1944
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1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
February-March
May
June
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day
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July-August
September
October
November-December
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 laid down
- March 4 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at 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 Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne resigns from her rights in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later reigning Prince 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
December
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Year in topic
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, American film, director, writer, producer
- February 9 - Alice Walker, American writer
- February 10 - Vernor Vinge, 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 22 - Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer, and writer
- February 23 - Johnny Winter, American musician
- February 24 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (d. 1994)
- February 28 - Sepp Maier, German footballer
March-April
- March 1 - Roger Daltrey, musician (The Who)
- March 1 - John Breaux, United States Senator from Louisiana
- March 2 - Uschi Glas, actress
- March 6 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
- March 11 - Don MacLean, comedian
- March 15 - Sly Stone, singer
- March 17 - John Sebastian, singer-songwriter, also a member of the Lovin' Spoonful
- March 19 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
- March 19 - Sirhan Sirhan, assassin
- March 24 - R. Lee Ermey, actor and retired USMC gunnery sergeant
- March 26 - Diana Ross, singer
- March 28 - Rick Barry, basketball star
- March 29 - Denny McLain, baseball pitcher
- April 3 - Tony Orlando, musician
- April 4 - Craig T. Nelson, actor
- April 6 - Felicity Palmer, English soprano
- April 7 - Gerhard Schröder, German Bundeskanzler (chancellor) since 1998
- April 8 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
- April 11 - John Milius, director, producer, and screenwriter
- April 22 - Steve Fossett, millionaire adventurer
- April 29 - Richard Kline, American actor and television director
- April 30 - Jill Clayburgh, actress
May
- May 1 - Suresh Kalmadi, politician
- May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, actor
- May 8 - Gary Glitter, singer
- May 9 - Richie Furay, musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
- May 10 - Jim Abrahams, director
- May 13 - Armistead Maupin, author
- May 14 - George Lucas, film director and producer
- May 18 - Justus Frantz, pianist
- May 20 - Joe Cocker, British singer
- May 20 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
- May 20 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman and founder of Red Bull
- May 21 - Mary Robinson, first female President of Ireland
- May 25 - Frank Oz, puppeteer, director
- May 28 - Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City, 1993-2001
- May 28 - Gladys Knight 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, American 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, inventor of Rubik's Cube
- July 21 - Tony Scott, film director
- August 2 - Jim Capaldi, British musician, drummer with Traffic, singer/songwriter (d. January 28, 2005)
- August 4 - Richard Belzer, actor, comedian
- August 8 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
- August 11 - Ian McDiarmid, actor
- August 21 - Peter Weir, film director
- August 23 - Saira Banu, Indian actress
- August 26- His Royal Highness 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 12 - Leonard Peltier, later United States Peace and Freedom Party Presidential candidate
- September 22 - Frazer Hines, British actor
- September 25 - Michael Douglas, American actor
- September 26 - Anne Robinson, British television host
- October 9 - John Entwistle, bassist, The Who (d. 2002)
- October 15 - David Trimble, Ulster Unionist and Nobel Prize winner
- October 28 - Ian Marter, British actor (d. 1986)
- October 28 - Dennis Franz, actor
November-December
- November 9 - Melvin Maskin, renowned educator
- November 10 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
- November 12 - Booker T. Jones, musician, singer, songwriter ("Booker T. and the M.G.'s")
- November 12 - Al Michaels, sportscaster
- November 17 - Danny DeVito, actor
- November 17 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- November 17 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- November 17 - Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Fame player
- November 25 - Ben Stein, law professor, actor, and author.
- December 7 - Daniel Chorzempa, organist
- December 17 - Jack L. Chalker science fiction novelist (d. 2005)
- December 21 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
- December 22 - Steve Carlton, Baseball Hall of Famer
- December 23 - Wesley Clark, US General and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
- December 25 - Jairzinho, football player
Deaths
For more 1944 deaths see Category:1944 deaths
January-May
- January 1 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
- January 11 - Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (b. 1903)
- January 20 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist
- January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
- January 31 - William Allen White, journalist (b. 1868)
- February 1 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter
- February 4 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
- February 11 - Carl Meinhof, German linguist
- February 11 - Ivan Sollertinsky, friend of Dmitri Shostakovich
- February 21 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born French race car driver (b. 1873)
- February 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- March 5 - Max Jacob, French poet (b. 1876)
- March 12 - Werner Drechsler, of U-118
- March 22 - Pierre Brossolette, journalist, French Resistance fighter
- March 24 - Orde Wingate, British soldier
- April 9 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine (executed)
- April 17 - J.T. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1867)
- April 19 - Thomas Hitchcock Jr, polo player
- April 28 - Paul Poiret, French couturier
- May 12 - Max Brand, author
- May 12 - Q, British writer
- May 16 - George Ade, author
July-August
- July 1 - Tanya Savicheva, young Russian girl
- July 6 - Andrée Borrel, SOE agent, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 6 - Vera Leigh, SOE agent, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 6 - Sonia Olschanezky, SOE recruit, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 6 - Diana Rowden, SOE agent, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 26 - Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran
- July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
- August 8 - Chaim Soutine, painter
- August 12 - Suzanne Spaak, Belgian heroine of WW II, executed by the Nazis
- August 23 - Abdul Mejid II, Deposed Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
- August 26 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, lawyer, diplomat executed by the Nazis
- August 27 - Princess Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, executed by the Nazis
September-December
- September 6 - Gustave Biéler, heroic SOE agent (executed)
- September 8 ? Lela Carayannis, Greek resistance fighter during World War II (executed)
- September 9 - Robert Benoist, Grand Prix driver/war hero (executed)
- September 11 - Madeleine Damerment, WW II heroine (executed)
- September 11 - Eliane Plewman, WW II heroine (executed)
- September 11 - Noor Inayat Khan, WW II heroine (executed)
- September 11 - Yolande Beekman, WW II heroine (executed)
- September 13 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator
- September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, SOE agent (executed)
- September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent (executed)
- September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent (executed)
- October 14 - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (b. 1891)
- October 21 - Alois Kayser, German missionary in Nauru
- October 23 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- October 26 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
- November 2 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor
- November 7 - Hannah Szenes, World War II heroine (executed)
- December 2 - Josef Lhévinne, pianist
- December 4 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player
- December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born artist (b. 1866)
- December 30 - Romain Rolland, French writer
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