" 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 – 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 )

* 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino politician, 2nd President of the Philippines ( d. 1944 )

Among the last of the prominent patients who sought treatment for tuberculosis was Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, the first Filipino president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, who died in Saranac Lake of the disease on August 1, 1944.

The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 20 October-31 December 1944.

After the three year main conflicts, when the Zamboangueño guerrillas was retreating by the Japanese in the main province before the liberation of local Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units on 1944 and the American troops on the U. S. Armed Forces on 1945 before the Battle of Zamboanga.

On January to December 1944, Some of all local Filipino ground troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army 6th, 10th, 101st, 102nd and 105th Infantry Division and the Philippine Constabulary 10th Infantry Regiment began sending local combat military operations and they arrival the recaptured and liberated around the province of Zamboanga and aiding the Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim resistance groups attacks the Imperial Japanese military forces from the couple of twelve months and one year before the liberation.

The Allied Liberation army, helped by recognized guerrillas and by combined military forces of the Filipino troops and sailors of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Commonwealth Navy ( the Off-Shore Patrol ) and American troops, sailors and pilots of the United States Army, United States Navy and United States Army Air Forces from 1944 to 1945 are the following:

* The Division was briefly reconstituted as the 12th Infantry Division in 1944 – 45 as the US & Filipino army liberated the Philippines, but was disbanded after the war.

The local Filipino troops and officers under the 4th, 5th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 45th, 46th, and 47th Infantry Divisions of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 4th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary were helping the military conduct special operations in the island province of Mindoro from December 1944 to August 1945.

When the Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, Philippine Constabulary 1st Infantry Regiments and the USAFIP-NL 11th, 14th and 15th Infantry Regiments and aided the Irogot resistance was came back the main battles and clearing operations against the Imperial Japanese troops and Makapili militia groups led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita through liberated Kalinga-Apayao from 1944 to 1945.

1942 to 1944 * During the occupation, thousands of local Samareños-men and women-joined guerrilla groups in the province and helped local Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army units fight the Japanese Imperial forces which led to the latter's defeat and started the pre-Allied liberation.

The conflicts and insurgencies on 1944 was aftermath, many guerrillas and Hukbalahap resistance was downfall retreating Japanese Imperial Armed Forces and starts the liberation on 1945 was battle of Filipino soldiers and guerrilla groups with the Japanese Imperial forces.

* Battle of Leyte, the October-December 1944 reconquest of the island by American troops and Filipino guerrillas.

Sergio Osmeña y Suico ( 9 September 187819 October 1961 ) was a politician of Chinese Filipino who served as the 4th President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946.

American forces led by General Douglas MacArthur with the Filipino soldiers staged a so-called " Second Landing " in the beaches of San Jose ( the " First " being the famous Leyte Landing ) on December 15, 1944, to retake the Philippine islands from the Japanese ( the Battle of Mindoro ).

* The Philippines Campaign ( 1944 – 45 ), the long American and Filipino land, sea, and aviation campaign of October ' 44 though August ' 45 over allied combantants.

Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr., OGH ( July 25, 1928 – July 10, 2012 ), known by his screen names Dolphy, Pidol, and Golay ( 1944 ), was a Filipino comedian-actor in the Philippines.

In 1944 to 1945, started the liberation, many Filipino troops of the 6th, 61st and 62nd Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was liberated the town of Ibajay, Aklan and helping Ibayhanon guerrilla groups and defeating Japanese troops at the end of World War II.

Local Filipino troops and officers of the 4th, 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 4th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary enters the liberated in Cuenca in 1944 to 1945 and helpul the local guerrilla resistance fighters and American liberation forces against the Japanese.

The airfield was also used by the 312th Bombardment Group ( Nov 19, 1944-Feb 10, 1945 ), 340th Fighter Squadron ( Dec 15, 1944 ), 341st Fighter Squadron ( Dec 14, 1944 ), 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron ( Dec 12, 1944 ), and 433d Troop Carrier Group ( Jan 19-May 31, 1945 ), and played a vital role as American bombing campaigns and close aerial support for US combat troops intensify during the war against the Japanese forces, and greatly increased the number of land-based planes that could operate from Leyte as the combined US & Filipino Forces move to liberate the entire country.

During the liberation of the Philippines in 1944, Tolosa and its north eastern neighboring towns were spared from bombardment by the United States and Philippine Commonwealth forces when Eagle Scout Valeriano Abello of barangay San Roque braved Japanese sniper fire and directed US and Filipino fire to the exact location of Japanese batteries along Leyte's northeastern coast.

Since the liberation and the Battle of Bongabon on 1944 to 1945 between the fought of the combined Filipino and American troops and the recognized guerrillas with the Japanese troops.

Started of the Allied Philippine Invasion at General Tinio in Nueva Ecija on 1944 to 1945 between the Imperial Japanese ground forces and the Philippine Commonwealth ground troops and helping various guerrilla groups and Hukbalahap resistance, When the local Filipino troops and officers of the ongoing Philippine Commonwealth Army and the incoming 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary has came liberated and invading the town municipalities at General Tinio in Nueva Ecija and came aiding by the various guerrilla groups and Hukbalahap resistance fighters and defeats Imperial Japanese troops on 1944 to 1945 and aftermath in World War II.