Curated category
1940 births
- John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New…
- Al PacinoAl Pacino was born Alfredo James Pacino on the 25th of April 1940, in East Harlem, Manhattan, to Sicilian Italian-American parents.
- Bruce LeeBruce Lee was born in San Francisco on the 27th of November, 1940, during the hour of the Dragon, in the year of the Dragon.
- Julie ChristieJulie Christie was born on the 14th of April 1940 on a tea plantation in Chabua, Assam, British India, and by the time she was twenty-five years old, Life…
- George AkerlofGeorge Akerlof walked into a used car lot and saw the entire economy differently. The year was 1970, and the article he published that year, "The Market for…
- Ringo StarrRingo Starr was born on the 7th of July 1940 at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, one of the oldest and poorest inner-city districts in Liverpool.
- Gabor BorittGabor Boritt was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. The Nazis forced his family into a single room within a hospital on the edge of the…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, into a household where Italian was spoken by his grandparents and gas…
- Stuart SutcliffeStuart Sutcliffe was born on the 23rd of June 1940 at the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, the eldest child of a sea-going engineer and a…
- Paul TagliabuePaul Tagliabue was born on the 24th of November, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the third of four sons. He died on the 9th of November, 2025, at his home…
- Patrick StewartPatrick Stewart grew a moustache for the role of Macbeth, and when he looked in the mirror just before going on stage, he saw his father's face staring…
- Gary KurtzGary Kurtz walked onto the set of a low-budget Western in 1965 with no idea he would one day help shape two of the most profitable films ever made.
- Dennis Kennedy (author)Dennis Kennedy was born on the 1st of November 1940 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied literature, philosophy, and history at the University of San Francisco…
- Roger NollRoger Noll was born on the 13th of March 1940. This date marks the start of a life that would reshape how economists view professional sports.
- Richard AppignanesiIn 1953, a young Richard Appignanesi stood before the judges of the E. Archambault Pour Mérite competition in Montreal. He did not win first place, but he…
- Peter BiskindPeter Biskind has spent decades poking at Hollywood's most carefully maintained myths. Born in 1940, he became one of American film culture's sharpest…
- PeléEdson Arantes do Nascimento was born on the 23rd of October 1940 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and he died on the 29th of December 2022 at the age…
- Tim SeverinTim Severin spent his life asking a single stubborn question: what if the old stories were true? Born Giles Timothy Watkins on the 25th of September 1940 in…
- Quentin SkinnerQuentin Skinner refused a knighthood. When Cambridge made him Regius Professor of History in 1996, one of the most prestigious academic appointments in…
- Michael Lindsay-HoggMichael Lindsay-Hogg was born on the 5th of May 1940 in New York City. His mother Geraldine Fitzgerald married Sir Edward William Lindsay-Hogg before his…
- Tony SheridanTony Sheridan was born Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity on the 21st of May 1940 in Norwich, Norfolk, and he holds a distinction that even most devoted…