Finally in 1940 Capoeira left the Brazilian penal code and definitely left illegality.

* 1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer

* Brazilian Sketches: 1927 ( 1940 )

Miranda made a total of fourteen Hollywood films between 1940 and 1953 and was dubbed The Brazilian Bombshell.

Among the recordings was a unique performance of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos ' Choros No. 10 with a Los Angeles choral group and the Janssen Symphony Orchestra ( 1940 – 1952 ) conducted by Werner Janssen, Symphony No. 3 by Russian composer Reinhold Moritzovich Glière, and César Franck's Symphony in D minor with Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Pelé is a Brazilian footballer, born Edison " Edson " Arantes do Nascimento in 1940.

* Astrud Gilberto ( born 1940 ), Brazilian singer

* Sydney Possuelo ( born 1940 ), Brazilian explorer and ethnographer

* José de Anchieta Fontana ( 1940 – 1980 ), a Brazilian soccer player / footballer

Jacob Palis, Jr. ( born 15 March 1940 ) is a Brazilian mathematician and professor.

Campo Grande Atlético Clube, or Campo Grande as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Campo Grande neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, founded on June 13, 1940.

The stadium was inaugurated on April 27, 1940 with the presence of the Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas, the intervener Adhemar de Barros and the mayor of São Paulo Prestes Maia.

* Prince Dom Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza ( 1940 – 2007 ): Born in 1913, son of Dona Isabel's eldest son, who had renounced all rights to the Brazilian throne for himself and his descendants.

* 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

* 1940 – Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter, musician, and composer

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

* 1940 – Mike Vickers, British musician and composer ( Manfred Mann )

* 1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician and composer ( b. 1940 )

* 1940 – Wong Jim, Hong Kong composer ( d. 2004 )

* 1880 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer ( d. 1940 )

* 1940 – Tolis Voskopoulos, Greek singer, actor, and composer

* 1940 – Tony Croatto, Italian-born composer ( d. 2005 )

* 1940 – Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, Turkish musician, composer and poet ( d. 2002 )

* 1940 – Hamiet Bluiett, American musician and composer ( World Saxophone Quartet )

* 1940 – Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and producer

* 1940 – Paul Williams, American actor and composer

* December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer ( b. 1940 )

** Maurice Jaubert, French composer, wounded in combat ( d. 1940 )

* Petur Alberg ( 1885 – 1940 ), composer, most famous for composing the national anthem

* Christos Leontis ( 1940 ) composer

* Maurice Jaubert ( 1900 – 1940 ), composer, conductor

He recorded his own " It's Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby " with Benny Goodman in 1940 and nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a successful popular song composer.

* Alvin Singleton ( born 1940 ), American composer

* Jehan Alain ( 1911 – 1940 ), composer of European classical music

* Arthur De Greef, pianist and composer ( 1862 – 1940 )

Hal Kemp ( March 27, 1904 – December 21, 1940 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, composer, and arranger.

Louisiana singer / composer Jimmie Davis began recording for Decca the same year, joined by western vocalists Jimmy Wakely and Roy Rogers in 1940.

However, with this status of national identity came the recognition of intellectual Heitor Villa-Lobos, who arranged a recording with the maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1940, which involved Cartola, Donga, João da Baiana, Pixinguinha, and Zé da Zilda.

The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.

In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics.

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

Morris Lazerowitz claims to have created the term around 1940 and used it in print in 1942.

Tékumel is a fantasy world created by M. A. R. Barker over the course of several decades from around 1940.

Curtin agreed instead to take a seat on a newly created Advisory War Council in October 1940.

For velocity measurement, Professor Wolman of Dresden created an alternative of his Doppler tracking system in 1940 – 41, which used a ground signal transponded by the A-4 to measure the velocity of the missile.

In his first publication, " The Constitutions of France " ( 1944 ), he explained that the French constitution of 1940 created a " de facto government ".

** HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921 – 1 April 2012 ), married in Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on 26 September 1940 to her cousin HE Damat HH Prince / HRH Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi ( Alexandria, Montaza Palace, 20 February 1899 – Istanbul, 1 / 2 December 1979, buried in Cairo ), Heir Apparent to the Throne of Egypt from 1899 to 1914, created HH in 1922, created HRH in 1952, Regent of Egypt from 1952 to 1953, and had issue.

In September 1940, during World War II, the newly created regime of Vichy France granted Japan's demands for military access to Tonkin with the invasion of French Indochina ( or Vietnam Expedition ).

In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 and other statutes.

In Varengeville, Palma, and Mont-roig, between 1940 and 1941, Miró created the twenty-three gouache series Constellations.

When the U. S. entered World War II in December 1941, LeMay was a major in the United States Army Air Forces ( he had been a 1st lieutenant as recently as 1940 ), and the commander of a newly created B-17 Flying Fortress unit, the 305th Bomb Group.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

By September 1940, a Belgian section of the Royal Navy was created on the initiative of a Belgian navy Lieutenant Victor Billet.

The Fish and Wildlife Service was finally created in 1940, when the Bureaus of Fisheries and Biological Survey were combined after being moved to the Department of the Interior.

The office of Commissioner was created in 1940.

The same thing was created by Jean-Baptiste Lebas in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( administratively joined with Belgium ) in January 1941 following a previous network created in September 1940.

The second largest public park in the city of New York ( after Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx ), it was created as the site of the 1939 / 1940 New York World's Fair and also hosted the 1964 / 1965 New York World's Fair.

He accepted the position of dean when it was created in 1940.