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In the year 1944
562 Notable deaths
Missak Manouchian
Armenian resistance fighter and poet (1906-1944).
Born September 1st, 1906 in Adıyaman. [ref]
Died February 21st, 1944 at 37 years old in Fort Mont-Valérien (gunshot wound).
Yvette Guilbert
French cabaret singer.
Born January 20th, 1865 in 3rd arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Died February 3rd, 1944 at 79 years old in Aix-en-Provence. [ref]
Otto von Below
German general.
Born January 18th, 1857 in Gdańsk. [ref]
Died March 15th, 1944 at 87 years old in Friedland. [ref]
George Ade
American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright.
Born February 7th, 1866 in Kentland.
Died May 16th, 1944 at 78 years old in Kentland.
Miklós Radnóti
Hungarian jewish christian poet.
Born May 5th, 1909 in Budapest. [ref]
Died November 10th, 1944 at 35 years old in Abda (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Josef Bürckel
German nazi politician, gauleiter of vienna (1895-1944).
Born March 30th, 1895 in Lingenfeld.
Died September 28th, 1944 at 49 years old in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
Viktor Ullmann
Austrian composer.
Born January 1st, 1898 in Český Těšín. [ref]
Died October 18th, 1944 at 46 years old in Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp (asphyxia). [ref]
Benjamin Fondane
Romanian-french writer.
Born November 14th, 1898 in Iași. [ref]
Died October 3rd, 1944 at 45 years old in Auschwitz. [ref]
Hans Graf von Sponeck
German general.
Born February 12th, 1888 in Düsseldorf.
Died July 23rd, 1944 at 56 years old in Germersheim (ballistic trauma).
Philippe Henriot
French politician (1889-1944) entomologist.
Born January 7th, 1889 in Reims. [ref]
Died June 28th, 1944 at 55 years old in Paris. [ref]
Deaths 191 to 200 of 562
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