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In the year 1944
704 Notable deaths
Erich Hoepner
German general (1886–1944).
Born September 14th, 1886 in Frankfurt (Oder).
Died August 8th, 1944 at 57 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death).
Hannah Szenes
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in world war ii.
Born July 17th, 1921 in Budapest.
Died November 7th, 1944 at 23 years old in Budapest (gunshot wound).
Asmahan
Egyptian singer & actor (1917-1944).
Born November 25th, 1912 in Syria. [ref]
Died July 14th, 1944 at 31 years old in Ras El Bar (car collision).
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.
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).
Abbas II
Khedive of egypt (1874-1944) (r. 1892-1914).
Born July 14th, 1874 in Alexandria.
Died December 19th, 1944 at 70 years old in Geneva.
Albert B. Fall
American politician (1861–1944).
Born November 26th, 1861 in Frankfort.
Died November 30th, 1944 at 83 years old in El Paso.
Heinz Brandt
German army officer (1907-1944).
Born March 11th, 1907 in Charlottenburg.
Died August 22nd, 1944 at 37 years old in Kętrzyn.
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).
Ștefania Mărăcineanu
Romanian physicist (1882-1944).
Born June 30th, 1882 in Bucharest.
Died August 15th, 1944 at 62 years old in Bucharest. [ref]
Laird Cregar
American stage and film actor (1913–1944).
Born July 28th, 1914 in Philadelphia.
Died December 9th, 1944 at 30 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction).
George Herriman
American cartoonist (1880-1944).
Born August 22nd, 1880 in New Orleans.
Died April 26th, 1944 at 63 years old in Los Angeles (liver cirrhosis).
Ethel Smyth
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944).
Born April 22nd, 1858 in Sidcup.
Died May 8th, 1944 at 86 years old in Woking.
Nikolai Vatutin
Soviet general.
Born December 16th, 1901 in Vatunino.
Died April 15th, 1944 at 42 years old in Kyiv (sepsis).
Tanya Savicheva
Russian diarist (1930–1944).
Born January 23rd, 1930.
Died July 1st, 1944 at 14 years old in Shatki (intestinal tuberculosis).
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.
Emilio De Bono
Italian general (1866-1944).
Born March 19th, 1866 in Cassano d’Adda.
Died January 11th, 1944 at 77 years old in Verona (gunshot wound).
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 (1890-1944).
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 (1874-1944).
Born August 10th, 1874 in Užulėnis.
Died January 9th, 1944 at 69 years old in Cleveland (conflagration).
Max Jacob
French poet, painter, writer and critic (1876-1944).
Born July 12th, 1876 in Quimper. [ref]
Died March 5th, 1944 at 67 years old in Drancy concentration camp (bronchopneumonia).
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).
Deaths 76 to 100 of 704
Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andrew A. Rooney