page_title: 1940
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1940 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Carlos Slim Helú in 2012
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: January 2
  Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor, director (d. 2018)
  Jim Bakker, American televangelist, ex-husband of Tammy Faye
  S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
  January 3
  Leo de Berardinis, Italian stage actor, theatre director (d. 2008)
  Thelma Schoonmaker, Algerian-born American film editor
  January 4
  Helmut Jahn, German-American architect
  Brian Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
  January 6 – Penny Lernoux, American nun, author (d. 1989)
  January 9 – Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and businessman
  January 13 – Edmund White, American author
  January 14 – Julian Bond, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015)
  January 15 – Arlie Russell Hochschild, American professor emireta of sociology
  January 16 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
  January 17
  Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete
  Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay
  Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia (d. 2015)
  January 18
  Tony Holland, British actor, television screenwriter (d. 2007)
  Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
  January 19
  Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge and magistrate (d. 1992)
  Mike Reid, English actor (d. 2007)
  Linda Sorenson, Canadian actress
  January 20
  Carol Heiss, American figure skater
  Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
  January 21
  Jeremy Jacobs, American businessman
  Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
  January 22 – John Hurt, English actor (d. 2017)
  January 23 – Jimmy Castor, African-American funk, R&B, and soul saxophonist (d. 2012)
  January 24 – Joachim Gauck, German politician, 11th President of Germany
  January 27
  Brian O'Leary, American scientist, author, and former NASA astronaut (d. 2011)
  James Cromwell, American actor
  Petru Lucinschi, Moldovan politician, 2nd President of Moldova
  January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
  January 29
  Katharine Ross, American actress
  Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
  January 31 – Stuart Margolin, American actor
caption: Carlos Slim
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