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In the year 1944
581 Notable deaths
Otti Berger
Textile artist and weaver murdered in the holocaust (1898-1944).
Born October 4th, 1898 in Zmajevac, Kneževi Vinogradi.
Died April 27th, 1944 at 45 years old in Auschwitz. [ref]
Jean Zay
French politician, minister of national education and fine arts (1904-1944).
Born August 6th, 1904 in Orléans. [ref]
Died June 20th, 1944 at 39 years old in Molles (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Nikolai Roslavets
Russian modernist composer and music theorist.
Born January 4th, 1881 in Surazh.
Died August 23rd, 1944 at 63 years old in Moscow (stroke). [ref]
William Henry O'Connell
American roman catholic cardinal.
Born December 8th, 1859 in Lowell.
Died April 22nd, 1944 at 84 years old in Boston.
Yevgeniya Rudneva A Braba
Heroine of the soviet union and wwii bomber navigator (1920-1944).
Born December 24th, 1920 in Berdiansk.
Died April 9th, 1944 at 23 years old in Kerch (killed in action).
Manfred Freiherr von Killinger
German politician (1886-1944).
Born July 14th, 1886 in Nossen.
Died September 3rd, 1944 at 58 years old in Bucharest (ballistic trauma).
Felice Schragenheim
Lesbian journalist, resistance member, holocaust victim (1922-1944).
Born March 9th, 1922 in Berlin.
Died December 31st, 1944 at 22 years old in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Ariadna Scriabina
Russian poet and activist in the french resistance (1905-1944).
Born October 26th, 1905 in Bogliasco.
Died July 22nd, 1944 at 38 years old in Toulouse.
Harold P. Brown
American inventor (1869-1932).
Born September 16th, 1857 in Janesville. [ref]
Died May 15th, 1944 at 86 years old in Volusia. [ref]
Alan Dinehart
American actor (1889-1944).
Born October 3rd, 1889 in Saint Paul.
Died July 17th, 1944 at 54 years old in Hollywood (myocardial infarction).
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