" 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 )

Considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as three separate pamphlets: The Case for Christianity ( 1942 ), Christian Behaviour ( 1943 ), and Beyond Personality ( 1944 ).

* 1885 – Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp ( d. 1944 )

The word SCUBA was coined in 1952 by Major Christian Lambertsen who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician.

In the USA Major Christian J. Lambertsen, who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician, invented an underwater free-swimming oxygen rebreather in 1939.

The DC, a Christian centrist catch-all party comprising both right-wing and left-wing factions, dominated the politics of Italy for almost 50 years from 1944 until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992 – 1994.

Christian X ( Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm ) ( 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947 ) was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947 and the only King of Iceland, between 1918 and 1944.

On October 26, 1944 he was captured in Milan, along with others, at the Christian Democrats ’ secret headquarters in Milan.

The Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim resistance groups was found guerrilla conflicts and insurgencies in the main province of Zamboanga on 1942 to 1944 during the Japanese Occupation and helps by local troopers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army units against the Japanese.

On January to December 1944, Some of all local Filipino ground troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army 6th, 10th, 101st, 102nd and 105th Infantry Division and the Philippine Constabulary 10th Infantry Regiment began sending local combat military operations and they arrival the recaptured and liberated around the province of Zamboanga and aiding the Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim resistance groups attacks the Imperial Japanese military forces from the couple of twelve months and one year before the liberation.

* Christian Fechner ( 1944, Agen, France – 2008, Paris ), a French film producer and screenwriter

Then, the Christian Social Party ( PSC-CVP ) existed from 1944 until 1968.

In 1944, while attending the First Presbyterian Church, Hollywood, Bright became an Evangelical Christian.

After the liberation of France in 1944, the SFIO re-emerged in a coalition with a powerful French Communist Party ( PCF ), which became the largest left-wing party, and the Christian democratic Popular Republican Movement ( MRP ).

This tendency becomes extreme in Communist Albania after 1944, where it was the regime's declared doctrine to oust Christian or Islamic given names.

He taught Christian Ethics at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Harvard Divinity School from 1944 to 1970.

In 1944, while France was liberated, De Gaulle presided over the provisional government composed of Communists, Socialists, and Christian Democrats.

Bond wrote for such radio programs as Dr. Christian, Hot Copy ( 1941 – 44 ) and The Sheriff ( 1944 – 51 ), a continuation of Death Valley Days.

* Christian X of Denmark ( 1870 – 1947, reigned 1912 – 47 ), also king of Iceland 1918 – 1944

* Christian Wirth ( 1885 – 1944 ), notorious member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel ( SS ) involved in the Action T4 program and Operation Reinhard

He held ministerial positions in many Christian Democrat governments from 1944 onward, despite his frail physique.

* Christian Gerlach, Kalkulierte Morde: Die deutsche Wirtschafts-und Vernichtungspolitik in Weißrußland 1941 bis 1944 ( Hamburg, Hamburger Edition, 1999 ).

* Italy's Christian Democracy dominated the politics of Italy for almost 50 years as the major party in every coalition that governed the country from 1944 until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992 – 1994.