: Face the Music ( 1932 ); As Thousands Cheer ( 1933 ), with songs by Irving Berlin ; Jubilee ( musical ) ( 1935 ), with songs by Cole Porter ; and I'd Rather Be Right ( 1937 ), with songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Richard and Maurice McDonald opened a barbecue drive-in in 1940 in the city of San Bernardino, California.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

Johnson was referenced in the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and he is mentioned in the 1940 book Native Son by author Richard Wright.

He was in 1935 appointed as governor general by George V, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bennett, to replace the Earl of Bessborough as viceroy, and occupied that post until his death in 1940.

In an October 25, 1940, an interview was conducted by former student Olive Byrne ( under the pseudonym ' Olive Richard ') and published in The Family Circle, titled " Don't Laugh at the Comics.

In 1937, Patrick McDonald opened a food stand on Huntington Drive ( Route 66 ) near the old Monrovia Airport called " The Airdrome " ( hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink orange juice was five cents ); it remained there until 1940, when he and his two sons, Maurice and Richard, moved the building east to San Bernardino to the corner of West 14th Street and 1398 North E Street, renaming it " McDonald's ".

* Richard William Leopold, Robert Dale Owen: A Biography, Harvard University Press, 1940 ; reprinted by Octagon Books, New York, 1969.

* Richard and Joan Ostling ( born 1940 / 1939-2009 respectively ), co-authors of Mormon America: The Power and the Promise.

Norman Richard Spinrad ( born September 15, 1940 ) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic.

In the 20th century it was owned by Richard de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore, and was used as the headquarters for the Royal Air Force's No. 4 ( Bomber ) Group from 1940 – 45.

The case served as inspiration for numerous works, including Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son, Tom Kalin's 1992 film Swoon, Michael Haneke's 1997 film Funny Games ( and an American shot-for-shot remake in 2008 ); Barbet Schroeder's Murder by Numbers ( 2002 ); Stephen Dolginoff's 2005 Off-Broadway musical Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story ; and various TV episodes ( including on Law & Order SVU ).

Richard Corben ( born October 1, 1940 ) is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine.

Richard Siegmund Lindzen ( born February 8, 1940 ) is an American atmospheric physicist and Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard Wright was catapulted to fame by the publication in subsequent years of his now widely studied short story, " The Man Who Was Almost a Man " ( 1939 ), and his controversial second novel, Native Son ( 1940 ), and his legacy was cemented by the 1945 publication of Black Boy, a work in which Wright drew on his childhood and mostly autodidactic education in the segregated South, fictionalizing and exaggerating some elements as he saw fit.