What day of the week was October 21, 1940?

The day of the week October 21st, 1940 fell on was a Monday.

Geoffrey Boycott the English cricketer and sportscaster was born on 21 October in 1940. As was Frances FitzGerald the American journalist and author , Manfred Mann the South African-English keyboard player (Manfred Mann, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, and Manfred Mann Chapter Three) , Marita Petersen the Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2001) , Rhoda Gemignani the American actress .

William G. Conley the American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866) died on this day in 1940.

The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.