" 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 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete

The 1944 film version, written by Thomas L. Lennon, starring Nelson Eddy as Broeck, Constance Dowling as Tina, and Charles Coburn as Stuyvesant, not only removed most of the songs and added new ones not by Weill and Anderson, but watered down the political allegory considerably, despite being released during World War II.

Selim Jehan Shah ( born 20 January 1944 ), commonly known as Eddy Shah or Eddie Shah, is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper Today in 1986, and of the extremely short-lived tabloid The Post, and current owner of the Messenger Group.

Among them are Alexander Calder's Eagle ( 1971 ) and Richard Serra's Wake ( 2004 ), both at the Olympic Sculpture Park ; the aforementioned Hammering Man ; Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One ( 2004 ), a sculpture constructed from cars and sequenced multi-channel light tubes on display in the lobby of the SAM Downtown ; The Judgment of Paris ( c. 1516-18 ) by Lucas Cranach the Elder ; Mark Tobey's Electric Night ( 1944 ); Yéil X ' eenh ( Raven Screen ) ( c. 1810 ), attributed to the Tlingit artist Kadyisdu. axch '; Do-Ho Suh's Some / One ( 2001 ); and a coffin in the shape of a Mercedes Benz ( 1991 ) by Kane Quaye of Ghana.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

* 1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress

* 1944 – John Holmes, American porn actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1944 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Linda Ellerbee, American journalist

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician

* 1944 – Jack Canfield, American author

* 1944 – Buzz Kilman, American radio host

* 1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter

* 1944 – Anthony Heald, American actor

* 1944 – Bill Malinchak, American football player

* 1944 – Melvin Dummar, American forger of Howard Hughes estate

* 1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent

* 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx

* 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot ( b. 1917 )