Christoph Wolff

German-born musicologist.

Born May 24th, 1940 (age 85 years) in Solingen.

Homa Darabi

Iranian activist.

Born January 1st, 1940 in Tehran.

Died February 21st, 1994 at 54 years old in Tehran (self-immolation).

Vagif Mustafazadeh

Azerbaijani musician (1940-1979).

Born March 16th, 1940 in Baku.

Died December 16th, 1979 at 39 years old in Tashkent (myocardial infarction).

Eugen Cicero

Romanian-german jazz pianist.

Born June 17th, 1940 in Cluj-Napoca.

Died December 5th, 1997 at 57 years old in Zürich.

Vincenzo Cerami

Italian screenwriter (1940-2013).

Born November 2nd, 1940 in Rome.

Died July 17th, 2013 at 72 years old in Rome. ^[ref]

Sherko Bekas

Iraqi kurdish poet.

Born May 2nd, 1940 in Sulaymaniyah.

Died August 4th, 2013 at 73 years old in Stockholm. ^[ref]

Alexei Fridman

Physicist, astrophysicist (1940–2010).

Born February 17th, 1940 in Moscow.

Died October 29th, 2010 at 70 years old in Jerusalem.

James Herbert Brennan

Irish author.

Born July 5th, 1940 in Gilford. ^[ref]

Died January 1st, 2024 at 83 years old (Parkinson's disease). ^[ref]

Juan Luis Galiardo

Spanish actor (1940-2012).

Born March 2nd, 1940 in San Roque.

Died June 22nd, 2012 at 72 years old in Madrid (lung cancer). ^[ref]

Giancarlo Bigazzi

Italian music producer and composer (1940-2012).

Born September 5th, 1940 in Florence.

Died January 19th, 2012 at 71 years old in Viareggio. ^[ref]