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In the year 1944
562 Notable deaths
Galeazzo Ciano
Italian politician (1903-1944).
Born March 18th, 1903 in Livorno. [ref]
Died January 11th, 1944 at 40 years old in Verona (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Russian chemist and photographer.
Born August 30th, 1863 in Funikova Gora. [ref]
Died September 27th, 1944 at 81 years old in Paris. [ref]
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Indian chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist..
Born August 2nd, 1861 in Khulna.
Died June 16th, 1944 at 82 years old in Kolkata.
Mariya Oktyabrskaya
Soviet war hero.
Born August 3rd, 1902 in Blizhnie.
Died March 15th, 1944 at 41 years old in Smolensk.
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944).
Born December 28th, 1882 in Kendal. [ref]
Died November 22nd, 1944 at 61 years old in Cambridge. [ref]
Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician, leader of communist party of germany.
Born April 16th, 1886 in Hamburg. [ref]
Died August 18th, 1944 at 58 years old in Buchenwald concentration camp (ballistic trauma, execution). [ref]
Giovanni Gentile
Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician.
Born May 29th, 1875 in Castelvetrano.
Died April 15th, 1944 at 68 years old in Florence.
Erwin von Witzleben
Field marshal of nazi germany.
Born December 4th, 1881 in Wrocław.
Died August 8th, 1944 at 62 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).
Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian photographer (1944–2025).
Born February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés. [ref]
Died February 8th, 1944 at 0 years old in Neuilly-sur-Seine (leukemia). [ref]
Friedrich Olbricht
German general.
Born October 4th, 1888 in Leisnig.
Died July 21st, 1944 at 55 years old in Berlin (ballistic trauma).
Deaths 41 to 50 of 562
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