1940

Rulers:

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945)

Births:

• Bertolucci, Giovanni (1940-2005)

• Caan, James (1940-2022)

• Castle, John (1940)

• Christie, Julie (1940)

Collins, Pauline (1940)

• Cromwell, James (1940)

• De Palma, Brian (1940)

• Fonda, Peter (1940-2019)

Gambon, Michael (1940-2023)

Hedaya, Dan (1940)

Hurt, John (1940-2017)

• Karina, Anna (1940-2019)

Méril, Macha (1940)

• Pacino, Al (1940)

• Proietti, Gigi (1940-2020)

• Ross, Katharine (1940)

Sheen, Martin (1940)

• Welch, Raquel (1940-2023)

Deaths:

Trotsky, Leon (1879-1940)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940)

Music:

Rodgers, Richard (1902-1979): Rodgers & Hart (1940)

• Waxman, Franz (1906-1967): Rebecca (1940)

• Waxman, Franz (1906-1967): The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Art:

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): La Crucifixion (1940)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): La Madone du village (1938-42)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): L’automne au village (c.1939-45)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985): Le vase de fleurs (1940)

• Derain, André (1880-1954): Nature morte (1938-1943)

Ernst, Max (1891-1976): L’Europe après la pluie (1940-42)

Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954): Autorretrato de pelona (1940)

Maar, Dora (1907-1997): Étude de mode (1934-40)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954): Intérieur au vase étrusque (1940)

Moore, Henry (1898-1986): Morning after the Blitz (1940)

• O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986): Narcissa’s Last Orchid (1940)

Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956): Naked Man with Knife (c.1938-40)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955): Eglise de Murato, Corse (c.1940)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955): Notre-Dame de Paris (1940)

Film:

La fille du puisatier (1940)

• Rebecca (1940)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

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