" 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 )

* 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 )

In 1944 the Brazilian Air Force joined Allied forces in Italy and operated there for about seven months, this was the FAB baptism in a real conflict.

* 1944 – Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner ( d. 1988 )

* 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer

* December 22 – Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, Brazilian environmental activist ( b. 1944 )

* Chico Buarque ( born 1944 ), Brazilian singer and writer

* Chico Mendes ( 1944 – 1988 ), Brazilian environmental activist

From 1944, he maintained a relationship with Brazilian singer and guitarist Olga Praguer Coelho, which was to last for over a decade.

* Eliseu Visconti ( 1866 – 1944 ) Brazilian

Sebastião Salgado ( born February 8, 1944 ) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

This air-land force fought in Italy from September 1944 to May 1945, while the Brazilian Navy as well as the Air Force also acted in the Atlantic Ocean from the middle of 1942 until the end of war.

In late July, two more transports with Brazilian troops reached Italy, with three more following in September and November 1944, and February 1945.

Between the end of February and beginning of March 1945, in preparation for the Spring offensive, the Brazilian Division and the U. S. 10th Mountain Division were able to capture important positions on the Apennines, which deprived the Germans of key artillery positions on the mountains, whose effective fire had since the fall of 1944 blocked the Allied path to Bologna.

The Brazilian pilots initially flew from 31 October 1944, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons, at first in affiliation flights and progressively taking part in more dangerous missions.

Brazilian Expeditionary Force | Brazilian troops arrived in the Italian city of Massarosa-Italy-Sep 1944.

* Chico Mendes ( 1944 – 1988 ), Brazilian environmental activist

In 1944 he gained further notoriety by writing a glowing preface to the Brazilian translation of The Soviet Power by the Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, the Anglican Dean of Canterbury known as " The Red Dean " for his uncompromising support of the Soviet Union.

The General arrived in Italy with the first Brazilian troops in June 1944 and commanded the Brazilian forces until the surrender of the Axis forces in Italy, on May 2, 1945.

Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ( born December 13, 1944 in Brazil ), more famous under his pen name Léo is a Brazilian comics creator.

The Brazilian pilots initially flew from 31 October 1944, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons, at first in affiliation flights and progressively taking part in more dangerous missions.

Between 1944 and 1949 he was a member of the Brazilian Writers Association ( Rio de Janeiro branch ).

Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque ( in standard orthography, Cristóvão Ricardo Cavalcate Buarque ; or ; Recife, February 20, 1944 ) is a Brazilian politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party ( PDT ).

* Gabriel Chagas ( born 1944 ), a Brazilian bridge player