" 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 – 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 )

Dame Felicity Joan Palmer, DBE ( born 6 April 1944, Cheltenham ), is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor.

* Patti Palmer ( née Esther Calonico ), a former singer with Ted Fio Rito ; married October 3, 1944, divorced September 1980.

* 1944 – Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer )

The Dale Coal Company became one of the more successful from about 1924-1941, followed by the Continental Coal Company from 1942 – 1944, the Anderson Coal Company from 1943 – 1948 ; and Palmer Coking Coal Company from 1937-1975.

Pianist Keith Emerson ( born 1944 ) was founder / member of The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Kitty Kallen sang with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra following Helen O ' Connell's departure in 1942. Jerry Lewis ' first wife Patti Palmer ( birth name Esther Calonico ) was a singer with his orchestra for less than a year, starting about 1944.

In 1944, Raoul Palmer placed his patients in the Trendelenburg position after gaseous distention of the abdomen and thus was able to reliably perform gynecologic laparoscopy.

During the past few decades, publications in the scientific literature have primarily dealt with the apparent decimation of this fauna following the construction of dams within the Mobile River Basin and the inundation of extensive shoal ( a shallow place in a body of water ) habitats by impounded waters ( Goodrich 1944, Athearn 1970, Heard 1970, Stein 1976, Palmer 1986, Garner 1990 ).

* Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer ( 1920 – 1944 ), British bomber pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross

Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer VC, DFC & Bar ( 7 July 1920 – 23 December 1944 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

By the end of 1944 Palmer had completed 110 bombing missions, many as a member of the Pathfinder force, necessitating deep penetration of enemy territory and low-level ‘ marking ’ operations against heavily defended targets.

On 23 December 1944 over Cologne, Germany, Squadron Leader Palmer was detailed to lead a formation of Lancaster bombers to attack the marshalling yards in daylight and it was the task of his aircraft ( serial PB371 ) to use the " Oboe " radio bombing aid and mark the target as " master bomber ".

* John Palmer ( author ) ( 1885 – 1944 ), British author

Harrison and Palmer divorced in 1956 ; they had one son, Carey Harrison, born in 1944.

Despite never achieving true film stardom, Moore made headlines with several publicity stunts, notably a five minute kiss on live Chicago television in 1954 and her tongue-in-cheek pledge to one day run for Governor of Louisiana, having been very briefly married in 1944 to Palmer Long, the youngest son of Louisiana kingmaker Huey Long.

Reviewing a 1944 exhibition, The Times remarked that Minton was clearly in the tradition of Samuel Palmer, something frequently remarked on by later critics.

" Three more of his screenplays were made into movies prior to his being blacklisted: " My Buddy " ( 1944 ), " Casbah " ( 1948, starring Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo ), and " No Minor Vices " ( 1948, starring Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, and Louis Jordan ).

* 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 )