Celebrities who were born in the year 1940

1 May, 1940 - Elsa Peretti, Italian jewelry designer
3 May, 1940 - Konrad “Conny”Plank, German record producer and musician
3 May, 1940 - Clemens Westerhof, Dutch football manager
4 May, 1940 - Robin Cook, American novelist
5 May, 1940 - Lance Henriksen, American actor and painter
5 May, 1940 - Michael Lindsay, Hogg, American film director
7 May, 1940 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist
8 May, 1940 - Peter Benchley, American author
8 May, 1940 - Ricky Nelson, American singer
8 May, 1940 - Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician
9 May, 1940 - James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer
10 May, 1940 - Wayne A. Downing, retired US Army general
11 May, 1940 - Juan Downey, Chilean video artist
13 May, 1940 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer
14 May, 1940 - Troy Shondell, American singer
14 May, 1940 - ‘H’. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient)
15 May, 1940 - Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
15 May, 1940 - Don Nelson, NBA coach
17 May, 1940 - Alan Kay, American computer scientist
19 May, 1940 - Mickey Newbury, American musician
19 May, 1940 - Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
20 May, 1940 - Stan Mikita, Slovak, born ice hockey player
20 May, 1940 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese baseball player
20 May, 1940 - Shorty Long, American musician (d. 1969)
22 May, 1940 - Bernard Shaw, American television journalist
22 May, 1940 - Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor
24 May, 1940 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian, born poet, Nobel Prize laureate
26 May, 1940 - Monique Gagnon, Tremblay, Quebec politician
26 May, 1940 - Levon Helm, American musician (The Band)
29 May, 1940 - Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan
30 May, 1940 - Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
11 May, 1940 - Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator