" 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 )

Nicholas Christian " Nicky " Hopkins ( 24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994 ) was an English pianist and organist.

The following year, Sir Frederick Hopkins postulated that some foods contained " accessory factors "— in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and salt — that were necessary for the functions of the human body .< ref > Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B < sub > 1 </ sub >, Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation </ ref > In 1901, Gerrit Grijns ( May 28, 1865 – November 11, 1944 ), a Dutch physician and assistant to Christiaan Eijkman in the Netherlands correctly interpreted the disease as a deficiency syndrome, and between 1910 and 1913, Dr. Edward Bright Vedder established that an extract of rice bran is a treatment for beriberi.

He also served as the first Chairman of the Medical Board of the Clinical Center ( 1953 – 1955 ) and was concurrently instructor and then assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1944 to 1961.

* A lithopedion figure is a central plot device in Samuel Hopkins Adams ' 1944 novel, Canal Town.

Francis D. Murnaghan of Johns Hopkins University in 1944.

In 1944, Alfred Blalock at Johns Hopkins University had begun successfully performing surgery on the great vessels around the heart to relieve the symptoms of tetralogy of Fallot, demonstrating that heart surgery could be possible.

From 1944 through 1955 he was employed at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University.

Cited in Dewey, C., ( 1978 ) ‘ Patwari and Chaukidar: subordinate officials and the reliability of India ’ s agricultural statistics .’ Pp 280-314, Cited in Mahalanobis ( 1944 ): Dewey, C. and Hopkins, A. G. ( 1978 ), The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India, Athlone Press.

1944, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press.

Canal Town is the title of a 1944 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams.

* 1944 – Richard Bradshaw British conductor

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

He was the leader of the British delegation to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 that established the Bretton Woods system of international currency management.

* 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.

* 1944 – Barry Chuckle, British comedian

* 1944 – Jane Lapotaire, British actress

* 1944 – Mick Jones, British musician ( Foreigner )

* 1944 – Marti Webb, British actor and singer

Monument on the market square commemorating the 1944 liberation by the US 101st Airborne Division and the British XXX Corps ( United Kingdom ) | 30th Corps.

His older brother was William Frank Thompson ( 1919 – 1944 ), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.

Thompson's older brother William Frank Thompson ( 1920 – 1944 ), was also a member of the British Communist Party during World War Two.

* 1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer

* 1903 – Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher

* 1944 – Andrew Davis, British conductor

In 1944, the retreating Germans blew up the bridges along the Arno linking the district of Oltrarno to the rest of the city, making it difficult for the British troops to cross.

In 1944 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, after he was nominated for membership by Keynes.

Ghent was occupied by the Germans in both World Wars but escaped severe destruction and was liberated by the British 7th Desert Rats Armoured Division on September 6, 1944.

* 1944: U. S., British and Canadian armed forces invade Nazi-occupied France at Normandy.

In June 1944 the British agreed to create a Jewish Brigade, that would fight in Europe.

As the German defeat drew nearer, the various Greek political factions convened in Lebanon in May 1944, under British auspices, and formed a government of national unity, under George Papandreou, in which EAM was represented by six ministers.

A few days later, on 3 December 1944, a large-scale pro-EAM demonstration in Athens ended in violence and ushered an intense, house-to-house struggle with British and monarchist forces ( the Dekemvriana ).

Imperial Conferences ( Colonial Conferences before 1911 ) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944.

* November 6, 1944 Lehi assassinated British minister Lord Moyne in Cairo.