" 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 )

In 1944, Hubert H. Humphrey and Elmer Benson worked to merge the party with the state's Democratic Party, forming the contemporary Minnesota Democratic – Farmer – Labor Party.

An earlier example of younger versions of existing cartoon characters, however, would be Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd from the 1944 cartoon The Old Grey Hare, which features Bugs and Elmer as babies ( as well as very old characters ) The same concept was used in a cartoon featuring an elderly Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg who each have a grandson, and in a planned scene in the Three Stooges short Three Little Pigskins in which each stooge has an identical son.

In The Stupid Cupid ( 1944 ), Daffy avoids being targeted by Cupid ( played by fellow Looney Tune Elmer Fudd ) as he is still suffering from their last encounter which forced him to marry a very dominant duck ( whose father also managed to pressure the wedding by pressing a shotgun against Daffy during the ceremony ).

Elmer Roper would be leader of the CCF for thirteen years, but he would not have to sit as its lone MLA that long: after the 1944 election, he was joined in the legislature by Aylmer Liesemer of Calgary.

Howe was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944 in the " Best Cinematography: Black-and-White " category for his work on the movie Air Force, which nomination he shared with Elmer Dyer, A. S. C., and Charles A. Marshall.

NFL Commissioner Elmer Layden begged for two teams to combine again in 1944.

His films included Meet Me in St. Louis ( 1944 ), Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ), All About Eve ( 1950 ), The Day the Earth Stood Still ( 1951 ), Rawhide ( 1951 ), Howard Hawks ' Monkey Business ( 1952 ), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers ( 1956 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ) and Seven Days in May ( 1964 ).

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 – Eddy Raven, American singer-songwriter

* 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