About the day » Thursday August 1, 1940Calender converter

• elisabeth hendrika maria van rijswijck, helden
• Aaltje Titia Eiziena Siersema, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1944)
• Elisaberta Hendrika Geertruida Albers, Ede
• Maria Philomena Cas, Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, België († 1941)
• Joseph Jitte ( Jossie ) de Jong († 1941)
• Jan Albert Prenger, Bellingwolde († 1994)
• Adriana Cornelia Petronella Maria van den Ouweland, Gilze en Rijen
• Benjamin Sikkel, Den Haag († 1986)
• Jacobus Du Mortier, Vlaardingen († 2020)
• Charles Harold Blackburn († 1983)

• Bernard Heinrich Heitbaum (56), Hengelo
• Bernard Anton Heitbaum (73)
• Cornelis Frederik Lezwijn (81), Leiden
• Abraham BRANDT (75), Dordrecht
• Bastiaan Vermeij (7), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiaan (Basje) Vermeij (7), (ca 01-08-1940, nabij Willemstad door een zeemijn, geborgen te Zuid Beijerland d.d. 01-08-1940)
• Anna Maria Catharina van Aubel (68), Borgharen
• Alina Catharina De Bruecker (69), Wanzele
• Bertha Jansen (49), Tracy, Iowa (USA)
• Antje Bodewitz (74), Termunten

• 1939 » Bob Frankford, English-Canadian physician and politician († 2015)
• 1939 » Robert James Waller, American author and photographer († 2017)
• 1939 » Stephen Sykes, English bishop and theologian († 2014)
• 1939 » Terry Kiser, American actor
• 1940 » Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded Cendant
• 1940 » Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iranian writer and actor
• 1940 » Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire
• 1941 » Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter († 2004)
• 1941 » Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce († 1996)
• 1942 » Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1995)

• 1918 » John Riley Banister, American cowboy and police officer (b. 1854)
• 1920 » Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian freedom fighter, lawyer and journalist (b. 1856)
• 1921 » T.J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
• 1922 » Donát Bánki, Hungarian engineer (b. 1856)
• 1929 » Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and academic (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Jean Behra, French race car driver (b. 1921)
• 1963 » Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)

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

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. Annie
14. Margaretha
15. Marie
16. Helena

• 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.
• June 14 » The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.
• June 14 » World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
• June 21 » World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• September 14 » Ip massacre: The Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, kill 158 Romanian civilians in Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
• September 17 » World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.
• November 18 » World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.

The temperature on August 1, 1940 was between 12.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.