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1940 was the 40th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
Music
- "Nuages" by Django Reinhardt
Literature
- Anthology of Black Humor by André Breton
- Native Son by Richard A. Wright
- Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
- The Book of Fantasy by Borges et al
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Borges
Visual arts
- Ecorché I 1939-1940 by Ferdinand Springer
Film
- The Great Dictator by Charles Chaplin
- Fantasia by Ford Beebe, Bill Roberts
Births
- Giorgio Moroder
- Panamarenko
- Roy Ayers
- Pharoah Sanders
- Angela Carter (died 1992)
- Brian De Palma
- Frank Zappa (died 1993)
- Herbie Hancock
- George A. Romero
- H. R. Giger
- Dario Argento
- Just Jaeckin
- Vito Acconci (died 2017)
- Tony Conrad (died 2016)
- Terry Gilliam
- Nobuyoshi Araki
- Richard Kostelanetz
- Fontella Bass (died 2012)
Deaths
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940)
- Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940)
- Marcus Garvey (1887- 1940)
In art
- January 18 - Jonas Lie, landscape painter
- February 27 - Nicolae Tonitza, painter and etcher
- April 15 - Alexandru Plămădeală, Moldovan sculptor (b. 1888)
- June 21 - Édouard Vuillard, painter (b. 1868)
- June 29 - Paul Klee, Swiss painter expressionism, cubism, and surrealism (b. 1879)
- July 4 - Józef Pankiewicz, painter, graphic artist and teacher (b. 1866)
- August 22 - Paul Gösch, German artist and architect (b. 1885)
- September 15 - Dick Ket, painter
- September 27 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatist" and art critic (b. 1892)
- November 17 - Eric Gill, sculptor and engraver (b. 1882)
- date unknown - Francesco Stella, painter and set designer (b. 1862)
In literature
- January 5 - Humbert Wolfe, poet and epigrammist
- January 27 - Isaac Babel, journalist and dramatist
- February 11 - John Buchan, Scottish author
- February 29 - E. F. Benson, novelist
- March 7 - Edwin Markham, poet
- March 10 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- March 16
- Selma Lagerlöf, writer
- Thomas Heath, historian and translator
- June 10 - Marcus Garvey, journalist and publisher
- June 20 - Charley Chase, screenwriter
- September - W. H. Davies, poet and Supertramp
- December 21 - F Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1896)
- December 22 - Nathanael West (b. 1903)
- date unknown - T. O'Conor Sloane, editor of Amazing Stories
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