About the day » Saturday June 22, 1940Calender converter

• Larry Dean Ostendorf, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 1995)
• Dirk Cornelis van der Kwaak, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Berend Jans Schonewille, Losser, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)
• Alida (Alie) VAN EIJK, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Eloise Turner, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States of America († 1972)
• Elize Petronella Johanna (Els) Janssen, Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland († 2015)
• Gerhardus Abraham Keep, Hengelo († 2024)
• Corrie Johanna Timmermans, Maasbree († 1993)
• doodgeboren kind van 't Hoog († 1940)
• Jerome Howard McClure, Pittsburg (Crawford County) (Kansas) († 2008)

• Abraham Spier (78), The Hague, Netherlands
• Aaltje~Rienks Sybrandy (88), Wommels
• Antje Bijl (33), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Christina van den Brand (18), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina de Jong (23), Geertruidenberg
• Aaltje Jans Zwier (87), Borne
• Bernard Willem Konings (31), Winterswijk
• Aaltje Zwier (87), Borne
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Willems (60), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Zwier (87), Borne

• 1937 » Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist and composer († 2013)
• 1937 » Chris Blackwell, English record producer, co-founded Island Records
• 1939 » Don Matthews, American-Canadian football player and coach († 2017)
• 1939 » Ed Paschke, Polish-American painter and academic († 2004)
• 1940 » Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1940 » Esther Rantzen, English journalist
• 1940 » Hubert Chesshyre, English historian and author
• 1940 » Joan Busfield, English sociologist, psychologist, and academic
• 1941 » Ed Bradley, American journalist († 2006)
• 1941 » Terttu Savola, Finnish journalist and politician

• 1928 » A. B. Frost, American illustrator and painter (b. 1851)
• 1931 » Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (b. 1841)
• 1933 » Tim Birkin, English racing driver and lieutenant (b. 1896)
• 1935 » Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian and diplomat (b. 1866)
• 1936 » Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (b. 1882)
• 1938 » C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Monty Noble, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1873)
• 1942 » August Froehlich, German priest and activist (b. 1891)
• 1945 » Isamu Chō, Japanese general (b. 1895)
• 1945 » Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (b. 1887)

• 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.
• March 18 » World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
• April 7 » Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• May 24 » Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
• July 3 » World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
• July 19 » Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II that Adolf Hitler appoints field marshals due to military achievements.
• October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

The temperature on June 22, 1940 was between 6.1 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.