In the year 1944
692 Notable deaths
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).
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]
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]
Karl Eglseer
German general and knight's cross recipients (1890-1944).
Died June 23rd, 1944 at 53 years old in Rettenegg.
Berthold von Deimling
German general (1853-1944).
Born March 21st, 1853 in Karlsruhe.
Died February 3rd, 1944 at 90 years old in Baden-Baden.
Luigi Maglione
Catholic cardinal (1877–1944).
Born March 2nd, 1877 in Casoria.
Died August 22nd, 1944 at 67 years old in Casoria. [ref]
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.
Gleb Kotelnikov
Russian inventor (1872–1944).
Born January 30th, 1872 in Saint Petersburg.
Died November 22nd, 1944 at 72 years old in Moscow.
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.
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).
Ralph H. Fowler
English physicist (1889-1944).
Born January 17th, 1889 in Roydon.
Died July 28th, 1944 at 55 years old in Cambridge.
Settela Steinbach
Holocaust victim (1934–1944).
Born December 23rd, 1934 in Buchten.
Died August 3rd, 1944 at 9 years old in Auschwitz, Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp.
Árpád Weisz
Hungarian association football player and manager.
Born April 16th, 1896 in Solt.
Died January 31st, 1944 at 47 years old in Auschwitz.
Sadamichi Kajioka
Admiral in the imperial japanese navy during world war ii.
Born May 18th, 1891 in Ehime Prefecture.
Died September 12th, 1944 at 53 years old in Hainan.
Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov
Soviet partizan.
Born July 27th, 1911 in Zyranka.
Died March 9th, 1944 at 32 years old in Boratyn, Lviv Oblast.
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]
Thomas W. Hardwick
American politician (1872-1944).
Born December 9th, 1872 in Thomasville.
Died January 31st, 1944 at 71 years old in Sandersville.
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]
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]
Jun Tsuji
Japanese author, dadaist, nihilist, stirnerite, epicurean, shakuhachi musician, playwright and actor, feminist, and bohemian. (1884–1944).
Born October 4th, 1884 in Tokyo.
Died November 24th, 1944 at 60 years old in Tokyo.
Frederick Richard Simms
Engineer and manufacturer (1863–1944).
Born August 12th, 1863 in Hamburg.
Died April 22nd, 1944 at 80 years old in Stoke Poges.
Oswald Lutz
German general (1876–1944).
Born November 6th, 1876 in Öhringen.
Died February 26th, 1944 at 67 years old in Munich.
Adelbert Schulz
German world war ii general (1903–1944).
Born December 20th, 1903 in Berlin.
Died January 28th, 1944 at 40 years old in Shepetivka.
Fritz Lindemann
German general (1894-1944).
Born April 11th, 1894 in Charlottenburg.
Died September 22nd, 1944 at 50 years old in Plötzensee Prison.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. Maya Angelou