" 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

His parents, George Philip Gein ( 1873 – 1940 ) and Augusta Wilhelmine ( Lehrke ) Gein ( 1878 – 1945 ), both natives of Wisconsin, had two sons: Henry George Gein ( 1901 – 1944 ), and his younger brother, Edward Theodore Gein.

Theodore Bevry Olson ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American lawyer, practicing at the Washington, D. C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

The City of Las Vegas Museum & Rough Rider Memorial on Grand Avenue, dedicated in 1940, was first established by the decision of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders regiment ( the first Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Spanish-American War ), who named Las Vegas their official reunion home.

Under the editorship of McIlwraith, beginning in April 1940, Weirds later years were distinguished by an influx of newer writers, including such major figures as Ray Bradbury, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, Theodore Sturgeon, Joseph Payne Brennan, Jack Snow and Margaret St. Clair, a somewhat more eclectic range.

From 1904 until 1940 Theodore Powys lived in East Chaldon, but then moved to Mappowder because of the war.

This was close to village of East Chaldon where his brother, the author Theodore Powys, lived from 1904 until 1940.

Theodore R. " Ted " Kulongoski ( ; born November 5, 1940 ) is an American politician who served as the 36th Governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011.

In the 1900s, Jack London ( 1876 – 1916 ), Theodore Dreiser ( 1871 – 1945 ), Sherwood Anderson ( 1876 – 1941 ), Eugene O ' Neill ( 1888 – 1953 ), Clifford Odets ( 1906 – 1963 ), T. S. Eliot ( 1888 – 1965 ), John Dos Passos ( 1896 – 1970 ), Francis Scott Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ), and Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 – 1956 ).

Theodore Joseph " Ted " Forstmann ( February 13, 1940 – November 20, 2011 ) was one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a global sports and media company.

The quantitative theory of quantized spin waves, or magnons, was developed further by Theodore Holstein and Henry Primakoff ( 1940 ) and Freeman Dyson ( 1956 ).

* Theodore Olson ( born 1940 )-former Solicitor General

* 1940 Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, Manhattan

* New Hieromartyr Theodore ( 1940 )

Edmund Morris ( born May 27, 1940 ) is an American writer best known for his biographies of United States Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

# Roy Theodore Graham, Liberal ( 1940 – 1945 )

Charles Theodore Straight ( January 16, 1891 – September 22, 1940 ), better known as Charley Straight, was an American pianist, bandleader and composer.

( Theodore Strauss ) " THE SCREEN ; At the Globe " ( review of Military Academy in the August 5, 1940 edition of The New York Times )

Kiefer was born in Chicago and attended Theodore Roosevelt High School ( 1936 ), Columbia College ( 1940 ), and the University of Texas-Austin.

Theodore William John Schurch ( 5 May 1918 – 4 January 1946 ) was a British soldier of Anglo-Swiss parentage who was executed under the Treachery Act 1940 following the end of the Second World War.

* Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright ( 1862 – 1940 ), English librarian