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The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe , Asia , and elsewhere.
None of the top 10 girls' names from 2023 even made the top 40 list in the 1940s. Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social ...
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 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.
May 28 – Walter Connolly, film character actor (born 1887) May 29 – Mary Anderson, stage actress (born 1859) June 7 James Hall, film actor (born 1900) Hugh Rodman, U.S. Navy admiral (born 1859) June 11 – Alfred S. Alschuler, Chicago architect (born 1876) June 13 – George Fitzmaurice, film director (born 1885 in France)