* 1860 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician ( d. 1940 )

", The Big Sleep directed by Howard Hawks ( 1946 ), The Lady Eve directed by Preston Sturges ( 1941 ), The Shop Around the Corner directed by Ernst Lubitsch ( 1940 ), White Heat directed by Raoul Walsh ( 1949 ), Yankee Doodle Dandy directed by Michael Curtiz ( 1942 ), and Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock, ( 1946 ).

* Alfred S. Alschuler, American architect ( d. 1940 )

* March 22 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist ( d. 1940 )

B. Conant, Karl Taylor Compton | K. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | A. Loomis ( March 1940 )

* Rebecca ( 1940 film ), a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the du Maurier novel

* Thomas, Alfred Barnaby ( 1940 ) The Plains Indians and New Mexico, 1751-1778: A collection of documents illustrative of the history of the eastern frontier of New Mexico.

Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War II.

Also an underground factory was built by Alfred McAlpine at Hawthorn in 1940 to accommodate the company's experimental department which was working on a new engine for bombers and Beaufighters.

In 1940, he produced his second Best Picture Oscar winner in a row, Rebecca, the first Hollywood production for British director Alfred Hitchcock.

This achievement was matched by Alfred Hitchcock with his 1940 films Foreign Correspondent and Rebecca.

Chrysler, Jr. was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1940 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.

* Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton and 9th Earl of Selkirk ( 1862 – 1940 )

The Fox fanfare was originally composed in 1933 by Alfred Newman, who became head of Twentieth Century-Fox's music department from 1940 until the 1960s.

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.

* Herbert Asbury, Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940 ).

* 1940: Noi siamo le colonne, regia di Alfred Goulding ( voce di Ollio )

* Alfred Ploetz ( 1860 – 1940 )

Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: Rebecca ( 1940 ), Suspicion ( 1941 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and North by Northwest ( 1959 ).

In 1940, critic Alfred Harbage argued that Sir Robert Howard's play The Great Favourite, or The Duke of Lerma is an adaptation of a lost play by Ford.

* Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, 9th Earl of Selkirk ( 1862 – 1940 ) ( 4th cousin of 12th Duke )

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Alfred Furrer ( November 25, 1940 – September 9, 1995 ) was a German physicist and astronaut.

It was first featured in the 1940 Broadway revue Two for the Show, where it was sung by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock.

in the trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent ( film ) | Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 )

Romer became the first president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 1940, alongside co-founder Howard Chiu.

In 1940 the group was reviewed in detail and every species known at the time described ( and many illustrated ) in an important monograph by Alfred Sherwood Romer and Llewellyn Price.

* Romer, AS & Price L. I ( 1940 ), Review of the Pelycosauria.

Rechristened the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union in 1940 and under the new leadership of Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, the union established a political arm, the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, which put Bradshaw in the Legislative Council in 1946.

In the United States, Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

In the U. S., Llewellyn won the National Book Award for favourite novel of 1940, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association.

* Ivor Grattan-Guinness, The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870 – 1940.

She then returned to the West End ( briefly returning to the Old Vic to play Emilia in their 1938 Othello ), notably playing Edith Gunter in Dodie Smith's Autumn Crocus ( Lyric, 1931 ), the Countess of Rousillon in All's Well That Ends Well ( Arts, 1932 ), Lady Strawholme in Ivor Novello's Fresh Fields ( Criterion, 1933 ), Liz Frobisher in John Van Druten's The Distaff Side ( Apollo, 1933 ), Barbara Dawe in Clemence Dane's Moonlight is Silver ( Queen's, 1934 ), Theodora in Elmer Rice's Not for Children ( Fortune, 1935 ), Masha in Chekhov's The Seagull ( New Theatre, 1936 ), the Mother in an English-language version of Garcia Lorca's Bodas de sangre entitled Marriage of Blood ( Savoy, 1939 ), Léonie in Jean Cocteau's Les Parents terribles ( Gate, 1940 ), Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband ( Westminster, 1943 ), and Cornelia in John Webster's The White Devil ( Duchess, 1947 ).

In 1938 Casson directed Henry V for Ivor Novello In 1939 he led an Old Vic tour around the Mediterranean, and in 1940 he directed John Gielgud in King Lear at the Old Vic.

* Ivor Grattan-Guinness ( 2000 ) The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870 – 1940.

Fred Gaisberg of EMI arranged for a test recording of Elgar ’ s La Capricieuse ( Op. 17 ) with accompanist Ivor Newton at the Abbey Road Studios on 9 Jan. 1939 when Hassid had just turned 15 and then Walter Legge produced a further eight recordings on 12 and 28 June and 29 Nov. 1940, this time accompanied by Gerald Moore.

* Grattan-Guinness, Ivor ( 2000 ), The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870 – 1940.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt revived the Advisory Commission to World War I Council on National Defense on May 29, 1940, to include Price Stabilization and Consumer Protection Divisions.

Price ( 1915 – 2009 ), American journalist ; police reporter for the New York Daily News, 1940 – 1955

This round tied Lloyd Mangrum's record set in 1940 at Augusta National and remained in place until Nick Price shot 63 during the third round in 1986.

* 1940, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York ( 17 oils, solo show ); Tone Price gallery, Los Angeles ( 13 oils, solo show ); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco ( 13 oils, part of group show )

Scholars Philip Jenkins and Robert M. Price noticed parallels between The Secret Gospel of Mark and a novel by James Hunter published in 1940 entitled The Mystery of Mar Saba.

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

David Eugene Price ( born August 17, 1940 ) is a professor and the U. S. Representative for, serving since 1997 and previously from 1987 to 1995.

* David Price ( U. S. politician ) ( born 1940 ), Democratic Congressman representing the 4th district of North Carolina

* David Price ( American politician ) ( born 1940 ), American politician

Price, American journalist who worked as the police reporter for the New York Daily News from 1940 to 1955

* Satans on Saturn, 5-part serial, Argosy ( November 1940 ), with E. Hoffmann Price

* " Spotted Satan " ( January 1940 ), with E. Hoffmann Price

He was awarded the Franklin Institute's John Price Wetherill Medal in 1940 for the invention of the Hammond electric organ.

Some quite specific predictions about the Price System collapse were made during the Depression, the first giving 1937 as the date, and the second forecasting the collapse as occurring " prior to 1940 ".

She married James Edward Price on February 1, 1940.

He taught there from 1931 until 1940, when he resigned to become the Minnesota counsel for the Roosevelt Administration's Office of Price Administration.

Scholars such as Philip Jenkins and Robert M. Price pointed out parallels between The Secret Gospel of Mark and a novel by James H. Hunter published in 1940 entitled The Mystery of Mar Saba .< ref >

Perlo moved to the Office of Price Administration ( OPA ) in November 1940, where he was head of the economic statistics division.

Beginning in 1939, he worked adviser to Paul McNutt, then head of the Federal Security Agency, and in 1940 as assistant to Leon Henderson in the Office of Price Administration ( then known as the National Defense Council ).

In 1940 he shot a tournament record 64 in the opening round of The Masters, a record that stood for decades until Nick Price shot a 63 in 1986.

Perhaps Lindsay's finest film role was in The House of the Seven Gables in 1940, with George Sanders and Vincent Price.