1940
Carole Ann Ford, British actress
Carole Ann Lillian Ford is an English actress best known for her role as Susan Foreman in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Carole Ann Ford, British actress
The 1940s
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1940
George Akerlof, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emerit…
George Akerlof, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940
Bobby Bell, American football player
Bobby Lee Bell Sr. is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) and th…
Bobby Bell, American football player
1940
Chuck Rainey, American bassist
Charles Walter Rainey III is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones. Rainey is…
Chuck Rainey, American bassist
1940
Eugen Drewermann, German priest and theologian
Eugen Drewermann is a German church critic, theologian, peace activist and former Catholic priest. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Eugen Drewermann, German priest and theologian
1940
John Mahoney, English-born American actor (died 2018)
Charles John Mahoney was an English-born American actor. He played retired police officer Martin Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, receiving nominations for two Go…
John Mahoney, English-born American actor (died 2018)
1940
Mariette Hartley, American actress and television personality
Mary Loretta Hartley is an American film and television actress. She is possibly best known for her roles in film as Elsa Knudsen in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country (1962), S…
Mariette Hartley, American actress and television personality
1940
Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher and academic
Michael Escott Ruse was a British-born Canadian philosopher of science who specialised in the philosophy of biology and worked on the relationship between science and religion, the…
Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher and academic
1940
Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic
Joan Busfield, is a British sociologist and psychologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and former President of the British Sociological Association (2003–2005)…
Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic
1940
Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author (died 2020)
David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre was a British officer of arms.
Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author (died 2020)
1940
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)
Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer. An active filmmaker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of…
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)
1940
Esther Rantzen, English journalist
Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with…
Esther Rantzen, English journalist
1940
Adam Faith, English singer (died 2003)
Terence Nelhams Wright, known professionally as Adam Faith, was an English singer, actor, and financial journalist. As a British rock and roll teen idol, he scored consecutive No. …
Adam Faith, English singer (died 2003)
1940
George Feigley, American sex cult leader and two-time prison escapee (died 2009)
George Feigley was an American church leader. He has been described as a sex cult leader. Feigley called himself "The Light of the World,", a phrase previously used in the self-des…
George Feigley, American sex cult leader and two-time prison escapee (died 2009)
1940
Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, known as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor from 1997 to 2003.
Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1940
Wilma Rudolph, American runner (died 1994)
Wilma Glodean Rudolph was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track an…
Wilma Rudolph, American runner (died 1994)
1940
Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 2015)
Michael John Froud Shrimpton was a New Zealand cricketer and coach. A middle-order batsman and leg-spinner, he played 10 Test matches for New Zealand between 1963 and 1974, but was…
Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 2015)
1940
Diana Trask, Australian singer-songwriter
Diana Roselyn Trask is an Australian-American singer, songwriter and author. She was considered to be one of the first Australian music artists to find success in the United States…
Diana Trask, Australian singer-songwriter
1940
Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (died 2014)
Ian Charles "Roscoe" Ross was an Australian television news presenter for Seven News in Sydney and for Nine News.
Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (died 2014)
1940
Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C., is an Italian cinematographer, widely recognized as one of the best and most influential in cinema history.
Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
1940
Judy Amoore, Australian runner
Judith Florence Amoore-Pollock, née Amoore, is an Australian former runner. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
Judy Amoore, Australian runner
1940
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Philip Nicholson, known by his pen name A. J. Quinnell, was an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Man on Fire, which has been adapted to film twice and a television s…
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1940
Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish painter and musician (died 1962)
Stuart Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe was a British painter and musician, best known as the original bass guitarist of the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a pa…
Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish painter and musician (died 1962)
1940
Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer
Mary Beth Peil is an American actress and soprano. She began her career as an opera singer in 1962 with the Goldovsky Opera Theater. In 1964 she won two major singing competitions,…
Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer