page_title: 1940
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Births / June
caption_attribution_description: English: John Mahoney - an actor.
context_page_description: 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 940th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
  A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
context_section_description: June 1
  René Auberjonois, American screen actor (d. 2019)
  Kip Thorne, American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  June 2 – Constantine II of Greece
  June 4 – Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian prelate
  June 7
  Monica Evans, British actress
  Samuel Little, American serial killer
  Tom Jones, Welsh singer
  Ronald Pickup, English actor
  June 8 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer
  June 9 – Barry McDonald, Papua New Guinea-Australian rugby union player (d. 2020)
  June 11 – Wayne Kemp, American country music singer (d. 2015)
  June 13 – Bobby Freeman, American singer, songwriter (d. 2017)
  June 14 – Jack Bannon, American actor (d. 2017)
  June 16
  Neil Goldschmidt, American politician, Governor of Oregon
  Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, Chinese-American astronaut
  Thea White, American voice actress
  June 17
  George Akerlof, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  Alan Murray, Australian golfer
  Ali Saibou, 3rd President of Niger (d. 2011)
  June 18 – Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author (d. 2019)
  June 19 – Paul Shane, English-born actor (d. 2013)
  June 20
  Eugen Drewermann, German theologian, activist and priest
  John Mahoney, English-born American actor (d. 2018)
  June 21
  Mariette Hartley, American actress
  Michael Ruse, British-Canadian philosopher
  June 22
  Egon Henninger, German swimmer
  Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2016)
  Dame Esther Rantzen, British broadcaster
  June 23
  Adam Faith, English singer, actor (d. 2003)
  Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, Lord Chancellor of England
  Willie Wallace, Scottish football player, coach
  Wilma Rudolph, American Olympic athlete (d. 1994)
  Stuart Sutcliffe, English rock musician, painter (d. 1962)
  June 24
  Hope Cooke, American socialite, Queen Consort of Sikkim
  Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer, tax expert, academic, businessman and politician
  Murali Mohan, Indian film actor, producer, politician and business executive
  Walter Ofonagoro, Nigerian scholar, politician and businessman
  Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (d. 2014)
  Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
  June 25
  Thomas Köhler, East German luger
  Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer
  A. J. Quinnell, English writer (d. 2005)
  June 26
  Lucinda Childs, American actress, postmodern dancer and choreographer
  Jerry Fujio, Japanese singer, actor, and tarento
  June 27
  Eric Richard, English actor, presenter
  Anil Karanjai, Indian painter of the Hungry generation movement (d. 2001)
  June 28
  Karpal Singh, Malaysian politician, lawyer (d. 2014)
  Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel Prize laureate
  June 29 – Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
  June 30 – Neelo, Indian actress
caption: John Mahoney
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