" 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 – Dick Dees, Dutch politician

The iconic noir counterpart to the femme fatale, the private eye, came to the fore in films such as The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, and Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), with Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe.

* Dick Bong: Pacific Ace ( 1944, B & W, 4: 00 ) This short documentary film pays tribute to Richard " Dick " Bong, the leading American P-38 ace of World War II.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives, Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1996 and 2008.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives, Republican candidate for United States Senate in 1996 and 2008.

* Dick Zimmer ( born 1944 ), former member of the United States House of Representatives.

* Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ) — ( adaptation of released in the UK as Farewell My Lovely ) Dick Powell as Marlowe.

* Lux Radio Theater, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 11 June 1945 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

* Hollywood Star Time, Murder My Sweet, adapted from the 1944 film, CBS Radio, 8 June 1948 ( Dick Powell as Marlowe )

Richard Joseph " Dick " Durbin ( born November 21, 1944 ) is the senior United States Senator from Illinois and the Senate Majority Whip, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate.

* Dick Harris ( born 1944 ), Canadian politician

In 1944, Dick Powell played the part of the hard-boiled detective in a classic film noir which was alternatively entitled Murder, My Sweet and Farewell, My Lovely — two years before Humphrey Bogart was offered the role of Philip Marlowe in 1946 for The Big Sleep.

Dick Powell also made an indelible impression as Marlowe in the classic Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ), adapted from Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

Prime examples include Ella Raines in Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), Lucille Ball in both The Dark Corner ( 1946 ) and Lured ( 1947 ), Alan Ladd in the aforementioned The Blue Dahlia, George Raft in Johnny Angel ( 1945 ), June Vincent and Dan Duryea in Black Angel ( 1946 ), Humphrey Bogart in Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ), and Dick Powell in Cry Danger ( 1951 ).

* Dick Gordon ( American football ) ( born 1944 ), American football player

The other was on June 15, 1944, when Red Barrett of the Boston Braves and Dick Barrett of the Philadelphia Phillies each had 19 career wins.

Marlow's hallucinations are not far from the Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet, the 1944 film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, with Dick Powell as Marlowe.

To accomplish the latter, three special mission C-46 squadrons were created in early 1944 under the code name " Moby Dick " to carry out fuel operations for XX Bomber Command.

* Dick Zimmer ( New Jersey politician ) ( born 1944 ), member of U. S. House of Representatives

* Dick Bosman ( born 1944 ), American baseball player

Richard Davies was born in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1944 to Betty and Dick Davies.

Richard Alan " Dick " Zimmer ( born August 16, 1944 ) is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the United States House of Representatives.

Richard O ' Sullivan ( born 7 May 1944, Chiswick, Middlesex ) is an English comedy actor who is probably best known to British, Canadian and Australian audiences for his role as Robin Tripp in the 1970s sitcoms Man About the House ( 1973 – 1976 ) and Robin's Nest and as the title character in the period family adventure series Dick Turpin.