" 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

* 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor

* Tony Sheridan ( born 1940 ), English rock and roll singer-songwriter

In 1967, Arkin had son Anthony ( Tony ) Dana Arkin with actress-screenwriter Barbara Dana ( born 1940 ), to whom he was married from June 16, 1964 to the mid-1990s.

Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, PC, QC ( born 23 June 1940 ), known as Derry Irvine, is a British lawyer and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil barrister, Tony Blair.

* Tony Johnson ( rower ) ( Philip Anthony Johnson, born 1940 ), American rower

* Tony Holland, ( 18 January 1940 – 28 November 2007 ), screenwriter for the BBC

Tony Conrad ( born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire ) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician / composer, sound artist, teacher and writer.

Hermes Davide Fastino Croatto Martinis, better known as Tony Croatto ( March 2, 1940, some sources state his year of birth as 1939 – April 3, 2005 ) was an Italian singer and composer best known for his interpretations of Puerto Rican folk music.

* Donald A. Martin ( born 1940 ), aka Tony Martin, set theorist at UCLA

Faye's first marriage, to Tony Martin in 1937, ended in divorce in 1940.

* Tony Adams ( actor ) ( born 1940 ), Welsh actor

Tony Adams ( born Anthony S. Adams, 11 December 1940 ) is a Welsh actor, best known for his performances in two British television soap operas.

The Communist Party split along nationalist lines in 1939, and Jabra Nicola refused to join either wing, and, after being imprisoned by the British occupation from 1940 – 1942, was recruited to a small Trotskyist movement by Yigael Gluckstein, later better known as Tony Cliff.

Tony Lee Cloninger ( born August 13, 1940 in Cherryville, North Carolina ), is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who played for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves ( 1961 – 68 ), the Cincinnati Reds ( 1968 – 71 ), and the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1972 ).

Cecil Donald " Don " Briscoe ( born March 20, 1940, Yalobusha County, Mississippi — died October 31, 2004, Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American soap opera actor, most notable for playing Tony Meritt (# 2 ) on Days of Our Lives, and, from 1968 – 1970, for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on Dark Shadows.

In 2003, he wrote " for Churchill, apotheosis came in 1940 ; for Tony Blair, it will come when Iraq is successfully invaded and hundreds of weapons of mass destruction are unearthed from where they have been hidden by Saddam's henchmen ", and commented on the human cost of the Iraq War, saying that Britain has " lost fewer soldiers than on a normal weekend on the Western Front ".

In January 1940, Hostak would take a non-title match in Chicago against middleweight contender Tony Zale at Chicago Stadium.

Tony Rizzo ( born June 27, 1940 ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada.

In 1940, former heavyweight champion Max Baer beat " Two Ton Tony " Galento at Roosevelt Stadium, and Marcel Cerdan defeated Tony Zale in a middleweight fight.

Pauline Fowler is one of the original twenty-three characters invented by the creators of EastEnders, Tony Holland ( 1940 – 2007 ) and Julia Smith ( 1927 – 1997 ).

* Tony Allen ( musician ) ( born 1940 ), drummer with Fela Kuti and one of the founders of Afrobeat

Tony Oladipo Allen ( born August 12, 1940 in Lagos, Nigeria ) is a

* " Because of You " ( 1940 song ), a popular song by Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson, recorded by Tony Bennett and others

Anthony Francis ' Tony ' Cuccinello ( November 8, 1907 – September 21, 1995 ) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Cincinnati Reds ( 1930 – 31 ), Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1933 – 35 ), Boston Bees / Braves ( 1936 – 40, 1941 – 43 ), New York Giants ( 1940 ) and Chicago White Sox ( 1943 – 45 ).