" 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 – Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Bombay, 1944.

His prestige was restored unwittingly by Gandhi, who had been released from prison on medical grounds in May 1944 and had met Jinnah in Bombay in September.

Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Bombay, 1944

Gandhi met Jinnah in September 1944 in Bombay but Jinnah rejected, on the grounds that it fell short of a fully independent Pakistan, his proposal of the right of Muslim provinces to opt out of substantial parts of the forthcoming political union.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi sharing a Laughter | laugh together in Bombay in 1944, for ill-fated political talks.

Shakeel moved to Bombay in 1944 to write songs for films.

The Bombay Explosion ( or Bombay Docks Explosion ) occurred on 14 April, 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay ( now Mumbai ) when the freighter SS Fort Stikine carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, gold, and ammunition including around 1, 400 tons of explosives, caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scattering debris, sinking surrounding ships and setting fire to the area killing around 800 people.

Sailing from Birkenhead on 24 February via Gibraltar, Port Said and Karachi, she arrived at Bombay on 12 April, 1944.

This was was Sub-Lieutenant Ken Jackson, RNVR, who with CPO Brazier arrived in Bombay on May 7th 1944.

In 1944, Rafi moved to Bombay.

These were forty former French Jedburgh volunteers who embarked at Glascow with layover at Port Said, Bombay and Colombo, and gathered in a camp at Ceylon on November 1944. Notable Force 136 members dropped in Laos during 1945 are French Colonels Jean Deuve ( January 22 ), Jean Le Morillon ( February 28 ) and Jean Sassi ( June 4 ).

He made debut as an actor in the movie Jwar Bhata ( 1944 ), produced by Bombay Talkies.

In 1943, actress Devika Rani, and her husband Himanshu Rai who owned Bombay Talkies spotted Dilip Kumar in Aundh military canteens Pune, and cast him with a lead role in their film Jwar Bhata ( 1944 ), which marked Dilip Kumar's entry into the Bollywood film industry.

Talks between Jinnah and Gandhi in 1944 in Bombay failed to achieve agreement.

In the front of the Headquarter building stands a memorial built in the memory of the numerous fire fighters who died during the Bombay Explosion of April, 1944.

* Bombay Explosion ( 1944 )

Oxford University Press, Bombay 1944

In 1944, the University of Bombay granted a temporary affiliation, which was later withdrawn on the recommendation of a three member committee consisting of Dr. Molgonkar, Dr. Yodh and Col. Jalal M. Shah.

“‘ Famine in Retrospect ’”, Pamda Publications Bombay, India, 1944

The postgraduate course for diploma in child health was started at BJ Hospital and Bai Jeerbai Wadia hospital for children in 1944 and the University of Bombay in 1946.