* 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

* 1940 – Burt Young, American actor

* 1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist ( Last Exit ) ( d. 1994 )

* 1940 – Louise Sorel, American actress

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

* 1940 – Lance Alworth, American football player

* 1940 – Martin Sheen, American actor

* 1940 – James Tyler, American guitarist, composer, and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1940 – Dennis Tito, American engineer and businessman, founded Wilshire Associates

* 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Galen Hall, American football player and coach

* 1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter and actor

* 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress

* 1875 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer ( d. 1940 )

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

* 1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor

* 1940 – James Brady, American activist, 15th White House Press Secretary

* 1940 – Gary Gabelich, American race car driver ( d. 1984 )

* 1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel laureate

* 1940 – Lennie Pond, American race car driver

* 1940 – Genya Ravan, American singer ( Goldie & the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive )

* 1940 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter ( The Righteous Brothers ) ( d. 2003 )

** Marcus Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and Pan Africanist ( d. 1940 )

British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes filed a further lawsuit in 1993, contending that Disney did not have the rights to distribute The Rite of Spring in the 1991 video releases because the permission granted to Disney by Stravinsky in 1940 was only in the context of a film to be shown in theaters.

* Dwight Griswold, governor of Nebraska from 1940 to 1946 and editor and publisher of the Gordon Journal from 1922 to 1940.

Hand was the mayor of Cape May from 1937 – 1944, and was the publisher of the Cape May Star and Wave from 1940 until his death.

In 1940, Lowry hired an agent, Harold Matson, to find a publisher for the manuscript, but it was rejected many times.

Gloria Leonard ( born August 28, 1940 ) is an American former pornographic actress who later became the publisher of High Society magazine.

The publisher, soon realized the translations were " bad " and in 1940 desired a " completely different approach ".

The grounds of Osterley Park were used for the training of the first members of the Local Defence Volunteers ( forerunners of the Home Guard ) when the 9th Earl, a friend of publisher Lord Hulton, allowed writer and military journalist Captain Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school ( which Hulton sponsored ) at the park in May / June 1940, teaching the theory and practice of modern mechanical warfare, guerilla warfare techniques and using the estate workers ' homes, then scheduled for demolition, to teach street fighting techniques.

Malcolm Margolin ( born October 27, 1940 ) is an author and book publisher, the founder and owner of Heyday Books in Berkeley, California.

Los Angeles Times publisher Norman Chandler funded the construction of the art deco Hollywood Palladium at a cost of $ 1. 6 million in 1940.

In February 1940 she sent her publisher the completed text for Blinky Bill Joins the Army.

Robert Sengstacke Abbott ( 24 November 1870-February 29, 1940 ) was an African-American lawyer, newspaper publisher and an early African-American Baha ' i.

Lillian D. Wald ( March 10, 1867 – September 1, 1940 ) was a nurse ; social worker ; public health official ; teacher ; author ; editor ; publisher ; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights ; and the founder of American community nursing.

In 1940, the American publisher G. P.

William Albert Ashbrook ( July 1, 1867 – January 1, 1940 ) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and Democratic politician from Ohio.

William Evarts Benjamin ( 1859 – 1940 ) was a prominent publisher and collector in Boston, Massachusetts.