Robert Wadlow (1918-1940)
1
Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859-1940)
Entrepreneur
2
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Civil Rights Leader
3
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
Novelist
4
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Politician
5
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
World Leader
6
John T. Thompson (1860-1940)
7
Robert Grant (1852-1940)
8
Thomas Adams (1871-1940)
Architect
9
Walter Chrysler (1875-1940)
10
Nedo Nadi (1894-1940)
Fencer
11
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
Painter
12
Smedley Butler (1881-1940)
War Hero
13
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
14
George Davis (1870-1940)
Baseball Player
15
Lillian Wald (1867-1940)
Doctor
16
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940)
Director
17
Spyridon Louis (1873-1940)
Runner
18
David F. Houston (1866-1940)
19
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
Physicist
20
Tom Mix (1880-1940)
Movie Actor
21
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877-1940)
22
Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
Poet
23
Thomas Beer (1889-1940)
Non-Fiction Author
24
Charley Chase (1893-1940)
Screenwriter
25
Ben Turpin (1869-1940)
26
Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886-1940)
27
Frederick Cook (1865-1940)
Explorer
28
Mu Shiying (1912-1940)
29
William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
30
Ernest Thayer (1863-1940)
31
Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Sculptor
32
Edwin Markham (1852-1940)
33
Batty Weber (1860-1940)
Journalist
34
Italo Balbo (1896-1940)
Pilot
35
Nathanael West (1903-1940)
36
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940)
37
Charley Straight (1891-1940)
Pianist
38
Leon Douglass (1869-1940)
39
Marguerite Clark (1883-1940)
Movie Actress
40
Lewis Yancey (1895-1940)
41
Dubose Heyward (1885-1940)
42
Edouard Michelin (1859-1940)
43
Walter Connolly (1887-1940)
44
Stanislaw Bulak Balachowicz (1883-1940)
45
Carl Bosch (1874-1940)
Chemist
46
Johnny Dodds (1892-1940)
Saxophonist
47
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878-1940)
48
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