" 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 – Fannie Flagg, American actress and novelist

Patricia Neal ( born September 21, 1944 ), known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedienne and author.

# Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944

Barrier, who became the Daily News sports editor in 1944, graduated from the University of North Carolina.

But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

He finished the war in Hawaii, and then he was released from active duty on January 12, 1946, but he did remain in the Marine Forces Reserves. Press photo of Williams signing autographs in Kokomo, Indiana 1944.

On May 4, 1944, Williams married Doris Soule, daughter of his hunting guide.

# Clement C. Williams ( 1935 – 1944 ), civil engineer

In the summer of 1940 Williams initiated an affair with Kip Kiernan ( 1918 – 1944 ), a young Canadian dancer he met in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

He had made his professional acting debut in Liverpool and London, appearing in Druid's Rest, a play by Emlyn Williams ( who also became a guru ), but his career was interrupted by conscription in 1944.

Anderson used the award money to establish a singing competition to help support young singers ; recipients of which include Camilla Williams ( 1943, 1944 ), Nathaniel Dickerson ( 1944 ), Louise Parker ( 1944 ), Rawn Spearman ( 1949 ), Georgia Laster ( 1951 ), Betty Allen ( 1952 ), Shirlee Emmons ( 1953 ), Judith Raskin ( 1952, 1953 ), Miriam Holman ( 1954 ), Shirley Verrett ( 1957 ), and Joyce Mathis ( 1967 ).

* John Edwin Ashley Williams ( 1919 – 1944 ), Australian Air Force officer, murdered by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany in 1944, following " The Great Escape "

* Tempus Fugue-It ( Proper Records )-Four disc set, from 1944 recordings with Cootie Williams to the first sessions for Blue Note and Clef in 1949-50.

* 1944: Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941-44

On December 15, 1944, Williams married Audrey Sheppard.

The term palynology was introduced by Hyde and Williams in 1944, following correspondence with the Swedish geologist Antevs, in the pages of the Pollen Analysis Circular ( one of the first journals devoted to pollen analysis, produced by Paul Sears in North America ).

* Roy Williams ( Scouting ) ( born 1944 ), Boy Scouts of America director

* Betty Williams ( politician ) ( born 1944 ), Welsh Labour Party politician and MP

Betty Helena Williams ( born 31 July 1944 ) is a Welsh Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Conwy from 1997 to 2010.

In 1944, although their divorce was already finalized, a drunk Fallada and his wife were involved in an altercation in which a shot was fired by Fallada, according to Suse Ditzen in an interview she gave late in her life to biographer Jenny Williams.

Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, The Williams Brothers sang with Bing Crosby on the hit record " Swinging on a Star " ( 1944 ).

Stockard Channing ( born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard ; February 13, 1944 ) is a two-time Emmy and one-time Tony Award winning American stage, film and television actress.

William Williams Henderson ( May 23, 1879 – October 31, 1944 ) was an early influential American educator in Utah.

Robyn Williams AM ( born 1944, Buckinghamshire, England ) is a science journalist and broadcaster resident in Australia who has hosted the Science Show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 1975, Ockham's Razor ( created 1984 ) and In Conversation ( created 1997 ).

Sacred Records was a record label founded in 1944 by Earle E. Williams.