In the year 1944
628 Notable deaths
Tōyama Mitsuru
Japanese politician (1855-1944).
Born May 21st, 1855 in Nishijin, Fukuoka.
Died October 5th, 1944 at 89 years old in Gotemba.
Carl Flesch
Hungarian violinist and teacher, 1873-1944.
Born October 9th, 1873 in Mosonmagyaróvár, Moson.
Died November 15th, 1944 at 71 years old in Lucerne.
Paul Cornu
French engineer.
Born June 15th, 1881 in Glos-la-Ferrière.
Died June 6th, 1944 at 62 years old in Lisieux.
Felice Schragenheim
Lesbian journalist, resistance member, holocaust victim (1922-1944).
Born March 9th, 1922 in Berlin. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1944 at 22 years old in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Robert Benoist
French racing driver (1895–1944).
Born March 20th, 1895 in Auffargis. [ref]
Died September 12th, 1944 at 49 years old in Buchenwald concentration camp (hanging to death). [ref]
Tanya Baramzina
Soviet wwii sniper and heroine of the soviet union (1919–1944).
Born December 19th, 1919 in Glazov.
Died July 5th, 1944 at 24 years old in Smaliavičy (gunshot wound).
Nikolai Roslavets
Russian modernist composer and music theorist (1881–1944).
Born January 4th, 1881 in Surazh.
Died August 23rd, 1944 at 63 years old in Moscow (stroke).
Milan Hodža
Slovak politician and journalist (1878-1944).
Born February 1st, 1878 in Sučany.
Died June 27th, 1944 at 66 years old in Clearwater.
Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke
German officer and fighter pilot during world war ii (1913–1944).
Born March 11th, 1913 in Śrem.
Died March 23rd, 1944 at 31 years old in Schöppenstedt.
Gedeon Richter
Hungarian pharmacist.
Born September 23rd, 1872 in Ecséd. [ref]
Died December 30th, 1944 at 72 years old in Budapest.
Deaths 281 to 290 of 628
When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid