1940 in China

Events in the year 1940 in China.

Incumbents

• President: Lin Sen
• Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: H.H. Kung
• Foreign Minister: Wang Ch'ung-hui

Events

• March 16 – April 3 — Battle of Wuyuan
• May 1 – June 18 — Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang
• November 25–30 — Central Hubei Operation

Births

January

• January 4 — Gao Xingjian, Chinese-French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director and translator
• January 14 — Li Guanxing, nuclear material engineer (d. 2020)
• January 16 — Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai, 11th Qamdo Pagbalha Hutuktu of Tibetan Buddhism and politician
• January 17
• Hua Jianmin, former State Councilor of China
• Anson Chan, Hong Kong politician and civil servant

February

• February 29 — Lydia Dunn, Hong Kong-born British businesswoman and politician

March

• March 8 — Jia Qinglin, 7th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
• Zhang Fusen, politician

April

• April 24 — Allen Lee, industrialist, politician and political commentator (d. 2020)
• Jiang Shusheng, physicist and politician

June

• Liao Xilong, general of the People's Liberation Army

August

• August 14 — Zhang Lina, physical chemist (d. 2020)
• August 22 — Shi Guangnan, composer (d. 1990)
• Chen Mingyi, 5th Governor of Fujian
• Guo Baochang, director, screenwriter, writer and playwright (d. 2023)

October

• October 3 — Liu Yongqing, former Spouse of the Paramount Leader of China
• October 8 — Liu Yingming, mathematician (d. 2016)
• October 20 — Li Zhaoxing, 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs of China

November

• November 27 — Bruce Lee, Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (d. 1973)

December

• December 9 — Liang Guanglie, 10th Minister of National Defense of China (d. 2024)
• December 17 — Lü Zhong, actress
• December 18 — Lei Feng, soldier of the People's Liberation Army (d. 1962)
• December 22 — Bai Yilong, mechanist (d. 2024)
• Huang Hengmei, lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army

Date unknown

• Yu Lina, violinist pedagogue
• Patsy Toh, British pianist

Deaths

• February 23 — Yang Jingyu, Communist military commander and political commissar (b. 1905)
• March 4 — Gao Lingwei, politician (b. 1870)
• March 5 — Cai Yuanpei, philosopher and politician (b. 1868)
• April 5 — Song Zheyuan, general (b. 1885)
• May 14 — Luo Zhenyu, classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher, antiquarian and Qing loyalist (b. 1866)
• May 16 — Zhang Zizhong, general (b. 1891)
• August 1 — Ma Junwu, scientist and educator (b. 1881)
• September 26 — Xu Qian, politician and jurist (b. 1871)
• December 1 — Shi Yousan, 9th Governor of Chahar (b. 1891)
• December 31 — Xiao Youmei, music educator and composer (b. 1884)

See also

• List of Chinese films of the 1940s

References