" 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 )

* Maarten't Hart ( born 1944 ), biologist, writer

" Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, You Can't Take It with You ( 1936 ), became a weekly situation comedy heard on Mutual ( 1944 ) with Everett Sloane and later on NBC ( 1951 ) with Walter Brennan.

Belgium, December 16, 1944: First Lieutenant Thomas Hart ( Farrell ) is stationed at V Corps Headquarters and a stranger to war.

James " Jimmy " Ray Hart ( born January 1, 1944 ) is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE.

They included an inquiry by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ( 1941 ); the Roberts Commission ( 1941 – 42 ); the Hart Inquiry ( 1944 ); the Army Pearl Harbor Board ( 1944 ); the Naval Court of Inquiry ( 1944 ); the Hewitt investigation ; the Clarke investigation ; the Congressional Inquiry ( 1945 – 46 ); a top-secret inquiry by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, authorized by Congress and carried out by Henry Clausen ( the Clausen Inquiry ; 1946 ); and the Thurmond-Spence hearing, in April 1995, which produced the Dorn Report.

Transferred to the retired list in July 1942 with the rank of Admiral, Hart nevertheless continued on active duty with the General Board through 1944.

From February to April 1944, he conducted a one-member investigation, the " Hart Inquiry ," into the Pearl Harbor attack, a duty which took him to the length and breadth of the Pacific Ocean area.

James Warren Hart ( born April 29, 1944 in Evanston, Illinois ) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 through 1983 and the Washington Redskins in 1984.

In 1944, the destroyer USS Hart ( DD-594 ) was named in his honor.

He won the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1944.

* Hart Memorial Trophy winner ( 1944 )

William Hart Pitsenbarger ( July 8, 1944 – April 11, 1966 ) was a United States Air Force Pararescueman who gave his life aiding and defending a unit of soldiers pinned down by an enemy assault in Vietnam.

* Tommy Hart ( born 1944 ), American football player

* 1944 – Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer

* 1944 – Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian

* 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

* 1944 – George Baker, Dutch singer and songwriter

* 1944 – Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor

* 1944 – Dick Dees, Dutch politician

* 1944 – World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

* 1944 – Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player

They were either in the womb, or were recently born, during the great Dutch famine of 1944 – when German troops monopolized food and 18, 000 people died of starvation.

* 1875 – Walter Middelberg, Dutch rower ( d. 1944 )

* 1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor ( d. 1944 )

It was quickly taken by the Germans during the Battle of Maastricht in May 1940, but on 14 September 1944 it was also the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

* 1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Jan Boerstoel, Dutch writer and poet

* 1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect

* 1944 – World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.

** Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer ( b. 1944 )

* March 7 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter ( d. 1944 )

Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; born 23 January 1944 ) is a Dutch stage, television and film actor.

The Battle of the Scheldt in October 1944 was fought primarily on Dutch soil, but with the objective of opening the waterway to Antwerp.

In July 1944, the 503rd jumped again, onto Noemfoor Island, off Dutch New Guinea, in the Battle of Noemfoor.

* Joop Westerweel ( 1899 – 1944 ), Dutch World War II resistance leader, the head of the Westerweel Group.

In 1944 the family of Corrie ten Boom was arrested by the Nazis ; they had been hiding Jews and Dutch resistance workers from the German occupier throughout the war.