* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – William Cohen, American politician and author, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

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

* 1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer

* William Royle ( 53 ) in Drums of Fu Manchu ( 1940 )

In the wake of Mussolini ’ s declaration of war against France and England on June 10, 1940, he discovered Kafka ’ s The Metamorphosis, Gogol, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner along with French films by Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Julien Duvivier.

* William Bowie, 1872 – 1940, ( US )

Hawks, William Faulkner and Jules Furthman collaborated on the script about a French fishing boat captain and various situations of espionage during the Fall of France in 1940.

* 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1940 )

William Cagney claimed this donation was the root of the 1940 charges.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

Steiner received his next Oscar nomination for the 1940 film The Letter, his first of several collaborations with legendary director William Wyler.

Newman's father was Jewish, which was of particular concern in the face of Nazi Germany, and Lyn, Edward and William were evacuated to America in July 1940.

* William Power ( 1940 – 1942 )

* 1941: Honorary Award for Fantasia ( 1940 ), shared with: William E. Garity and J. N. A.

* 1940: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan

The cipher was broken by a team from the US Army Signals Intelligence Service, then directed by William Friedman in 1940.

Three notable descendants of Augustus are his grandson, the notorious anthropologist, eugenicist, anti-Semite and detainee in 1940 under Defence Regulation 18B George Pitt-Rivers, his great-grandson, the anthropologist and ethnographer, Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, and his great-great-grandson, William Fox-Pitt, the equestrian.

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

Clive Sinclair was born to George William Carter Sinclair ( known as Bill ) and Thora Edith Ella Marles in 1940 near Richmond, then in Surrey.

The platoon leader was 1st Lieutenant William T. Ryder, who made the first paratroop jump for the US Military on August 13, 1940 at Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA from a B-18 Bomber.

* September 12, 1940: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 29-year-old teacher Carolyn Dellamea is shot to death inside her third grade classroom by 35-year-old William Kuhns.

** The Letter ( 1940 film ), directed by William Wyler starring Bette Davis, also adapted from the Somerset Maugham play

* Our Town ( 1940 film ), adaptation starring Martha Scott as Emily and William Holden as George Gibbs, with a musical score by Aaron Copland.

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* Bill of Divorcement, 1940

* 1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1940 – Bill Kurtis, American journalist

* 1940 – Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter ( The Righteous Brothers )

As 1939 wound down, Bill Paley announced that 1940 would " be the greatest year in the history of radio in the United States.

Individual performances continued to receive praise ; in 1987, Bill Collins analyzed The Letter ( 1940 ), and described her performance as " a brilliant, subtle achievement ", and wrote, " Bette Davis makes Leslie Crosbie one of the most extraordinary females in movies.

The first film was called Comin ' Round the Mountain ( 1940 ) and featured the McGees ' neighbors The Old-Timer ( played by Bill Thompson ) and Gildersleeve, as the mayor of the town.

About a year after Batman's debut, Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger introduced Robin the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics # 38 ( 1940 ).

* Bill Cash ( born 1940 ) — MP for Stone

In 1940, the Texas oilman and industrialist Bill Noël moved to McCamey, where he joined M. H. McWhirter of Monahans and J.

* Bill Hands ( born 1940 ), former professional baseball pitcher who was a 20-game winner for the Chicago Cubs.

* Bill Dance ( 1940 -), angler and host of " Bill Dance Outdoors ," who resided in Lynchburg during the summers of his childhood and learned to fish in Lynchburg's Mulberry Creek.

Because of Article 34. 3. 3 ° of the Constitution, the constitutional validity of the Offences Against the State ( Amendment ) Act, 1940 cannot be challenged in any court, since the Bill which became that Act was found by the Supreme Court not to be repugnant in the context of an Article 26 reference.

* Bill Winter ( linebacker b. 1940 ), played for the New York Giants ( 1962 – 1964 )

Home farming: Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.

In 1938 he teamed up with pianist Bill Doggett's group, and by 1940 had formed a completely new orchestra, which included Doggett and drummer " Panama " Francis.

The NPL's William " Wild Bill " Langer was elected to the governorship in 1932 and 1936 ( the two terms separated by his declaration of North Dakota's secession from the United States in 1934, and a jail term ), and served in the U. S. Senate from 1940 until his death in 1959.

On May 7, 1940, the Charter Bill sponsored by Assemblyman Tomas D. Dizon was approved by the second Philippine president-Manuel L. Quezon.

William Nigel Paul " Bill " Cash ( born 10 May 1940 )

The Bill was adopted by most of the States in India, Punjab being the first state to do so in 1940.

Bill Barnard, who had been elected Speaker in 1936, resigned from the Labour Party in 1940 but retained his position.

* Bill Dance ( television host ) ( born 1940 ), American fisherman