" 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 )

The UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson ( then president of what is now Tuskegee University ), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others.

* Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden ( 1 August 1902-29 January 1944 ); married Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, son of Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse-Kassel, designated King of Finland, and Princess Margaret of Prussia ; no issue.

By 1944, the British divisions were grouped into the 1st Airborne Corps under General Frederick Browning, while US divisions in the European Theatre ( the 17th, 82nd, and 101st ) were organized into the XVIII Airborne Corps under US Major General Matthew Ridgway.

On August 15, 1944, airborne units of the 6th Army Group provisional airborne division, commanded by US Major General Robert T. Frederick, opened Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France, with a dawn assault.

He is survived by two sons, Frederick ( born 1942 ) and William ( born 1944 ), and two grandsons.

* Frederick Kreismann ( 1869 – 1944 ), mayor of St. Louis, 1909-1913

Cooper was born at 23 Ennersdale Road, Hither Green, Lewisham, London, the oldest of the three daughters of Charles William Frederick Cooper ( 1844 – 1939 ) by his marriage to Mabel Barnett ( 1861 – 1944 ).

* Dave Wright – born David Frederick Wright, 21 January 1944, Winchester, Hampshire – Vocals & Rhythm Guitar.

* ( Frederick ) Paul de Vere Capell, 11th Earl of Essex ( b. 1944 )

The following year, Sir Frederick Hopkins postulated that some foods contained " accessory factors "— in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and salt — that were necessary for the functions of the human body .< ref > Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B < sub > 1 </ sub >, Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation </ ref > In 1901, Gerrit Grijns ( May 28, 1865 – November 11, 1944 ), a Dutch physician and assistant to Christiaan Eijkman in the Netherlands correctly interpreted the disease as a deficiency syndrome, and between 1910 and 1913, Dr. Edward Bright Vedder established that an extract of rice bran is a treatment for beriberi.

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, ( 16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959 ), known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as Foreign Secretary from 1938 to 1940.

A provisional target date of May 1944 was set, the code-name Overlord decided upon, and a joint Anglo-American planning staff created under Lieutenant-General Frederick E. Morgan, who was given the title of Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander ( COSSAC ).

On 17 February 1944 Major-General Frederick Browning, commander of all British airborne forces, arrived at the headquarters of the division to brief General Gale on what the division was expected to achieve during Operation Tonga.

* Frederick Richard Simms ( 1863 – 1944 ) 1890 – 1896 consulting mechanical engineer, Gottlieb Daimler ’ s agent who proposed this car business

* SS Frederick Von Steuben ( Hull Number 2801 ), a U. S. Liberty ship built in 1944 and scrapped in 1961

John Frederick Milius ( born April 11, 1944 ) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures.

In August 1944 1st SSF came under the command of Colonel Edwin A. Walker when Brigadier General Frederick, who had commanded the force since its earliest days, left on promotion to major general to command the 1st Airborne Task Force.

Frederick Bartlett Fancher ( April 2, 1852 – January 10, 1944 ) was an American politician who was the seventh Governor of North Dakota from 1899 to 1901.

Rollen Frederick Stewart ( born February 19, 1944 ), also known as Rock ' n ' Rollen and Rainbow Man, was a fixture in American sports culture best known for wearing a rainbow-colored afro-style wig and, later, holding up signs reading " John 3: 16 " at stadium sporting events around the United States and overseas in the 1970s and 1980s.

New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1944, 1967 ( out of print ).

* Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax ( 1881 – 1959 ) ( created Earl of Halifax in 1944 )

# Frederick E. Terman 1944 – 1958

Born in Bay City, Michigan, List was the only child of German American parents, John Frederick List ( 1859 – 1944 ) and Alma Maria Barbara Florence List ( 1887 – 1971 )

* Frederick W. Smith ( born 1944 ), American businessman ; founder of Federal Express