Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
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Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
3
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
4
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
5
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
6
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
7
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
8
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
9
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
10
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
11
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
12
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
13
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
14
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
15
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
16
Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
17
Donald Tovey (1875-1940)
Composer
18
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
19
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
20
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
21
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
22
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
23
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
24
Celebrities Born in 1940
Deaths by Year
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
25
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
26
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
27
Lewis Yancey (1895-1940)
Pilot
28
Earl Hurd (1880-1940)
Director
29
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
30
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
31
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
32
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
33
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
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Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
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Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
36
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
37
Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
38
Jorge Bravo de Rueda (1895-1940)
39
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
40
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
41
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
42
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
43
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
44
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
45
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
46
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
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Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
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