In the year 1944
628 Notable deaths
Mary Adela Blagg
British astronomer.
Born May 17th, 1858 in Staffordshire.
Died April 14th, 1944 at 85 years old in Staffordshire.
Arthur Segal
Romanian artist (1875-1944).
Born July 13th, 1875 in Iași. [ref]
Died June 23rd, 1944 at 68 years old in London (heart failure). [ref]
Paul Laux
German general and knight's cross recipients (1887–1944).
Born November 11th, 1887 in Weimar.
Died September 2nd, 1944 at 56 years old in Riga.
Constant Montald
Muralist, painter, sculptor, teacher (1862-1944).
Born December 4th, 1862 in Ghent.
Died March 5th, 1944 at 81 years old in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert - Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.
Lev Shcherba
Russian and soviet linguist (1880-1944).
Born March 3rd, 1880 in Červień.
Died December 26th, 1944 at 64 years old in Moscow.
Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
German noble (1884-1944).
Born May 28th, 1884 in Venice.
Died October 26th, 1944 at 60 years old in Bled.
Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg
German politician (1871-1944).
Born August 21st, 1871 in Köfering.
Died April 13th, 1944 at 72 years old in Munich.
Jón Sveinsson
Icelandic writer (1857–1944).
Born November 16th, 1857 in Akureyri.
Died October 16th, 1944 at 86 years old in Cologne.
Walter Breisky
1871-1944, austrian beamter and politician.
Died September 25th, 1944 at 73 years old in Klosterneuburg.
Deaths 441 to 450 of 628
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche