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1940 (
MCMXL ) was a
leap year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1940th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 940th year of the
2nd millennium , the 40th year of the
20th century , and the 1st year of the
1940s decade.
Calendar year
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
[1]
Events
Below, the events of
World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
February
March
March 5 –
Katyn massacre : Members of the Soviet Politburo (
Joseph Stalin ,
Vyacheslav Molotov ,
Lazar Kaganovich ,
Mikhail Kalinin ,
Kliment Voroshilov and
Lavrentiy Beria ) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs.
March 11 –
Ed Ricketts ,
John Steinbeck and six others leave
Monterey, California , United States, for the
Gulf of California , on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition.
March 12 –
Moscow Peace Treaty : The
Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow, ending the
Winter War ; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.
March 13 – Indian nationalist
Udham Singh assassinates Sir
Michael O'Dwyer (in revenge for the
1919
Jallianwala Bagh massacre ) at
Caxton Hall in
London , for which he is hanged on 31 July at
HM Prison Pentonville .
March 18 – WWII:
Axis powers :
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini meet at
Brenner Pass in the
Alps . After being informed by Hitler that the Germans are ready to attack in the west, Mussolini agrees to bring Italy into the war in due course.
[6]
March 21 –
Édouard Daladier resigns as Prime Minister of France;
Paul Reynaud succeeds him.
March 23 –
Pakistan Movement : The
Lahore Resolution , calling for greater autonomy for what will become
Pakistan in
British India , is drawn up by the
All-India Muslim League during a three-day general session at
Iqbal Park ,
Lahore .
March 30 – WWII: Former
Kuomintang member and Chinese foreign minister,
Wang Jingwei , announces the creation of the
Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China in
Nanjing .
March 31 – WWII:
Commerce raiding
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis leaves the
Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair).
[7]
April
April 3 – WWII:
Operation Weserübung : German ships set out for the
invasion of Norway .
April 4 –
Neville Chamberlain ,
UK Prime Minister , in what proves to be a tragic misjudgment, declares in a major public speech that
Hitler has "missed the bus".
April 7 –
Booker T. Washington becomes the first
African American to be depicted on a United States
postage stamp .
April 8 – WWII:
Operation Wilfred : The British fleet lays
naval mines off the coast of neutral Norway.
April 9 – WWII: Germany invades the
neutral countries of Denmark and Norway in
Operation Weserübung , opening the
Norwegian Campaign . The British
Royal Navy attempts to attack elements of the German fleet off Norway.
Vidkun Quisling proclaims a new collaborationist
regime in Norway. The
German invasion of Denmark lasts for about six hours, before that country capitulates.
April 10 – WWII:
First Naval Battle of Narvik : The British
Royal Navy attacks the German fleet in the
Ofotfjord .
[8] At
Bergen ,
German cruiser Königsberg is sunk by British
Fleet Air Arm
Blackburn Skua
dive bombers , flying from
RNAS Hatston in
Orkney .
April 12
April 13
April 14 –
Norwegian Campaign : The first British ground forces land in Norway, at
Namsos and
Harstad .
April 16 – In American baseball, the
Cleveland Indians , behind
Bob Feller 's
Opening Day
no-hitter , defeat the
Chicago White Sox , 1–0.
April 23 – The
Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in
Natchez, Mississippi , United States, kills 198 people.
April 27 –
Mandatory Palestine and
Lebanon play an
association football friendly ; it is Lebanon's first official match, and Mandatory Palestine's last before they become Israel in 1948.
May
May 10 – WWII:
May 13 – WWII:
May 13 –
14 – Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and her government are evacuated to London, using the British destroyer
HMS Hereward .
May 14 – WWII:
May 15
WWII: The
Dutch Army formally signs a surrender document.
Women's
stockings made of
nylon are first placed on sale across the United States. Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.
[10]
May 16 – President of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt , addressing a joint session of the
U.S. Congress , asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900,000,000 to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
May 17 – WWII:
May 18 – Marshal
Philippe Pétain is named vice-premier of France.
[11]
May 19 – General
Maxime Weygand replaces
Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief of all French forces.
May 20
May 22 – WWII: The
Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 , giving the government full control over all persons and property.
May 24 – WWII:
May 25 – The
Crypt of Civilization time capsule at
Oglethorpe University ,
Brookhaven, Georgia in the United States, is sealed shut, with a projected opening date of 8113
CE .
May 26
May 27 – WWII:
Le Paradis massacre : 97 retreating British soldiers of the
Royal Norfolk Regiment are executed by German troops of
3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf after surrendering in France.
May 28 – WWII:
May 29 – The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the
F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.
June
July
July 1 – The
first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens for business, built with an 8-foot (2.4 m) girder and 190 feet (58 m) above the water, as the third-longest
suspension bridge in the world.
July 2 – WWII: British-owned
SS Arandora Star , carrying
civilian internees and
POWs of Italian and German origin from
Liverpool to Canada, is
torpedoed and sunk by
German submarine U-47 off northwest Ireland, with the loss of around 865 lives.
July 3 – WWII:
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir : British naval units sink or seize ships of the French fleet anchored in the
Algerian ports of
Mers-el-Kebir and
Oran , to prevent them from falling into German hands. The following day,
Vichy France breaks off diplomatic relations with Britain.
July 5 – WWII:
Operation Fish – A British convoy including
HMS Batory sails from
Greenock (Scotland) for
Halifax, Nova Scotia , carrying
gold bar and other valuables worth $1.7 billion for safe keeping in
Canada ,
[19] the largest movement of wealth in history.
[20]
July 6
July 10 – WWII: The
Battle of Britain begins.
July 11
July 14 – WWII:
Winston Churchill , in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome: "We shall seek no terms. We shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy. We shall ask none."
July 15 – U.S. politics: The
Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates
Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president.
July 19
July 20 –
August 4 – Scheduled dates for the
1940 Summer Olympics in
Helsinki , Finland, cancelled in November 1939 due to WWII (originally allocated to
Tokyo , Japan).
July 21
July 23 –
Welles Declaration : United States
Under Secretary of State
Sumner Welles announces that the U.S. will not accord
diplomatic recognition to the
Soviet Union 's
occupation of the Baltic states .
July 25 – General
Henri Guisan addresses the officer corps of the
Swiss army at
Rütli , resolving to resist any invasion of the country.
July 27
Eleven British nationals, including Melville James Cox, are arrested on suspicion of spying for military intelligence by the
secret police in
Japan . Cox commits suicide in
Tokyo on July 29, according to a report by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
[22]
Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the
Oscar -nominated cartoon short,
A Wild Hare . However, it is not until 1941 that his name is adopted.
August
August 1 – WWII: British submarine
HMS Spearfish is sunk in the English Channel, by what is much later discovered to be a mine.
August 3 – The
Lithuanian SSR is annexed into the
Soviet Union , followed by the
Latvian SSR on
August 5 and the
Estonian SSR
August 6 , just seven weeks after their occupation. Ethnic Germans will be deported to Germany.
August 3 –
19 – WWII: The
Italian conquest of British Somaliland is completed.
August 4 – Gen.
John J. Pershing , in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while
Charles Lindbergh speaks to an
isolationist rally at
Soldier Field in Chicago.
August 8 – WWII: German general
Wilhelm Keitel signs the "
Aufbau Ost " directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the
Soviet Union .
August 10 – WWII: British armed merchant cruiser
HMS Transylvania is torpedoed off
Malin Head , Ireland, by
German submarine U-56 .
August 13 – WWII: The
Adlertag ("Eagle Day") strike on southern England occurs, starting the rapid escalation of the
Battle of Britain air offensive of the
Luftwaffe against
RAF Fighter Command .
August 15 – Italy, without having declared war on Greece, sinks the Greek boat Elli (Έλλη).
August 18
August 20
August 24 –
Howard Florey , and a team including
Ernst Chain and
Norman Heatley , at the
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology ,
University of Oxford , publish their laboratory results showing the
in vivo bactericidal action of
penicillin . They have also purified the drug.
[26]
[27]
August 25 – WWII: The first
Bombing of Berlin is carried out, by the
British
Royal Air Force .
August 26 – WWII:
Chad is the first French colony to proclaim its support for the Allies.
August 30 –
Second Vienna Award : Germany and Italy compel Romania to cede half of
Transylvania to Hungary.
August 31
September
September – The
U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division (previously a National Guard Division in
Arizona ,
Colorado ,
New Mexico , and
Oklahoma ), is activated and ordered into federal service for one year, to engage in a training program in
Ft. Sill and
Louisiana , prior to serving in WWII.
September 2 – WWII: The
Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and Great Britain is announced, to the effect that 50 U.S. destroyers needed for escort work will be transferred to Great Britain. In return, the United States gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic,
West Indies and
Bermuda .
[30]
September 4 – WWII:
Adolf Hitler 's Winterhilfe speech at the
Berlin Sportpalast declares that
Nazi Germany will make retaliatory night air raids on British cities and threatens invasion.
[30]
September 5 – WWII:
Commerce raiding
German auxiliary cruiser Komet enters the Pacific Ocean via the
Bering Strait , after crossing the Arctic Ocean from the
North Sea , with the help of Soviet icebreakers Lenin , Stalin , and Kaganovich .
[31]
September 6 – King
Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son
Michael .
September 7
September 9 –
16 – WWII: The
Italian invasion of Egypt commences from Libya, progressing only as far as
Sidi Barrani .
September 9
September 12
September 14 –
Ip massacre : The Hungarian Army, supported by
local Hungarians , kill 158
Romanian civilians in
Ip, Sălaj , a village in
Northern Transylvania , as part of attempts at
ethnic cleansing .
September 16 – WWII: The
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by
Franklin D. Roosevelt , creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
September 17 – WWII:
September 17 –
18 –
SS City of Benares is
torpedoed by
German submarine U-48 in the Atlantic, with the loss of 248 of the 406 on board, including child evacuees bound for Canada. This results in cancellation of the British
Children's Overseas Reception Board 's plan to relocate children overseas.
September 20 –
22 –
Convoy HX 72 , a North Atlantic convoy of 43 ships, is attacked by a German U-boat group (
wolfpack ), eleven ships of 73 tons are sunk, seven during the second night of the attack by the
U-100 under the command of
Joachim Schepke .
September 21 –
1940 Australian federal election :
Robert Menzies '
UAP /
Country
Coalition
Government is re-elected as a
minority government , narrowly defeating the
Labor Party led by
John Curtin . It is the last federal election to result in a minority government until
2010 .
September 22 –
Japan enters French Indochina : An agreement is signed in which Japan promises to station 6,000 troops there, and limit the total number of troops that could be in the colony at any given time to 25,000. Rights are also given for three airfields.
September 23 –
25 –
Battle of Dakar – Naval forces of
Free France and Britain fail to take the port of
Dakar in
French West Africa from
Vichy France .
September 25 –
Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany : German
Reichskommissar
Josef Terboven appoints a provisional council of state from the pro-Nazi
Nasjonal Samling party, under
Vidkun Quisling , as a puppet government for Norway.
September 26 – A group of Japanese officers, in violation of an agreement, signed 4 days earlier with
French Indochina , take
Đồng Đăng and
Lam Sơn , with 40 Franco-Vietnamese troops killed and around 1,000 deserting. The same day the United States imposes a total
embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.
September 27 – WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan sign the
Tripartite Pact .
September 30 (night to
October 1 ) –
Arsonists from the
Hitler Youth destroy the
Great Synagogue of Strasbourg .
October
October 1 – The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the United States' first long-distance
controlled-access highway , is opened.
October 11 – Portuguese-born performer
Carmen Miranda makes her American film debut in
Down Argentine Way , one of the first films produced to promote the
Good Neighbor policy .
October 14 – WWII: At least 66 people are killed when a
Luftwaffe bomb penetrates
Balham station on the
London Underground which is in use as an
air-raid shelter during
The Blitz on England.
October 15 –
Charlie Chaplin 's
The Great Dictator , a satirical anti-fascist comedy film, premieres in New York City. Written, directed, produced by and starring Chaplin as his first true sound film, it is a critical and commercial success and goes on to become Chaplin's most financially successful work. Filming began in September 1939.
October 16
The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.
Nazi Governor-General
Hans Frank establishes the
Warsaw Ghetto .
October 18 –
19 – WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from
Convoy SC 7 and
Convoy HX 79 by the most effective "
wolfpack " of the war, including
Otto Kretschmer ,
Günther Prien and
Joachim Schepke .
October 26 –
28 – WWII:
RMS Empress of Britain , serving as a
troopship under the British flag, is bombed, torpedoed and sunk off the
Donegal coast, with the loss of 45 lives. At 42,348
GRT , she is the war's largest merchant ship loss.
October 28 – WWII:
Italian troops invade Greece , meeting strong resistance from Greek troops and civilians. This action signals the beginning of the
Balkan Campaign .
October 29 – The
Selective Service System lottery is held in Washington, D.C..
November
November – In
Cambodia , the
Khmer Issarak is formed to overthrow the
French Army within the nation.
November 2 –
8 – WWII: (
Greco-Italian War ):
Battle of Elaia–Kalamas in
Epirus : Outnumbered
Greek forces repel the
Italian Army .
November 2 –
German submarine U-69 is commissioned, the first
Type VIIC
U-boat of
Nazi Germany 's
Kriegsmarine , which will become its most numerous class, with 568 commissioned during the War.
November 5
November 6 –
Agatha Christie 's mystery novel
And Then There Were None is published in book form, in the United States.
November 7 – In
Tacoma, Washington , the 600-foot (180 m)-long center span of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (known as Galloping Gertie) collapses.
November 8 – WWII:
MS City of Rayville is sunk by a naval mine off
Cape Otway , Australia (the first
United States Merchant Marine loss of the war).
November 9 –
Joaquín Rodrigo 's
Concierto de Aranjuez premieres in
Barcelona , Spain.
November 10 –
1940 Vrancea earthquake : An earthquake in
Romania kills 1,000.
November 11
November 13 – The
Walt Disney animated film
Fantasia , the first commercial film shown in
stereophonic sound , has its world premiere at the
Broadway Theatre in New York City. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it recoups its cost years later and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.
November 14 – WWII:
Coventry Blitz : The city centre of
Coventry , England is destroyed by 500
Luftwaffe bombers; 150,000
fire bombs , 503 tons of high explosives, and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed. The city's cathedral is gutted.
November 15 –
Abbott and Costello make their film debut, in
One Night in the Tropics .
November 16
November 17 – The
Tartu Art Museum is established in
Tartu ,
Estonia .
[33]
November 18 – WWII: German leader
Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister
Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss
Benito Mussolini 's disastrous invasion of Greece.
November 20 –
24 – WWII: Hungary,
Romania and
Slovakia join the
Axis powers .
November 25
November 26 –
27 –
Jilava Massacre : In
Romania , coup leader General
Ion Antonescu 's
Iron Guard arrests and executes over 60 of exiled King
Carol II of Romania 's aides, starting at a penitentiary near
Bucharest . Among the dead is former minister and acclaimed historian
Nicolae Iorga .
November 27 – WWII:
Battle of Cape Spartivento : The British
Royal Navy and Italian
Regia Marina battle to a draw.
December
December –
Timely Comics '
Captain America Comics #1 (cover dated March 1941),
first appearance of
Captain America and
Bucky , hits newsstands in the United States.
December 1 –
Manuel Ávila Camacho takes office, as
President of Mexico .
December 6 – British submarine
HMS Regulus is sunk near
Taranto .
December 8 – The
Chicago Bears , in what will become the most one-sided victory in
National Football League history, defeat the
Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
December 9 – WWII:
Operation Compass – British forces in North Africa begin their first major offensive, with an attack on Italian forces at
Sidi Barrani ,
Egypt .
December 12 and
December 15 – WWII:
Sheffield Blitz ("Operation Crucible"): The
Yorkshire city of
Sheffield is badly damaged by German air-raids.
December 14
December 16 – WWII:
Operation Abigail Rachel : The
RAF bombs
Mannheim .
December 17 – President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain, which will become known as
Lend-Lease .
December 23 – WWII:
Winston Churchill , in a broadcast address to the people of Italy, blames
Benito Mussolini for leading his nation to war against the British, contrary to Italy's historic friendship with them: "One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians."
December 24 –
Mahatma Gandhi , Indian spiritual non-violence leader, writes his second letter to
Adolf Hitler , addressing him as "My friend", and requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.
December 25 – The German cruiser
Admiral Hipper attacks a British shipping convoy (WS 5A) en route to
Sierra Leone 700 miles (1,100 km) west of
Cape Finisterre in
Spain . Admiral Hipper sinks one ship but has to withdraw with engine trouble.
December 27 – The German auxiliary cruiser
Komet shells and heavily damages the phosphate production facilities on
Nauru while flying the Japanese flag. The bombardment lasts an hour, and it causes the loss of 13,000 tons of oil.
December 29
Date unknown
Births
January
Brian Josephson
Jack Nicklaus
Tabaré Vázquez
Carol Heiss
Carlos Slim
January 2
January 3 –
Thelma Schoonmaker , Algerian-born American film editor
January 4
January 9 –
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez , Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist and businessman
January 14 –
Julian Bond , African-American civil rights activist (d.
2015 )
January 16 –
Franz Müntefering , German politician
January 17
January 18 –
Pedro Rodríguez , Mexican racing driver (d.
1971 )
January 19 –
Paolo Borsellino , Italian judge and magistrate (d.
1992 )
[36]
January 20
January 21 –
Jack Nicklaus , American golfer
January 22 –
John Hurt , English actor (d.
2017 )
[38]
January 24 –
Joachim Gauck , German politician, 11th
President of Germany
January 27
January 28 –
Carlos Slim , Mexican businessman
January 29
February
H. R. Giger
Vicente Fernández
Smokey Robinson
John Lewis
Mario Andretti
February 2
February 4 –
George A. Romero , American film writer, director (d.
2017 )
[40]
February 5 –
H. R. Giger , Swiss artist (d.
2014 )
February 6 –
Tom Brokaw , American television journalist and author
[41]
February 7 –
Tony Tan , 7th President of Singapore
February 9
February 12 –
Robert Saladrigas , Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic (d.
2018 )
February 15 –
Hamzah Haz , Indonesian politician, 9th
Vice President of Indonesia
February 17
February 18 –
Fabrizio De André , Italian singer, songwriter (d.
1999 )
February 19 –
Smokey Robinson , African-American musician
February 20 –
Jimmy Greaves , English footballer (d.
2021 )
February 21 –
John Lewis , African-American politician, civil rights activist (d.
2020 )
February 23 –
Peter Fonda , American actor (
Easy Rider ) (d.
2019 )
February 24
February 25 –
Jesús López Cobos , Spanish-born conductor (d.
2018 )
February 27 –
Bill Hunter , Australian actor (d.
2011 )
[44]
February 28
March
Mina
Nancy Pelosi
March 1
March 2 –
Billy McNeill , Scottish football player and manager (d.
2019 )
March 3
March 4 –
Vladimir Morosov , Soviet athlete
March 5 –
Anton Fliegerbauer , West German police officer (d.
1972 )
March 7
March 9 –
Raul Julia , Puerto Rican actor (d.
1994 )
March 10 –
Chuck Norris , American actor, martial artist
March 12 –
Al Jarreau , African-American singer (d.
2017 )
March 13 –
Candi Staton , American singer
March 16
March 20 –
Paul Neville , Australian politician (d.
2019 )
March 21 –
Solomon Burke , African-American singer, songwriter (d.
2010 )
March 22 –
Haing S. Ngor , Cambodian actor (
The Killing Fields ) (d.
1996 )
March 25
March 26
James Caan , American actor (d.
2022 )
Nancy Pelosi , American politician; Speaker and Minority Leader (alternately) of the United States House of Representatives
March 27 –
Marie Jepsen , Danish politician (d.
2018 )
March 29
March 30 –
Jerry Lucas , American professional basketball player
[47]
March 31 –
Patrick Leahy , American politician
April
Wangari Maathai
Julie Christie
Margrethe II of Denmark
Al Pacino
April 1 –
Wangari Maathai , Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
2011 )
April 2
April 4 –
Robby Müller , Dutch cinematographer (d.
2018 )
April 6 –
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. , Mexican actor (d.
2011 )
April 8 –
John Havlicek , American basketball player (d.
2019 )
April 12 –
Herbie Hancock , African-American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 16
April 17 –
John McCririck , English horse racing pundit (d.
2019 )
April 18
April 19 –
Reinhard Bonnke , German Pentecostal evangelist (d.
2019 )
April 20 –
Pilar Miró , Spanish screenwriter and film director (d.
1997 )
April 22 –
Marie-José Nat , French actress (d.
2019 )
April 23 –
Danilo Astori , Uruguayan politician, 15th
Vice President of Uruguay
April 24 –
Sue Grafton , American detective novelist (d.
2017 )
[51]
April 25 –
Al Pacino , American actor, film director
April 26
April 30 –
Ermindo Onega , Argentine footballer (d.
1979 )
May
Ricky Nelson
Toni Tennille
Don Nelson
May 1 –
Elsa Peretti , Italian jewelry designer (d.
2021 )
May 2
May 3
May 5 –
Lance Henriksen , American actor
May 7 –
Angela Carter , English author, editor (d.
1992 )
[53]
May 8
May 9 –
James L. Brooks , American film producer, writer
May 11 –
Juan Downey , Chilean-born American video artist (d.
1993 )
May 13
May 15
May 16 –
Ole Ernst , Danish actor (d.
2013 )
May 17
May 19 –
Jan Janssen , Dutch cyclist
May 20
May 22 –
Bernard Shaw , African-American journalist and television news reporter (d.
2022 )
May 24 –
Joseph Brodsky , Russian-born poet,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1996 )
May 26 –
Levon Helm , American musician and actor (d.
2012 )
May 27 –
Sotsha Dlamini , 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d.
2017 )
May 29 –
Farooq Leghari , 8th
President of Pakistan (d.
2010 )
June
René Auberjonois
Kip Thorne
Constantine II of Greece
Sir
Tom Jones
Nancy Sinatra
Wilma Rudolph
June 1
June 2 –
Constantine II of Greece (d.
2023 )
[56]
June 4 –
Ludwig Schwarz , Austrian prelate
June 7
June 8 –
Nancy Sinatra , American singer
June 9 –
Barry McDonald , Papua New Guinea-Australian rugby union player (d.
2020 )
June 13 –
Bobby Freeman , American singer, songwriter (d.
2017 )
June 14 –
Jack Bannon , American actor (d.
2017 )
[58]
June 16
June 17
June 18 –
Phillip E. Johnson , American lawyer and author (d.
2019 )
June 20
June 21 –
Michael Ruse , British-Canadian philosopher
June 22
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26 –
Jerry Fujio , Japanese singer, actor and tarento
June 27 –
Anil Karanjai , Indian painter of the
Hungry generation movement (d.
2001 )
June 28
June 29 –
Vyacheslav Artyomov , Russian composer
June 30 –
Neelo , Indian actress
July
Jerzy Buzek
Nursultan Nazarbayev
Sir
Ringo Starr
Sir
Patrick Stewart
Fontella Bass
Hanako, Princess Hitachi
July 1
July 2
July 3
Lamar Alexander , American politician
Fontella Bass , African-American soul singer ("
Rescue Me ") (d.
2012 )
Jerzy Buzek , Polish politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Poland
Jose Alberto Laboy , Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
Lance Larson , American competition swimmer, Olympic champion and world record-holder in four events
Chuck Sieminski , American football player
César Tovar , Venezuelan baseball player (d.
1994 )
Mario Zanin , Italian cyclist
July 4
July 5 –
Reiko Kusamura , Japanese actress
July 6
July 7
July 9 –
Herminia Roman , Filipino politician
July 10
July 13
July 15 –
Johnny Seay , American country music singer (d.
2016 )
July 17 –
Francisco Toledo , Mexican painter, sculptor and graphic artist (d.
2019 )
July 18
July 19
July 22
July 26 –
Mary Jo Kopechne , American aide to
Ted Kennedy (d.
1969 )
July 27
July 30 –
Clive Sinclair , English inventor (d.
2021 )
[61]
August
Martin Sheen
Jean-Luc Dehaene
Jack Thompson
August 1 –
Ram Loevy , Israeli screenwriter, director
August 3 –
Martin Sheen , American actor, father of
Charlie Sheen
August 7
August 8 –
Dilip Sardesai , Indian cricketer (d.
2007 )
August 10 –
Bobby Hatfield , American singer (
The Righteous Brothers ) (d.
2003 )
August 12 –
Tony Allen , Nigerian Afrobeat drummer (d.
2020 )
August 13
August 14
August 17 –
Joseph Pairin Kitingan , Malaysian politician, Chief Minister Of
Sabah
August 19
August 20
August 23
August 25 –
José van Dam , Belgian bass-baritone
August 26 –
Michel Micombero , 1st President of Burundi (d.
1983 )
August 27 –
Sonny Sharrock , American jazz musician (d.
1994 )
August 28 –
Joseph Shabalala , South African choral director (
Ladysmith Black Mambazo ) (d.
2020 )
August 29 –
Wim Ruska , Dutch wrestler, martial artist (d.
2015 )
August 31 –
Jack Thompson , Australian actor
September
Raquel Welch
Brian De Palma
Linda Gray
Óscar Arias
Frankie Avalon
Michel Temer
September 1
September 3
September 5 –
Raquel Welch , American actress (d.
2023 )
[64]
September 6
September 7
September 10
September 11
September 12
September 13 –
Óscar Arias , Costa Rican politician, twice
President of Costa Rica ,
Nobel Peace Prize laureate
September 14
September 18 –
Frankie Avalon , American singer and actor
September 19 –
Paul Williams , American songwriter, singer and actor
September 20 –
Tarō Asō , 59th
Prime Minister of Japan
September 22 –
Anna Karina , Danish-French actress (d.
2019 )
September 23
September 24 –
Michiko Suganuma ,
Urushi
Japanese lacquer artist
September 27 –
Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , emir of Kuwait
October
John Lennon
Sir
Michael Gambon
Pelé
October 1
October 3 –
Mike Troy , American swimmer (d.
2019 )
October 4 –
Ian Kiernan , Australian yachtsman (d.
2018 )
October 5 –
Milena Dravić , Serbian actress (d.
2018 )
October 6 –
John Warnock , American computer scientist, co-founded
Adobe Inc. (d.
2023 )
October 9 –
John Lennon , English musician, singer-songwriter (
The Beatles ) (d.
1980 )
October 13 –
Pharoah Sanders , American saxophonist (d.
2022 )
October 14 –
Cliff Richard , British pop musician, actor and philanthropist
October 15 –
Peter Doherty , Australian immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 16
October 17 –
Peter Stringfellow , English businessman, nightclub owner (d.
2018 )
October 18 –
Győző Kulcsár , Hungarian fencer (d.
2018 )
October 19 –
Sir Michael Gambon , British-Irish actor (d.
2023 )
October 20 –
Robert Pinsky , American poet, essayist, literary critic and translator,
United States Poet Laureate
October 21
October 23 –
Pelé , Brazilian footballer (d.
2022 )
October 24 –
Yossi Sarid , Israeli politician (d.
2015 )
October 25
October 27 –
John Gotti , American gangster (d.
2002 )
October 28 –
Jack Shepherd , English actor
October 29
October 30 –
Hidetoshi Nagasawa , Japanese sculptor, architect (d.
2018 )
November
Qaboos bin Said
Bruce Lee
November 5 –
Jaime Roldós Aguilera , 33rd
President of Ecuador (1979-1981) (d.
1981 )
November 12 –
Donald Wuerl , American archbishop
November 15
November 17 –
Luke Kelly , Irish ballad singer (d.
1984 )
November 18 –
Qaboos bin Said ,
Sultan of Oman (d.
2020 )
November 20 –
Helma Sanders-Brahms , German film director (d.
2014 )
November 21 –
Richard Marcinko , U.S. Navy SEAL team member, author (d.
2021 )
November 22
November 25 –
Joe Gibbs , American football coach
November 27 –
Bruce Lee , Chinese-American martial artist, actor (d.
1973 )
November 29 –
Chuck Mangione , American flugelhorn player
December
Richard Pryor
Dionne Warwick
Frank Zappa
Deaths
January
January 1 –
Fusajiro Yamauchi , Japanese business executive (b.
1859 )
January 4 –
Flora Finch , English-born actress, comedian (b.
1867 )
January 9 –
Alex Bennett , Scottish footballer (b.
1881 )
January 15 –
Kallirhoe Parren , founder of the Greek women's movement (b.
1861 )
January 18 –
Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer , Polish poet, writer (b.
1865 )
January 20 –
Omar Bundy , U.S. Army general (b.
1861 )
January 22 –
Edwin Carewe , Native American director (b.
1883 )
January 27 –
Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (executed) (b.
1894 )
January 29 –
Nedo Nadi , Italian fencer (b.
1894 )
[66]
February
Gunnar Höckert
Michael Hainisch
March
Selma Lagerlöf
Spyridon Louis
March 1 –
A. H. Tammsaare , Estonian writer (b.
1878 )
March 5
March 10 –
Mikhail Bulgakov , Russian writer (b.
1891 )
March 16
March 18 –
Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston , British army general (b.
1864 )
March 20 –
Alfred Ploetz , German physician, biologist and eugenicist (b.
1860 )
March 23 –
Dimitar Stanchov , 15th
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b.
1863 )
March 24 –
Thomas Adams , British urban planner (b.
1871 )
March 26 –
Spyridon Louis , Greek Olympic athlete (b.
1873 )
March 27
March 30 –
Sir George Egerton , British admiral (b.
1852 )
March 31 –
Tinsley Lindley , English footballer (b.
1865 )
April
Carl Bosch
April 1 –
J. A. Hobson , English economist (b.
1858 )
April 5
April 7 –
William Faversham , English actor (b.
1868 )
[69]
April 8 –
Joaquin Mir Trinxet , Spanish artist (b.
1873 )
April 9
April 10 –
Bernard Warburton-Lee , British naval officer,
Victoria Cross recipient (killed in action) (b.
1895 )
April 18 –
Florrie Forde , Australian-born music hall singer (b.
1875 )
[71]
April 21 –
George Barnes , British Labour politician (b.
1859 )
April 26 –
Carl Bosch , German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1874 )
[72]
April 28 –
Luisa Tetrazzini , Italian opera singer (b.
1871 )
April 30 –
Henryk Dobrzański , Polish soldier, sportsman and resistance fighter (b.
1897 )
May
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse
May 2 –
Ernest Joyce , English explorer (b. 1875)
[73]
May 7 –
George Lansbury , British Labour politician (b. 1859)
May 11 –
Chujiro Hayashi , Japanese Reiki Master (b. 1880)
May 14 –
Emma Goldman , Lithuanian-born anarchist (b.
1869 )
May 15 –
Menno ter Braak , Dutch writer (b.
1902 )
May 16 –
Zhang Zizhong , general of the Chinese
National Revolutionary Army (b.
1891 )
May 20 –
Verner von Heidenstam , Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1859 )
May 24 –
Louis Fles , Dutch businessman, activist and author (b.
1872 )
May 25 –
Joe De Grasse , Canadian film director (b.
1873 )
May 26 –
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (b.
1906 )
May 27 –
Bolesław Roja , Polish general (executed) (b.
1876 )
May 28
May 29 –
Mary Anderson , American stage actress (b.
1859 )
June
Arthur Harden
Janusz Kusocinski
Paul Klee
June 7
June 10
June 11 –
Alfred S. Alschuler , American
architect (b.
1876 )
June 13 –
George Fitzmaurice , American director (b.
1885 )
June 12 –
William Lashly , English sailor (b.
1867 )
June 14 –
Henry W. Antheil Jr. , American diplomat (b.
1912 )
June 17 –
Sir Arthur Harden , English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1865 )
June 19 –
Maurice Jaubert , French composer (b.
1900 )
June 20 –
Charley Chase , American comedian (b.
1893 )
June 21
June 22
June 15 –
J. B. Johnson , American attorney and politician (b.
1868 )
June 28 –
Italo Balbo , Italian Fascist leader (b.
1896 )
June 29 –
Paul Klee , Swiss artist (b.
1879 )
July
August
Leon Trotsky
Paul Nipkow
J. J. Thomson
September
Charles de Broqueville
October
November
Nicolae Iorga
December
Kyosti Kallio
F. Scott Fitzgerald
December 2 –
Nikolai Koltsov , Russian biologist, genetist (b.
1872 )
December 5 –
Jan Kubelík , Czech violinist (b.
1880 )
December 13 –
Wilfred Lucas , Canadian-born American actor (b.
1871 )
December 14 –
Anton Korošec , Slovenian political leader (b.
1872 )
December 15 –
Billy Hamilton , American baseball player,
MLB Hall of Famer (b.
1866 )
December 16 –
Eugène Dubois , Dutch paleoanthropologist, geologist (b.
1858 )
December 19 –
Kyösti Kallio , Finnish farmerman, banker, 8th
Prime Minister of Finland and 4th
President of Finland (b.
1873 )
December 21 –
F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (b.
1896 )
December 22 –
Nathanael West , American writer (b.
1903 )
December 23 –
Eddie August Schneider , American aviator (b.
1911 )
December 25 –
Agnes Ayres , American actress (b.
1898 )
December 26 –
Daniel Frohman , American theater producer (b.
1851 )
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Further reading
Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events
online free ; 914pp
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