In the year 1944
628 Notable deaths
Jacques Roumain
Haitian politician and poet (1907-1944).
Born June 4th, 1907 in Port-au-Prince. [ref]
Died August 18th, 1944 at 37 years old in Port-au-Prince (cardiovascular disease). [ref]
Jean Cavaillès
French philosopher and mathematician.
Born May 15th, 1903 in Saint-Maixent-l'École. [ref]
Died April 4th, 1944 at 40 years old in Arras (ballistic trauma).
Elmer Gedeon
United states navy captain, major league baseball player, one of two mlb players killed in world war ii (1917-1944).
Born April 15th, 1917 in Cleveland.
Died April 20th, 1944 at 27 years old in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (killed in action).
Fritz Schmenkel
German communist and soviet belarusian partisan.
Born February 14th, 1916 in Warszewo.
Died February 22nd, 1944 at 28 years old in Minsk (gunshot wound).
Sára Salkaházi
Hungarian roman catholic religious sister (1899-1944).
Born May 11th, 1899 in Košice.
Died December 27th, 1944 at 45 years old in Budapest (ballistic trauma).
Gustavs Klucis
Latvian artist (1895-1938).
Born January 16th, 1895 in Rūjiena.
Died March 16th, 1944 at 49 years old in Moscow.
Emil Lang
German officer and fighter pilot during world war ii (1909–1944).
Born January 14th, 1909 in Fraunberg.
Died September 3rd, 1944 at 35 years old
Olga Bancic
French resistance fighter (1912-1944).
Born May 10th, 1912 in Chișinău. [ref]
Died May 10th, 1944 at 32 years old in Stuttgart (decapitation). [ref]
Friedrich Alpers
German general (1901–1944).
Born March 25th, 1901 in Sonnenberg.
Died September 3rd, 1944 at 43 years old in Mons.
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg
German resistance fighter (1904-1944).
Born November 13th, 1904 in Oleśnica Mała.
Died September 8th, 1944 at 39 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging to death). [ref]
Deaths 261 to 270 of 628
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth. Voltaire