" 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 )

However, in a Channel 4 documentary aired 3 June 2011, reporter Nick Cook showed an RAF pilot's report, obtained from RAF archives, reporting a UFO incident with a similar red ball of fire on a bombing mission over Germany, but dated 1942 and taken with fact that the term was already in use by radar operators in 1944, must raise some doubt as to the origin of the term

* Nick Etten ( 1933,. 357 ) 1944 AL HR Leader ; 1945 AL RBI leader ; MLB AS

To prepare for the film, Conran had his cast watch old movies, such as Lauren Bacall in To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ) for Paltrow's performance and The Thin Man ( 1934 ) for the relationship between Nick and Nora that was to be echoed in the one between Joe and Polly.

She was married to Hamilton " Buddy " Westmore from May 30, 1937 until September 1937, filing for divorce on the basis of extreme cruelty ; to conductor and composer David Rose from October 8, 1938 to May 19, 1941 ( he left her to marry Judy Garland ); to Neal Lang from May 25, 1941 to February 3, 1944 ; to Nick Condos from February 22, 1944 to June 17, 1953 to Edward T. Begley from April 21, 1954 to October 6, 1956 ; to Robert O ' Shea from November 7, 1956 to December 1, 1960 ; and to Mark Harris from September 25, 1991 until her death in 1994.

She had one child Melaye Condos with fourth husband Nick Condos ( born July 26, 1944 )

* Nick Mason ( b. 1944 ), musician, Pink Floyd

Linda Ellerbee ( born August 15, 1944 ) is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, DC correspondent, host of the Nickelodeon network's Nick News, which was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as " possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever.

In the 1944 movie, The Thin Man Goes Home, Nick Charles is seen reading a Nick Carter Detective magazine while relaxing in a hammock.

Chick Carter, the adopted son of Nick Carter, was played by Bill Lipton ( 1943 – 44 ) and Leon Janney ( 1944 – 45 ).

He played the main character's loyal manager in The Champ ( 1931 ), a Rollo Brother in the movie Freaks ( 1932 ), Joe Morelli from The Thin Man ( 1934 ) and Nick Charles ' friend Brogan from The Thin Man Goes Home ( 1944 ).

* Leonie von Meusebach – Zesch ( 1882 – 1944 ) Born in Mason County.

Christopher Gordon Blandford ' Chris ' Wood ( 24 June 1944 — 12 July 1983 ) was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason.

* 2012 – John Berry, English motorcycle racing promoter and manager ( b. 1944 )

* 1944 – John Renbourn, English guitarist and songwriter ( Pentangle )

* 1918 – Guy Gibson, English aviator, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist

* 1944 – Len Goodman, English dancer

In 1944, readability expert Rudolf Flesch published an article in Harper's Magazine, " How Basic is Basic English?

From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.

* Rewald, John, ed., with the assistance of Lucien Pissarro: Camille Pissarro, Lettres à son fils Lucien, Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1950 ; previously published, translated to English: Camille Pissarro, Letters to his son Lucien, New York 1943 & London 1944 ; 3rd revised edition, Paul P Appel Publishers, 1972 ISBN 0-911858-22-9

* 1922 – John Brunt, English soldier, Victoria Cross holder ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Neil Innes, English singer and songwriter ( Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles )

A similar work for US English was published in 1944 by Kenyon and Knott.

* 1944 – John Brunt, English military officer ( b. 1922 )

* 1944 – Jean Fergusson, English actress

* 1944 – Bernard Cornwell, English author

* 1944 – Mick Avory, English drummer ( The Kinks )

George Orwell wrote in 1944 that " the word ' Fascism ' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept ' bully ' as a synonym for ' Fascist '".

* 1944 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor ( d. 2012 )

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890 – 1944 ( 1984 ; English ed.

* 1944 – Chris Spedding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Nucleus )

* 1944 – Jeff Beck, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers, and Beck, Bogert & Appice )