Artists born in: 1940

Lasse Aaberg (May 4)

David Ackroyd (May 30)

Steve Alaimo (Dec 6)

John Alderton (Nov 27)

Dennis Allen (Jul 10)

Tony Allen (Aug 12)

Dario Argento (Sep 7)

Pedro Armendariz, Jr. (Apr 6)

René Auberjonois (Jul 1)

Roy Ayers (Sep 10)

Jack Bannon (Jun 14)

Gary Bartz (Sep 26)

Pina Bausch (Jul 27)

Yolande Bavan (Jun 1)

John Bell (Nov 1)

Peter Benchley (May 8)

Brian Bennett (Feb 9)

Bruce Beresford (Aug 16)

Bernardo Bertolucci (Mar 16)

Giovanni Bertolucci (Jun 24)

Bibi Besch (Feb 1)

Francisco Betriu (Jan 18)

Jean-Luc Bideau (Oct 1)

Tony Bill (Aug 23)

Maeve Binchy (May 28)

Gary Bond (Feb 7)

Lynn Borden (Mar 24)

Barbara Bosson (Nov 1)

Nick Bosustow (Mar 28)

Terry Bourke (Apr 19)

Jimmy Boyd (Jan 9)

Bobby Braddock (Aug 5)

Lino Brocka (Apr 3)

Tom Brokaw (Feb 6)

James Brolin (Jul 18)

Tim Brooke-Taylor (Jul 17)

James L. Brooks (May 9)

Anita Bryant (Mar 25)

Buck Buchanan (Sep 10)

James Burrows (Dec 30)

Alan Caddy (Feb 2)

Freddy Cannon (Dec 4)

David Capey (Apr 13)

Julian Chagrin (Feb 22)

Lester Chambers (Apr 13)

Larry Chance (Oct 19)

Bruce Channel (Nov 28)

Julie Christie (Apr 14)

Gretchen Christopher (Feb 29)

Jordan Christopher (Oct 23)

Jimmy Clanton (Jun 30)

Susan Clark (Mar 8)

René Cleitman (May 22)

George Clinton (Jul 22)

Barbara Colby (Jul 2)

Dennis Cole (Jul 19)

David Collings (Jun 4)

Pauline Collins (Sep 3)

Kevin Connor (Jul 14)

Robin Cook (May 4)

Barry Corbin (Oct 16)

Vladimir Cosma (Apr 13)

Paul Cox (Apr 16)

James Cromwell (Jan 27)

Ben Davidson (Jun 14)

Phyllis Davis (Jul 17)

Fabrizio de Angelis (Nov 15)

Joey Dee (Jun 11)

Brian De Palma (Sep 11)

Laura Devon (May 23)

Carlos Diegues (May 19)

John Dingwall (Jul 19)

Thomas M. Disch (Feb 2)

Al Downing (Jan 9)

Pete Duel (Feb 24)

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (May 10)

Elana Eden (May 1)

Richard Edlund (Dec 6)

Ronnie Claire Edwards (Feb 9)

Barbara Ellis (Feb 20)

Victor Erice (Jun 30)

Adam Faith (Jun 23)

Sheila Fearn (Oct 3)

Wilton Felder (Aug 31)

Crystal Field (Dec 10)

John Fink (Feb 11)

Penny Fuller (Jul 21)

Roman Gabriel (Aug 4)

Michael Gambon (Oct 19)

James Gammon (Apr 20)

David Gates (Dec 11)

Lili Gentle (Mar 4)

Peter Gerety (May 17)

Astrud Gilberto (Mar 30)

Terry Gilliam (Nov 22)

Carlin Glynn (Feb 19)

Grigori Gorin (Mar 12)

Dobie Gray (Jul 26)

Linda Gray (Sep 12)

Ellie Greenwich (Oct 23)

Jozsef Gregor (Aug 8)

Karolyn Grimes (Jul 4)

Matthias Habich (Jan 12)

Herbie Hancock (Apr 12)

Joy Harmon (May 1)

Valerie Harper (Aug 22)

Bill Hart (Nov 29)

Mariette Hartley (Jun 21)

Bobby Hatfield (Aug 10)

Dan Hedaya (Jul 24)

Carol Heiss (Jan 20)

Levon Helm (May 26)

Lance Henriksen (May 5)

Howard Hesseman (Feb 27)

David Hoffman (Jun 14)

Les Hooper (Feb 27)

Keith Hopwood (Oct 26)

Mike Hugg (Mar 11)

Roger Hume (Nov 19)

John Hurt (Jan 22)

John Irvin (May 7)

Gerald I. Isenberg (May 13)

Stanley Jaffe (Jul 31)

Jimmy James (Sep 13)

Al Jarreau (Mar 12)

David Jason (Feb 2)

Ken Jenkins (Aug 20)

Tom Jones (Jun 7)

Raul Julia (Mar 9)

Manfred Jung (Jul 9)

Anna Karina (Sep 22)

Lainie Kazan (May 15)

Penelope Keith (Apr 2)

Abbas Kiarostami (Jun 22)

Ted Koppel (Feb 8)

Andrzej Korzynski (Mar 2)

Don La Fontaine (Aug 26)

Frank Langella (Jan 1)

Barbara Lass (Jun 1)

Rod Lauren (Mar 26)

Ed Lauter (Oct 30)

Bruce Lee (Nov 27)

John Lennon (Oct 9)

Philippe Léotard (Aug 28)

Richard Libertini (May 21)

Michael Lindsay-Hogg (May 5)

Robert Lloyd (Mar 2)

Alain Lombard (Oct 4)

Cynthia Lynn (Apr 2)

John Mahoney (Jun 20)

Chuck Mangione (Nov 29)

Stuart Margolin (Jan 31)

Dewey Martin (Sep 30)

Janis Martin (Mar 23)

Marlyn Mason (Aug 7)

Gerald Mast (May 13)

Delbert McClinton (Nov 4)

Van McCoy (Jan 6)

Peter McEnery (Feb 21)

Bill Medley (Sep 19)

Chris Menges (Sep 15)

Macha Meril (Sep 3)

Maurizio Merli (Feb 8)

Kieth Merrill (May 22)

Joanna Miles (Mar 6)

Lynn Milgrim (Mar 17)

Pilar Miro

Gojko Mitic (Jun 13)

Giorgio Moroder (Apr 26)

Jack Morris (Apr 29)

Bruce Morrow (Jul 25)

Patrick Mower (Sep 12)

Bharati Mukherjee (Jul 27)

Shirley Muldowney (Jun 19)

Robby Müller (Apr 4)

Pier Giuseppe Murgia (Dec 6)

Johnny Nash (Aug 19)

Marie-José Nat (Apr 20)

Ricky Nelson (May 8)

Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Mar 22)

John Nichols (Jul 23)

Jack Nicklaus (Jan 21)

Carl-Ivar Nilsson (Mar 29)

Chuck Norris (Mar 10)

Trevor Nunn (Jan 14)

Richard O'Callaghan (Mar 4)

Alan O'Day (Oct 3)

Michael O'Donoghue (Jan 5)

Jimmy O'Neill (Jan 8)

Phil Ochs (Dec 19)

Merlin Olsen (Sep 15)

Emmerich Oross (Sep 20)

Al Pacino (Apr 25)

Michael Parks (Apr 24)

Julie Parrish (Oct 21)

John Patterson (Apr 4)

Richard Paul (Jun 6)

Julie Payne (Jul 10)

Austin Pendleton (Mar 27)

Jean-Marie Perier (Feb 1)

Zoran Perisic (Mar 16)

Christina Pickles (Feb 17)

Ronald Pickup (Jun 7)

Vito Picone (Apr 17)

Nyree Dawn Porter (Jan 22)

Tristram Powell

Keith Prentice (Feb 21)

Paul Prudhomme (Jul 13)

Richard Pryor (Dec 1)

David Rabe (Mar 10)

Francisco Ramalho, Jr. (Feb 11)

Kenny Rankin (Feb 10)

Mike Reid (Jan 19)

Sonny Rhodes (Nov 3)

Roger Robinson (May 2)

Smokey Robinson (Feb 19)

Marcia Rodd (Jul 8)

Bob Rogers (Feb 19)

George A. Romero (Feb 4)

Reva Rose (Jul 30)

Tim Rose (Sep 23)

Paul Rudd (May 15)

Wilma Rudolph (Jun 23)

Helma Sanders-Brahms (Nov 20)

Richard Sanders (Aug 23)

Michael Sarrazin (May 22)

Dany Saval (Jan 5)

Marc Savoy (Oct 1)

Ulrich Schamoni

Christiane Schmidtmer (Dec 24)

John Schuck (Feb 4)

Michael Sevareid (Apr 25)

Bernard Shaw (May 22)

Michael Sheard (Jun 18)

Ronald Shedlo (May 1)

Martin Sheen (Aug 3)

Miloslav Simek (Mar 7)

Nancy Sinatra (Jun 8)

Elke Sommer (Nov 5)

Louise Sorel (Aug 6)

Joe South (Feb 28)

Phil Spector (Dec 26)

Mark Spoelstra (Jun 30)

Jill St. John (Aug 19)

Ringo Starr (Jul 7)

Michael Stearns (Jun 18)

Skip Stephenson (Apr 18)

Patrick Stewart (Jul 13)

Hugo Stiglitz (Aug 28)

Christopher Stone (Oct 4)

Vittorio Storaro (Jun 24)

Taj Mahal (May 17)

Jimmy Tarbuck (Feb 6)

Jack Thompson (Aug 31)

Charles Thurston (Mar 4)

Christopher Timothy (Oct 14)

Ralph Towner (Mar 1)

Daniel J. Travanti (Mar 7)

Alex Trebek (Jul 22)

Natalie Trundy (Aug 5)

Rita Tushingham (Mar 14)

Willie Tyler (Sep 8)

Sylvia Tyson (Sep 19)

Luis Valdez (Jun 26)

Sigrid Valdis (Sep 21)

Stephen F. Verona (Sep 11)

Phil Walden (Jan 11)

Robert Walker, Jr. (Apr 15)

Jessica Walter (Jan 31)

Sam Waterston (Nov 15)

Mills Watson (Jul 10)

Raquel Welch (Sep 5)

Joshua White (Nov 30)

Tamara Wilcox-Smith

June Wilkinson (Mar 27)

Paul Williams (Sep 19)

Robert Wolders (Sep 28)

Burt Young (Apr 30)

Ray Young (May 9)

Frank Zappa (Dec 21)

Andrzej Zulawski (Nov 22)