April 13, 1940

1940Mike Beuttler, Egyptian-English racing driver (died 1988)^[†]

Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, O.B.E., and a descendant on his mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield.

1940J. M. G. Le Clézio, Breton French-Mauritian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, usually identified as J. M. G. Le Clézio, of French, Mauritian, and British nationality, is a writer and professor. The author of over forty works, he was awarded the 1963 Prix Renaudot for his novel Le Procès-Verbal and the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for his life's work, as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".

1940Vladimir Cosma, French composer, conductor and violinist^[†]

Vladimir Cosma is a Romanian composer, conductor and violinist, who has made his career in France and the United States.

1940Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (died 2006)^[†]

James McNab was a Scottish footballer who played as a left half for Sunderland, Preston North End and Stockport County.

1940Max Mosley, English racing driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering, former president of the FIA (died 2021)^[†]

Max Rufus Mosley was a British businessman, lawyer and racing driver. He served as president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), the governing body for Formula One.

1940Ruby Puryear Hearn, African-American biophysicist^[†]

Ruby Louise Puryear Hearn is an American biophysicist who has dedicated her career to health policy. Her work spans initiatives in maternal, infant, and child health; AIDS; substance abuse; and minority medical education.