In the year 1944
704 Notable deaths
Nikolai Roslavets
Russian modernist composer and music theorist (1881–1944).
Born January 4th, 1881 in Surazh.
Died August 23rd, 1944 at 63 years old in Moscow (stroke).
Wilhelm Stemmermann
German general and knight's cross recipient (1888–1944).
Born October 23rd, 1888 in Rastatt.
Died February 18th, 1944 at 55 years old in Cherkasy.
Gedeon Richter
Hungarian pharmacist.
Born September 23rd, 1872 in Ecséd. [ref]
Died December 30th, 1944 at 72 years old in Budapest.
Edel Quinn
Roman catholic lay missionary.
Born September 14th, 1907 in Kanturk.
Died May 12th, 1944 at 36 years old in Nairobi (tuberculosis).
Harold Alan Dinehart
American actor (1888-1944).
Born October 3rd, 1889 in Saint Paul.
Died July 17th, 1944 at 54 years old in Hollywood (myocardial infarction).
Itzhak Katzenelson
Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist, murdered in holocaust (1886-1944).
Born July 1st, 1886 in Kareličy.
Died May 1st, 1944 at 57 years old in Auschwitz (cyanide poisoning).
Robert Frazer
American actor (1891-1944).
Born June 29th, 1891 in Worcester.
Died August 17th, 1944 at 53 years old in Los Angeles (leukemia).
Nikolai Kuznetsov
Soviet partisan and intelligence agent.
Born July 27th, 1911 in Zyranka.
Died March 9th, 1944 at 32 years old in Boratyn, Lviv Oblast.
Ralph H. Fowler
English physicist (1889-1944).
Born January 17th, 1889 in Roydon.
Died July 28th, 1944 at 55 years old in Cambridge.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Czech educator and artist (1898-1944).
Born July 30th, 1898 in Vienna. [ref]
Died October 9th, 1944 at 46 years old in Auschwitz. [ref]
Karl Eglseer
German general and knight's cross recipients (1890-1944).
Died June 23rd, 1944 at 53 years old in Rettenegg.
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
Hereditary prince of schleswig-holstein.
Born May 12th, 1917 in Louisenlund Castle.
Died August 10th, 1944 at 27 years old in Jedlińsk.
Árpád Weisz
Hungarian association football player and manager.
Born April 16th, 1896 in Solt.
Died January 31st, 1944 at 47 years old in Auschwitz.
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal
German lawyer, officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944).
Born February 23rd, 1907 in Potsdam. [ref]
Died October 13th, 1944 at 37 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death). [ref]
Betty Compton
American singer and actress (1904–1944).
Born May 13th, 1904 in Sandown.
Died July 12th, 1944 at 40 years old in New York City (breast cancer).
Yevgeniya Rudneva
Heroine of the soviet union and wwii bomber navigator (1920-1944).
Born December 24th, 1920 in Berdiansk.
Died April 9th, 1944 at 23 years old in Kerch.
Harold P. Brown
American inventor (1869-1932).
Born September 16th, 1857 in Janesville. [ref]
Died May 15th, 1944 at 86 years old in Volusia. [ref]
Settela Steinbach
Holocaust victim (1934–1944).
Born December 23rd, 1934 in Buchten.
Died August 3rd, 1944 at 9 years old in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp.
Ariadna Scriabina
Russian poet and activist in the french resistance (1905-1944).
Born October 26th, 1905 in Bogliasco.
Died July 22nd, 1944 at 38 years old in Toulouse.
Gleb Kotelnikov
Russian inventor (1872–1944).
Born January 30th, 1872 in Saint Petersburg.
Died November 22nd, 1944 at 72 years old in Moscow.
Oswald Lutz
German general (1876–1944).
Born November 6th, 1876 in Öhringen.
Died February 26th, 1944 at 67 years old in Munich.
Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon
German photographer (1900-1942).
Born January 26th, 1900 in Berlin. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1944 at 44 years old in Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp.
Thomas W. Hardwick
American politician (1872-1944).
Born December 9th, 1872 in Thomasville.
Died January 31st, 1944 at 71 years old in Sandersville.
Erich Ohser
German caricaturist and cartoonist (1903–1944).
Born March 18th, 1903 in Adorf/Vogtl.. [ref]
Died April 6th, 1944 at 41 years old in Berlin. [ref]
Dénes Kőnig
Hungarian mathematician (1884-1944).
Born September 21st, 1884 in Budapest.
Died October 19th, 1944 at 60 years old in Budapest (falling from height). [ref]
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard