Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French writer and nobel prize winner (born 1940).

Born April 13th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Nice.

Charles Fox

American composer for film and television (born 1940).

Born October 30th, 1940 (age 85 years) in New York City.

Ina May Gaskin

American midwife (*1940).

Born March 8th, 1940 (age 86 years).

Donald Jackson

Canadian figure skater.

Born April 2nd, 1940 (age 86 years) in Oshawa.

Michael Herr

American war correspondent, screenwriter (1940-2016).

Born April 13th, 1940 in Lexington. ^[ref]

Died June 24th, 2016 at 76 years old in Delhi. ^[ref]

Maxine Hong Kingston

Chinese american author.

Born October 27th, 1940 (age 85 years) in Stockton.

David Seltzer

American screenwriter.

Born February 12th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Highland Park.

Michael Spivak

American mathematician (1940–2020).

Born May 25th, 1940 in New York City.

Died October 1st, 2020 at 80 years old in Houston.

Dave Keon

Canadian ice hockey player.

Born March 22nd, 1940 (age 86 years) in Rouyn-Noranda. ^[ref]

Sharon Sheeley

American songwriter (1940–2002).

Born April 4th, 1940 in Los Angeles.

Died May 17th, 2002 at 62 years old in Los Angeles (disease).

Brian David Josephson

Welsh physicist.

Born January 4th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Cardiff.

Wangari Muta Maathai

Kenyan environmentalist and politician who won the nobel peace prize in 2004 (1940–2011).

Born April 1st, 1940 in Nyeri. ^[ref]

Died September 25th, 2011 at 71 years old in Nairobi (ovarian cancer). ^[ref]

Ameeta

Indian actress.

Born April 11th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Kolkata.

David Peoples

American screenwriter.

Born February 9th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Middletown.

Reynaldo Rey

American actor (1940-2015).

Born January 27th, 1940 in Sequoyah County.

Died May 28th, 2015 at 75 years old in Los Angeles (stroke).

Thomas M. Disch

American science fiction author and poet (1940–2008).

Born February 2nd, 1940 in Des Moines.

Died July 4th, 2008 at 68 years old in New York City. ^[ref]

Karpal Singh

Malaysian politician and lawyer.

Born June 28th, 1940 in George Town.

Died April 17th, 2014 at 73 years old in Perak (traffic collision).

Kip Keino

Kenyan athlete.

Born January 17th, 1940 (age 86 years) in Nandi County.

Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan

Indian-american mathematician (1940–).

Born January 2nd, 1940 (age 86 years) in Chennai.

Musarrat Nazir

Pakistani actor and singer.

Born October 13th, 1940 (age 85 years) in Lahore.

Wilton Felder

American musician (1940–2015).

Born August 31st, 1940 in Houston.

Died September 27th, 2015 at 75 years old in Whittier (cancer). ^[ref]

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

American activist and author (1946–2025).

Born October 25th, 1940 in Chicago.

Died October 13th, 2025 at 84 years old in Little Rock. ^[ref]

Natalia Makarova

Soviet and american ballet dancer.

Born November 21st, 1940 (age 85 years) in Saint Petersburg. ^[ref]

Wendy Doniger

American indologist (born 1940).

Born November 20th, 1940 (age 85 years) in New York City. ^[ref]

George DiCenzo

American actor (1940–2010).

Born April 21st, 1940 in New Haven.

Died August 9th, 2010 at 70 years old in Washington Crossing (sepsis). ^[ref]