Editing 1940 (section)

===July===
[[File:Jerzy Buzek, 2010.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Jerzy Buzek]]]]
[[File:Nursultan Nazarbayev at the Enthronement of Naruhito (2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]]]
[[File:Ringo Starr.png|thumb|100px|Sir [[Ringo Starr]]]]
[[File:Patrick Stewart by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Patrick Stewart]]]]
[[File:Fontella Bass.png|thumb|100px|[[Fontella Bass]]]]
[[File:Princess Hitachi 2012-1-2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hanako, Princess Hitachi]]]]
*[[July 1]]
**[[Fukunohana Koichi]], Japanese sumo wrestler
**[[Craig Brown (footballer, born 1940)|Craig Brown]], Scottish footballer, manager (d. [[2023]])
**[[Abdul Razzak Ahmed]], Iraqi football player
**[[Wathiq Naji]], Iraqi football manager (d. [[2014]])
*[[July 2]] 
**[[Joshua Bryant]], American actor, director, author and speaker (d. [[2024]])
**[[Ruriko Asaoka]], Japanese actress
*[[July 3]]
**[[Lamar Alexander]], American politician
**[[Fontella Bass]], African-American soul singer ("[[Rescue Me (Fontella Bass song)|Rescue Me]]") (d. [[2012]])
**[[Jerzy Buzek]], Polish politician, 8th [[Prime Minister of Poland]]
**[[Michael Cole (actor)|Michael Cole]], American actor ("[[The Mod Squad]]") (d. [[2024]])
**[[Jose Alberto Laboy]], Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
**[[Lance Larson]], American competition swimmer, Olympic champion and world record-holder in four events
**[[Chuck Sieminski]], American football player (d. [[2020]])
**[[César Tovar]], Venezuelan baseball player (d. [[1994]])
**[[Mario Zanin (cyclist)|Mario Zanin]], Italian cyclist
*[[July 4]] 
**[[Deidre Catt]], English tennis player
**Nasser Madani, Iranian fencer
**[[Gene McDowell]], American college football coach (d. [[2021]])
**[[Pat Stapleton (ice hockey)|Pat Stapleton]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2020]])
*[[July 5]] &ndash; [[Reiko Kusamura]], Japanese actress
*[[July 6]]
**[[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], 1st [[President of Kazakhstan]]
**[[Siti Norma Yaakob]], Malaysian lawyer and judge 
*[[July 7]]
**[[Lee Keun-hak]], North Korean football player
**Sir [[Ringo Starr]], English musician, singer, songwriter and actor ([[The Beatles]])
**[[Irène Sweyd]], Belgian swimmer
*[[July 9]] &ndash; [[Herminia Roman]], Filipino politician
*[[July 10]]
**[[Julie Payne (actress, born 1940)|Julie Payne]], American actress (d. [[2019]])
**[[Tommy Troelsen]], Danish footballer, manager and television presenter (d. [[2021]])
*[[July 13]]
**[[Paul Prudhomme]], American celebrity chef, cookbook author (d. [[2015]])
**Sir [[Patrick Stewart]], English actor (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'')
*[[July 15]] &ndash; [[Johnny Seay]], American country music singer (d. [[2016]])
*[[July 17]] – [[Francisco Toledo]], Mexican painter, sculptor and graphic artist (d. [[2019]])
*[[July 18]]
**[[James Brolin]], American actor, director
**[[Peter Mutharika]], 5th [[President of Malawi]]
*[[July 19]] 
**[[Hanako, Princess Hitachi]]
**[[Vikki Carr]], American singer
**[[Anzor Kavazashvili]], Soviet football goalkeeper
*[[July 22]] 
**[[Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma]]
**[[Alex Trebek]], Canadian game show host (''[[Jeopardy!]]'') (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/alex-trebek-17119954|title=Alex Trebek Biography: Game Show Host, Philanthropist (1940–)|work=[[Biography (TV program)|Biography.com]]|publisher=[[FYI (U.S. TV network)|FYI]] / [[A&E Networks]]|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211709/http://www.biography.com/people/alex-trebek-17119954|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[July 26]] – [[Mary Jo Kopechne]], American aide to [[Ted Kennedy]] (d. [[1969]])
*[[July 27]]
**[[Pina Bausch]], German choreographer (d. [[2009]])
**[[Bharati Mukherjee]], Indian-born novelist (d. [[2017]])
*[[July 30]] – [[Clive Sinclair]], English inventor (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/sir-clive-sinclair-obituary-jjgjq296k | title = Sir Clive Sinclair obituary | date = 16 September 2021 |url-access=subscription| work = [[The Times]] }}</ref>