In the year 1944
638 Notable deaths
Ștefania Mărăcineanu
Romanian physicist (1882-1944).
Born June 30th, 1882 in Bucharest. [ref]
Died August 15th, 1944 at 62 years old in Bucharest.
Werner von Haeften
German resistance fighter (1908–1944).
Born October 9th, 1908 in Berlin.
Died July 21st, 1944 at 35 years old in Tiergarten (gunshot wound).
Chaim Rumkowski
Head of judenrat in lodz ghetto..
Born February 27th, 1877 in Ilyino.
Died August 28th, 1944 at 67 years old in Auschwitz (lynching).
Paul Poiret
French fashion designer (1879–1944).
Born April 20th, 1879 in Paris.
Died April 30th, 1944 at 65 years old in Paris.
Abbas II
Khedive of egypt and sudan (1874-1944) (r. 1892-1914).
Born July 14th, 1874 in Alexandria.
Died December 19th, 1944 at 70 years old in Geneva.
Frank Knox
47th secretary of the navy of the united states (1874-1944).
Born January 1st, 1874 in Boston.
Died April 28th, 1944 at 70 years old in Washington, D.C. (myocardial infarction).
Laird Cregar
Actor.
Born July 28th, 1914 in Philadelphia.
Died December 9th, 1944 at 30 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction).
Heinz Brandt
German army officer (1907-1944).
Born March 11th, 1907 in Charlottenburg.
Died August 22nd, 1944 at 37 years old in Kętrzyn.
Albert B. Fall
American politician (1861–1944).
Born November 26th, 1861 in Frankfort.
Died November 30th, 1944 at 83 years old in El Paso.
George Herriman
American cartoonist (1880-1944).
Born August 22nd, 1880 in New Orleans. [ref]
Died April 26th, 1944 at 63 years old in Los Angeles (liver cirrhosis). [ref]
Ethel Smyth
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944).
Born April 22nd, 1858 in Sidcup.
Died May 8th, 1944 at 86 years old in Woking.
Tanya Savicheva
Russian diarist (1930–1944).
Born January 23rd, 1930.
Died July 1st, 1944 at 14 years old in Shatki (intestinal tuberculosis).
Nikolai Vatutin
Soviet general.
Born December 16th, 1901 in Vatunino.
Died April 15th, 1944 at 42 years old in Kyiv (sepsis).
Walter Nowotny
Austrian born german officer and fighter pilot during world war ii (1920–1944).
Born December 7th, 1920 in Gmünd.
Died November 8th, 1944 at 23 years old in Bramsche.
Charles Dana Gibson
American artist and illustrator (1867-1944).
Born September 14th, 1867 in Roxbury.
Died December 23rd, 1944 at 77 years old in Manhattan.
Eduard Dietl
German general.
Born July 21st, 1890 in Bad Aibling.
Died June 23rd, 1944 at 53 years old in Hartberg.
Cayetano Santos Godino
Serial killer (1896–1944).
Born October 31st, 1896 in Buenos Aires.
Died November 15th, 1944 at 48 years old in Ushuaia (internal bleeding).
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
German noble (1905–1944).
Born March 15th, 1905 in Stuttgart.
Died August 10th, 1944 at 39 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death).
Antanas Smetona
First president of lithuania from 4 april 1919 until 19 june 1920.
Born August 10th, 1874 in Užulėnis.
Died January 9th, 1944 at 69 years old in Cleveland (conflagration).
Emilio De Bono
Italian general (1866-1944).
Born March 19th, 1866.
Died January 11th, 1944 at 77 years old in Verona (gunshot wound).
Artur Phleps
Austro-hungarian army officer.
Born November 29th, 1881 in Biertan.
Died September 21st, 1944 at 62 years old in Arad.
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel
German general and resistance fighter (1886–1944).
Born January 2nd, 1886 in Berlin.
Died August 30th, 1944 at 58 years old in Berlin, Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death).
Hans Hermann Junge
Ss officer (1914–1944).
Born February 11th, 1914 in Preetz.
Died August 13th, 1944 at 30 years old in Dreux.
Agustín Pío Barrios
Paraguayan composer and musician (1885-1944).
Born May 5th, 1885 in San Juan Bautista.
Died August 7th, 1944 at 59 years old in San Salvador (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Deaths 76 to 100 of 638
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. Victor Hugo