List of covers of Time magazine (1940s)

This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1940s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of a person's notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.

For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.

1940

January 1 – Joseph Stalin, Man of the Year January 8 – Cordell Hull January 15 – Viscount Halifax January 22 – Lauritz Melchior January 29 – Robert A. Taft February 5 – Baron Mannerheim February 12 – Ève Curie February 19 – John H. Levi February 26 – Thomas E. Dewey March 4 – Mitsumasa Yonai March 11 – Jerome Frank March 18 – Mickey Rooney March 25 – Éamon de Valera April 1 – Hermann Göring April 8 – Benito Mussolini April 15 – Burton K. Wheeler April 22 – Dudley Pound April 29 – King Gustaf V and Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf May 6 – Joseph N. Pew Jr. May 13 – Nikolaus von Falkenhorst May 20 – King Leopold III May 27 – Arthur Barratt and Patrick Playfair June 3 – Maxime Weygand June 10 – Franklin D. Roosevelt June 17 – Paul Reynaud with Maxime Weygand, Paul Baudouin and Philippe Pétain June 24 – Benito Mussolini and Pietro Badoglio July 1 – Admiral Richardson July 8 – Philip Henry Kerr July 15 – Vyacheslav Molotov July 22 – Fumimaro Konoe July 29 – George Marshall August 5 – Sir Alan F. Brooke August 12 – Getúlio Vargas August 19 – William Allen White August 26 – Erhard Milch September 2 – Earl of Athlone and his wife Princess Alice September 9 – Joe Martin September 16 – Baron Beaverbrook September 23 – Henry A. Wallace September 30 – Winston Churchill October 7 – William S. Knudsen October 14 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell October 21 – Wendell Willkie October 28 – Ethel Merman November 4 – King George II November 11 – Thomas Holcomb November 18 – Leopold Stokowski November 25 – Kenneth Roberts December 2 – Sidney Hillman December 9 – Manuel Ávila Camacho December 16 – Alexander Papagos December 23 – Martin Niemöller December 30 – Lily Pons

1941

January 6 – Winston Churchill, Man of the Year January 13 – Jesse Jones January 20 – King Boris III January 27 – Philip Murray February 3 – Gertrude Lawrence February 10 – Anton J. Carlson February 17 – Andrew Cunningham February 24 – Donald M. Nelson March 3 – Gary Cooper March 10 – Gaston Henry-Haye March 17 – Henry Ford March 24 – Wilhelm List March 31 – Emory Scott Land April 7 – Bing Crosby April 14 – Adolf Hitler April 21 – Dušan Simović April 28 – Sir Percy Noble May 5 – Ramon S. Castillo May 12 – Leon Henderson May 19 – İsmet İnönü May 26 – François Darlan Jun 2 - Ernest King Jun 9 - Benito Mussolini June 16 – Chen Cheng June 23 – Jack Towers June 30 – Semyon Timoshenko July 7 – Yosuke Matsuoka July 14 – Wilhelm Keitel July 21 – Claude Wickard July 28 – Sir Charles Portal August 4 – Charles de Gaulle August 11 – Sumner Welles August 18 – Hubertus J. van Mook August 25 – Henry L. Stimson September 1 – Frank Maxwell Andrews September 8 – Reza Shah Pahlavi September 15 – Harold L. Ickes September 22 – Kichisaburō Nomura September 29 – Joe Louis October 6 – Robert E. Wood October 13 – Semyon Budyonny October 20 – Frederick Bowhill October 27 – Joseph Stalin November 3 – Hideki Tōjō November 10 – Rita Hayworth November 17 – Reuben Fleet November 24 – Thomas C. Hart December 1 – Sir Claude Auchinleck December 8 – Fedor von Bock December 15 – Husband E. Kimmel December 22 – Isoroku Yamamoto December 29 – Douglas MacArthur

1942

January 5 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Man of the Year January 12 – Henry Royds Pownall January 19 – Oswaldo Aranha January 26 – Hein ter Poorten February 2 – Karl Dönitz February 9 – Robert A. Lovett February 16 – Boris Shaposhnikov February 23 – Reinhard Heydrich March 2 – Tomoyuki Yamashita March 9 – Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich March 16 – Lord Linlithgow March 23 – Henry Ford March 30 – Douglas MacArthur April 6 – Ezequiel Padilla April 13 – Sir Stafford Cripps April 20 – Erich Raeder April 27 – Pierre Laval May 4 – Lewis H. Brereton May 11 – Maxim Litvinoff May 18 – Chester Nimitz May 25 – Draža Mihailović June 1 – Chiang Kai-shek June 8 – Lord Louis Mountbatten June 15 – Brehon B. Somervell June 22 – Henry 'Hap' Arnold June 29 – Franz Halder July 6 – Flag of the United States July 13 – Erwin Rommel July 20 – Dmitri Shostakovich July 27 – Semyon Timoshenko August 3 – Seishirō Itagaki August 10 – General McNaughton August 17 – Robert L. Ghormley August 24 – Jawaharlal Nehru August 31 – Gerd von Rundstedt September 7 – Frank Knox September 14 – Harold Alexander September 21 – Fedor von Bock September 28 – William Francis Gibbs October 5 – Paul V. McNutt October 12 – Edward J. Flynn October 19 – George C. Marshall October 26 – Viscount Gort November 2 – General Vandegrift November 9 – Sir Arthur Tedder November 16 – Dwight D. Eisenhower November 23 – James H. Doolittle November 30 – William Halsey Jr. December 7 – Ernest J. King December 14 – Georgy Zhukov December 21 – Katharine Cornell, Judith Anderson and Ruth Gordon December 28 – Lesley J. McNair

1943

January 4 – Joseph Stalin, Man of the Year January 11 – James F. Byrnes January 18 – George Kenney January 25 – Henry Morgenthau Jr. February 1 – Bernard Montgomery February 8 – Anthony Eden February 15 – Osami Nagano February 22 – Filipp Golikov March 1 – Madame Chiang Kai-shek March 8 – Harry S. Truman March 15 – Elmer Davis March 22 – Carl Andrew Spaatz March 29 – Henri Giraud April 5 – Sir Thomas Beecham April 12 – George S. Patton April 19 – Manuel Ávila Camacho April 26 – John W. Bricker May 3 – Kenneth Anderson May 10 – Karl Dönitz May 17 – Harold Lee George May 24 – Sir Andrew Cunningham May 31 – Gustaf VI Adolf June 7 – Sir Arthur Harris June 14 – Harold D. Smith June 21 – Benito Mussolini June 28 – Bernard Baruch July 5 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky July 12 – Şükrü Saracoğlu July 19 – Walter F. George July 26 – George S. Patton August 2 – Ingrid Bergman August 9 – Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr. August 16 – Pope Pius XII August 23 – Konstantin Rokossovsky August 30 – General Ira Eaker September 6 – Paul Hoffman September 13 – Dwight D. Eisenhower September 20 – Bob Hope September 27 – Sam Rayburn October 4 – Mark W. Clark October 11 – Heinrich Himmler October 18 – Francisco Franco October 25 – Vyacheslav Molotov November 1 – Thomas E. Dewey November 8 – Mineichi Koga November 15 – John J. Pershing November 22 – Donald W. Douglas November 29 – Franklin D. Roosevelt December 6 – Claire L. Chennault December 13 – Charles Edward Wilson December 20 – Greer Garson December 27 – Sergius I

1944

January 3 – George Marshall, Man of the Year January 10 – Erich von Manstein January 17 – Oveta Culp Hobby January 24 – Jimmy Durante January 31 – Earl Warren February 7 – Richmond K. Turner February 14 – Harrison E. Spangler February 21 – Holland Smith February 28 – Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson March 6 – King George VI March 13 – Tom Connally March 20 – Nikolai Voronov March 27 – Jan Masaryk April 3 – Vannevar Bush April 10 – Leverett Saltonstall April 17 – Cyril Garbett April 24 – John Curtin May 1 – Omar Bradley May 8 – Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV May 15 – Alexander Fleming May 22 – Jan C. Smuts May 29 – Charles de Gaulle June 5 – Sir Harold Alexander June 12 – Carl Andrew Spaatz June 19 – Dwight D. Eisenhower June 26 – Raymond A. Spruance July 3 – Shigetarō Shimada July 10 – Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein July 17 – Ernie Pyle July 24 – Sidney Hillman July 31 – Alexander Novikov August 7 – Heinz Guderian August 14 – Arthur Coningham August 21 – Gerd von Rundstedt August 28 – Alexander Patch September 4 – Liberation of Paris September 11 – Leroy Randle Grumman September 18 – Harry Crerar September 25 – John C. H. Lee October 2 – Van Wyck Brooks October 9 – Josip Broz Tito October 16 – Courtney Hodges October 23 – Thomas E. Dewey October 30 – Douglas MacArthur November 6 – Harry S. Truman November 13 – Joseph Stilwell November 20 – Edgar Bergen November 27 – Juan Perón December 4 – Omar Bradley December 11 – Edward R. Stettinius Jr. December 18 – Tse-veng Soong December 25 – Eivind Berggrav

1945

January 1 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Man of the Year January 8 – Anita Colby January 15 – Hoyt Vandenberg January 22 – Harry Hopkins January 29 – Walter Krueger February 5 – Joseph Stalin February 12 – Heinrich Himmler February 19 – William Hood Simpson February 26 – Chester W. Nimitz March 5 – Abdulaziz al-Saud March 12 – Mildred H. McAfee March 19 – Sir Miles C. Dempsey March 26 – Lord Woolton April 2 – Matthew Ridgway April 9 – George S. Patton April 16 – Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. April 23 – Harry S. Truman April 30 – Arthur H. Vandenberg May 7 – Adolf Hitler May 14 – The Big Three ( Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt) May 21 – Emperor Hirohito May 28 – William D. Leahy June 4 – Albert Coady Wedemeyer June 11 – Robert Evans Woods June 18 – Bill Maudin's "Willie" June 25 – Lucius D. Clay July 2 – Mel Ott July 9 – Fred M. Vinson July 16 – Lord Wavell July 23 – William Halsey Jr. July 30 – William Martin Jeffers August 6 – Clement Attlee August 13 – Curtis LeMay August 20 – Fall of Japan August 27 – Douglas MacArthur September 3 – Chiang Kai-shek September 10 – Robert L. Eichelberger September 17 – James F. Byrnes September 24 – Alfred P. Sloan October 1 – Archbishop Damaskinos October 8 – Sinclair Lewis October 15 – Lewis Schwellenbach October 22 – Edvard Beneš October 29 – James V. Forrestal November 5 – Spruille Braden November 12 – Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard November 19 – Sergei Prokofiev November 26 – H. T. Webster December 3 – Walter Reuther December 10 – Nuremberg Defendants (Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg and Wilhelm Keitel) December 17 – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi December 24 – The Nativity December 31 – Harry S. Truman, Man of the Year

1946

January 7 – William Lyon Mackenzie King January 14 – Robert E. Gross January 21 – Philip Murray January 28 – Craig Rice February 4 – Henry Ford II February 11 – Stanislaw Mikolajczyk February 18 – Ernest Bevin February 25 – Cardinal Spellman March 4 – Chester Bliss Bowles March 11 – Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine March 18 – Francisco Franco March 25 – George C. Marshall April 1 – Omar Bradley April 8 – Laurence Olivier April 15 – Amadeo Peter Giannini April 22 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah April 29 – Gustav T. Kuester May 6 – Elizabeth Arden May 13 – Queen Wilhelmina May 20 – John L. Lewis May 27 – Edward H. Crump June 3 – Maurice Thorez June 10 – Charles Luckman June 17 – Joseph Curran June 24 – Mark W. Clark July 1 – Albert Einstein July 8 – Manuel A. Roxas July 15 – Roger D. Lapham July 22 – Antonio Salazar July 29 – Herbert Morrison August 5 – Camillien Houde August 12 – George E. Allen August 19 – Viacheslav Molotov August 26 – Jerusalem September 2 – Pauline Betz September 9 – Jo Davidson September 16 – Josip Broz Tito September 23 – James Bryant Conant September 30 – Henry A. Wallace October 7 – Victor Emanuel October 14 – Frank Leahy October 21 – Eugene O'Neill October 28 – Edward Martin November 4 – Charles Francis Adams III November 11 – Helen Traubel November 18 – Joseph William Martin Jr. November 25 – Trygve Lie December 2 – George Messersmith December 9 – Andrei Zhdanov December 16 – John L. Lewis December 23 – Sukarno December 30 – Marian Anderson

1947

January 6 – James F. Byrnes, Man of the Year January 13 – Milton Caniff January 20 – Robert A. Taft January 27 – Vallabhbhai Patel February 3 – Robert R. Young February 10 – Deborah Kerr February 17 – Artur Rodziński February 24 – King George II March 3 – Joseph H. Ball March 10 – George C. Marshall March 17 – Arnold J. Toynbee March 24 – Eugene Holman March 31 – Princess Elizabeth April 7 – Fred Allen April 14 – Leo Durocher April 21 – William A. Patterson April 28 – Miguel Alemán May 5 – Palmiro Togliatti May 12 – Arthur H. Vandenberg