" 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 )

Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.

* 1944 – Leonard Peltier, American activist

Other films: Mechanized Patrolling ( 1943 ) ( as Leonard Q. Ross ), They Got Me Covered ( 1943 ) ( story ) ( as Leonard Q. Ross ), All Through the Night ( 1942 ) ( story ) ( as Leonard Q. Ross ), The Conspirators ( 1944 ) ( screenplay ), The Velvet Touch ( 1948 ), Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) ( novel ) ( screenplay ), Double Dynamite ( 1954 )

* Leonard Peltier ( born 1944 ), Native American activist who was convicted of the murder of two FBI Agents

On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins ' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music.

The Jerome Robbins ballet " Fancy Free " ( 1944 ), with music by Leonard Bernstein, was a hit for the American Ballet Theatre, and Oliver Smith ( the set designer ) and his business partner, Paul Feigay, thought that the ballet could be turned into a Broadway musical.

All three RAF attacks on the Tirpitz were led by Wing Commander JB " Willy " Tait, who had succeeded Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire as CO of No. 617 Squadron in July 1944.

The band's second album, Quest 1992, was inspired by crossword compiler Leonard Dawe, who in 1944 inadvertently leaked code words from Operation Overlord in a Daily Telegraph crossword.

* William Leonard Marshall ( born 1944 ), Australian author of Hong Kong-based Yellowthread Street mystery novels

* Leonard Hodgson, DD, Canon of Christ Church ( 1944 )

Edward Leonard Greenspan, QC ( born February 28, 1944 in Niagara Falls, Ontario ) is a Canadian lawyer and prolific author of legal volumes.

* Leonard Benjamin Franklin ( 1862 – 1944 ), barrister and politician, was born in Goudhurst.

William Marshall ( or William Leonard Marshall ) ( born 1944, Australia ) is an Australian author, best known for his Hong Kong-based " Yellowthread Street " mystery novels, some of which were used as the basis for a British TV series.

The first generation consisted of Sauer's own students: Fred Kniffen ( 1930 ), Peveril Meigs ( 1932 ), Donald Brand ( 1933 ), Henry Bruman ( 1940 ), Felix W. McBryde ( 1940 ), Robert Bowman ( 1941 ), Dan Stanislawski ( 1944 ), Robert C. West ( 1946 ), James J. Parsons ( 1948 ), Edwin Doran ( 1953 ), Philip Wagner ( 1953 ), Brigham Arnold ( 1954 ), Homer Aschmann ( 1954 ), B. LeRoy Gordon ( 1954 ), Gordon Merrill ( 1957 ), Donald Innis ( 1958 ), Carl Johannessen ( 1959 ), Clinton Edwards ( 1962 ), and Leonard Sawatzky ( 1967 ).

They had three children: Leonard Frank ( 13 January 1937 ), Greville ( 4 November 1944 – 1973 ) and Gale Ann ( 4 November 1944 – 1972 ).

Salvatore Leonard Bando ( born February 13, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio ) is a former third baseman and executive in professional baseball who played for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics ( 1966 – 76 ) and Milwaukee Brewers ( 1977 – 81 ).

Tom Leonard ( born 1944 ) is a Scottish poet, best known for his poems written in Glaswegian dialect.

Born Henri Leonard de Fiennes in Sacramento, California, he was the son of an American actor and stage manager, Rhody Hathaway ( 1868 – 1944 ), and a Hungarian-born Belgian aristocrat, Marquise Lillie de Fiennes ( 1876 – 1938 ), who acted under the name Jean Hathaway.

• Romania: General Gheorghe Avramescu 25. 10. 1942, Major General Leonard Mociulschi 25. 10. 1942, Major General Ermil Gheorghiu 11. 02. 1943, Captain Nicolae Dabija 10. 02. 1944 ),

Another air raid by Lancasters of 617 Squadron led by Wing Commander Leonard Cheshire had also severely damaged the Limoges factory on 8 / 9 February 1944.

Leonard W. Schuetz ( D ), until February 13, 1944