page_title: 1940
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Births / April
caption_attribution_description: Svenska: Drottning Margrethe av Danmark
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: April 1 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011)
  April 2
  Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer (d. 1981)
  Dame Penelope Keith, English actress
  April 4 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (d. 2018)
  April 6 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (d. 2011)
  April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (d. 2019)
  April 12
  John Hagee, American televangelist
  Herbie Hancock, African-American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
  April 13
  Max Mosley, British motorsport boss
  José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer (d. 2019)
  April 14 – Julie Christie, English actress
  April 15
  Faimalaga Luka, 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2005)
  Robert Walker Jr., American actor (d. 2019)
  April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
  April 18
  Ira von Furstenberg, European socialite and actress
  Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Ken Shellito, English footballer, manager (d. 2018)
  April 19 – Reinhard Bonnke, German Pentecostal evangelist (d. 2019)
  April 20
  James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
  Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director (d. 1997)
  April 22 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (d. 2019)
  April 23 – Danilo Astori, Uruguayan politician, 15th Vice President of Uruguay
  April 24
  Sue Grafton, American detective novelist (d. 2017)
  Michael Parks, American actor, singer (d. 2017)
  April 25
  Al Pacino, American actor, film director
  Tristram Powell, English television director, film director, writer and producer
  April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
  April 30
  Burt Young, American actor, author and painter
  Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer (d. 1979)
caption: Margrethe II of Denmark
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