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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Gui...
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
83: *[[Fleur Adcock|Adcock, Fleur]], (born 1934), poet - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...e is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
33: ...ce|Greek]] throne and was simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten before being created [[D...
48: **[[Princess Eugenie of York|HRH Princess Eugenie of York]] (born [[23 March]] [[1990]])
62: ...ts to most European countries and to many outside Europe. She regularly attends Commonwealth Heads of ... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
43: ...lt's stories were published under the masculine pseudonym "Chuck Painton" to avoid offending the magaz... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...ole in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth ce...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...rth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
9: ...rth control information by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the followi...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
17: ...ewly available [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to e...
29: ...human sexuality place her squarely in the pre-[[Freud]]ian 19th century. Birth control, it would appea... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more...
18: *[http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...ally naked on stage. After a successful tour of [[Europe]], she returned to [[France]], where she star...
11: ...me she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contempor...
17: ...another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe.
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
6: ...ork]], in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights", which she won, adding fame to both the...
12: ...(as she was now called by other singers) toured [[Europe]] and North America, classically opening thei...
96: *1975 ''[[Montreux '75]]''
98: *1977 ''[[Montreux '77]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic...
13: ...ents who died for the liberation of France, Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on t... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
11: ...tour was a smash and CBS put the show on their lineup.
24: ...ilms himself, and knew his business. For Lucy, Freund developed the three-camera setup, which became ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
26: Tallulah Bankhead died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated fu...
36: ...r through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple)
110: *1957 [[Eugenia]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
9: ...ernate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]] films. She received her third Academy Awa...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
13: ...r]]'' ([[1942]]) co-star, [[Paul Henreid]], were reunited not as on-screen lovers, but rather with Hen...
23: ...s died, aged 81, on [[October 6]], [[1989]] in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[France]], following a long bat...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
38: ... preferring to wear pants suits and disdaining makeup. She also had a famously difficult relationship...
70: ...1959) and as Mary Tyrone in the 1962 version of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Long Day's Journey Into Night...
75: ...]]'' (1969), ''[[The Trojan Women]]'' (1971) by [[Euripides]], and [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[A Delicate B...
129: ===1940s===
130: * ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'' ([[1940]])—[[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Ac...
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