page_title: 1940
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Births / July
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Встреча Владимира Путина с Нурсултаном Назарбаевым
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: July 1
  Fukunohana Koichi, Japanese sumo wrestler
  Craig Brown, Scottish footballer, manager
  Abdul Razzak Ahmed, Iraqi football player
  Wathiq Naji, Iraqi football manager
  July 2
  Joshua Bryant, American actor, director, author and speaker
  Ruriko Asaoka, Japanese actress
  July 3
  Lamar Alexander, American politician
  Fontella Bass, African-American soul singer ("Rescue Me") (d. 2012)
  Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland
  Jose Alberto Laboy, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
  Lance Larson, American competition swimmer, Olympic champion and world record-holder in four events
  Chuck Sieminski, American football player
  César Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1994)
  Mario Zanin, Italian cyclist
  July 4
  Deidre Catt, English tennis player
  Nasser Madani, Iranian fencer
  Gene McDowell, American college football coach
  Pat Stapleton, Canadian ice hockey player
  July 5 – Reiko Kusamura, Japanese actress
  July 6
  Nursultan Nazarbayev, 1st President of Kazakhstan
  Jeannie Seely, American singer-songwriter
  July 7
  Lee Keun-hak, North Korean football player
  Ringo Starr, English rock drummer (The Beatles)
  Irène Sweyd, Belgian swimmer
  July 9 – Herminia Roman, Filipino politician
  July 10
  Gene Alley, American baseball player
  Jim Cadile, American professional football offensive guard
  Helen Donath, American soprano
  Lofty Drews, Kenyan rally co-driver
  Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur
  Julie Payne, American actress (d. 2019)
  David C. Schutter, American attorney (d. 2005)
  Tommy Troelsen, Danish footballer, manager and television presenter
  July 11
  Rufus Ada George, Nigerian politician
  Anita Wall, Swedish actress
  July 13
  Paul Prudhomme, American celebrity chef, cookbook author (d. 2015)
  Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  July 15 – Johnny Seay, American country music singer (d. 2016)
  July 16
  Lofty Drews, Kenyan rally co-driver
  Tom Metcalf, American baseball pitcher
  July 17
  Verne Lundquist, American sportscaster
  Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comic performer (d. 2020)
  Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor and graphic artist (d. 2019)
  July 18
  James Brolin, American actor, director
  Peter Mutharika, 5th President of Malawi
  Joe Torre, American baseball player, manager
  July 19
  Hanako, Princess Hitachi
  Anzor Kavazashvili, Soviet football goalkeeper
  July 22
  Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma
  Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host (Jeopardy!)
  July 23 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host and author (d. 2019)
  July 24
  Stanley Hauerwas, American theologian
  Dan Hedaya, American actor
  July 26
  Dobie Gray, African-American singer-songwriter (Drift Away) (d. 2011)
  Mary Jo Kopechne, American aide to Ted Kennedy (d. 1969)
  July 27
  Gary Kurtz, American filmmaker (d. 2018)
  Pina Bausch, German choreographer (d. 2009)
  Bharati Mukherjee, Indian-born novelist (d. 2017)
  July 28 – Philip Proctor, American actor
  July 29 – Bernard Lafayette, African-American civil rights activist
  July 30 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor
  July 31 – Roy Walker, Northern Irish comedian
caption: Nursultan Nazarbayev
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