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In the year 1944
628 Notable deaths
Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain
Inventor of snooker (1856–1944).
Born January 13th, 1856 in Upton Park.
Died May 28th, 1944 at 88 years old in Ascot (myocarditis).
Félix Fénéon
French anarchist and art critic (1861-1944).
Born June 22nd, 1861 in Turin. [ref]
Died February 29th, 1944 at 82 years old in Châtenay-Malabry. [ref]
Hans Bernd von Haeften
German jurist and resistance fighter against nazism (1905–1944).
Born December 18th, 1905 in Charlottenburg.
Died August 15th, 1944 at 38 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death).
Eva Heyman
Holocaust victim.
Born February 13th, 1931 in Oradea.
Died October 17th, 1944 at 13 years old in Auschwitz.
Eugene Chen
Chinese revolutionary (1878-1944).
Born July 2nd, 1878 in San Fernando.
Died November 20th, 1944 at 66 years old in Shanghai.
Leone Ginzburg
Italian writer and activist (1909-1944).
Born April 4th, 1909 in Odesa.
Died February 5th, 1944 at 34 years old in Rome (torture).
Pierre Brossolette
French politician (1903-1944).
Born June 25th, 1903 in 16th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Died March 22nd, 1944 at 40 years old in Paris (falling). [ref]
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg
German diplomat who served as the last german ambassador to the soviet union before operation barbarossa.
Born November 20th, 1875 in Kemberg.
Died November 10th, 1944 at 68 years old in Berlin, Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death).
William Henry O'Connell
American roman catholic cardinal (1859–1944).
Born December 8th, 1859 in Lowell.
Died April 22nd, 1944 at 84 years old in Boston.
Ruth Hanna McCormick
American politician (1880–1944).
Born March 27th, 1880 in Cleveland.
Died December 31st, 1944 at 64 years old in Chicago.
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks