" 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 )

* Grosz, Agnes Smith, " The Political Career of Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback ," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, XXVII ( 1944 )

* Agnes Baltsa ( 1944 ), opera singer

* Mary Agnes Cubitt ( died 6 February 1944 )-married Rev Edward Arthur Chichester

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, and after her second as Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux born in Leamington Hastings ( England ) on February 27, 1857-died in Aurillac ( France ) on February 9, 1944, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.

He was the costumer for the Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo ( 1942 ), for the Kurt Weill musical One Touch of Venus ( 1943 ), and for Merce Cunningham's The Wind Remains ( 1943 ) and Jerome Robbins's ballet Fancy Free ( 1944 ).

Elizabeth Hamilton ( 1847 – 1901 ); Agnes Crooks ( 1849 – 1889 ); James ( 1851 – 1920 ); Alexander ( 1853 – 1900 ); Marion ( 1855 – 1892 ); Mary Jean ( 1862 – 1928 ); Emily Ellen ( 1864 – 1944 ); Jessie Sophia ( 1866 – 1946 ); Annie Euphemia ( 1868 – 1952 ); Henrietta Maude ( 1872 – 1950 ).

Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

Her siblings were Mary Cristina Workman ( 1870 – 1963 ); Agnes Elizabeth Workman ( 1872 – 1957 ); Marie Lucile " Lucy " Workman ( 1875 – 1944 ); William Joseph Workman ( 1877 – 1956 ); George D. Workman ( 1879 – 1903 ); and Nellie Workman ( 1886 – 1888 ).

* 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.

* 1944 – Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician

* 1944 – Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders.

* 1944 – World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.

* 1913 – Nikolaos Roussen, Greek naval officer ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Loukas Sideras, Greek drummer ( Aphrodite's Child )

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

As the German defeat drew nearer, the various Greek political factions convened in Lebanon in May 1944, under British auspices, and formed a government of national unity, under George Papandreou, in which EAM was represented by six ministers.

During the Greek Civil War ( 1944 – 1949 ), many Macedonians ( regardless of ethnicity ) participated in the ELAS resistance movement organized by the Greek Communist Party.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

Soman was discovered by Dr. Richard Kuhn in 1944 as he worked with the existing compounds, the name is derived from either the Greek ' to sleep ' or the Latin ' to bludgeon ', it was codenamed T-300.

* 1888 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Sotirios Hatzigakis, Greek politician

During World War II Thessaloniki was heavily bombarded by Fascist Italy ( with 232 people dead, 871 wounded and over 800 buildings damaged or destroyed in November 1940 alone ), and, the Italians having failed to succeed in their invasion of Greece, it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany on 8 April 1941 and remained under German occupation until 30 October 1944 when it was liberated by the Greek People's Liberation Army.

In the second stage of the civil war in December 1944 ( The Dekimvriana ), the British helped prevent the seizure of Athens by the leftist National Liberation Front ( EAM ), controlled effectively by the Greek Communist Party ( KKE ).

Britain and the Greek Economic Crisis, 1944 – 1947: From Liberation to the Truman Doctrine.

Albania is since the 1940s demanding that Greece grant a Right of Return to the Muslim Cham Albanians, who were expelled from the Greek region of Epirus between 1944 and 1945, at the end of World War II-a demand firmly rejected by the Greeks ( see Cham issue ).

George II visits Greek soldiers in Netanya, British Mandate for Palestine | Palestine, 1944.

His publications include: Introduction to Greek Epigraphy ( 1887 ); Ancient Athens ( 1902 ); Handbook of Greek Sculpture ( 1905 ); Six Greek Sculptors ( 1910 ); " Poet and Artist in Greece: With Illustrations " ( 1933 ; Keiji Kokubu's Japanese translation available, Sogensha Press, 1944 ).