Born George Bolger in New York City and raised in Hollywood, California, George O ' Hara began his acting career under contract as a performer for early Hollywood director Mack Sennett.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

It is believed to have been extensively copied, but only one song was printed by Purcell's widow in Orpheus Britannicus, and the complete work remained in manuscript until 1840, when it was printed by the Musical Antiquarian Society under the editorship of Sir George Macfarren.

* May 2 – George Fisher Baker, American financier and philanthropist ( b. 1840 )

* Willem Frederik George Lodewijk ( b. The Hague, 6 December 1792 – d. Tilburg, 17 March 1849 ) later King William II of the Netherlands from 1840.

In 1886 a third species, Swietenia macrophylla, was named by Sir George King ( 1840 – 1909 ) after studying specimens of Honduras mahogany planted in the Botanic Gardens in Calcutta, India.

Wright's associates, George Elkington and Henry Elkington were awarded the first patents for electroplating in 1840.

* George A. Sheridan ( 1840 – 1896 ), American politician

* George Albertus Cox ( 1840 – 1914 ), businessman, Senator

* George Dockeray – 4 wins ( Lottery ( 1839 ), Jerry ( 1840 ), Gaylad ( 1842 ), Miss Mowbray ( 1852 ))

The Herald was founded on 3 January 1840 by George Cavanaugh as The Port Phillip Herald.

* George Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), English dandy, known as " Beau Brummell ", lived in exile in Calais from 1817 to 1830.

* Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom ( 1770 – 1840 ), daughter of George III

* George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh ( 1778 – 1840 ), diplomat and Fellow of the Royal Society of London, nephew to British Prime Minister George Canning ( 1770 – 1827 )

George Rudy's school house was built before 1840 and between the years of 1840 and 1848, the school had four teachers: Washington Sale, Dave Cowan, Frank Davis, and Joseph C. Norman.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

Marcus Peck ; 1831, William F. Averill ; 1832, Eleazer Flint ; 1833, Carpenter G. Conklin ; 1834, William L. Stewart ; 1835, Marcus Peck ; 1836, William F. Averill, Eleazer Flint ; 1837, William F. Averill ; 1838, Jacob Hegeman ; 1839, Marcus Peck, John Wood ; 1840, Jacob Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1841, Rescome H. Wheeler, Ebenezer Barringer ; 1842, George Carnryck ; 1843, Marcus Peck ; 1844, Jacob Wheeler, Eleazer Wooster ; 1845, Eleazer Wooster ; 1846, George Carnryck ; 1847, Marcus Peck ; 1848, Jacob Wheeler, Willard Foster, Joseph Bly ; 1849, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1851, B. F. Foster, Adam Mott ; 1852, Jacob Boyce ; 1853, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1854, Lewis Sliter, William S. Stewart ; 1855, William Moul, John L. Lape, Thomas Brewer ; 1856, Jacob Wheeler ; 1857, Cornelius Schermerhorn ; 1858, William M. Horton ;: 859, Joel B. Peck, William Moul ; 1860, S. D. Seymour, Joshua Coons ; 1862, George Sliter ; 1863, William Moul ; 1864, B.

In 1840, brothers Selden T. and George W. Scranton founded what would become the Lackawanna Steel Company.

* George Smith ( assyriologist ) ( 1840 – 1876 ), English, first modern translator of the Epic of Gilgamesh

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* George Orwell's Animal Farm – MP3 Audio ( web archive )

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.