Year (''' MCMXLIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar .
:: ''(Below, events of World War II have the " WWII " prefix.)''
- begins.
- January 5
- --- playwright Kaj Munk .
- ---The '' Daily Mail '' becomes the first transoceanic Newspaper .
- and Novgorod .
- January 15
- --- recreated, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army .
- ---An Earthquake hits San Juan, Argentina killing an estimated 10,000 people in the worst Natural Disaster in Argentina's history.
- January 17 - WWII :
- --- British forces, in Italy , cross the Garigliano River .
- ---Meat Rationing ends in Australia .
- --- Soviet Union ceases the production of Mosin-Nagant 1891/30 Sniper Rifle .
- drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin . The U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division , in Italy, attempts to cross the Rapid River .
- begin Operation Shingle , the assault on Anzio , Italy . The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months.
- is lifted.
- takes place.
- troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands .
- and other islands in the Japan ese-held Marshall Islands .
- March - .
- March 1 - WWII :
- --- USS Tarawa and USS Kearsarge laid down.
- ---Anti- Fascist Strike in northern Italy .
- --- USS Tarawa is laid down.
- stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno , Italy - 426 choke to death
- and the Order Of Ushakov were instituted in USSR
- March 4 - In Ossining, New York , Louis Buchalter , the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc. , is executed at Sing Sing .
- in Estonia , destroying almost the entire old town.
- , Estonia .
- lifts the ban on women Teacher s marrying.
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- March 15 - WWII :
- --- Battle Of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
- ---The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.
- almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti- Fascist Romanians.
- forces occupy Hungary .
- March 18 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
- Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade 's bomber is hit over Germany and he has to bail out without a Parachute from the height of over 4000 meters. Tree branches interrupt his fall and he lands safely on deep snow
- attack Nazis marching in Via Rasella . 33 Nazis are killed.
- March 24 - WWII :
- ---The Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome, Italy. 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the Italian Resistance from various groups.
- ---In the Polish village of Markowa , German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their six children and eight Jewish people they were hiding.
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- , the Bagrianov government resigns.
- September 2 - WWII : Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
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- September 4 - WWII :
- ---The British 11th Armored Division liberates the city of Antwerp in Belgium .
- ---Finland breaks off relations with Germany .
- .
- September 7 - WWII : The Belgian government returns from exile in Britain.
- September 8 - WWII :
- --- London is hit by a V2 Rocket for the first time.
- ---The French town of Menton is liberated from Germany .
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- .
- begins.
- )
- , prime minister in capacity of president of Estonia , escapes to Sweden . Two days later, Tallinn is taken over by the Red Army .
- takes the strongly defended city of Epinal before crossing the Moselle River and entering the western foothills of the Vosges.
- ends in an Allied withdrawal.
''For more 1944 births see ''
- January 1 - Omar Hasan Ahmad Al-Bashir , President of the Sudan
- January 2 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh , Cambodian politician
- January 6
- --- Bonnie Franklin , American actress
- --- Rolf M. Zinkernagel , Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- January 9 - Jimmy Page , English guitarist ( Led Zeppelin )
- January 12 - Joe Frazier , American boxer
- January 17 - Françoise Hardy , French singer
- January 18 - Paul Keating , twenty-fourth Prime Minister Of Australia
- January 19 - Shelley Fabares , American actress and singer
- January 23 - Rutger Hauer , Dutch actor
- January 25 - Anita Pallenberg , Italian model and actress
- January 26 - Angela Davis , American feminist and activist
- January 27
- --- Mairead Corrigan , Northern Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- --- Nick Mason , English drummer ( Pink Floyd )
- January 28
- --- Susan Howard , American actress
- --- John Tavener , British composer
- February 3 - Dave Davies , British musician ( The Kinks )
- February 5 - Al Kooper , American musician ( Blood, Sweat, And Tears )
- February 9 - Alice Walker , American writer
- February 10 - Vernor Vinge , American writer
- February 11 - Michael G. Oxley , American politician
- February 12 - Moe Bandy , country music singer
- February 13
- --- Stockard Channing , American actress
- --- Jerry Springer , English-born television host
- February 14
- --- Carl Bernstein , American journalist
- --- Alan Parker , English-born film director, actor, and writer
- February 16 - Richard Ford , American writer
- February 17 - Karl Jenkins , Welsh composer
- February 20 - Willem Van Hanegem , Dutch football player and coach
- February 22
- --- Jonathan Demme , American film director, producer, and writer
- --- Tom Okker , Dutch tennis player
- February 23 - Johnny Winter , American musician
- February 24 - Nicky Hopkins , British musician (d. 1994 )
- February 27 - Ken Grimwood , American writer (d. 2003 )
- February 28 - Sepp Maier , German footballer
- February 29 - Dennis Farina , American actor
- March 1
- --- John Breaux , U.S. Senator from Louisiana
- --- Roger Daltrey , English musician ( The Who )
- March 2 - Uschi Glas , German actress
- March 4
- --- Harvey Postlethwaite , British engineer and race car designer (d. 1999 )
- --- Mary Wilson (singer) , American singer
- --- Bobby Womack , American singer and songwriter
- March 6 - Kiri Te Kanawa , New Zealand soprano
- March 11 - Don Maclean , British comedian
- March 15 - Sly Stone , American singer
- March 17 - John Sebastian , American singer and songwriter ( The Lovin' Spoonful )
- March 19
- --- Said Musa , Prime Minister Of Belize
- --- Sirhan Sirhan , Palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
- March 24 - R. Lee Ermey , U.S. Marine and actor
- March 26 - Diana Ross , American singer (The Supremes)
- March 28 - Rick Barry , American basketball player
- March 29 - Denny McLain , baseball player
- April 3 - Tony Orlando , American musician
- April 4 - Magda Aelvoet , Belgian politician
- April 6 - Felicity Palmer , English soprano
- April 7 - Gerhard Schröder , Chancellor Of Germany
- April 8
- --- Jimmy Walker , American professional basketball player (d. 2007 )
- --- Odd Nerdrum , Norwegian painter
- April 11 - John Milius , American film director, producer, and screenwriter
- April 13 - Jack Casady , American musician ( Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna )
- April 15 - Dzhokhar Dudayev , Chechen leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, an unrecognized breakaway state in the North Caucasus.
- April 19 - James Heckman , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 22 - Steve Fossett , American millionaire adventurer
- April 27 - Michael Fish , British TV weatherman
- April 28 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe , Belgian politician
- April 29 - Richard Kline , American actor and television director
- April 30 - Jill Clayburgh , American actress
- May 1 - Suresh Kalmadi , Indian politician
- May 4 - Paul Gleason , American actor (d. 2006 )
- May 5 - John Rhys-Davies , Welsh actor
- May 8 - Gary Glitter , English singer
- May 9 - Richie Furay , American musician ( Poco and Buffalo Springfield )
- May 10 - Jim Abrahams , American film director
- May 12 - Sara Kestelman , British actor
- May 13 - Armistead Maupin , American author
- May 14 - George Lucas , American film director and producer
- May 20
- --- Joe Cocker , British singer
- --- Boudewijn De Groot , Dutch singer
- --- Dietrich Mateschitz , Austrian businessman
- May 21 - Mary Robinson , President Of Ireland
- May 23
- --- John Newcombe , Australian tennis player
- --- Avraham Oz , Israeli Professor of Theatre, translator, and political activist
- May 25 - Frank Oz , English puppeteer and film director
- May 28
- --- Rudy Giuliani , Mayor of New York City
- --- Gladys Knight , American singer
- --- Patricia Quinn , Northern Irish actress
- May 30 - Meredith MacRae , American actress (d. 2000 )
- June 1 - Robert Powell , English actor
- June 3 - Edith McGuire , American sprinter
- June 5
- --- Tommie Smith , American athlete
- --- Colm Wilkinson , Irish singer
- June 6 - Phillip Allen Sharp , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine
- June 8 - Mark Belanger , baseball player (d. 1998 )
- June 24
- --- Jeff Beck , British musician
- --- John "Charlie" Whitney , British rock guitarist ( Family )
- June 29 - Gary Busey , American actor
- June 30 - Raymond Moody , parapsychologist
- July 13 - Ernő Rubik , Hungarian inventor
- July 17 - Mark Burgess , New Zealand Cricket Captains
- July 21
- --- Tony Scott , English film director
- --- Paul Wellstone , U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002 )
- July 23 - Alex Buzo , of Sydney, Australian playwright and author (d. 2006 )
- July 27 - Tony Capstick , English comedian, actor, and musician (d. 2003 )
- July 31
- --- Geraldine Chaplin , American actress
- --- Robert C. Merton , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- August 2 - Jim Capaldi , British drummer, singer, and songwriter ( Traffic ) (d. 2005 )
- August 4
- --- Richard Belzer , American actor and comedian
- --- Orhan Gencebay , Turkish musician, baglama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.
- August 8 - Brooke Bundy , American actress
- August 9 - Sam Elliott , American actor
- August 11 - Ian McDiarmid , Scottish actor
- August 15 - Sylvie Vartan , Bulgarian singer
- August 19 - Bodil Malmsten , Swedish writer
- August 20 - Linda Clifford , American R&B and dance singer
- August 21
- --- Peter Weir , Australian film director
- --- Kari S. Tikka , Finnish Professor of Finance (d. 2006 )
- August 23 - Saira Banu , Indian actress
- August 26 - HRH Prince Richard Of Gloucester
- August 31 - Roger Dean , British artist
- September 1 - Leonard Slatkin , American conductor
- September 7
- --- Earl Manigault , American basketball player (d. 1998 )
- --- Bora Milutinovic , Serbian football coach
- September 12
- --- Leonard Peltier , U.S. Presidential candidate
- --- Barry White , American singer (d. 2003 )
- September 16 - Betty Kelley , American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
- September 17 - Reinhold Messner , Italian Mountaineer
- September 19 - Ismet Özel , Turkish poet
- September 21 - Hamilton Jordan , Carter's first Chief Of Staff
- September 22 - Frazer Hines , British actor
- September 25 - Michael Douglas , American actor
- September 26 - Anne Robinson , British television host
- September 30 - Jimmy Johnstone , Scottish footballer
- October 9
- --- John Entwistle , English musician ( The Who ) (d. 2002 )
- --- Nona Hendryx , singer ( LaBelle )
- --- Peter Tosh , Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1987 )
- October 15
- --- David Trimble , Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- --- Şerif Gören , Turkish film director
- October 28
- --- Dennis Franz , American actor
- --- Ian Marter , British actor (d. 1986 )
- November 7 - Joe Niekro , baseball player (d. 2006 )
- November 10 - Silvestre Reyes , American politician
- November 11 - Kemal Sunal , a master of comedy in the Turkish history of cinema
- November 12
- --- Booker T. Jones , American musician, singer, and songwriter ( Booker T. And The M.G.'s )
- --- Al Michaels , American sportscaster
- November 17
- --- Danny DeVito , American actor
- --- Rem Koolhaas , Dutch architect
- --- Lorne Michaels , Canadian film producer
- --- Tom Seaver , baseball player
- November 18 - Wolfgang Joop , German artist, fashion designer and art collector
- November 21 - Richard Durbin , American politician
- November 24 - Ibrahim Gambari , Nigerian scholar and diplomat
- November 25 - Ben Stein , American law professor, actor, and author
- December 2 - Ibrahim Rugova , first President Of Kosovo (d. 2006 )
- December 6 - Jonathan King , British music producer
- December 7 - Daniel Chorzempa , American organist
- December 12 - Kenneth Cranham , Scottish born actor
- December 21
- --- Michael Tilson Thomas , American conductor
- --- Bill Atkinson , English footballer
- December 22 - Steve Carlton , baseball player
- December 23
- --- Wesley Clark , U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
- --- Ingar Knudtsen , Norwegian writer
- December 25 - Jairzinho , Brazilian football player
- December 28 - Kary Mullis , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
For more 1944 deaths see
- January 1 - Charles Turner , Australian cricketer (b. 1862 )
- January 6 - Ida Tarbell , American journalist (b. 1857 )
- January 10 - William Emerson Ritter , American biologist (b. 1856 )
- January 11 - Edgard Potier , Belgian spy (b. 1903 )
- January 20 - James McKeen Cattell , American psychologist (b. 1860 )
- January 23 - Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter (b. 1863 )
- January 31
- --- Jean Giraudoux , French writer (b. 1882 )
- --- William Allen White , American journalist (b. 1868 )
- February 1 - Piet Mondriaan , Dutch painter (b. 1872 )
- February 4 - Yvette Guilbert , French singer and actress (b. 1867 )
- February 11 - Carl Meinhof , German linguist (b. 1857 )
- February 21 - Ferenc Szisz , Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873 )
- March 4 - Louis Buchalter , Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (b. 1897 )
- March 5 - Max Jacob , French poet (b. 1876 )
- March 22 - Pierre Brossolette , journalist and French Resistance fighter (b. 1903 )
- March 24 - Orde Wingate , British soldier (b. 1903 )
- April 9 - Evgeniya Rudneva , Soviet World War II heroine (b. 1920 )
- April 17 - J.T. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1867 )
- April 25 - George Herriman , American cartoonist (b. 1880 )
- April 28 - Paul Poiret , French couturier (b. 1879 )
- April 29 - Bernardino Machado , President Of Portugal (b. 1851 )
- May 12 - Max Brand , American author (b. 1892 )
- May 12 - Q , British writer (b. 1863 )
- May 16 - George Ade , American author (b. 1866 )
- June - Joseph Campbell , Northern Irish poet and lyricist (b. 1879 )
- June 27 - Milan Hodža , Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (b. 1878 )
- July 6
- --- Andrée Borrel , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1919 )
- --- Vera Leigh , English World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1903 )
- --- Sonia Olschanezky , German World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1923 )
- --- Diana Rowden , English World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1915 )
- July 7 - Georges Mandel , French politician and World War II hero (executed) (b. 1885 )
- July 26 - Reza Pahlavi , Shah Of Iran (b. 1877 )
- July 31 - Antoine De Saint-Exupery , French pilot and writer (b. 1900 )
- August 1 - Manuel L. Quezon , Philippine president (b. 1878 )
- August 4 - Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński , Polish poet, Warsaw Uprising
- August 8 - Chaim Soutine , Russian painter (b. 1893 )
- August 12 - Suzanne Spaak , Belgian World War II heroine (executed)
- August 19 - Henry Wood , British conductor (b. 1869 )
- August 23 - Abdul Mejid II , Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1868 )
- August 26
- --- Adam Von Trott Zu Solz , German diplomat (executed) (b. 1909 )
- --- Hans Leesment , Estonian general (b. 1873 )
- August 27 - Princess Mafalda Of Savoy (executed) (b. 1902 )
- September 6
- --- Gustave Biéler , Swiss World War II hero (executed) (b. 1904 )
- --- Jan Franciszek Czartoryski , Polish RC priest, executed during the Warsaw Uprising
- ---Bishop James Cannon, Jr , American religious and Temperance Movement leader (b. 1864 )
- September 9 - Robert Benoist , French race car driver and war hero (executed) (b. 1895 )
- September 11
- --- Yolande Beekman , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1911 )
- --- Madeleine Damerment , French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1917 )
- --- Noor Inayat Khan , Indian princess and World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914 )
- September 13 - Heath Robinson , British cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872 )
- September 14
- --- John Kenneth Macalister , Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. 1914 )
- --- Frank Pickersgill , Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. 1915 )
- --- Roméo Sabourin , Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. 1923 )
- September 16 - Gustav Bauer , Chancellor Of Germany (b. 1870 )
- September 25 - Eugeniusz Lokajski , Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer, Warsaw Uprising
- October 4 - Al Smith , American politician (b. 1873 )
- October 8 - Wendell Willkie , American politician (b. 1892 )
- October 14 - Erwin Rommel , German Field Marshal (b. 1891 )
- October 21 - Alois Kayser , German missionary (b. 1877 )
- October 23 - Charles Glover Barkla , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877 )
- October 24 - Shoji Nishimura , Japanese Vice Admiral (b. 1889 )
- October 26
- --- HRH The Princess Beatrice , youngest and last living child of Queen Victoria (b. 1857 )
- --- William Temple , Archbishop Of Canterbury (b. 1881 )
- November 2 - Thomas Midgley , American chemist and inventor (b. 1889 )
- November 5 - Alexis Carrel , French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1873 )
- November 7 - Hannah Szenes , Hungarian World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921 )
- December 2 - Josef Lhévinne , Russian pianist (b. 1874 )
- December 4 - Roger Bresnahan , baseball player (b. 1879 )
- December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky , Russian-born artist (b. 1866 )
- December 30 - Romain Rolland , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866 )
- ''date unknown'' - Gerald Haxton secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham (b. 1892 )
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