" 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 )

* 1944 – Peter Weir, Australian director

The term ballad opera has also been used to describe musicals using folk music, such as The Martins and the Coys in 1944, and Peter Bellamy's The Transports in 1977.

* 1944 – Peter Asher, English singer, guitarist, and producer ( Peter & Gordon )

* 1944 – Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader

* 1864 – Peter Deunov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Peter Lynch, American investor

On 17 June 1944 on the Dalmatian island of Vis, the Treaty of Vis ( Viški sporazum ) was signed in an attempt to merge Tito's government ( the AVNOJ ) with the government in exile of King Peter II.

On 12 September 1944, King Peter II called on all Yugoslavs to come together under Tito's leadership and stated that those who did not were " traitors.

The last time Riefenstahl saw Hitler was when she married Peter Jacob on March 21, 1944, shortly after she had introduced Jacob to Hitler in Kitzbühel, Austria.

* 1944 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer ( The Wailers ) ( d. 1987 )

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

* 1944 – Peter Bellamy, English singer-songwriter ( The Young Tradition ) ( d. 1991 )

** Peter Allen, Australian singer, songwriter ( b. 1944 )

** Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician ( b. 1944 )

* March 31 – Hermann van Pels, German-Dutch father of Peter van Pels, housemate of Anne Frank ( d. 1944 )

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( born 21 August 1944 ) is an Australian film director.

Back in 1937, with the inheritance following the death of his mother, Britten had bought The Old Mill in Snape, Suffolk, which became his Suffolk home, and this is where he spent much of his time in 1944 working on Peter Grimes.

Peter Tosh ( born Winston Hubert McIntosh, 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987 ), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers ( 1963 – 1974 ), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.

* Peter Roehr ( 1944 – 68 ), artist

Timothy Peter Dalton ( born 21 March 1944 or 1946 ) is a British

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, comprising Peter Asher ( b. 1944 ) and Gordon Waller ( 1945-2009 ), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No. 1 smash " A World Without Love ".

A book of airs, as written to be sung to the lute and viol ( Peter Pauper Press, 1944 ).