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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. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII"
prefix. January[edit] ·
January 4 – WWII: Axis powers: Luftwaffe Col Hermann Göring assumes
control of most war industries in Germany. ·
January 6 – WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes
command of all Soviet forces. ·
WWII: Winter War – Battle of
Suomussalmi: The Soviet
44th Rifle Division is destroyed by Finnish forces. ·
WWII: Food
rationing begins in Great Britain. ·
January 9 – WWII; British
submarine HMS Starfish is
sunk. ·
January 10 – WWII: Mechelen incident:
A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes
a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in
the Low Countries. ·
January 19 – The Three Stooges short
subject comedy film You Nazty Spy! is released, the
first Hollywood parody of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, with Moe Howard portraying "Moe
Hailstone" as the Hitler-parody lead. ·
January 26 – Brisbane, Australia swelters through its
hottest day ever, 43.2 degrees Celsius (109.76 Fahrenheit). ·
January 27 – WWII: A peace resolution
introduced in the Parliament of
South Africa is defeated 81–59. ·
January 29 – Three gasoline-powered
trains carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people
and injuring at least 92. February[edit] ·
February 1 – WWII: Winter War – Soviet forces launch a
major assault on Finnish troops occupying the Karelian Isthmus. ·
February 2 – Vsevolod Meyerhold is
executed in the Soviet Union on charges of treason and espionage. He is
cleared of all charges 15 years later in the first waves of de-Stalinization. ·
February 7 – Disney's Pinocchio was
released in theaters everywhere. ·
February 9 – Mae West & W. C. Fields join comedic forces
for My Little Chickadee with
tremendous success. The film becomes one of the highest grossing of the year. ·
February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot.
However it is not until 1941 that their current names are adopted. ·
February 16 – WWII: Altmark Incident:
The British destroyer HMS Cossack pursues
the German tanker Altmark into
the neutral
waters of Jøssingfjord in southwestern Norway and
frees the 290 British seamen held aboard. ·
February 22 – In Tibet,
province of Ando, 4-year-old Tenzin
Gyatso is proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama. ·
February 27 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. ·
February 29 – Hattie McDaniel becomes the first
African-American to win an Academy Award. March[edit] ·
March 2 – Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the
animated short Elmer's Candid
Camera. ·
March 3 – In Luleå, Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of
Swedish communist newspaper Norrskensflamman. ·
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 for
the Gulf of California on
a collecting expedition. ·
March 12 – 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 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. ·
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. ·
Truth or
Consequences debuts
on NBC Radio. ·
March 30 – WWII: Former member of
the Kuomintang (KMT) 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).[1] April[edit] ·
April
– Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's trusted sidekick, makes his debut
in Detective Comics #38. ·
April 3 – WWII: Operation Weserübung:
German ships set out for the invasion of Norway. ·
April 4 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, 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. At Bergen, German
cruiser Königsberg is sunk by British Fleet Air Arm Blackburn Skua dive bombers flying from RNAS Hatston in Orkney. ·
April 12 ·
The Faroe Islands are occupied
by British troops, following the German invasion of Denmark. This
action is taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands with
serious consequences for the course of the Battle of the
Atlantic. ·
Opening
day at Jamaica Race Course features
the use of parimutuel betting equipment,
a departure from bookmaking heretofore
used exclusively throughout New York. Other tracks in the state follow suit
later in 1940. ·
April 13 ·
WWII: Second
Naval Battle of Narvik: The British Royal Navy causes all eight defending
German destroyers in the Ofotfjord to be sunk. ·
The New York Rangers win the 1940 Stanley Cup
Finals in ice hockey. It will be another 54 years before their next win in 1994. ·
April 14 – Norwegian Campaign:
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 21 – Take It
or Leave It makes its debut on CBS Radio in the United States,
with Bob Hawk as host. ·
April 23 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall
in Natchez, Mississippi,
kills 198. May[edit] ·
May 6 – The International
Olympic Committee formally cancels the 1940 Summer Olympics. ·
May 10 – WWII: ·
Battle of France begins. ·
German
forces invade Low Countries. ·
Battle of the
Netherlands begins. ·
Battle of Belgium begins. ·
Invasion of Luxembourg begins. ·
British invasion of Iceland. ·
With
the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom.
·
May 13 – WWII: ·
Winston Churchill,
in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom, "I have nothing to offer
you but blood,
toil, tears, and sweat." ·
German
armies open a 60-mile (97 km) wide breach in the Maginot Line at Sedan, France. ·
May 13–May 14 – Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands and her government are evacuated to London
using the British destroyer HMS Hereward. ·
May 14 – WWII: ·
Rotterdam is subjected to savage terror
bombing by the Luftwaffe; 980 are
killed, and 20,000 buildings destroyed. General Henri Winkelman announces surrender of
the Dutch army (outside Zeeland) to German forces. ·
Recruitment
begins in Britain for a home defence force: the Local Defence
Volunteers, later known as the Home Guard. ·
May 15 ·
WWII:
The Dutch Army formally
signs a surrender document. ·
The
very first McDonald's restaurant
opens in San
Bernardino, California. ·
Women's stockings made of nylon are first placed on sale across
the United States. Almost five million pairs are bought on this day.[2] ·
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 million to finance
construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year. ·
May 17 – WWII: ·
Brussels falls to German forces; the
Belgian government flees to Ostend. ·
Zeeland is overrun by German forces,
ending the Battle of the
Netherlands and beginning full German
occupation of the Netherlands (Noord-Bevelandsurrenders on May 18 and
remaining Dutch troops are withdrawn from Zeelandic Flanders on
May 19). ·
May 18 – Marshal Philippe Pétain is
named vice-premier of France. ·
May 19 – General Maxime Weygand replaces Maurice Gamelin as commander-in-chief
of all French forces. ·
May 20 ·
WWII:
German forces (2nd Panzer Division),
under General Rudolf Veiel,
reach Noyelles on
the English Channel. ·
Holocaust: The Nazi
concentration camp and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau,
the largest of the German concentration camps, opens in occupied
Poland near the town of Oświęcim. From now until
January 1945, around 1.1 million people will be
killed here. ·
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: The Anglo-French
Supreme War Council decides to withdraw all forces under its
control from Norway. ·
May 26 ·
WWII:
The Dunkirk evacuation of
the British
Expeditionary Force starts. ·
First
free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky
VS-300 helicopter. ·
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: ·
King Leopold III of
Belgium orders the Belgian forces to cease fighting, ending
the 18-day Battle of Belgium.
Leaders of the Belgian government on French territory declare Leopold
deposed. ·
In
the land battle of
Narvik, German forces retire giving the Allies their first victory
on land in the war; however, the British have already decided to
evacuate Narvik. ·
Winston Churchill warns
the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom to "prepare itself for
hard and heavy tidings." ·
May 29 – The Vought XF4U-1, prototype
of the F4U Corsair U.S.
fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight. June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
WWII:
Rear Admiral Sir W. Frederic
Wake-Walker's flagship, the destroyer Keith, is sunk by Stukas.[3] ·
June 3 ·
WWII:
Paris is bombed by the Luftwaffe for the
first time. ·
The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan. ·
Weather Bureau transferred to the United
States Department of Commerce. ·
June 4 – WWII: ·
The Dunkirk evacuation ends:
The British and French navies together with large numbers of civilian vessels
from various nations complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France to England. ·
Winston Churchill tells
the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom, "We shall not flag or
fail. We shall
fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields
and the streets.... We shall never surrender." ·
June 7 ·
Cartoon
character Daisy Duck debuts
in Mr. Duck Steps Out. ·
King Haakon VII of Norway and
his government are evacuated from Tromsø to London on HMS Devonshire.[4] ·
June 9 – WWII: The British Commandos are
created. ·
June 10 ·
WWII:
Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. ·
WWII:
U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back"[permanent dead link] speech during the graduation
ceremonies of the University of
Virginia. ·
WWII:
Canada declares war on Italy. ·
WWII:
The Norwegian Army surrenders
to German forces. ·
WWII:
The French government flees to Tours. ·
Jamaican political activist Marcus Garvey dies of a stroke in
London. ·
June 11 – WWII: The Western Desert
Campaign opens with British forces crossing the Frontier Wire into Italian Libya. ·
June 12 – WWII: 13,000 British and
French troops surrender to Major-General Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. ·
June 13 – WWII: Paris is declared
an open city. ·
June 14 ·
WWII:
The French government flees to Bordeaux and Paris falls under German
occupation. ·
WWII:
U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act into law, which aims
to increase the United States Navy's
tonnage by 11%. ·
WWII:
A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of
the Auschwitz
concentration camp. ·
June 15 ·
WWII:
The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania. ·
WWII: Verdun falls to German forces. ·
June 16 ·
The Churchill war
ministry in the United Kingdom offers a Franco-British Union to Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister
of France, in the hope of preventing France from agreeing to
an armistice
with Germany, but Reynaud resigns when his own cabinet refuses to
accept it. ·
The Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally is held for the first time in Sturgis, South
Dakota. ·
June 17 ·
WWII: Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister
of France and immediately asks Germany for peace terms. ·
WWII:
The Soviet Union occupies Estonia and Latvia. ·
WWII: Operation Garamond begins: Allied troops
start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of
the nation. ·
WWII: RMS Lancastria, serving as
a troopship, is bombed and sunk by Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 aircraft while evacuating
British troops and nationals from Saint-Nazaire in France with the loss
of at least 4,000 lives, the largest single UK loss in any World War II
event, immediate news of which is suppressed in the British press.[5][6] Destroyer HMS Beagle (H30) rescues
around 600. ·
June 18 ·
WWII: Winston Churchill tells
the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom: "The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is
about to begin." ·
WWII: Appeal of 18 June:
General Charles de Gaulle, de
facto leader of the Free French Forces,
makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London
rallying French Resistance,
calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: "France has lost a
battle. But France has not lost the war". ·
June 20 – WWII: ·
WWII: The evacuation of the Channel Islands to
England begins.[7] ·
June 22 ·
WWII: Second
Armistice at Compiègne: The French Third
Republic and Nazi Germany sign an armistice ending the Battle of France in the Forest of Compiègne,
in the same Compagnie
Internationale des Wagons-Lits railroad car used by
Marshal Ferdinand Foch to
agree the Armistice with
Germany in 1918. This divides France
into a Zone occupée in
the north and west under the Military Administration in France (Nazi Germany) and
a southern Zone libre, Vichy France. ·
Albert Einstein gives public address on
I'M AN AMERICAN series on becoming an American citizen. ·
June 23 – WWII: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated
Paris in now occupied France.[8] ·
June 24 ·
United
States politics: The Republican
Party begins its national
convention in Philadelphia and nominates Wendell Willkie as its candidate for
president. ·
WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms with
Italy. ·
June 25 – WWII: After the defeat
of France,
Hitler plans for an invasion of Switzerland, known as Operation Tannenbaum. ·
June 26 – Soviet calendar: The Soviet Union reverts to
a seven-day week for all purposes. ·
June 28 ·
General Charles de Gaulle is
officially recognized by Britain as the "Leader of all Free Frenchmen, wherever they may be." ·
Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to
the Soviet Union, after an ultimatum. ·
June 30 ·
WWII:
German forces land in Guernsey, marking the
start of the 5-year Occupation
of the Channel Islands. ·
Federal
government of the United States reorganisation: ·
The Civil Aeronautics Administration is
placed under the Department of
Commerce. ·
The
U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) is placed under the Federal Security
Agency. ·
The United
States Fish and Wildlife Service is placed under the Department of
the Interior. July[edit] ·
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 the 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 falling into German hands. The following day, Vichy France breaks off diplomatic
relations with Britain. ·
July 6 ·
Opening
of Story Bridge in Brisbane. ·
WWII:
British submarine HMS Shark is
sunk. ·
July 10 – WWII: The Battle of Britain begins. ·
July 11 ·
WWII:
British destroyer HMS Escort is torpedoed and
sunk by an Italian submarine. ·
WWII: Vichy France begins with a
constitutional law which only 80 members of the parliament vote
against. Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister
of France. ·
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 ·
WWII:
Allied victory at the Battle of Cape Spada HMAS Sydney and
five destroyers sink the Italian
cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni. ·
WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to
Britain in an address to the Reichstag. Lord
Halifax, the British foreign minister, flatly rejects peace terms
in a broadcast reply on July 22. ·
July 21 ·
After
rigged parliamentary elections in the three occupied countries on July 14–15, the parliaments proclaim the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian
Soviet Socialist Republics. ·
The Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter
aircraft enters service, so named as 1940 roughly corresponds to the year
2600 on the Japanese Imperial calendar. ·
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 – 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[edit] ·
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. ·
August 3–19 – WWII: Italian
conquest of British Somaliland. ·
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: 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 Luftwaffeagainst RAF Fighter Command. ·
August 15 – Italy, without having
declared war on Greece, sinks the Greek boat Elli (Έλλη). ·
WWII:
"The Hardest Day"
in the Battle of Britain:
both sides lose more aircraft combined on this day than at any other point
during the campaign without the Luftwaffe achieving
dominance over RAF Fighter Command. ·
HRH The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, is
installed as Governor of the
Bahamas.[9] ·
WWII: Winston Churchill pays
tribute in the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom to the Royal Air Force: "Never in the field of
human conflict was so much
owed by so many to so few." ·
Leon Trotsky is attacked with an ice axe in his Mexico home by NKVD agent Ramón Mercader. ·
August 21 – Leon Trotsky dies of injuries
sustained. ·
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.[10][11] ·
August 25 – WWII: The first Bombing
of Berlin 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. September[edit] ·
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 1 year, to engage in a training program in Ft. Sill and Louisiana, prior to serving in WWII. ·
September 2 – WWII: Destroyers
for Bases Agreement between 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, United States gains 99-year
leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda. ·
September 4 – WWII: In Berlin, Adolf Hitler declares in a speech
that Nazi Germany will
avenge all night air raids carried out by Great Britain. ·
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.[12] ·
September 6 - King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is
succeeded by his son Michael. ·
Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. ·
WWII: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on
London (the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing). ·
September 9–16 – WWII: Italian
invasion of Egypt from Libya, progressing only as far
as Sidi Barrani. ·
Treznea massacre: The Hungarian Army,
supported by local Hungarians kill
93 Romanian civilians in Treznea, Sălaj,
a village in Northern
Transylvania, as part of attempts at ethnic cleansing. ·
George Stibitz first demonstrates
remote operation of a computer, in the United States. ·
In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a
group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict
animals and date to the Stone Age. ·
The
Hercules Munitions Plant in Succasunna-Kenvil,
New Jersey explodes, killing 55 people. ·
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 17–18 – WWII: 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 21 – Australian
federal election, 1940: 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 no more than 6,000 troops there, and never have more than
25,000 transiting the colony. Rights were also given for three airfields. ·
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 four 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 1 October)
– Arsonists from the Hitler Youth destroy the Great Synagogue
of Strasbourg. October[edit] ·
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 – The Balham tube
station disaster in London, England, occurs during the
Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain. ·
October 15 – Charlie Chaplin releases his controversial
wartime satire The Great Dictator,
nine months after the Stooges' You Nazty Spy!. ·
The
draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United
States. ·
Nazi
Governor-General Hans Frank established
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 U-boat acesKretschmer, Prien and 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[edit] ·
November
– In Cambodia the Khmer Issarak is formed to overthrow
the French Army within
the nation. ·
November 2–8 – WWII (Greco-Italian War):
In the 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 – United
States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D.
Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United
States' first and only third-term president. ·
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, the first United
States Merchant Marine loss of the war, off Cape Otway, Australia. ·
November 9 – Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de
Aranjuez premieres in Barcelona, Spain. ·
November 10 – 1940 Vrancea
earthquake: An earthquake in Romania kills 1,000. ·
WWII:
The British Royal Navy launches
the first aircraft carrier strike
in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval
base. ·
WWII: German
auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British
mail intended for British Far East
Command from the SS Automedon and sends it
to Japan. ·
Armistice Day
Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the Midwestern
United States. ·
November 13 – Walt Disney's Fantasia is
released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually
recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of
Disney's films. ·
November 14 – WWII: 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, during the Coventry Blitz. ·
November 15 – Abbott and Costello make
their film debut in One Night in the
Tropics. ·
WWII:
In response to Germany levelling Coventry 2 days before, the Royal Air Force begins to bomb Hamburg (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg
residents will have died from Allied attacks). ·
An
unexploded pipe bomb is
found in the Consolidated Edison office
building (only years later is the culprit, George Metesky, apprehended). ·
The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers is
founded. ·
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 – WWII: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis powers. ·
Patria disaster:
As British authorities attempt to deport Jewish refugees (originating from German-occupied
Europe) from Mandatory Palestine to Mauritiusaboard the requisitioned emigrant
liner SS Patria at Haifa, the Jewish paramilitary
organization Haganah sinks the
ship with a bomb, killing around 250 refugees and crew. ·
de Havilland
Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder military
aircraft both make their first flights. ·
Woody Woodpecker makes his debut in the
animated short, Knock Knock.
It is not until 1941 that his current name is adopted. ·
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: The British Royal Navy and Italian Regia Marina fight the Battle of Cape
Spartivento. December[edit] ·
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. ·
WWII
British destroyers HMS Hereward and HMS Hyperion sink
an Italian submarine off Bardia. ·
Royal
Navy Fairey Swordfish based
on Malta bomb Tripoli. ·
Plutonium is first synthesized in the
laboratory by a team led by Glenn T. Seaborg and Edwin McMillan at the University
of California, Berkeley. ·
December 16 – WWII: Operation
Abigail Rachel – RAF bombing of Mannheim. ·
December 17 – President Roosevelt, at
his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to
send aid to Great Britain that 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 "My
friend", requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun. ·
Franklin D.
Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares
that the United States must become "the great arsenal of
democracy." ·
WWII:
"Second Great
Fire of London" – Luftwaffe carries out a massive
incendiary bombing raid, starting 1,500 fires. Many famous buildings,
including the Guildhall and
Trinity House, are either damaged or destroyed. ·
California's first modern freeway, the future State Route
110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California,
as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now
the Pasadena Freeway). ·
In
Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms
the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company. Undated[edit] ·
In
Korea, the Hunminjeongeum (1446)
is discovered, explaining the basis of the Hangul alphabet. ·
US
historian Arthur Marder publishes The
Anatomy of British Sea Power: a history of British naval policy in the
pre-Dreadnought era, 1880-1905. ·
Walter Knott begins construction of a
California ghost town replica
which would soon evolve into Knott's Berry Farm. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor and
director (d. 2018) ·
Jim Bakker, American televangelist and
former husband of Tammy Faye ·
January 3 – Leo de Berardinis,
Italian stage actor and theatre director (d. 2008) ·
Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate ·
January 6 – Penny Lernoux, American nun and author
(d. 1989) ·
January 9 – Miguel Ángel
Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and
businessman ·
January 14 – Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
(d. 2015) ·
January 16 – Franz Müntefering,
German politician ·
Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete ·
Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay ·
Nerses Bedros
XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (d. 2015) ·
Tony Holland, British actor and television
screenwriter (d. 2007) ·
Mike Reid,
English actor (d. 2007) ·
Linda Sorenson, Canadian actress ·
January 20 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater ·
Jeremy Jacobs, American businessman ·
Jack Nicklaus, American golfer ·
January 22 – John Hurt, English actor (d. 2017) ·
January 23 – Jimmy Castor, American funk, R&B, and
soul saxophonist (d. 2012) ·
January 24 – Joachim Gauck, German president ·
January 27 – James Cromwell, American actor ·
January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman February[edit]
·
February 1 – Ajmer Singh,
Indian athlete and educator (d. 2010) ·
February 2 – Sir David Jason, English actor ·
February 3 – Fran Tarkenton, American football player ·
February 4 – George A. Romero, American film writer and
director (d. 2017) ·
February 5 – H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014) ·
Tom Brokaw, American television news
reporter ·
Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian ·
February 7 – Tony Tan, 7th President of Singapore ·
Thomas Rickman,
American film director and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
Ted Koppel, American journalist ·
Brian Bennett, British drummer and
songwriter (The Shadows) ·
J. M. Coetzee, South African writer, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Seamus Deane, Irish poet and novelist ·
Ralph Bates, English actor (d. 1991) ·
Richard Lynch, American actor (d. 2012) ·
Robert Saladrigas,
Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic (d. 2018) ·
Matija Barl, Slovenian actor, producer and
translator (d. 2018) ·
Willi Holdorf, German Olympic decathlete ·
Chris
Newman, American sound mixer and director ·
Gene Pitney, American singer (d. 2006) ·
February 18 – Fabrizio De André,
Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1999) ·
February 19 – Smokey Robinson, American musician ·
February 20 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer ·
Akihiko Kumashiro,
Japanese politician ·
John R.
Lewis, American politician and civil rights leader ·
Aracy Balabanian, Brazilian actress ·
Judy Cornwell, English actress ·
Johnson Mlambo, South African politician ·
Billy Name (William G. Linich),
American photographer and Warhol archivist (d. 2016) ·
February 23 – Peter Fonda, American actor ·
Pete Duel, American actor (d. 1971) ·
Denis Law, Scottish football player ·
Jesús López Cobos,
Spanish-born conductor (d. 2018) ·
Ron Santo, American baseball player
(d. 2010) ·
February 27 – Howard Hesseman, American actor ·
Mario Andretti, American race car driver ·
Joe South, American singer and songwriter
(d. 2012) March[edit]
·
March 1 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and author
(d. 2008) ·
March 3 ·
Germán Castro
Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist ·
Owen Spencer-Thomas,
English broadcaster, journalist and clergyman ·
March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player
(d. 2001) ·
March 7 – Rudi Dutschke, German radical student leader
(d. 1979) ·
March 8 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress (Webster) ·
March 9 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994) ·
March 10 ·
Chuck Norris, American actor and martial
artist ·
Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean) ·
March 12 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017) ·
March 13 – Candi Staton, American singer ·
March 15 – Phil Lesh, American musician ·
March 16 ·
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Italian writer and film director (d. 2018) ·
Jan Pronk, Dutch politician and diplomat ·
James Wong,
Hong Kong composer (d. 2004) ·
March 17 – Mark White, Governor of Texas (d. 2017) ·
March 21 – Solomon Burke, American singer and
songwriter (d. 2010) ·
March 22 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996) ·
March 25 ·
Anita Bryant, American entertainer ·
Mina, Italian singer ·
March 26 ·
James Caan, American actor ·
Nancy Pelosi, American politician; Speaker
and Minority Leader (alternately) of the United States House of
Representatives ·
March 29 ·
Ray Davis,
American musician (P-Funk) (d. 2005) ·
Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer April[edit]
·
April 1 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011) ·
April 2 ·
Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer
(d. 1981) ·
Dame Penelope Keith, English actress ·
April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player ·
April 12 ·
John Hagee, American televangelist ·
Herbie Hancock, American musician ·
Michael Whitehall,
English producer, talent agent and author ·
April 13 – Max Mosley, British motorsport boss ·
April 14 – Julie Christie, English actress ·
April 15 ·
Willie Davis,
American baseball player (d. 2010) ·
Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
(d. 2005) ·
April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of
Denmark ·
April 17 – Chuck Menville, American animator and writer
(d. 1992) ·
April 18 ·
Ken Shellito, English footballer and manager
(d. 2018) ·
Joseph L. Goldstein,
American scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
April 22 – Ray Griff, Canadian country music
singer-songwriter (d. 2016) ·
April 24 – Sue Grafton, American detective novelist
(d. 2017) ·
April 25 ·
Al Pacino, American actor and film director ·
Tristram Powell, English television
director, film director, writer and producer ·
April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer ·
April 28 – P. J. Bradley, Northern Irish politician
(d. 2017) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer ·
May 2 ·
Manuel Esquivel, Belizean politician,
2nd Prime Minister
of Belize ·
Hariton Pushwagner,
Norwegian artist (d. 2018) ·
May 3 – David Koch, American businessman and
philanthropist ·
May 5 – Lance Henriksen, American actor and potter ·
May 7 ·
Angela Carter, English author and editor
(d. 1992) ·
Jim Connors, American radio personality
(d. 1987) ·
May 8 ·
Peter Benchley, American author (d. 2006) ·
Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985) ·
Toni Tennille, American singer ·
May 9 – James L. Brooks, American film producer and
writer ·
May 11 – Juan Downey, Chilean-born video artist
(d. 1993) ·
May 13 ·
Bruce Chatwin, British author (d. 1989) ·
Oliver Lozano, Filipino lawyer and
politician (d. 2018) ·
May 14 – 'H'. Jones, British soldier (VC recipient)
(d. 1982) ·
May 15 ·
Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer ·
Don Nelson, American basketball player and
coach ·
May 16 – Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013) ·
May 17 ·
Alan Kay, American computer scientist ·
Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme
Court Chief Justice ·
May 18 – Lenny Lipton, American inventor ·
May 20 ·
Shorty Long, American soul music singer, songwriter,
musician, and record producer (d. 1969) ·
Stan Mikita, Slovakian-born Canadian hockey
player ·
Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player ·
May 22 – Bernard Shaw,
American journalist and television news reporter ·
May 24 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1996) ·
May 27 – Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of
Swaziland (d. 2017) ·
May 29 – Farooq Leghari, 8th President of
Pakistan (d. 2010) June[edit]
·
June 1 ·
René Auberjonois,
American screen actor ·
Kip Thorne, American gravitational
physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
June 2 – Constantine II
of Greece ·
June 4 – Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian prelate ·
June 7 ·
Monica Evans, British actress ·
Tom Jones,
Welsh singer ·
June 8 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer ·
June 11 – Wayne Kemp, American country music singer
(d. 2015) ·
June 13 – Bobby Freeman, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
June 16 ·
Neil Goldschmidt, American politician;
Governor of Oregon ·
Taylor Gun-Jin Wang,
Chinese-American astronaut ·
Thea White, American voice actress ·
June 17 ·
George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Alan Murray,
Australian golfer ·
June 19 – Paul Shane, English-born actor (d. 2013) ·
June 20 – John Mahoney, English-born American actor
(d. 2018) ·
June 21 – Mariette Hartley, American actress ·
June 22 ·
Egon Henninger, German swimmer ·
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director,
screenwriter and producer (d. 2016) ·
Dame Esther Rantzen, British broadcaster ·
June 23 ·
Adam Faith, English singer and actor
(d. 2003) ·
Derry
Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Lord Chancellor of England ·
Willie Wallace, Scottish football player and
coach ·
Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (d. 1994) ·
Stuart Sutcliffe, English rock musician and
painter (d. 1962) ·
June 24 ·
Hope Cooke, American socialite; Queen
Consort of Sikkim ·
Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer, tax
expert, academic, businessman and politician ·
Murali Mohan, Indian film actor, producer,
politician and business executive ·
Walter Ofonagoro, Nigerian scholar,
politician and businessman ·
Ian Ross,
Australian newsreader (d. 2014) ·
June 25 ·
Thomas Köhler, East German luger ·
A. J. Quinnell, English writer (d. 2005) ·
June 26 ·
Lucinda Childs, American actress and
postmodern dancer/choreographer ·
Jerry Fujio, Japanese singer, actor, and
tarento ·
June 27 ·
Eric Richard, English actor and presenter ·
Anil Karanjai, Indian painter of the Hungry generation movement.
(d. 2001) ·
June 28 ·
Karpal Singh, Malaysian politician and
lawyer (d. 2014) ·
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize laureate ·
June 29 – Vyacheslav Artyomov,
Russian composer ·
June 30 ·
Neelo, Indian actress ·
Gil
Gomes [pt], Brazilian journalist, lawyer and broadcast police reporter
(d. 2018) July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Fukunohana Koichi,
Japanese sumo wrestler ·
Craig
Brown, Scottish former professional football player and manager ·
Abdul Razzak Ahmed,
Iraqi football player ·
Wathiq Naji, Iraqi football manager ·
July 2 ·
Joshua Bryant, American actor, director,
author and speaker ·
Ruriko Asaoka, Japanese actress ·
July 3 ·
Fontella Bass, American soul singer
(d. 2012) ·
Jose Alberto Laboy,
Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player ·
Lance Larson, American former competition
swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in four events ·
Chuck Sieminski, American football player ·
César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player
(d. 1994) ·
Mario Zanin,
Italian cyclist ·
July 4 ·
Deidre Catt, English tennis player ·
Nasser Madani, Iranian fencer ·
Gene McDowell, American college football
coach ·
Pat Stapleton,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
July 5 – Reiko Kusamura, Japanese actress ·
July 6 – Nursultan
Abishuly Nazarbayev, President of
Kazakhstan ·
July 7 ·
Lee Keun-hak, North Korean football player ·
Irène Sweyd, Belgian former swimmer ·
Ringo Starr (a.k.a. Sir Richard
Starkey), English musician; The Beatles' drummer ·
July 9 – Herminia Roman, Filipino politician ·
July 10 ·
Gene Alley, American baseball player ·
Jim Cadile, American professional football
offensive guard ·
Helen Donath, American soprano ·
Lofty Drews, Kenyan rally co-driver ·
Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur ·
Julie
Payne, American actress ·
Tommy Troelsen, Danish former football
player and manager, and television presenter ·
July 11 ·
Rufus Ada George, Nigerian politician ·
Anita Wall, Swedish actress ·
July 13 ·
Paul Prudhomme, American celebrity chef and
cookbook author (d. 2015) ·
Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor ·
July 16 ·
Lofty Drews, Kenyan rally co-driver ·
Tom Metcalf, American baseball pitcher ·
July 17 ·
Tim Brooke-Taylor,
English comedian ·
Verne Lundquist, American sportscaster ·
July 18 ·
James Brolin, American actor and director ·
Joe Torre, American baseball player and
manager ·
July 19 ·
Anzor Kavazashvili,
Soviet former football goalkeeper ·
July 22 ·
Prince
Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma ·
Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host ·
July 24 – Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian ·
July 26 ·
Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2011) ·
Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Ted Kennedy (d. 1969) ·
July 27 ·
Pina Bausch, German choreographer (d. 2009) ·
Bharati Mukherjee,
Indian-born novelist (d. 2017) ·
July 30 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor ·
July 31 – Roy Walker,
Northern Irish comedian August[edit]
·
August 1 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director ·
August 3 – Martin Sheen, American actor, father
of Charlie Sheen ·
August 7 ·
Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 2014) ·
Thomas Barlow,
American politician (d. 2017) ·
August 8 – Dilip Sardesai, former Indian cricketer
(d. 2007) ·
August 10 – Bobby Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous
Brothers) (d. 2003) ·
Dirk Sager, German journalist (d. 2014) ·
Tony Cloninger, American baseball player
(d. 2018) ·
Galen Hall, American football coach ·
Max Schautzer, Austrian born, German radio
and television presenter ·
August 18 – Stanley Johnson,
British politician and author ·
August 19 – Jill St. John, American actress ·
Musa Geshaev, Chechen poet and historian
(d. 2014) ·
Rubén Hinojosa,
American politician ·
Tom Baker,
American actor (d. 1982) ·
Thomas A. Steitz, American biochemist
(d. 2018) ·
August 25 – José van Dam, Belgian bass-baritone ·
Fernest Arceneaux,
American musician (d. 2008) ·
Sonny Sharrock, American jazz musician
(d. 1994) ·
Bennie Maupin, American musician ·
Johnny Paris, American musician (Johnny and the
Hurricanes) (d. 2006) ·
Wim Ruska, Dutch wrestler and martial artist
(d. 2015) ·
Wilton Felder, American saxophonist and
bassist (d. 2015) ·
Jack Thompson,
Australian actor September[edit]
·
Pauline Collins, English actress ·
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (d. 2015) ·
Joseph C. Strasser,
American admiral ·
Joseph Warioba, 5th Prime Minister of
Tanzania ·
September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress ·
Dario Argento, Italian filmmaker. ·
Abdurrahman Wahid,
former President of
Indonesia (d. 2009) ·
September 10 – David Mann,
American artist (d. 2004) ·
Brian De Palma, American film director ·
Ajit Singh,
Indian-born economist (d. 2015) ·
Joachim Frank, German-born
biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Linda Gray, American model and actress ·
Skip Hinnant, American actor ·
Mickey Lolich, American baseball player ·
September 13 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician,
twice President of
Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ·
Larry Brown,
American basketball player and coach ·
Barbara Greenwood,
Canadian educator and children's books author ·
Ventseslav
Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer and translator ·
September 15 – Abu Hassan Omar, Malaysian politician
(d. 2018) ·
September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor ·
September 20 – Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of
Japan ·
Mohammad-Reza
Shajarian, Iranian traditional singer ·
Michel Temer, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil between
2016 and 2018. ·
September 24 – Michiko Suganuma, Urushi Japanese lacquer artist October[edit]
·
October 1 – Jean-Luc Bideau, Swiss actor ·
October 4 – Ian Kiernan, Australian yachtsman (d. 2018) ·
October 5 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress
(d. 2018) ·
October 6 – Ellen Travolta, American actress ·
October 9 – John Lennon, English musician and singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980) ·
October 11 – David McFadden,
Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer (d. 2018) ·
October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist ·
October 14 – Cliff Richard, British pop musician ·
October 15 – Peter C. Doherty, Australian immunologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
October 16 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter
(d. 2009) ·
October 17 – Peter Stringfellow,
English businessman and nightclub owner (d. 2018) ·
October 18 – Győző
Kulcsár, Hungarian fencer (d. 2018) ·
October 19 – Sir Michael Gambon, Irish actor ·
October 20 – Robert Pinsky, United States
Poet Laureate ·
Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer ·
Manfred Mann,
South African rock musician ·
Marita Petersen, 8th Prime Minister of Faroe
Islands (d. 2001) ·
October 23 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer ·
October 24 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015) ·
October 25 – Bobby Knight, American basketball coach ·
John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002) ·
Shahnaz Pahlavi, Iranisn princess ·
October 28 – Jack Shepherd,
English actor ·
October 30 – Hidetoshi Nagasawa,
Japanese sculptor and architect (d. 2018) November[edit]
·
Rudolf Deng Majak,
South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) ·
Ramesh Chandra
Lahoti, Chief Justice of
India ·
November 2 – Carolin Reiber, German television presenter ·
November 4 – Václav Halama, Czech footballer and coach
(d. 2017) ·
November 5 – Jaime Roldós
Aguilera, 33rd President of Ecuador (1979-1981)
(d. 1981) ·
Roberto Cavalli, Italian designer ·
Sam Waterston, American actor ·
November 17 – Luke Kelly, Irish ballad singer (d. 1984) ·
November 18 – Qaboos bin Said
al Said, Sultan of Oman ·
November 20 – Helma Sanders-Brahms,
German film director (d. 2014) ·
Gino Santercole, Italian singer/songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (d. 2018) ·
Richard Marcinko, U.S. Navy SEAL team member
and author ·
Alberto Fouilloux,
Chilean footballer (d. 2018) ·
Terry Gilliam, American-born British
screenwriter, director and animator ·
Kuldip Singh
Chandpuri, Indian military officer (d. 2018) ·
Andrzej
Żuławski, Polish film director and writer (d. 2016) ·
November 23 – Rockin' Robin
Roberts, American rock and roll singer (d. 1967) ·
Joe Gibbs, American football coach ·
Percy Sledge, American singer (d. 2015) ·
November 27 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist
and actor (d. 1973) ·
November 29 – Chuck Mangione, American flugelhorn player December[edit]
·
Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian
(d. 2005) ·
Nora Schimming-Chase,
Namibian politician (d. 2018) ·
Barbara Amiel, British journalist,
socialist, and peer ·
Freddy Cannon, American singer ·
Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977) ·
December 5 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer ·
December 7 – David Bamigboye, Nigerian military officer
and politician (d. 2018) ·
David Gates, American singer-songwriter (The Bread) ·
Donna Mills, American actress ·
Sharad Pawar, Indian politician ·
Dionne Warwick, American singer ·
December 18 – Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager ·
December 19 – Phil Ochs, American protest singer (d. 1976) ·
December 20 – Pat Chapman, English author ·
December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer,
and satirist (d. 1993) ·
December 22 – Noel Jones,
British ambassador to Kazakhstan (d. 1995) ·
Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan ·
Jorma Kaukonen, American musician ·
December 24 – Janet Carroll, American actress and singer
(d. 2012) ·
December 25 – Alija Behmen, Bosnian politician (d. 2018) ·
December 26 – Edward C. Prescott,
American economist, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
December 29 – Fred Hansen, American Olympic athlete Date unknown[edit] ·
Michael
Jackson, New Zealand poet and anthropologist ·
Michel Micombero, 1st President of Burundi
(d. 1983) ·
Ali Saibou, 3rd President of Niger (d. 2011) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January
– Fusajiro Yamauchi,
Japanese business executive (b. 1859) ·
January 4 – Flora Finch, English-born actress and
comedian (b. 1869) ·
January 9 – Alex Bennett,
Scottish footballer (b. 1881) ·
January 18 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer,
Polish poet and writer (b. 1865) ·
January 20 – Omar Bundy, US Army General (b. 1861) ·
January 27 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (executed)
(b. 1894) February[edit]
·
February
– Zheng Pingru,
Chinese spy, executed (b. 1918) ·
February 1 – Philip Francis
Nowlan, American science fiction writer, creator
of Buck Rogers (b. 1888) ·
Carl Grünberg, German philosopher (b. 1861) ·
Mikhail Koltsov, Soviet journalist
(executed) (b. 1898) ·
Vsevolod Meyerhold,
Russian theatre practitioner (b. 1874) ·
February 4 – Samuel M. Vauclain,
American engineer (b. 1856) ·
February 9 – William Edward
Dodd, American historian and diplomat (b. 1869) ·
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir,
Scottish-born novelist and Governor General
of Canada (b. 1875) ·
Gunnar Höckert,
Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1910) ·
February 26 – Michael Hainisch, 2nd President of Austria (b. 1858) ·
February 27 – Peter Behrens, German architect and designer
(b. 1868) ·
February 29 – Edward Frederic
Benson, English writer March[edit]
·
March 1 – Anton Hansen
Tammsaare, Estonian writer (b. 1878) ·
March 5 ·
Maxine Elliott, American actress (b. 1868) ·
Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868) ·
March 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891) ·
March 11 – John Monk Saunders,
American writer (b. 1897) ·
March 16 – Selma Lagerlöf,
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1858) ·
March 20 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist,
and eugenicist (b. 1860) ·
March 21 – Violet Ann Bland, English Suffragette
(b. 1863) ·
March 23 – Dimitar Stanchov, 15th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1863) ·
March 26 – Spyridon Louis, Greek Olympic athlete
(b. 1873) ·
March 27 ·
Madeleine Astor, American survivor of
the sinking of the
RMS Titanic (b. 1893) ·
Michael Joseph
Savage, 23rd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872) ·
March 30 – George
Egerton, British admiral (b. 1852) ·
March 31 – Tinsley Lindley, English footballer
(b. 1865) April[edit]
·
April 1 – John A. Hobson, English economist (b. 1858) ·
April 21 – George
Barnes, British Labour politician (b. 1859) ·
April 26 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1874) ·
April 28 – Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer
(b. 1871) ·
April 30 – Henryk
Dobrzański, Polish soldier, sportsman, and resistance fighter
(b. 1897) May[edit] ·
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 19 – Diego Mazquiarán,
Spanish matador (b. 1895) ·
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 – Wilhelm
of Prussia, Prussian prince (b. 1906) ·
May 28 ·
Prince
Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868) ·
Walter Connolly, American actor (b. 1887) ·
May 29 – Mary
Anderson, American stage actress (b. 1859) June[edit]
·
June 1 – Jan F. E. Celliers,
South African poet, writer and dramatist. (b. 1865) ·
June 7 ·
James Hall,
American actor (b. 1900) ·
Hugh Rodman, American admiral (b. 1859) ·
June 10 ·
Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born publisher,
entrepreneur, and black nationalist (b. 1887) ·
Sir Thomas Hudson
Beare, British engineer (b. 1859) ·
June 11 – Alfred S. Alschuler,
American architect (b. 1876) ·
June 13 – George Fitzmaurice,
American director (b. 1885) ·
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 ·
Édouard Vuillard,
French painter (b. 1868) ·
Smedley Butler, U.S. general (b. 1881) ·
Janusz
Kusociński, Polish athlete (killed in action) (b. 1907) ·
John T. Thompson, United States Army officer
and inventor of the Thompson gun (b. 1860) ·
June 22 – Walter Hasenclever,
German poet and playwright (b. 1890) ·
June 28 – Italo Balbo, Italian Fascist leader
(b. 1896) ·
June 29 – Paul Klee, Swiss artist (b. 1879) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Ben Turpin, American actor and comedian
(b. 1869) ·
July 9 – Józef Biniszkiewicz,
Silesian politician (b. 1875) ·
July 15 – Robert Wadlow, tallest man ever (infection)
(b. 1918) ·
July 30 – Spencer S. Wood, United States Navy rear
admiral (b. 1861) August[edit]
·
August 3 – Krishna Raja
Wadiyar IV, Indian royal, Maharajah of Mysore (b. 1884) ·
August 5 – Frederick Albert
Cook, American explorer (b. 1865) ·
August 8 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist
(b. 1892) ·
James Fairbairn, Australian pastoralist,
aviator, and politician (b. 1897) ·
Sir Henry Gullett, Australian politician
(b. 1878) ·
Geoffrey Street, Australian politician
(b. 1894) ·
Sir Brudenell White, Australian general
(b. 1876) ·
August 18 – Walter Chrysler, American automobile pioneer
(b. 1875) ·
Hermann Obrecht, Swiss Federal Councillor
(b. 1882) ·
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary
(assassinated) (b. 1879) ·
Sir Oliver Lodge, British physicist (b. 1851) ·
Gerald
Strickland, 4th Prime Minister of Malta, 23rd Governor of New
South Wales, 15th Governor of Western Australia and 9th Governor of Tasmania
(b. 1861) ·
Mary Vaux Walcott,
American artist and naturalist (b. 1860) ·
August 24 – Paul Nipkow, German technician and inventor
(b. 1860) ·
August 28 – William Bowie,
American geodetic engineer (b. 1872) ·
August 30 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1856) ·
August 31 – Ernest Lundeen, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1878) September[edit]
·
September 4 – George William
de Carteret, author from Jersey island (b. 1869) ·
September 5 – Charles de
Broqueville, 20th Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1860) ·
September 10 – Nikola Ivanov, Bulgarian general (b. 1861) ·
September 20 - E. Rosa Sawtell, New Zealand artist (b.1865) ·
September 23 – Hale Holden, president of Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad 1914–1918 and 1920-1929
(b. 1869) ·
September 25 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (b. 1883) ·
September 26 – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and
cultural critic (b. 1892) ·
Julius
Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857) ·
Julián Besteiro,
Spanish socialist politician (b. 1870) October[edit] ·
Ballington Booth, American co-founder of
Volunteers of America (b. 1857) ·
Lincoln Loy
McCandless, Hawaiian politician and cattle rancher (b. 1859) ·
Silvestre Revueltas,
Mexican composer (b. 1899) ·
October 9 – Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary
to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865) ·
October 10 – Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876) ·
October 11 – Adolf von Trotha, German admiral (b. 1868) ·
October 12 – Tom Mix, American actor (b. 1880) ·
October 15 – Lluís Companys,
President of the Generalitat of
Catalonia (executed) (b. 1882) ·
October 17 – George Davis,
American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1870) ·
October 20 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architec (b. 1885) November[edit]
·
November 3 – Manuel Azaña, 2nd President of the
Spanish Second Republic and 55th Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1880) ·
November 5 – Otto Plath, father of American poet Sylvia Plath, and entomologist (b. 1885) ·
Neville Chamberlain,
former Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869) ·
John Henry Kirby, Texas legislator and
American businessman (b. 1860) ·
November 11 – Vladimir
Vinnichevsky, Russian serial killer (b. 1923) ·
Eric Gill, British sculptor and writer
(b. 1882) ·
Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879) ·
November 18 – Ion Inculeț, President of Moldova
(b. 1884) ·
November 19 – Ralph W. Barnes,
American journalist (b. 1899) ·
November 26 – Gheorghe
Argeșanu, 40th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1883) ·
Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and
politician, 34th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1871) ·
Jean Chiappe, French civil servant (b. 1878) ·
Henri Guillaumet, French aviator (b. 1902) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Nikolai Koltsov, Russian biologist and
genetist (b. 1872) ·
December 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880) ·
December 14 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader
(b. 1872) ·
December 15 – Billy
Hamilton, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1866) ·
December 16 – Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist and
geologist (b. 1858) ·
December 19 – Kyösti Kallio, 4th President of Finland and
4-time Prime Minister 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) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics –
not awarded ·
Chemistry –
not awarded ·
Physiology
or Medicine – not awarded ·
Literature –
not awarded ·
Peace –
not awarded References[edit] 1.
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