" 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 – Dennis Farina, American actor

* 1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player

Dennis Dale " Denny " McLain ( born March 29, 1944 ) is an American former professional baseball player.

More recently, critic Dennis Schwartz wrote, " Scarlet Street is a bleak psychological film noir that has the same leading actors as his 1944 film The Woman in the Window.

Dennis Cooley ( born 1944 ) is a Canadian poet who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he teaches at the University of Manitoba.

He was unsuccessful in stopping the 1944 execution of Charlie Kerins who was convicted of killing Garda Detective Dennis O ' Brien in 1942.

As Dennis Lingwood, he joined the Buddhist Society at the age of 18, and formally became a Buddhist in May 1944 by taking the Three Refuges and Five Precepts from the Burmese monk, U Thittila.

Taylor ( born Richard Clifford Taylor, 28 January 1943, Dartford, Kent ) quit the Stones several months later when he was accepted at the London Central School of Art, where he met Phil May ( born Phillip Arthur Dennis Kattner, 9 November 1944, Dartford, Kent ) and they formed The Pretty Things.

Richard Francis Dennis Barry III ( born March 28, 1944 ), better known as Rick Barry, is a retired American professional basketball player.

* Dennis Severs ( 1944 – 1999 ), lived at 18 Folgate Street 1979 – 1999.

Britten and Pears recorded the piece with Dennis Brain and the Boyd Neel Orchestra in October 1944, and again in a famous recording for Decca records in 1963, when Barry Tuckwell took the horn part and the London Symphony Orchestra accompanied.

Dennis Franz ( born October 28, 1944 ) is an American actor best known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a hard-boiled police detective, in the television series NYPD Blue.

She starred with Humphrey Bogart in The Big Shot ( 1942 ) and with Dennis Morgan in both The Desert Song ( 1943 ) and Shine On, Harvest Moon ( 1944 ).

Dennis Farina ( born February 29, 1944 ) is an American actor of film and television and former Chicago police officer.

* Dennis Robertson ( 1944 )

* Dennis Curran, Chairman of Barhale Construction PLC was born in Oughterard in 1944

* Salisbury Times, " Dennis O ' Keefe Picks That As Official Name ", Monday Evening, August 28, 1944, Page 5.

Dennis Michael Quinn ( born March 26, 1944 ) is an American historian who has focused on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Charlie Kerins ( 23 January 1918 – 1 December 1944 ) was a prominent Irish Republican, who following his killing of policeman Dennis O ' Brien, was named the Chief of Staff of the IRA.

Julian Raymond Dennis Cobbing ( born June 1944, London ) is an English historian, and professor of History at Rhodes University ( Grahamstown, South Africa ), known best for his controversial and groundbreaking research into Zulu culture of the early 19th century.

</ gallery > Dennis Corrigan ( born 1944 ) is an American illustrator known for his surreal drawings.