page_title: 1940
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Births / September
caption_attribution_description: Português: Foto oficial do Presidente Michel Temer, cortada pegando apenas a parte mais central da foto.
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: September 1 – Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish military officer (d. 2019)
  September 3
  Pauline Collins, English actress
  Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan writer (d. 2015)
  Joseph C. Strasser, American admiral
  Joseph Warioba, 5th Prime Minister of Tanzania
  September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress
  September 6
  Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (d. 2019)
  Jackie Trent, English singer-songwriter, actress (d. 2015)
  September 7
  Dario Argento, Italian filmmaker
  Abdurrahman Wahid, former President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
  September 10
  Roy Ayers, African-American musician, songwriter
  David Mann, American artist (d. 2004)
  September 11
  Brian De Palma, American film director
  Ajit Singh, Indian-born economist (d. 2015)
  September 12
  Joachim Frank, German-born biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  Linda Gray, American model, actress (Dallas)
  Skip Hinnant, American actor
  Mickey Lolich, American baseball player
  September 13 – Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, twice President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
  September 14
  Larry Brown, American basketball player, coach
  Barbara Greenwood, Canadian educator, children's books author
  Ventseslav Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer, translator (d. 2019)
  September 15
  Abu Hassan Omar, Malaysian politician (d. 2018)
  Merlin Olsen, American football player, announcer, and actor (d. 2010)
  September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer, actor
  September 20 – Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of Japan
  September 22 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress (d. 2019)
  September 23
  Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Iranian traditional singer
  Michel Temer, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil between 2016 and 2018.
  September 24 – Michiko Suganuma, Urushi Japanese lacquer artist
  September 25 – Roberto Del Giudice, Italian voice actor (d. 2007)
caption: Michel Temer
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