April 16, 1940

1940Benoît Bouchard, Canadian academic and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Transport^[†]

Benoît Bouchard is a Canadian public official and former politician.

1940David Holford, Barbadian cricketer (died 2022)^[†]

David Anthony Jerome Holford was a West Indian cricketer who played in 24 Test matches between 1966 and 1977.

1940Fotis Kafatos, Greek biologist, founding president of the European Research Council (ERC) (died 2017).^[†]

Fotis Constantine Kafatos was a Greek biologist. Between 2007 and 2010, he was the founding president of the European Research Council (ERC). He chaired the ERC Scientific Council from 2006 to 2010. Thereafter, he was appointed Honorary President of the ERC.

1940Queen Margrethe II of Denmark^[†]

Margrethe II is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she was the second-longest-reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV.

1940Joan Snyder, American painter^[†]

Joan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1974).

1940Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, English banker and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (died 2023)^[†]

Ralph Thomas Campion George Sherman Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, was a British peer and banker who served as Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom from 1998 to 2000, and the first Catholic Lord Chamberlain since the Reformation.