" 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 )

* 1944 – Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and commentator

* 1944 – Bobby Tench, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Gass, Hummingbird, Humble Pie, and Streetwalkers )

* Bobby Smith ( footballer born 1944 ), English footballer and manager

Robert Dwayne " Bobby " Womack (; born March 4, 1944 ) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

( The five other players are Mike Bossy in 1982 and 1983, Bobby Orr in 1970 and 1972, Henri Richard in 1966 and 1971, Jean Béliveau in 1960 and 1965 and Toe Blake in 1944 and 1946 ).

* Meet Miss Bobby Sox ( 1944 )

Bobby Ball ( born Robert Harper, 28th January 1944 ) is an English comedian, and one half of the double act Cannon and Ball, with Tommy Cannon.

* Bobby Heenan ( born 1944 ), American wrestling manager also known as " the Weasel "

Raymond Louis " Ray " Heenan ( born November 1, 1944 ), better known as Bobby " The Brain " Heenan, is a former American professional wrestling manager and color commentator, best known for his time with the American Wrestling Association ( AWA ), the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) and World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ).

* Meet Miss Bobby Socks ( 1944 ) ( dialogue coach )

Bobby Colomby ( born Robert Wayne Colomby, 20 December 1944, in New York ) is an innovative jazz-rock fusion drummer, and an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears.

* Bobby Naughton ( 1944 -) is an American jazz vibraphonist.

* Bobby Clark ( actor ) ( born 1944 ), American film and TV actor and stuntman

Core members included founder George Frayne IV ( alias Commander Cody, born 19 July 1944, Boise City, Idaho, USA ) on keyboards & vocals ; Billy C. Farlow ( b. Decatur, Alabama, USA ) on vocals & harmonica ; John Tichy ( b. St. Louis, Missouri, USA ) on guitar & vocals ; Bill Kirchen ( b. 29 January 1948, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ) on lead guitar ; Andy Stein ( b. 31 August 1948, New York, USA ) on saxophone & fiddle ; Paul " Buffalo " Bruce Barlow ( b. 3 December 1948, Oxnard, California, USA ) on bass guitar ; Lance Dickerson ( b. 15 October 1948, Livonia, Michigan, USA ) on drums ; and Bobby Black on steel guitar.

In 1944 he retired and was succeeded by one of his assistants, Bobby Dodd.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

* 1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress

* 1944 – John Holmes, American porn actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1944 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Linda Ellerbee, American journalist

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician

* 1944 – Jack Canfield, American author

* 1944 – Buzz Kilman, American radio host

* 1944 – Eddy Raven, American singer-songwriter

* 1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter

* 1944 – Anthony Heald, American actor

* 1944 – Bill Malinchak, American football player

* 1944 – Melvin Dummar, American forger of Howard Hughes estate

* 1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent

* 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx

* 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot ( b. 1917 )