About the day » Thursday March 14, 1940Calender converter

• Cláudio da Silveira, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil († 2021)
• jacques willem SMIT, oud-beijerland († 2010)
• Aart Tol, Edam Volendam († 2013)
• Elbert Scheepmaker, Vlaardingen († 1986)
• Janny Saas († 2016)
• Hendrikus Jozef Agterbosch, Enschede, Overijssel, The Netherlands († 1941)
• Geertruida Maria Sophia van der Lans, Lisse, Lisse, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Adriana Hendrina Schreuders († 1946)
• Geert Noorlag, Valthermond († 2012)
• Jennigje Hofsink († 2001)

• Albert Scheyven (63), Bruges, Belgique
• Anna Bgener (73), Nordhorn (Dld)
• Arendje Zuijderduijn (91), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Hubregtse (89), MIDDELBURG, ZL, NL
• Baarte de Boer (82), Verlaat, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Tromp (89), Amsterdam
• Baarte de Boer (82), Verlaat (Steenwijkerwold)
• Arij de Vries (79), Goedereede, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baarte (Geuverts) de Boer (82), Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Marijnissen, Hoeven

• 1937 » Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee († 2013)
• 1938 » Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter
• 1938 » Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network († 2016)
• 1938 » John Gleeson, Australian cricketer († 2016)
• 1939 » Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter
• 1939 » Raymond J. Barry, American actor
• 1939 » Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter
• 1941 » Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 » Rita Tushingham, English actress
• 1943 » Anita Morris, American actress and singer († 1994)

• 1932 » George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
• 1953 » Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 14th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
• 1957 » Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
• 1965 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1976 » Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Jacob
9. Robert
10. Adrianus
11. Petrus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Margaretha
14. Annie
15. Marie
16. Aaltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• August 6 » Estonia is illegally annexed by the Soviet Union.
• August 26 » Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
• September 7 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
• September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
• September 29 » Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.

The temperature on March 14, 1940 was between -1.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 26.8 mm of rain during 13.7 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.