" 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 )

Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

Curium was first intentionally produced and identified in July 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley.

* 1904 – Glenn Miller, American bandleader ( d. 1944 )

In December 1944 Glenn Miller perished on a flight from London to Paris when his plane disappeared over the English Channel.

** Glenn Miller, American bandleader ( d. 1944 )

Alton Glenn Miller ( March 1, 1904 – missing in action December 15, 1944 ) was an American big band musician, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era.

When Glenn Miller disappeared, he left behind his wife, the former Helen Burger, originally from Boulder, Colorado, and the two children they adopted in 1943 and 1944, Steven and Jonnie.

Karloff would revisit the Frankenstein mythos in several later films as well, starring with the role of the villainous Dr. Niemann in House of Frankenstein ( 1944 ), in which the Monster was played by Glenn Strange.

* Glenn Miller recorded a version on V-Disc, No. 91A, which was issued in January 1944 by the U. S. War Department featuring the AAFTC Orchestra.

Assigned to the Armed Forces Network, he was sent to Britain in 1944 as a sergeant, serving as an announcer for the Glenn Miller American Band.

The Glenn Miller RCA Bluebird recording was released as V-Disc 123B in February 1944 and a new version was released as V-Disc 842B in May 1948 by Glenn Miller and the Overseas Band by the U. S. War Department.

WSU has had just 10 presidents in its almost 120-year history: George W. Lilley ( 1891 – 1892 ), John W. Heston ( 1892 – 1893 ), Enoch A. Bryan ( 1893 – 1915 ), Ernest O. Holland ( 1916 – 1944 ), Wilson M. Compton ( 1945 – 1951 ), C. Clement French ( 1952 – 1966 ), Glenn Terrell ( 1967 – 1985 ), Samuel H. Smith ( 1985 – 2000 ), V. Lane Rawlins ( 2000 – 2007 ) and current President Elson S. Floyd.

Four players have specifically finished second in consecutive years: Glenn Davis ( second in 1944 and 1945, winner in 1946 ), Charlie Justice ( second 1948 and 1949 ), Darren McFadden ( second 2006 and 2007 ) and Andrew Luck ( second 2010 and 2011 ).

* Glenn Miller ( Alton G. Miller ) cenotaph -- ( 1904 – 1944 )— Jazz bandleader, trombonist.

While performing with an all-girl USO show in England, Irene was asked to perform with bandleader Glenn Miller shortly before his death in 1944.

Her sides were some of the last records made by Glenn Miller, prior to his being lost on an ill-fated flight to Paris over the English Channel in December 1944.

In the 1944 season, stocked with such stars as former All-American and National Football League Rookie of the Year Bill Dudley and All-American running back Glenn Dobbs, as well as eight other former NFL players, the team went undefeated and untied in 11 games, and was voted # 3 in the nation by the Associated Press poll.

* Glenn Miller ( 1944 )

" Moon Dreams " would be recorded by Glenn Miller in 1944 and by Miles Davis in 1950.

The film follows big band leader Glenn Miller ( 1904 – 1944 ) ( James Stewart ) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying in was lost over the English Channel during World War II.

* Glenn Miller, jazz musician / bandleader, whose plane disappeared over the English Channel in 1944.