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Notable Births

1940Dominick Harrod, English journalist, historian, and author (died 2013)^[†]

Dominick Roy Harrod was a British journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's economic correspondent in the 1970s and 1980s.

1940Endre Szemerédi, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist^[†]

Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986. He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Notable Deaths

1940Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1882)^[†]

Hermann Obrecht was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1935–1940).

1940Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (born 1863)^[†]

Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan".

1940Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (born 1879)^[†]

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, October Revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent figures in the Soviet state from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Trotsky's ideas inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism.