" 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 )

* Geoffrey Alderman ( born 1944 ) — historian

This led to a further re-flowering-in the Depression and war years between 1930 and 1955-and this can be seen in the work of: artists such as John Piper ; John Tunnard, David Jones ; Graham Sutherland ; John Craxton ; John Minton ; Stanley Spencer ; Eric Ravilious ; Robin Tanner ; Bettina Shaw-Lawrence ; writers such as John Cowper Powys ; J. R. R. Tolkien ; Mervyn Peake ; C. S. Lewis ; Arthur Machen ; T. H. White ; Dylan Thomas ; Geoffrey Grigson ; and Herbert Read ; film-makers such as Humphrey Jennings ; Powell and Pressburger ( e. g.: A Canterbury Tale, 1944 and Gone to Earth, 1950 ); and photographers such as Edwin Smith ; Roger Mayne ; and John Deakin.

Michael Geoffrey " Mick " Ralphs ( born 31 March 1944 ) is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was a founding member of rock bands Mott the Hoople and Bad Company.

Geoffrey Page, commander of 125 Wing of the Second TAF, about to take off on a sortie from Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy ( 1944 )

* Aug 1942-Dec 1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Scoones

* George Geoffrey Dawson ( 1874 – 1944 ), English editor of The Times

Professor Geoffrey Alan Parker FRS ( born 24 May 1944 ) is a Derby professor of biology at the University of Liverpool.

Geoffrey Hughes ( 2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012 ) was an English actor.

* Gould, Rupert T. ( 1944 ), " The Auroras, and other doubtful islands ", in Oddities: A Book of Unexplained Facts, revised ed., Geoffrey Bles, pp. 124-162.

George Geoffrey Dawson ( 25 October 1874, Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire-7 November 1944, London ) was editor of The Times from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1923 until 1941.

Independent completions of the scherzo movement were made by Geoffrey Bush in 1944 and the conductor Denis Vaughan in about 1960.

* 1941 – 1944: Geoffrey Dawson, former editor, The Times

Geoffrey Michael Brooks ( born 16 February 1944, Olney, Buckinghamshire ) is a writer and translator.

From 1954-64 the company's Managing Director was Geoffrey Bone who had been part of the Power Jets team, and whose father Victor Bone was Managing Director of R & H from 1944 until his death.

Geoffrey Pryor ( born 1944 ) is an Australian political cartoonist who has spent many years in ( and still lives in ) Canberra.

* Geoff Turton ( born Geoffrey Turton ) ( 1944 – present ), British singer from The Rockin ' Berries ( 1961 – 1990s ); also recorded under the name Geoff Jefferson

* Major-General Geoffrey Evans ( Jul 1944-Sep 1944 )

* Brigadier Geoffrey Evans ( Feb 1944-Feb 1944 )

* Brigadier Geoffrey Evans ( Feb 1944-Jul 1944 )