Editing 1940 (section)

===April===
[[File:Wangari Maathai in 2001.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Wangari Maathai]]]]
[[File:Julie Christie - 1965.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julie Christie]]]]
[[File:Drottning Margrethe av Danmark.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Margrethe II of Denmark]]]]
[[File:Al Pacino 2016 (30401544240).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Al Pacino]]]]
[[File:Dr-Tan-Cheng-Bock-at-Nomination-Centre-1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tan Cheng Bock]]]]
*[[April 1]] – [[Wangari Maathai]], Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[2011]])
*[[April 2]]
**[[Mike Hailwood]], English motorcycle racer (d. [[1981]])
**Dame [[Penelope Keith]], English actress
*[[April 4]] – [[Robby Müller]], Dutch cinematographer (d. [[2018]])
*[[April 6]] – [[Pedro Armendáriz Jr.]], Mexican actor (d. [[2011]])
*[[April 8]] – [[John Havlicek]], American basketball player (d. [[2019]])
*[[April 12]] – [[Herbie Hancock]], African-American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor
*[[April 13]]
**[[J. M. G. Le Clézio]], French writer and professor
**[[Max Mosley]], British motorsport boss (d. [[2021]])
**[[José Nápoles]], Cuban-born Mexican boxer (d. [[2019]])
*[[April 14]] 
**[[Julie Christie]], English actress
**[[Countess Marie Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau]] (d. [[2021]]) 
*[[April 15]]
**[[Faimalaga Luka]], 6th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. [[2005]])
**[[Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)|Robert Walker]], American actor (d. [[2019]])
**[[Yossef Romano]], Israeli weightlifter (d. [[1972]])
*[[April 16]]
** [[David Holford]], Barbadian cricketer (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationnews.com/2022/05/31/david-holford-passes-82/|title=David Holford passes at 82|date=May 31, 2022|website=www.nationnews.com}}</ref>
** Queen [[Margrethe II of Denmark]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Margrethe II {{!}} queen of Denmark {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margrethe-II |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=4 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[April 17]] – [[John McCririck]], English horse racing pundit (d. [[2019]])
*[[April 18]]
**[[Ira von Furstenberg]], European socialite and actress (d. [[2024]])
**[[Joseph L. Goldstein]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1985/goldstein-bio.html |title=Joseph L. Goldstein – Biographical |website=Nobelprize.org |access-date=February 24, 2022}}</ref>
**[[Ken Shellito]], English footballer, manager (d. [[2018]]) 
*[[April 19]] – [[Reinhard Bonnke]], German Pentecostal evangelist (d. [[2019]])
*[[April 20]] – [[Pilar Miró]], Spanish screenwriter and film director (d. [[1997]])
*[[April 22]] – [[Marie-José Nat]], French actress (d. [[2019]])
*[[April 23]] – [[Danilo Astori]], Uruguayan politician, 15th [[Vice President of Uruguay]]
*[[April 24]] – [[Sue Grafton]], American detective novelist (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite news |first=Matt |last=Schudel |title=Sue Grafton, author of best-selling 'alphabet' mysteries, dies at 77 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sue-grafton-whose-alphabet-mysteries-became-best-sellers-dies-at-77/2017/12/29/395e95f0-ecd9-11e7-8a6a-80acf0774e64_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=December 29, 2017 |access-date=December 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230104052/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sue-grafton-whose-alphabet-mysteries-became-best-sellers-dies-at-77/2017/12/29/395e95f0-ecd9-11e7-8a6a-80acf0774e64_story.html |archive-date=December 30, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[April 25]] – [[Al Pacino]], American actor, film director
*[[April 26]] 
**[[Tan Cheng Bock]], Singaporean doctor and politician<ref>{{cite web |title=PSP's Tan Cheng Bock turns 85; SDP's Paul Tambyah joins celebration at Teban Gardens |url=https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/psps-tan-cheng-bock-turns-85-sdps-paul-tambyah-joins-celebration-teban-gardens |website=AsiaOne |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en |date=26 April 2025}}</ref>
**[[Giorgio Moroder]], Italian film composer
*[[April 30]] – [[Ermindo Onega]], Argentine footballer (d. [[1979]])