" 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 – 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 )

Divina Mary Galica MBE ( born 13 August 1944, in Bushey Heath, near Watford, Hertfordshire ) is an English sportswoman, best known for her Olympics career and her motorsport racing career.

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

* 1944 – John Renbourn, English guitarist and songwriter ( Pentangle )

* 1918 – Guy Gibson, English aviator, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist

* 1944 – Len Goodman, English dancer

In 1944, readability expert Rudolf Flesch published an article in Harper's Magazine, " How Basic is Basic English?

From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

* 1922 – John Brunt, English soldier, Victoria Cross holder ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Neil Innes, English singer and songwriter ( Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles )

A similar work for US English was published in 1944 by Kenyon and Knott.

* 1944 – John Brunt, English military officer ( b. 1922 )

* 1944 – Jean Fergusson, English actress

* 1944 – Bernard Cornwell, English author

* 1944 – Mick Avory, English drummer ( The Kinks )

George Orwell wrote in 1944 that " the word ' Fascism ' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept ' bully ' as a synonym for ' Fascist '".

* 1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor ( d. 2012 )

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890 – 1944 ( 1984 ; English ed.

* 1944 – Chris Spedding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Nucleus )

* 1944 – Jeff Beck, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers, and Beck, Bogert & Appice )