" 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 )

* 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English pilot ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

* 1944 – Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer

* 1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager

The territory comprised the former South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations Mandate administered by Japan and taken by the U. S. in 1944.

He worked as a civilian flight instructor for the Army, and toured with a United Service Organisation ( USO ) South Pacific troupe in 1944.

Out of some 448, 000 Japanese residents of South Sakhalin who lived there in 1944, a significant number were evacuated to Japan during the last days of the war, but the remaining 300, 000 or so stayed behind for several more years.

These sets were too late for the D-day landings in June 1944, but were used in the invasion of the south of France and in the South Pacific war.

These were the Force Publique in the Congo ( victory against Italian troops in the South Etyopia ), expatriate Belgians in Great Britain and Canada ( which eventually formed the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ), and after September 1944, Belgians liberated by the Allied campaign in Northwestern Europe.

The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division cleared South Beveland to the east and approached the island on 31 October 1944.

Lady Luck arrived at the Lake and unpacked her bags in 1944, when Harvey's Wagon Wheel Saloon and Gambling Hall opened as one of the area's first gaming establishments ( technically on the Nevada side of the state border in the South Lake Tahoe ( Nevada gaming area ).

He served in the Royal Canadian Navy ( 1944 – 1945 ) during World War II, and after being discharged traveled in the American South, where he encountered segregation, an experience that would influence his later work.

Ron Stander ( born 17 October 1944 in Columbia, South Carolina ) is a boxing referee and former professional boxer from Council Bluffs, Iowa, who was once a challenger for the heavyweight championship of the world.

In 1921, it was planned to become a Special Administrative Region ( 瓊崖特別行政區 ); in 1944, it became Hainan Special Administrative Region with 16 counties containing the South China Sea Islands.

In 1944, he was at risk of being executed as SS troops had mistaken him for a South African spy.

In November 1943, at the official opening of the new Public Library of New South Wales building, William McKell, the New South Wales Premier, announced that the Library Act would be fully proclaimed from 1 January 1944.

In the South Pacific in 1944, U. S. Marine Corporal Allison ( Robert Mitchum ) and his reconnaissance party had been in the process of disembarking from a U. S. Navy submarine when they were discovered and fired upon by the Japanese.

* 28 January 1944, a train carrying 800 Allied Prisoners of War was bombed when it crossed a bridge on the Ponte Paglia in Allerona, Italy, killing approximately 400 British, U. S. and South African prisoners.

* 14 – 18 August 1944, the South Alberta Regiment of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division came under fire six times by RAF Spitfires, resulting in over 57 casualties.

South Korea's oldest car company, Kia was founded on June 9, 1944 as a manufacturer of steel tubing and bicycle parts by hand – and has operated as one of the country's Chaebols since.

His extended trips and inspection tours were to the United Kingdom in April 1941 and again in May 1942 ; the South Pacific in September 1942, North Africa and China in January – February 1943 ; the Middle East and Italy ( where his party came under artillery fire ) in November – December 1943 ; London and Normandy accompanying Marshall in June 1944 ; Germany and Italy in April – May 1945 ; the Western Pacific in June 1945 ; and Potsdam in July 1945.