" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano

* 1944 – Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress ( d. 2010 )

* 1944 – G. W. Bailey, American actor

* 1944 – Jan Bols, Dutch speed skater

* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist ( d. 2003 )

* 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.

* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor

* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author

* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

* 1944 – Divina Galica, English skier and race car driver

* 1944 – Kevin Tighe, American actor

* 1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

* 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Soviet politician ( d. 1998 )

Volume 1 ( ( Af ) of the seventh edition of Dana's System Of Mineralogy was published in 1944 and Volume 2 ( ( Af ) in 1951 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y..

All-women a cappella groups followed shortly, frequently as a parody of the men's groups: the Smiffenpoofs of Smith College ( 1936 ), The Shwiffs of Connecticut College ( The She-Whiffenpoofs, 1944 ), and The Chattertocks of Brown University ( 1951 ).

The marriage produced eight children: Geraldine Leigh ( b. 1944 ), Michael John ( b. 1946 ), Josephine Hannah ( b. 1949 ), Victoria ( b. 1951 ), Eugene Anthony ( b. 1953 ), Jane Cecil ( b. 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 1959 ), and Christopher James ( b. 1962 ).

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

The repatriation of the civilians started in 1944 and proceeded until 1951, causing considerable suffering and frustration.

Prior to 1951, Communism lived within the urban labor forces in small study groups during 1944 to 1953 which it had a tremendous influence on these urban labor forces.

In 1944, Hendrik van de Hulst predicted microwave radiation at a wavelength of 21 cm resulting from interstellar atomic hydrogen gas ; this radiation was observed in 1951.

** Chicago ( now Reisinger ) ( 2 ) 1944, 1951

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

* Albert Roper ( France ) ( 1944 – 1951 )

Boxing contests were held later on 14 June 1943, 12 August 1944, 4 October 1951 and 10 September 1952.

* 15 Steve Van Buren, RB-S, 1944 – 1951

Nearly 20 million persons in Europe fled their homes, were expelled, transferred or exchanged during the process of sorting out ethnic groups between 1944 and 1951.

* Wiltse, Charles M. John C. Calhoun, Nationalist, 1782 – 1828 ( 1944 ) ISBN 0-8462-1041-X ; John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829 – 1839 ( 1948 ); John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840 – 1859 ( 1951 ); the standard scholarly biography

* USS Burlington ( PF-51 ), a United States Navy patrol frigate in commission from 1944 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1952

Leonowens's experiences in Siam were fictionalised in Margaret Landon's 1944 bestselling novel Anna and the King of Siam and in various films and television miniseries based on the book, most notably Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 hit musical The King and I.

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A stone cottage was built at Mount Hotham in 1925 to cater for a growing interest in sport of skiing and a Club was built in 1944 with the first ski tow installed in 1951.

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain ( 24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951 ), generally known as Philippe Pétain ( or Marshal Pétain ( Maréchal Pétain ), was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France ( Chef de l ' État Français ), a puppet government, from 1940 to 1944.

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

Between 1944 and 1982, he wrote at least one novel a year ( except 1950, 1951, and 1971 ), typically producing three per year-and published twelve in 1974 alone.

" Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, You Can't Take It with You ( 1936 ), became a weekly situation comedy heard on Mutual ( 1944 ) with Everett Sloane and later on NBC ( 1951 ) with Walter Brennan.