" 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 – 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 )

Also receiving the Navy Cross from New Glarus was Kevin Patrick Lynch, who was credited with a direct hit of a 1, 000-pound bomb on a Japanese heavy cruiser on October 25, 1944 in the Battle for Leyte Gulf while in the seat of his Curtiss SB2C Helldiver.

Kevin Ayers ( born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent ) is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement.

Kevin B. MacDonald ( born January 24, 1944 ) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to support his theory that Judaism is a " group evolutionary strategy.

In 1944 he was founding secretary of the Liam Mellows Branch of the Labour Party and in 1945 was a founding secretary of the Cork Socialist Party, whose other notable members included Derry Kelleher, Kevin Neville and Máire Keohane-Sheehan.

The original line-up consisted of Dave " Biffo " Beech ( vocals and drums ) ( born David Beech, 25 September 1945, in Rugby, Warwickshire, died 7 June 2007 ); Clive Scott ( keyboards and vocals ) ( born 24 February 1945, in Coventry, died 10 May 2009 ); Barrie Bernard ( bass guitar ) ( born 27 November 1944, in Coventry ); Tony Campbell ( guitar ) ( born Anthony Campbell, 24 June 1944, in Rugby ); Tony Britnell ( saxophone ) and Kevin " Beppy " Mahon ( saxophone ).

Kevin Tighe ( b. Jon Kevin Fishburn ; August 13, 1944 ) is an American character actor primarily known for his roles on television.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

* 1944 – Brooke Bundy, American actress

* 1944 – John Holmes, American porn actor ( d. 1988 )

* 1944 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Linda Ellerbee, American journalist

* 1944 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician

* 1944 – Jack Canfield, American author

* 1944 – Buzz Kilman, American radio host

* 1944 – Eddy Raven, American singer-songwriter

* 1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter

* 1944 – Anthony Heald, American actor

* 1944 – Bill Malinchak, American football player

* 1944 – Melvin Dummar, American forger of Howard Hughes estate

* 1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player ( d. 2004 )

* 1944 – Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent

* 1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American businessman, founded FedEx

* 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot ( b. 1917 )