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In the year 1944
561 Notable deaths
Erich Hoepner
German general.
Born September 14th, 1886 in Frankfurt (Oder).
Died August 8th, 1944 at 57 years old in Plötzensee Prison (hanging).
Tanya Savicheva
Russian diarist.
Born January 23rd, 1930 in Gdov.
Died July 1st, 1944 at 14 years old in Shatki (intestinal tuberculosis).
Chaim Rumkowski
Head of judenrat in lodz ghetto..
Born February 27th, 1877 in Russian Empire.
Died August 28th, 1944 at 67 years old in Auschwitz.
Fritz Pfeffer
German physician.
Born April 30th, 1889 in Giessen.
Died December 20th, 1944 at 55 years old in Neuengamme concentration camp.
Walter Nowotny
Austrian born german officer and fighter pilot during world war ii.
Born December 7th, 1920 in Gmünd.
Died November 8th, 1944 at 23 years old in Bramsche (killed in action).
Bronislav Kaminski
German general.
Born June 16th, 1899 in Dobrzyń nad Wisłą, Polotsky Uyezd.
Died August 28th, 1944 at 45 years old in Łódź (ballistic trauma).
Zinaida Portnova
Soviet partisan.
Born February 20th, 1926 in Saint Petersburg.
Died January 15th, 1944 at 17 years old in Polotsk.
Laird Cregar
Actor.
Born July 28th, 1914 in Philadelphia.
Died December 9th, 1944 at 30 years old in Los Angeles (myocardial infarction).
Albert B. Fall
American politician (1861-1944).
Born November 26th, 1861 in Frankfort.
Died November 30th, 1944 at 83 years old in El Paso.
Deaths 71 to 80 of 561
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. Mahatma Gandhi