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January 4 – Flora Finch, silent film actress and comedian (born 1869 in the United Kingdom) January 19 – William Borah, U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1907 to 1940 (born 1865) January 20 – Omar Bundy, U.S. Army General (born 1861) January – Matilda McCrear, last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade in the U.S. (born c. 1857 in ...
Pages in category "1940s births" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,591 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers.The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. [1]
The Till There Was You singer, who called homosexuality “an abomination,” was born in 1940 in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, to parents who divorced, remarried, and then divorced once more over the years.
The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7.6 percent over the 1930 population of 122,775,046 people. The census date of record was April 1, 1940.
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born publisher, entrepreneur and black nationalist (b.
Trebek was born on July 22, 1940, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, [5] [6] [7] the son of George Edward Trebek (born Terebeychuk, Ukrainian: Теребейчу́к), [8] a chef who had emigrated from Ukraine as a child, and Lucille Marie Lagacé (April 14, 1921 – 2016), a Franco-Ontarian. [9]