Historical figures in 1940
The atlas holds 82 people and 139 moments here, in 1940. The most recorded lives are Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Juan Manuel Fangio
in 1940
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Argentine racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio was a five-time Formula One World Drivers’ Champion.…
Kim Il Sung
in 1940
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Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju) was a Korean communist guerrilla leader, North Korean political leader, and founder of the Democratic People’s…
Le Corbusier
in 1940
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Leon Trotsky
in 1940
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Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet political leader, Marxist theorist, and organizer of the Red Army.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1940
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Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Marlene Dietrich
in 1940
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German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1940
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New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Milton Obote
in 1940
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Apollo Milton Obote was a Ugandan politician who served as prime minister from 1962 to 1966 and as president from 1966 to 1971 and from 1980 to 1985.…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1940
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and political leader who led the All-India Muslim League and became Pakistan’s first governor-general after…
Olav V
in 1940
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Olav V of Norway (born Prince Alexander of Denmark) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.…
Pablo Neruda
in 1940
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Chilean poet, diplomat, senator, Communist political figure, and 1971 Nobel laureate. Born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, he lived and…
Pablo Picasso
in 1940
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Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Pelé
in 1940
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, was a Brazilian footballer who starred for Santos, Brazil and the New York Cosmos.…
P. L. Travers
in 1940
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Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Prajadhipok
in 1940
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Prajadhipok (Rama VII) was King of Siam from 1925 until his abdication in 1935. Educated in England and trained in the military, he travelled…
Pran
in 1940
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Pran Krishan Sikand, known mononymously as Pran, was an Indian actor whose screen career extended from pre-Partition Lahore to Hindi cinema in…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1940
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Saint-John Perse
in 1940
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Saint-John Perse was the pen name of Alexis Léger, a French poet and diplomat. Born in Guadeloupe, he spent formative years in Pau and Bordeaux,…
Salvador Dalí
in 1940
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Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Satyajit Ray
in 1940
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Indian film director, screenwriter, author, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray was born and died in Calcutta (now Kolkata), made his career…
Selma Lagerlöf
in 1940
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Swedish writer, teacher, Nobel laureate, and women’s-suffrage speaker. Lagerlöf was born at Mårbacka in Värmland, trained in Stockholm, taught in…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1940
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Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
in 1940
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Sri Lankan stateswoman and three-time prime minister of Ceylon/Sri Lanka. Born Sirima Ratwatte in Ratnapura, she became the world’s first woman…
Soong Ching-ling
in 1940
1 moment here
Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…
Moments
- 1940 Arrival in Mexico City as consul general Pablo Neruda
- 1940 Returns to occupied Paris Pablo Picasso
- 1940 Oxford special convocation at Santiniketan Rabindranath Tagore
- 1940 Arrives in wartime America Salvador Dalí
- 1940 Marriage to Laurence Olivier Vivien Leigh
- 1940 Exile residence in Stockholm Willy Brandt
- 1940 Birth in Jombang Abdurrahman Wahid
- 1940 Birth in Yaftal Burhanuddin Rabbani
- 1940 First solo concert at Salle Pleyel Édith Piaf
- 1940 Medical treatment in San Francisco Frida Kahlo
- 1940 Gran Premio del Norte start Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1940 Meets Franco at Hendaye Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Meets Mussolini in Florence Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Meets Pétain at Montoire Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Brazzaville Manifesto Charles de Gaulle
- 1940 Escape and return to Perpignan Claude Simon
- 1940 Establishment of the Việt Minh in Guilin Ho Chi Minh
- 1940 Arrest after Gorakhpur speeches Jawaharlal Nehru
- 1940 Birth at Liverpool Maternity Hospital John Lennon
- 1940 Gran Premio del Norte victory return Juan Manuel Fangio
- 1940 Escape across the Amur River Kim Il Sung
- 1940 Guerrilla retraining at Vyatskoye Kim Il Sung
- 1940 Birth in Três Corações Pelé
- 1940 Marriage at Mahawelatenne Walawwa Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- 1940 Visits Vienna Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Exile at Hotel Palácio Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1940 Birth at Jackson Street Hospital Bruce Lee
- 1940 Established the Order of Liberation Charles de Gaulle
- 1940 Marriage to Martha Gellhorn Ernest Hemingway
- 1940 MoMA retrospective installation Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1940 Inspects Channel coast at Cap Gris-Nez Adolf Hitler
- 1940 Marriage and teaching in Oran Albert Camus
- 1940 Arrival in New York Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1940 Confers with officials in Martinique Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1940 Inspects Antigua base sites Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1940 Inspects Jamaican base sites Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1940 Inspects St. Lucia base sites Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1940 Meets Duke of Windsor on Eleuthera Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1940 Lecture at Bommersvik College Willy Brandt