January 19, 1940

1940Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (died 1992)^[†]

Paolo Emanuele Borsellino was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo.

1940Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (died 2010)^[†]

Denise Lorraine Narcisse-Mair was a Canadian musicologist, music educator, choral conductor, and composer. Narcisse-Mair was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on January 19, 1940. Her mother was a pianist and her aunt was a composer and choral conductor at a convent in Kingston, where she spent her first 13 years learning music, languages, and faith.