" 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 )

The Macedonian language was codified in 1944 ( Keith 2003 ), from the Slavic dialect spoken around Veles.

* 1944 – Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer ( Emerson, Lake & Palmer )

Keith Noel Emerson ( born 2 November 1944, Todmorden, West Yorkshire ) is an English keyboard player and composer.

David " Stringbean " Akeman, country music star who was born and raised in AnnvilleFreddie LangdonRandy Hays ( guitar player in the Keith Whitley Band ) Woody Brooks ( has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ) Andrew N. Johnson, Prohibition Party's 1944 nominee for vice president of the United States

* Keith Murray ( Fellow 1937 – 1993, Rector 1944 – 1953 )

* Keith Douglas ( 1920 – 1944 ), English poet of World War II

Pianist Keith Emerson ( born 1944 ) was founder / member of The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

* Keith Emerson: Organ, piano, vocals — ( born 2 November 1944, Todmorden, Yorkshire )

Keith Castellain Douglas ( 24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944 ) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during World War II and his wry memoir of the Western Desert Campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem.

* Keith Douglas, 1920 – 1944 by Desmond Graham ( OUP, 1974 ) ISBN 0-19-211716-5

On the death of his father on 4 October 1944, 26-year-old Keith inherited the baronetcy.

* Bullock, Charles S. III, Donna R. Hoffman and Ronald Keith Gaddie, " Regional Variations in the Realignment of American Politics, 1944 – 2004 ," Social Science Quarterly v 87 # 3 ( Sept 2006 ) pp 494 +; Abstract: Using the concepts of critical and secular realignments as a framework, models change in the end product of realignment, election outcomes.

Keith James Locke ( born 1944 ) was a New Zealand MP representing the Green Party who was first elected to parliament in 1999.

Keith Douglas, 1920 – 1944, wrote his poem " Vergissmeinnicht " ( Forget-me-not ) about a dead German soldier in World War II whose body is found by the poet with a photograph of his girl with her words written " Steffi.

Keith William Robert Fletcher ( 20 May 1944, Worcester, Worcestershire, England ) is an English former cricketer, who played for Essex and England.

* Arthur Berriedale Keith ( 1879 – 1944 )

Pioneering farmer of the Keith district and Member of the Legislative Council of South Australia from 1944 to 1967.

Roger Coulam ( born Roger Keith Coulam, 26 April 1944, England ) ( organist ) formed the band in the autumn of 1969, with Madeline Bell ( vocalist ), Roger Cook ( vocalist ), Herbie Flowers ( bassist ), and Barry Morgan ( drummer ) ( born November 1944, London died 1 November 2007 ).

Keith Drinkel is a British actor, born in York on 14 November 1944.