" 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 )

** Nino Bravo, singer ( b. 1944 )

The current Head of the House of Imereti is Her Serene Highness Princess Nino Bagrationi ( born 1915, married Prince Avtandil Jafaridze 1944, deceased in 2009 ).

However, although he had already identified the title as " Ali and Nino " in the obituary tribute that he had written for Essad Bey in 1942 ; in the 1944 edition of the novel, Vacca changed the title to " Ali Khan " and identified the author as " M. Essad Bey ," instead of " Kurban Said.

He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface ( 1932 ), Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ), Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ), His Girl Friday ( 1940 ), Sergeant York ( 1941 ), To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), Red River ( 1948 ), The Thing from Another World ( 1951 ), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1953 ), and Rio Bravo ( 1959 ).

* 2006 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress ( b. 1944 )

* 1944 – Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist

* 1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress ( d. 2006 )

* 1944 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress ( d. 2006 )

In April 1942, Spanish communists formed an organization called the XIV Corps, an armed guerrilla movement, which had a force of about 3400 combatants by June 1944.

Although the group at first worked closely with the Franc Tireurs et Partisans ( FTP ), it re-formed as the Agrupación de Guerrilleros Españoles ( Spanish Guerrilla Group, AGE ) in May 1944.

In April 1944, Touvier led a raid outside Lyons, on the fairgrounds in the town of Montmelian, five miles from Chambery, and rounded up 57 Spanish refugees, who were deported to the camps.

After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and, with Sampayo's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish nobleman, José Luis de Vilallonga.

With regard to more recent acquisitions, an important addition was the small but significant group of archaic Greek sculpture donated by Mario Zayas in 1944, an area not represented by a single work in the Spanish royal collection.

It never got beyond the staff study stage, even though planning continued into 1944, primarily because of the reluctance of Spanish ruler Francisco Franco to commit Spain to enter the war on the Axis side.

Some orthographic attempts even expand further: the Alfabeto Funcional Trilingüe, made up of 40 letters ( including the voiced stops necessary for Spanish ), and created by the Academia de las Lenguas Aymara y Quechua in Puno in 1944 is the one used by the lexicographer Juan Francisco Deza Galindo in his Diccionario Aymara – Castellano / Castellano – Aymara.

The Blue Legion was officially called the Legión Española de Voluntarios was created from 1, 500 pro-Fascist volunteers who remained behind at the Eastern Front, after most of the Spanish Blue Division had been repatriated in March 1944, because Francisco Franco had started negotiations with the western Allies.

* José Hernández ( painter ) ( born 1944 ), Spanish painter

He remained Ambassador until 1944 when, with the issue of Spanish entry into the war no longer in doubt, he returned to Britain and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Templewood, of Chelsea in the County of Middlesex.

In 1944 she married Casimiro Valiente, a Spaniard living in exile from the Spanish civil war, where he had fought on the side of the Free French Forces and been wounded at the Battle of Narvik.

During one of those missions, on 27 June 1944, a B-17 of KG 200, with Luftwaffe Geschwaderkennung code A3 + FB, landed in Manises airport ( Valencia ) and was interned by the Spanish government.

The brand " La Giralda " was registered in 1944 by Francisco Gomez Lopez using what it used to be the emblem of the Spanish association of olive exporters.

The AFA was a Spanish automobile manufactured between 1943 and 1944.

Enrique Barόn Crespo ( born 27 March 1944 in Madrid ) is a Spanish politician and lawyer.

Overprinted sets of Spanish Moroccan stamps were issued in 1934 through 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946 and 1948.

He worked steadily and appeared in over 100 films including The Princess and the Pirate ( 1944 ), The Spanish Main ( 1945 ), Sinbad the Sailor ( 1947 ), Born to Kill ( 1947 ), People Will Talk ( 1951 ), and Call Me Madam ( 1953 ).

José Luis Garci ( born as José Luis García Muñoz ; 20 January 1944 in Madrid, Spain ) is a Spanish director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author.

* O ' DUFFY, Eoin ( 1892 – 1944 ) Leader of the Blueshirts, Fine Gael and the Irish Brigade of the Spanish Civil War.

The Spanish National Energy Corporation ( Endesa ) was founded in 1944 and in 1949 it opened Spain's first coal-fueled power plant in Ponferrada, Compostilla I.