Lance Alworth

American football player (born 1940).

Born August 3rd, 1940 (age 85 years) in Houston.

Paolo Borsellino

Italian magistrate killed by the mafia (1940-1992).

Born January 19th, 1940 in Palermo.

Died July 19th, 1992 at 52 years old in Palermo (car bombing).

Billy McNeill

Scottish footballer and manager (1940-2019).

Born March 2nd, 1940 in Bellshill.

Died April 22nd, 2019 at 79 years old in Newton Mearns (dementia). ^[ref]

Carole Ann Ford

British actress.

Born June 16th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Ilford.

Joe South

American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1940–2012).

Born February 28th, 1940 in Atlanta.

Died September 5th, 2012 at 72 years old in Buford (heart failure). ^[ref]

María Elena Velasco

Mexican actress, comedian, singer-songwriter and dancer (1940–2015).

Born December 17th, 1940 in Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza.

Died May 1st, 2015 at 74 years old in Mexico City (stomach cancer).

Peter Gerety

American actor (born 1940).

Born May 17th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Providence.

Lei Feng

Chinese soldier and communist icon (1940–1962).

Born December 18th, 1940 in Wangcheng District.

Died August 15th, 1962 at 21 years old in Anshan (traffic collision).

Dennis Tito

American businessman.

Born August 8th, 1940 (age 85 years) in Queens.

James Welch

Native american writer (1940–2003).

Born November 18th, 1940 in Browning.

Died August 4th, 2003 at 62 years old in Missoula (lung cancer).

Larry Knechtel

American session musician (1940–2009).

Born August 4th, 1940 in Bell.

Died August 20th, 2009 at 69 years old in Yakima (myocardial infarction). ^[ref]

Ron Santo

American baseball player (1940–2010).

Born February 25th, 1940 in Seattle.

Died December 3rd, 2010 at 70 years old in Scottsdale (bladder cancer, type-1 diabetes). ^[ref]

Chamoy Thipyaso

Thai prisoner with a prison sentence of 141,078 years.

Born November 27th, 1940 (age 85 years) in Sing Buri.

Ela Gandhi

South african politician.

Born July 1st, 1940 (age 86 years) in Durban.

Hope Cooke

American author, historian and former queen of sikkim.

Born June 24th, 1940 (age 86 years) in San Francisco.

Eduardo Galeano

Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015).

Born September 3rd, 1940 in Montevideo.

Died April 13th, 2015 at 74 years old in Montevideo (lung cancer). ^[ref]

Vyacheslav Ivankov

Russian mob boss (1940–2009).

Born January 2nd, 1940 in Moscow.

Died October 9th, 2009 at 69 years old in Moscow (peritonitis). ^[ref]

Gudrun Ensslin

German far-left militant (1940–1977).

Born August 15th, 1940 in Bartholomä.

Died October 18th, 1977 at 37 years old in Stuttgart (hanging to death).

Bruce Beresford

Australian film director.

Born August 16th, 1940 (age 85 years) in Paddington.

Dick Warlock

American stunt performer.

Born February 5th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Oakley.

John Castle

British actor (b. 1940).

Born January 14th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Croydon.

John Warnock

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940–2023).

Born October 6th, 1940 in Salt Lake City.

Died August 19th, 2023 at 82 years old in Los Altos (pancreatic cancer). ^[ref]

Pedro Rodríguez

Mexican racecar driver (1940-1971).

Born January 18th, 1940 in Mexico City.

Died July 11th, 1971 at 31 years old in Norisring.

Edmund White

American novelist and lgbt essayist (1940–2025).

Born January 13th, 1940 in Cincinnati. ^[ref]

Died June 3rd, 2025 at 85 years old in New York City. ^[ref]

Van McCoy

American musician, producer and songwriter (1940–1979).

Born January 6th, 1940 in Washington, D.C..

Died July 6th, 1979 at 39 years old in Englewood (myocardial infarction).