1940 births

Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)

American computer scientist (born 1940)

American philosopher and logician (1940–2022)

Italian record producer and composer (born 1940)

American director, writer, and producer (born 1940)

English author and former politician (born 1940)

American actor (born 1940)

American biochemist

American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor

Ghanaian author and poet

American politician and civil rights leader (1940–2020)

American actress

English professional football player (1940-2021)

Pakistani politician (1940-2010)

Puerto Rican actor (1940–1994)

Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999

American actor (1940–2018)

American crime boss (1940–2002)

American politician and lawyer (born 1940)

Italian mathematician (1940-)

Italian singer and politician

American actor, producer and director (born 1940)

American singer (1940–2017)

Cambodian-American physician and actor (1940–1996)

American physicist

Italian singer-songwriter (1940-1999)

English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)

American writer (1940-2017)

Kenyan athlete

American singer (1941–2015)

American R&B singer, songwriter and producer (born 1940)

American actor (1940–2019)

Jack William Nicklaus, nicknamed "the Golden Bear", is an American retired professional golfer and golf course designer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time. He won 117 professional tournaments in his career, including a record 18 major championships. He is an inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

German actress (born 1940)

Italian magistrate killed by the Mafia (1940-1992)

American singer (1940–2010)

Swiss artist (1940–2014)

American politician, United States Senator from California

German politician and industrial manager (born 1940)

American actor (born 1940)

Swiss politician

Polish film director (1940-2016)

American actor

American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)

American basketball player

American author and screenwriter

Canadian and American game show host and TV personality (1940–2020)

intellectual, journalist, official, professor

English novelist (1940–1989)

American broadcast journalist and author (born 1940)

American singer (1940–2020)

Pauline Angela Collins was a British actress who first rose to fame portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1973) and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah (1979). In 1992, she published her autobiography, Letter to Louise.

American novelist, ophthalmologist, aquanaut

German student activist (1940–1979)

German politician and the last Prime Minister of the GDR (born 1940)

President of Burundi (1940-1983)

American protest singer and songwriter (1940-1976)

Consort of Liechtenstein (1989-2021)

American writer (1940-2015)

German far-left militant (1940–1977)