* 1940 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer ( b. 1940 )

* 1940 – Eddie Henderson, American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player

* January 30 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic ( d. 1940 )

# Eddie Miller: 405 ( Boston Braves, 1940 )

Cantor also discovered and helped guide the career of singer Dinah Shore, first featuring her on his radio show in 1940, as well as other performers, including Deanna Durbin, Bobby Breen and Eddie Fisher.

Slap Happy Pappy ( Clampett, 1940 ) features an “ Eddie Cackler ” rooster who wants a boy, to little avail.

* Eddie August Schneider ( 1911 – 1940 ), record-setting early aviator.

# Eddie Miller: 405 ( Boston Braves, 1940 )

The pilot Eddie August Schneider died in a training crash on the tarmac in 1940.

Collaborating with lyricist Eddie DeLange, on songs such as " Heaven Can Wait ", " So Help Me ", and " Darn That Dream ", his work became more prolific, writing over 60 songs in 1940 alone.

* Eddie Joyal ( born 1940 ), Canadian ice hockey player

Eddie Foy Jr. appeared as his father in several films — Frontier Marshal ( 1939 ), Lillian Russell ( 1940 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), and Wilson ( 1944 )— as well as a television version of The Seven Little Foys with Mickey Rooney ( 1964 ).

Sharon Sheeley ( April 4, 1940 – May 17, 2002 ) was an American songwriter, born in California, who wrote songs for Glen Campbell, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, and Sheeley's former fiancé, Eddie Cochran.

He provided the lyrics for Vernon Duke's songs ( including, with Ted Fetter, " Taking A Chance On Love ") for the musical Cabin in the Sky ( 1940 ) and also for Duke's musical Banjo Eyes which starred Eddie Cantor ( 1941 ).

In 1940, a resident trio was formed that included the pianist Eddie Heywood, along with Zutty Singleton, and Jimmy Hamilton.

In late 1940 and during 1941, while Hellzapoppin was still playing at the Winter Garden Theatre and later the Majestic Theatre, a second edition of Hellzapoppin with Billy House and Eddie Garr toured the country.

Paired with perennial superstar Eddie Shore on the backline, the move proved highly successful, and Clapper was named a First Team NHL All-Star on defence in 1939, 1940 and 1941, leading the Bruins to Stanley Cup victories in 1939 and 1941.

First published in 1940 the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on 9 October 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling where it ran for 136 performances before closing on 15 March 1947.

* Eddie August Schneider ( 1911 – 1940 )

In 1940, Eddie met Catherine de Hueck at her Friendship House mission while doing a story on Harlem.

Edward Henry " Eddie " Thompson OBE ( 16 July 1940 – 15 October 2008 ) was a Scottish businessman, he was the chairman of Scottish football club Dundee United and a well-known figure in the Scottish retail industry.

Established in 1940, the organization's founding members consisted of many of the leading jockeys of the day including Eddie Arcaro, Ray Workman, Johnny Longden, Alfred Robertson, Charley Kurtsinger, Red Pollard and Harry Richards.

* Aviva Cantor ( born 1940 ), American journalist, lecturer and author

* Overture to Glory ( Der Vilner Shtot Khazn ; the Yiddish title literally means " The Vilnius City Cantor ") 1940, USA, B & W, 85 min, Yiddish with English subtitles.

The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870 – 1940: Logics, Set Theories, and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel.

This was one of many medals that were popular in Germany from around 1910 to 1940.

The Scottish poet William Soutar also wrote over one hundred American Cinquains ( he labelled them Epigrams ) between 1933 and 1940.

* 1940 – Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T ( b. 1878 )

The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).

The Italians brought to Eritrea a huge development of Catholicism and by the 1940 nearly one third of the Eritrean population was catholic, mainly in Asmara where many churches were built.

France was one of the Allied Powers in World War II, but was conquered by Nazi Germany in 1940.

In October 1940 Holt was elevated to Cabinet, becoming Minister for Labour and National Service, and one of his most significant achievements in this portfolio was the introduction of the Child Endowment Act, passed in April 1941.

In October 1940, Gandhi and Nehru, abandoning their original stand of supporting Britain, decided to launch a limited civil disobedience campaign in which leading advocates of Indian independence were selected to participate one by one.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

As one example, Luftflotte 5 was created in 1940 to direct operations in Norway and Denmark, and other Luftflotten were created as necessary.

It also extended trade regulation of the 1940 German – Soviet Commercial Agreement until August 1, 1942, increased deliveries above the levels of year one of that agreement, settled trading rights in the Baltics and Bessarabia, calculated the compensation for German property interests in the Baltic States now occupied by the Soviets and other issues.

Germany and the Soviet Union entered an intricate trade pact on February 11, 1940, that was over four times larger than the one the two countries had signed in August 1939.

It sank only one in every 100 British vessels passing through British waters in 1940.

The 1940 animated film Fantasia, which is eight different animation sequences set to music, can be considered a silent film, with only one short scene involving dialogue.

In the first half of 1940, there were 22, 000 Italians living in Somalia and the colony was one of the most developed in East Africa in terms of the standard of living of the colonists and of the Somalis, mainly in the urban areas.

Williams said that the " only real fun " he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.

By 1945, roughly 33 % of all children ate at school compared with one in thirty in 1940, while those taking milk increased from about 50 % to roughly 75 %.

Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.

In March 1940, representatives of the Soviet NKVD and the Nazi Gestapo met for one week in Zakopane's Villa Tadeusz, to coordinate the pacification of resistance in Poland.

During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 ( the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th ), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough.

With him she had one son, Robin Gaynor Adrian, born in 1940.

The first German raid on London, on 7 September 1940, killed about one thousand civilians, mostly in the East End.

Royal Navy reports of captured Kriegsmarine officers and sailors often commented as one report from October 1940 noted the POWs " were all fanatical Nazis and hated the British intensely, which had not been so evident in previous cases ".