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'''1944''' was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] (link will take you to calendar).
==Events==
===[[World War II]]===
====January====
* [[January 4]] - The [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] begins.
* [[January 5]] - Murder of [[Denmark|Danish]] playwright [[Kaj Munk]].
* [[January 14]] - The Soviet troops start the offensive at [[Leningrad]] and [[Novgorod]].
* [[January 17]] - [[Great Britian|British]] forces, in [[Italy]], cross the [[Garigliano River]].
* [[January 17]] - Meat Rationing ends in [[Australia]].
* [[January 20]] - The [[Royal Air Force]] drops 2,300 tons of bombs on [[Berlin]]. The [[US 36th Infantry Division|U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division]], in Italy, attempts to cross the [[Rapido River]].
* [[January 22]] - [[Allies]] begin [[Operation Shingle]], the assault on [[Anzio]], [[Italy]]. The [[U.S. 45th Infantry Division|U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division]] stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months.
* [[January 27]] - The two year [[Siege of Leningrad]] is lifted.
* [[January 29]] - The [[Battle of Cisterna]] takes place.
* [[January 30]] - [[United States]] troops invade [[Majuro, Marshall Islands]].
* [[January 31]] - American forces land on [[Kwajalein Atoll]] and other islands in the [[Japan]]ese-held [[Marshall Islands]].
====February====
* [[February 1]] - [[United States]] troops land in the [[Marshall Islands]].
* [[February 3]] - [[United States]] troops capture the [[Marshall Islands]].
* [[February 7]] - In [[Anzio]], [[Italy|Italian]] forces launch a counteroffensive.
* [[February 14]] - Anti-[[Japan]]ese revolt on [[Java (island)|Java]].
* [[February 15]] - [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] - the monastery atop [[Monte Cassino]] is destroyed by Allied bombing.
* [[February 17]] - [[Battle of Eniwetok Atoll]] begins. The battle ended in an American victory on [[February 22]].
* [[February 20]] - "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on [[Germany|German]] [[aircraft]] manufacturing centers.
* [[February 20]] - The [[United States]] takes [[Eniwetok]] Island.
* [[February 29]] - The [[Admiralty Islands]] are invaded in the American General [[Douglas MacArthur]]-led [[Operation Brewer]].
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* [[March]] - The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south [[China]].
* [[March 1]] - [[USS Tarawa (CV-40)|USS Tarawa]] and [[USS Kearsarge (CV-33)|USS Kearsarge]] laid down.
* [[March 1]] - Anti-[[fascist]] strike in northern [[Italy]].
* [[March 2]] - [[Train]] stalls inside a railway tunnel outside [[Salerno]], [[Italy]] - 426 choke to death
* [[March 10]] - In Britain the [[Education Act]] lifts the ban on women [[teacher]]s marrying.
* [[March 12]] - The Creation of the politic Committee of national liberation in [[Greece]].
* [[March 15]] - [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] - [[Allies|Allied]] aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
* [[March 15]] - The National Counsil of the French [[Resistance]] approves the [[Resistance]] programme.
* [[March 17]] - The hitlerists assassinate at [[Rîbniţa]] almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-[[fascist]] Romanians.
* [[March 18]] - [[Germany|German]] forces occupy [[Hungary]].
* [[March 20]] - [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] Flight Sergeant [[Nicholas Alkemade]]'s bomber is hit over Germany and he has to bail out without a [[parachute]] from the height of over 4000 meters. Tree branches interrupt his fall and he lands safely on deep snow
====May====
* [[May 5]] - [[Mohandas Gandhi]] released in [[India]].
* [[May 9]] - Soviet troops liberate [[Sevastopol]].
* [[May 12]] - Soviet troops finalize the liberation of [[Crimea]].
* [[May 18]] - [[Battle of Monte Cassino]] - Germans evacuate [[Monte Cassino]] and [[Allies|Allied]] forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
* [[May 18]] - Deportation of [[Crimean Tatars]] by the [[Soviet Union]] government.
====June====
[[image:NormandySupply.jpeg|thumb|300px|Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during [[D-Day]]]].
* [[June 2]] - The provisional [[France|French]] gouverment is established.
* [[June 4]] - A hunter-killer group of the [[United States Navy]] captures the [[Germany|German]] submarine [[Unterseeboot-505|U-505]], marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at [[sea]] since the [[19th century]].
* June 4 - American, English and French troops enter [[Rome]].
* [[June 5]] - [[Rome]] falls to the [[Allied powers|Allies]]. It is the first capital of an [[Axis powers|Axis]] nation to fall.
* [[June 5]] - More than 1000 [[United Kingdom|British]] bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on [[Germany|German]] gun batteries on the [[Normandy]] coast in preparation for [[D-Day]].
* [[June 6]] - [[Battle of Normandy]] begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named [[D-Day]], commences with the landing of 155,000 [[Allies|Allied]] troops on the beaches of [[Normandy]] in [[France]]. The allied soldiers quickly break through the [[Atlantic Wall]] and push inland in the largest amphibious [[military]] operation in history.
* [[June 9]] - [[Stalin]] launches an offensive against [[Finland]] with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for [[Berlin]].
* [[June 10]] - 642 men, women and children are killed in the [[Oradour-sur-Glane]] Massacre in [[France]].
* [[June 13]] - [[Germany]] launches a [[V1 Flying Bomb]] attack on [[England]].
* [[June 15]] - [[Battle of Saipan]]: The [[United States]] invades [[Saipan]].
* [[June 17]] - The proclamation of the Republic of [[Iceland]].
* [[June 22]] - [[Operation Bagration]]: General attack by [[Soviet]] forces to clear the [[Germany|German]] forces from [[Belarus]] which resulted in the destruction of the German [[Army Group Centre]], possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.
* [[June 25]] - The [[Battle of Tali-Ihantala]] between Finnish and Soviet troops begins. Largest battle ever to be fought in the [[Nordic countries]].
* [[June 26]] - American troops enter [[Cherbourg]].
====July====
* [[July 3]] - Soviet troops liberate [[Minsk]].
* [[July 9]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Canada|Canadian]] forces capture [[Caen]].
* [[July 10]] - Soviet troops start the operations for freeing the Baltic countries.
* [[July 13]] - Liberation of [[Vilnius]].
* [[July 17]] - The largest convoy of the war embarks from [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] under [[Royal Canadian Navy]] protection.
* [[July 17]] - SS ''E.A.Bryan'', loaded with ammunition, explodes in the [[Port Chicago]] naval base - 320 dead
* [[July 18]] - [[Hideki Tojo]] resigns as [[Prime Minister]] of [[Japan]] due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
* [[July 20]] - [[Adolf Hitler]] survives an [[July 20 Plot|assassination attempt]]. See [[Claus von Stauffenberg]]
* [[July 21]] - [[Battle of Guam]] - [[United States| American]] troops land on [[Guam]] starting the battle (ends on [[August 10]]).
* [[July 21]] - The creation of the Polish Committee for national liberation.
* [[July 25]] - [[Operation Spring]] - One of the bloodiest days for [[Canada|Canadian]]s during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
====August====
* [[August 1]] - [[Warsaw Uprising]] begins.
* [[August 2]] - [[Turkey]] ends diplomatic and economic relations with [[Germany]].
* [[August 7]] - [[IBM]] dedicates the first program-controlled [[calculator]], the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the [[Harvard Mark I]]).
* [[August 12]] - Allies capture [[Florence]], [[Italy]].
* [[August 12]] - World's first undersea [[oil pipeline]] laid, between [[England]] and [[France]] in [[Operation Pluto]]
* [[August 15]] - [[Operation Dragoon]] lands Allies in southern [[France]]. [[U.S. 45th Infantry Division|U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division]] participates in its fourth assault landing at St. Maxime, spearheading the drive for the Belfort Gap.
* [[August 19]] - (August 25) Victorious insurrection in [[Paris]].
* [[August 23]] - [[Ion Antonescu]], prime minister of [[Romania]], is arrested and a new government is established. [[Romania]] exits the war against [[Russia]] joining the [[Allies]].
* [[August 24]] - Allies enter [[Paris]].
* [[August 25]] - [[Hungary]] decides to continue the war together with [[Germany]].
* [[August 29]] - [[Slovak National Uprising]] begins
====September====
* [[September 1]] - In [[Bulgaria]], the [[Bagrianov]] government resigns.
* [[September 2]] - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
* [[September 3]] - Allies liberate [[Brussels]].
* [[September 4]] - The [[United Kingdom|British]] 11th Armored Division liberates the city of [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] in [[Belgium]].
* September 4 - Finnish gouverment brakes relations with [[Germany]].
* [[September 5]] - The Soviets declare war on [[Bulgaria]].
* [[September 7]] - The Belgian government returns from emigration.
* [[September 8]] - [[London]] is hit by a [[V2 rocket]] for the first time.
* September 8 - The French town of [[Menton]] is liberated from [[Germany]].
* [[September 9]] - Insurrection in [[Sofia]].
* [[September 11]] - Northern and southern France invasion forces link up near [[Dijon]].
* [[September 17]] - [[Operation Market Garden]] begins.
* [[September 19]] - Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union signed. (End of the [[Continuation War]])
* [[September 24]] - The [[U.S. 45th Infantry Division|U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division]] takes the strongly defended city of [[Epinal]] before crossing the [[Moselle River]] and entering the western foothills of the Vosges.
* [[September 26]] - [[Operation Market Garden]] ends in an Allied withdrawal.
====October====
* [[October 2]] - [[Warsaw Uprising]] ends.
* [[October 5]] - [[Canada|Canadian]] Air Force pilots shoot down the first [[Germany|German]] [[Jet aircraft|jet fighter]] over [[France]].
* [[October 9]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] and [[Soviet Union]] Premier [[Joseph Stalin]] begin a nine-day conference in [[Moscow]] to discuss the future of [[Europe]].
* [[October 12]] - The Allies land at [[Athens]].
* [[October 13]] - [[Riga]], the capital of [[Latvia]] is liberated by the [[ Red Army]].
* [[October 14]] - Given the choice of a public treason trial followed by [[death by firing squad]] or [[suicide]] with honor, [[Germany|German]] Field Marshal [[Erwin Rommel]] chooses the latter.
* [[October 18]] - [[Volkssturm]] founded on [[Hitler]]'s orders.
* [[October 20]] - [[Belgrade]] is liberated by Yugoslav Partisans and the [[Red Army]].
* [[October 20]] - [[LNG]] explosion destroys a [[square mile]] (2.6 km²) of [[Cleveland, Ohio]]
* [[October 21]] - [[Aachen]] is the first [[Germany|German]] city to fall.
* [[October 23]] - Naval [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]] in the [[Philippines]] begins (lasts until [[October 26]]).
* [[October 25]] - [[Florence Foster Jenkins]] recital in the [[Carnegie Hall]]
* [[October 31]] - Mass murderer [[Marcel Petiot]] is apprehended in [[Paris metro]] station
====November-December====
* [[November 6]] - Two [[Lehi (group)|Lehi]] assassins kill [[Lord Moyne]] in Cairo
* [[November 12]] - [[East Turkestan Republic]] declared
* [[November 12]] - The [[Royal Air Force]] carries out one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of the war, sinking the [[German battleship Tirpitz]] off the coast of [[Norway]].
* [[November 19]] - US President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] announces the 6th [[War Loan Drive]], aimed at selling US$14 billion in [[war bond]]s to help pay for the war effort.
* [[November 24]] - [[Bombing of Tokyo in World War II|Bombing of Tokyo]] - The first bombing raid against the [[Japan]]ese capital of [[Tokyo]] from the east and by land was made by 88 [[United States| American]] aircraft.
* [[November 25]] - A [[Germany| German]] [[V-2 rocket]] hits a [[Woolworth's]] store in [[Deptford]], killing 160 shoppers.
* [[November 26]] - [[Gas chamber]]s at [[Auschwitz]] and [[Stutthof]] are destroyed.
* [[December 16]] - Germany begins the Ardennes offensive, later to become known as [[Battle of the Bulge]].
* [[December 16]] - General [[George C. Marshall]] becomes the first [[Five-Star General]]
* [[December 17]] - German troops carry out the [[Malmédy massacre]].
* [[December 24]] - The Bulge reaches its deepest point at [[Celles]].
* [[December 26]] - American troops repulse [[Germany|German]] forces at [[Bastogne]].
* [[November 29]] - [[Albania]] is liberated from [[Germany| German]] occupation.
* [[December 31]] - [[Hungary]] declares war on [[Germany]]
===Other events===
====January-July====
* [[January 5]] - The ''[[Daily Mail]]'' becomes the first transoceanic [[newspaper]].
* [[February 26]] - - Shooting begins of the [[Nazi]] propaganda film, "The Fuehrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in [[Theresienstadt]].
* [[March 1]] - [[USS Tarawa (CV-40)|USS Tarawa]] laid down
* [[March 4]] - In [[Ossining (village), New York|Ossining, New York]], [[Louis Buchalter]], the leader of [[1930s]] crime syndicate [[Murder, Inc.]], is executed at [[Sing Sing (prison)|Sing Sing]].
* [[March 24]] - In the Polish village of [[Markowa]], German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their six children and eight Jewish people they were hiding.
* [[April 25]] - The [[United Negro College Fund]] is incorporated.
*[[May 30]] - [[Princess Charlotte of Monaco|Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi]] of [[Monaco]], heir to the throne resigns from her rights in favor of her son [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi]], later reigning Prince [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Rainier III of Monaco]].
* [[June 17]] - [[Iceland]] declares full independence from [[Denmark]].
* [[July 17]] - [[Port Chicago disaster]]: Near the [[San Francisco Bay]], two ships laden with [[ammunition]] for the war explode in [[Port Chicago, California]] killing 232.
====August-November====
* [[August 4]] - [[Holocaust]]: A tip from a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] informer leads the [[Gestapo]] to a sealed-off area in an [[Amsterdam]] warehouse where they find [[Jew]]ish diarist [[Anne Frank]] and her family.
* [[August 5]] - Holocaust: [[Poland|Polish]] insurgents liberate a [[Germany|German]] [[labor camp]] in [[Warsaw]], freeing 348 [[Jew]]ish prisoners.
* [[August 7]] - [[IBM]] dedicates the first program-controlled [[calculator]], the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the [[Harvard Mark I]]).
* [[August 9]] - The [[United States Forest Service]] and the [[Wartime Advertising Council]] release posters featuring [[Smokey the Bear]] for the first time.
* [[September 2]] - [[Holocaust]]: Diarist [[Anne Frank]] and her family are placed on the last transport train from [[Westerbork]] to [[Auschwitz]]. They arrive three days later.
* [[October 2]] - Holocaust: [[Nazi]] troops end the [[Warsaw Uprising]].
* [[October 8]] - The [[radio]] show, ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' debuts.
* [[October 10]] - [[Holocaust]]: 800 [[Roma (people)|Gypsy]] children are systematically murdered at [[Auschwitz]] death camp
* [[November 7]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1944]]: [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] wins reelection over [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] challenger [[Thomas E. Dewey]] to become the only U.S. president to be elected to a fourth term.
* [[November 22]] - [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] introduces [[conscription]] in [[Canada]] (see [[Conscription Crisis of 1944]]).
====December====
* [[December 3]] - [[Civil war]] breaks out in a newly-liberated [[Greece]], between [[Communism|Communists]] and royalists.
* [[December 1]] - [[Edward Stettinius Jr.]] becomes becomes the last [[United States Secretary of State]] of the [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] administration, by filling the seat left by the [[Cordell Hull]].
* [[December 26]] - The play ''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' by [[Tennessee Williams]] was first publicly performed.
* [[December 30]] - King [[George II of Greece]] declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
===Unknown dates===
* In [[Sweden]], the law of 1864 that criminalizes homosexuality is abolished.
*Swedish author of children's books [[Astrid Lindgren]] publishes her first book ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]''.
* In [[Sweden]], Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing invent a way to package milk in paper and start the company [[Tetra Pak]].
* [[Barbados]] General election - [[Grantley Adams]], black lawyer, first majority party leader in the House of Assembly, as leader of [[Barbados Labour Party]]
* [[Bretton Woods Agreement]]
* [[Hans Asperger]] publishes his paper on [[Asperger's syndrome|Asperger's Syndrome]]
* [[The Mad Gasser of Mattoon]] carries out a series of mysterious attacks in [[Mattoon, Illinois]].
===Ongoing events===
* [[Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)|Sino-Japanese War]] ([[1937]]-[[1945]])
==Births==
''For more 1944 births see [[:Category:1944 births]]''
===January===
* [[January 2]] - Prince [[Norodom Ranariddh]], Cambodian politician
* [[January 6]] - [[Bonnie Franklin]], American actress
* [[January 9]] - [[Jimmy Page]], English guitarist ([[Led Zeppelin]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Joe Frazier]], American boxer
* [[January 17]] - [[Françoise Hardy]], French singer
* [[January 18]] - [[Paul Keating]], twenty-fourth [[Prime Minister of Australia]]
* [[January 23]] - [[Rutger Hauer]], Dutch actor
* [[January 24]] - [[Neil Diamond]], American singer
* [[January 26]] - [[Angela Davis]], American feminist and activist
* [[January 27]] - [[Nick Mason]], English drummer ([[Pink Floyd]])
===February===
* [[February 3]] - [[Dave Davies]], British musician ([[The Kinks]])
* [[February 5]] - [[Al Kooper]], American musician ([[Blood, Sweat, and Tears]])
* February 5 - [[Michael Mann (film director)|Michael Mann]], American film, director, writer, producer
* [[February 9]] - [[Alice Walker]], American writer
* [[February 10]] - [[Vernor Vinge]], American writer
* [[February 11]] - [[Michael G. Oxley]], American politician
* [[February 13]] - [[Jerry Springer]], English-born television host
* [[February 14]] - [[Carl Bernstein]], American journalist
* February 14 - [[Alan Parker]], English-born film director, actor, and writer
* [[February 16]] - [[Richard Ford]], American writer
* [[February 20]] - [[Willem van Hanegem]], Dutch football player and coach
* [[February 22]] - [[Jonathan Demme]], American film director, producer, and writer
* February 22 - [[Tom Okker]], Dutch tennis player
* [[February 23]] - [[Johnny Winter]], American musician
* [[February 24]] - [[Nicky Hopkins]], British musician (d. [[1994]])
* [[February 28]] - [[Sepp Maier]], German footballer
===March===
* [[March 1]] - [[Roger Daltrey]], English musician ([[The Who]])
* [[March 1]] - [[John Breaux]], U.S. Senator from Louisiana
* [[March 2]] - [[Uschi Glas]], German actress
* [[March 6]] - [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], New Zealand soprano
* [[March 11]] - [[Don MacLean]], British comedian
* [[March 15]] - [[Sly Stone]], American singer
* [[March 17]] - [[John Sebastian]], American singer and songwriter ([[The Lovin' Spoonful]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Said Musa]], [[Prime Minister of Belize]]
* [[March 19]] - [[Sirhan Sirhan]], Palestinian assassin of [[Robert F. Kennedy]]
* [[March 24]] - [[R. Lee Ermey]], actor and U.S. Marine
* [[March 26]] - [[Diana Ross]], American singer
* [[March 28]] - [[Rick Barry]], American basketball player
* [[March 29]] - [[Denny McLain]], baseball player
===April===
* [[April 3]] - [[Tony Orlando]], American musician
* [[April 4]] - [[Craig T. Nelson]], American actor
* [[April 6]] - [[Felicity Palmer]], English soprano
* [[April 7]] - [[Gerhard Schröder]], [[Chancellor of Germany]]
* [[April 8]] - [[Odd Nerdrum]], Norwegian painter
* [[April 11]] - [[John Milius]], American film director, producer, and screenwriter
* [[April 22]] - [[Steve Fossett]], American millionaire adventurer
* [[April 28]] - [[Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe]], Belgian politician
* [[April 29]] - [[Richard Kline]], American actor and television director
* [[April 30]] - [[Jill Clayburgh]], American actress
===May===
* [[May 1]] - [[Suresh Kalmadi]], Indian politician
* [[May 5]] - [[John Rhys-Davies]], Welsh actor
* [[May 8]] - [[Gary Glitter]], English singer
* [[May 9]] - [[Richie Furay]], American musician ([[Poco]] and [[Buffalo Springfield]])
* [[May 10]] - [[Jim Abrahams]], American film director
* [[May 13]] - [[Armistead Maupin]], American author
* [[May 12]] - [[Sara Kestelman]], British actor
* [[May 14]] - [[George Lucas]], American film director and producer
* [[May 20]] - [[Joe Cocker]], British singer
* [[May 20]] - [[Boudewijn de Groot]], Dutch singer
* [[May 20]] - [[Dietrich Mateschitz]], Austrian businessman
* [[May 21]] - [[Mary Robinson]], [[President of Ireland]]
* [[May 25]] - [[Frank Oz]], English puppeteer and film director
* [[May 28]] - [[Rudy Giuliani]], Mayor of New York City
* [[May 28]] - [[Gladys Knight]], American singer
* [[May 30]] - [[Meredith MacRae]] American actress (d. [[2000]])
===June-October===
* [[June 3]] - [[Edith McGuire]], American sprinter
* [[June 5]] - [[Tommie Smith]], American athlete
* [[June 8]] - [[Mark Belanger]], baseball player (d. [[1998]])
* [[June 24]] - [[Jeff Beck]], British musician
* [[June 29]] - [[Gary Busey]], American actor
* [[June 30]] - [[Raymond Moody]], parapsychologist
* [[July 13]] - [[Ernő Rubik]], Hungarian inventor
* [[July 21]] - [[Tony Scott]], English film director
* [[July 21]] - [[Paul Wellstone]], U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. [[2002]])
* [[July 27]] - [[Tony Capstick]], English comedian, actor, and musician (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Jim Capaldi]], British drummer, singer, and songwriter ([[Traffic]]) (d. [[2005]])
* [[August 4]] - [[Richard Belzer]], American actor and comedian
* [[August 8]] - [[Brooke Bundy]], American actress
* [[August 9]] - [[Sam Elliott]], American actor
* [[August 11]] - [[Ian McDiarmid]], Scottish actor
* [[August 21]] - [[Peter Weir]], Australian film director
* [[August 23]] - [[Saira Banu]], Indian actress
* [[August 26]]- [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester]]
* [[September 1]] - [[Leonard Slatkin]], American conductor
* [[September 2]] - [[Al Matthews]], American actor (d. [[2002]])
* [[September 7]] - [[Earl Manigault]], American basketball player (d. [[1998]])
* [[September 7]] - [[Bora Milutinovic]], Serbian football coach
* [[September 12]] - [[Leonard Peltier]], U.S. Presidential candidate
* [[September 12]] - [[Barry White]], American singer (d. [[2003]])
* [[September 22]] - [[Frazer Hines]], British actor
* [[September 25]] - [[Michael Douglas]], American actor
* [[September 26]] - [[Anne Robinson]], British television host
* [[October 9]] - [[John Entwistle]], English bassist [[The Who]] (d. [[2002]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Nona Hendryx]], singer ([[LaBelle]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Peter Tosh]], Jamaican singer and musician (d. [[1987]])
* [[October 15]] - [[David Trimble]], Irish politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
* [[October 19]] - [[Moreira Franco]], Brazilian politician
* [[October 28]] - [[Ian Marter]], British actor (d. [[1986]])
* [[October 28]] - [[Dennis Franz]], American actor
===November-December===
* [[November 9]] - [[Melvin Maskin]], American teacher
* [[November 10]] - [[Silvestre Reyes]], American politician
* [[November 12]] - [[Booker T. Jones]], American musician, singer, and songwriter ([[Booker T. and the M.G.'s]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Al Michaels]], American sportscaster
* [[November 17]] - [[Danny DeVito]], American actor
* [[November 17]] - [[Rem Koolhaas]], Dutch architect
* [[November 17]] - [[Lorne Michaels]], American film producer
* [[November 17]] - [[Tom Seaver]], baseball player
* [[November 21]] - [[Dick Durbin]], American politician
* [[November 25]] - [[Ben Stein]], American law professor, actor, and author
* [[December 7]] - [[Daniel Chorzempa]], American organist
* [[December 17]] - [[Jack L. Chalker]], American novelist (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Michael Tilson Thomas]], American conductor
* [[December 22]] - [[Steve Carlton]], baseball player
* [[December 23]] - [[Wesley Clark]], U.S. general and NATO [[Supreme Allied Commander]]
* [[December 25]] - [[Jairzinho]], Brazilian football player
==Deaths==
For more 1944 deaths see [[:Category:1944 deaths]]
===January-May===
* [[January 1]] - [[Charles Turner (cricketer)|Charles Turner]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 11]] - [[Edgard Potier]], Belgian spy (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 20]] - [[James McKeen Cattell]], American psychologist (b. [[1860]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Jean Giraudoux]], French writer (b. [[1882]])
*January 31 - [[William Allen White]], American journalist (b. [[1868]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Piet Mondriaan]], Dutch painter (b. [[1872]])
* [[February 4]] - [[Yvette Guilbert]], French singer and actress (b. [[1867]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Carl Meinhof]], German linguist (b. [[1857]])
* [[February 21]] - [[Ferenc Szisz]], Hungarian-born race car driver (b. [[1873]])
* [[February 23]] - [[Edvard Munch]], Norwegian painter (b. [[1863]])
* [[March 5]] - [[Max Jacob]], French poet (b. [[1876]])
* [[March 22]] - [[Pierre Brossolette]], journalist and French Resistance fighter (b. [[1903]])
* [[March 24]] - [[Orde Wingate]], British soldier (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 9]] - [[Evgeniya Rudneva]], Soviet World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1920]])
* [[April 17]] - [[Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne)|J.T. Hearne]] English cricketer (b. [[1867]])
* [[April 28]] - [[Paul Poiret]], French couturier (b. [[1879]])
* [[April 29]] - [[Bernardino Machado]], [[President of Portugal]] (b. [[1851]])
* [[May 12]] - [[Max Brand]], American author (b. [[1892]])
*May 12 - [[Arthur Quiller-Couch|Q]], British writer (b. [[1863]])
* [[May 16]] - [[George Ade]], American author (b. [[1866]])
===July-August===
* [[July 6]] - [[Andrée Borrel]], French World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1919]])
*July 6 - [[Vera Leigh]], English World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1903]])
*July 6 - [[Sonia Olschanezky]], German World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1923]])
*July 6 - [[Diana Rowden]], English World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1915]])
* [[July 26]] - [[Reza Pahlavi of Iran|Reza Pahlavi]], [[Shah of Iran]] (b. [[1877]])
* [[July 31]] - [[Antoine de Saint-Exupery]], French pilot and writer (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 8]] - [[Chaim Soutine]], Russian painter (b. [[1893]])
* [[August 12]] - [[Suzanne Spaak]], Belgian World War II heroine (executed)
* [[August 23]] - [[Abdul Mejid II]], Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. [[1868]])
* [[August 26]] - [[Adam von Trott zu Solz]], German diplomat (executed) (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy|Princess Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy]] (executed) (b. [[1902]])
===September-December===
* [[September 6]] - [[Gustave Biéler]], Swiss World War II hero (executed) (b. [[1904]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Robert Benoist]], French race car driver and war hero (executed) (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Madeleine Damerment]], French World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1917]])
*September 11 - [[Noor Inayat Khan]], Indian princess and World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1914]])
*September 11 - [[Yolande Beekman]], French World War II heroine (executed) (b. [[1911]])
* [[September 13]] - [[Heath Robinson]], British cartoonist and illustrator (b. [[1872]])
* [[September 14]] - [[John Kenneth Macalister]], Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. [[1914]])
*September 14 - [[Frank Pickersgill]], Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. [[1915]])
*September 14 - [[Roméo Sabourin]], Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. [[1923]])
* [[October 14]] - [[Erwin Rommel]], German Field Marshal (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 21]] - [[Alois Kayser]], German missionary (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 23]] - [[Charles Glover Barkla]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1877]])
* [[October 26]] - [[William Temple (archbishop)|William Temple]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1881]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Thomas Midgley]], American chemist and inventor (b. [[1889]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Hannah Szenes]], Hungarian World War II heroine (executed)(b. [[1921]])
* [[December 2]] - [[Josef Lhévinne]], Russian pianist (b. [[1874]])
* [[December 4]] - [[Roger Bresnahan]], baseball player (b. [[1879]])
* [[December 13]] - [[Wassily Kandinsky]], Russian-born artist (b. [[1866]])
* [[December 30]] - [[Romain Rolland]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1866]])
===The Unknown===
* [[François Anthoine]], French General during [[WWI]]. (b. [[1860]])
* The unknown millions of [[Jews]], [[Jahova Witnesses]] and [[Homosexuals]] that were murdered by [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] in 1944.
==[[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prizes]]==
* [[Nobel Prize/Physics|Physics]] - [[Isidor Isaac Rabi]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Otto Hahn]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine|Medicine]] - [[Joseph Erlanger]], [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Johannes Vilhelm Jensen]]
* [[Nobel Prize/Peace|Peace]] - International Committee of the [[Red Cross]].
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