Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
3
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
4
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
7
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
8
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
9
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
10
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
11
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
12
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
13
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
14
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
15
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
16
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
17
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
18
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
19
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
20
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
21
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
22
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
23
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
24
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
25
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940)
Saxophonist
26
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
27
Ralph Modjeski (1861-1940)
Engineer
28
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
29
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
30
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
31
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
32
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
33
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
34
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
35
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
36
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
37
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
38
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
39
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
40
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
41
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
42
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
43
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
44
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
45
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
46
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
47
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
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