" 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 )

* 1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter

In 1944, athletic star Jackie Robinson took a similar stand in a confrontation with a United States Army officer in Fort Hood, Texas, by refusing to move to the back of a bus.

Jackie DeShannon ( born August 21, 1944 ) is an American singer-songwriter with a string of hit song credits from the 1960s onwards.

* Letter to Jackie – 1944 – one-act play

Terranova won the crown when he KO ' ed Jackie Callura on August 16, 1943, and lost the belt when he was outpointed by Sal Bartolo on March 10, 1944.

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( née Bourke ) (; born 21 May 1944 ) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002.

** Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator ( d. 1944 )

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

In 1944, he played the District Attorney in " The Woman in the Window " with Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett

In late March, 1944, Robinson was stationed at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, waiting to ship out to Europe, where he was scheduled to perform more exhibition matches.

Robinson was granted an honorable discharge on June 3, 1944.

The principal actors Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea, had earlier appeared together in The Woman in the Window ( 1944 ) also directed by Fritz Lang.

In the 1940s, Robinson demonstrated his ability to succeed in comedic and film noir roles, including Raoul Walsh's Manpower ( 1941 ) with Marlene Dietrich and George Raft, Larceny, Inc. ( 1942 ) with Jane Wyman and Broderick Crawford, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity ( 1944 ) with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey, Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street ( 1945 ) with Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea, and Orson Welles ' The Stranger ( 1946 ) with Orson Welles and Loretta Young.

* May 31-Heath Robinson, British cartoonist / illustrator (+ 1944 )

11 – Wilbert Robinson ( June 10, 1892 ), Tony Lazzeri ( May 24, 1936 ), Phil Weintraub ( April 30, 1944 )

Anne Josephine Robinson ( born 26 September 1944 ) is an English television presenter and journalist, known for her assertive views and acerbic style of presenting.

Campbell was a noted scholar of James Joyce ( in 1944 he co-authored A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake with Henry Morton Robinson ), and Campbell borrowed the term monomyth from Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson wrote A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake ( 1944 ) that unlocked some of Joyce's most obscure allusions.

* September 1-Clifford William Robinson, lawyer, businessman, politician and 11th Premier of New Brunswick ( died 1944 )

She had become well acquainted with the novel during the four and a half year period that her husband collaborated with Henry Morton Robinson to write A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake ( 1944 ).

Clifford William Robinson ( September 1, 1866 – July 27, 1944 ) was a New Brunswick lawyer, businessman and politician, the 12th Premier of New Brunswick.

* Paul Robinson ( American football ) ( born 1944 ), United States American football player

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, and after her second as Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux born in Leamington Hastings ( England ) on February 27, 1857-died in Aurillac ( France ) on February 9, 1944, was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.

Robinson oversaw the creation of 5, 000 hand-drawn maps and attended the Allied conferences at Quebec and Cairo in 1943 and 1944 as chief U. S. map officer.

* Robinson ( DD-562 ), a destroyer in commission from 1944 to 1964

* Clifford William Robinson ( 1866 – 1944 ), Canadian politician

The gist of it was that in 1944 Robinson had a neighbour named Steve Brodie who one day saw ( in Robinson's apartment ) a copy of one of Ray Palmer's magazines featuring the Dero.

* George Robinson ( cricketer ) ( 1861 – 1944 ), played first-class cricket for Oxford University