" 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 – 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 – Jim Leyland, American baseball manager

* 1944 – Jim Armstrong, Irish guitarist ( Them )

* 1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter

* 1944 – Jim Boeheim, Hall of Fame basketball coach

On November 21, 1944, the AAFC chose Jim Crowley, one of the " Four Horsemen of Notre Dame ", as its commissioner.

Demarest also acted in Diamond Jim ( 1935 ), Easy Living ( 1937 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), Christmas in July ( 1940 ), The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), Sullivan's Travels ( 1941 ), The Palm Beach Story ( 1942 ), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ), Hail the Conquering Hero ( 1944 ) and The Great Moment ( 1944 )

In mid-December 1944, Jim Layton ( Marshall Thompson ) and his buddy, William J. Hooper, replacements fresh from the United States, are assigned to separate companies in the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

Peary returned the favor in a memorable 1944 Fibber McGee & Molly episode in which neither of the title characters appeared: Jim Jordan was recovering from a bout of pneumonia ( this would be written into the show the following week, when the Jordans returned ), and the story line involved Gildersleeve and nephew Leroy hoping to visit the McGees at home during a train layover in Wistful Vista, but finding Fibber and Molly not at home.

Having returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 25-year-old Gibson was killed along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt ( nowadays a borough of Mönchengladbach ) operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based at RAF Coningsby, when his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

* Jim Stafford ( b. 1944 ), American comedian and musician

They had four children: Samuel Robson ( Rob ) born in 1944, John Thomas ( 1946-2005 ), James Carr ( Jim ) born in 1948, and Alice Louise born in 1949.

Due to spoilage, the loose candy was replaced in 1944 with a chocolate disk ( e. g. Brach's Fudge disk ) or a cookie sandwich ( e. g., Jim Dandee ) and the number of biscuits was reduced to 4.

* Jim Hickey ( 1920-1997 ), pitcher for the Boston Braves in the 1942 and 1944 seasons.

* Jim Leyland ( born 1944 ), American baseball manager

James Nicholas " Jim " Gray ( born January 12, 1944 ; lost at sea January 28, 2007 ; declared deceased May 16, 2012 ) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 " for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.

James Richard " Jim " Leyland ( born December 15, 1944 ) is a Major League Baseball manager, currently with the Detroit Tigers.

It includes areas currently fashionable ( the Chern-Simons theory arising from a 1974 paper written jointly with Jim Simons ), perennial ( the Chern-Weil theory linking curvature invariants to characteristic classes from 1944, after the Allendoerfer-Weil paper of 1943 on the Gauss-Bonnet theorem ), the foundational ( Chern classes ), and some areas such as projective differential geometry and webs that have a lower profile.

James Arthur " Jim " Gibbons ( born December 16, 1944 ) is an American politician.

* Jim Gray ( computer scientist ) ( 1944 – lost at sea 2007 ), American computer scientist and Turing Award recipient

* Jim Gibbons ( U. S. politician ) ( born 1944 ), Republican governor of Nevada