" 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 – Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., American politician

In 1944, with the threat of German flying bombs on London, Thomas moved to the family cottage in Blaen Cwm near Llangain, where Thomas resumed writing poetry, completing " Holy Spring " and " Vision and Prayer ".

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

* 1889 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American engineer and chemist ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – The first surgery ( on a human ) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

* 1870 – Thomas Curtis, American hurdler ( d. 1944 )

* Paine, Thomas ( Foner, Philip S., editor ), 1944.

* May 18 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor ( d. 1944 )

* March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist ( d. 1944 )

His Republican opponent in 1944 was Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance ( 1934 ) and Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Keats's publisher ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and a book about a game he loved, Cricket Country ( 1944 ).

In 1944, Horne met and fell in love with Marjorie Thomas, a war widow with a young daughter.

On October 9, 1981, both parties in the Mermelstein case filed motions for summary judgment in consideration of which Judge Thomas T. Johnson of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County took " judicial notice of the fact that Jews were gassed to death at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland during the summer of 1944.

Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey, who became the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the 1944 election and 1948.

Olav V of Norway | Crown Prince Olav of Norway, Princess Juliana, Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Märtha of Sweden | Crown Princess Märtha, and Thomas J. Watson in 1944

* Heck Thomas ( 1850 – 1912 ), Bill Tilghman ( 1854 – 1924 ), and Chris Madsen ( 1851 – 1944 ), the legendarily fearless " Three Guardsmen " of the Oklahoma Territory

Thomas Midgley, Jr. ( May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944 ) was an American mechanical engineer and chemist.

In 1944, a memorial marker was erected on the courthouse square " To the memory of the Denson Brothers – Seaborn M. Denson ( 1854-1936 ) and Thomas J. Denson ( 1863-1935 ) who devoted their lives and gifts to composing and teaching American religious folk music as embodied in the Sacred Harp, in most of the Southern States, but mostly in Alabama.

* Thomas E. Dewey, lawyer, author, mob-busting District Attorney of New York City, three term Governor of New York ( 1942, 1946, 1950 ), and the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948.

* Thomas D. Howie, ( April 12, 1908 – July 17, 1944 ) was an American army officer, killed during the Battle of Normandy during World War II, while trying to capture the French town of Saint-Lô.

* Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. ( 1900 – 1944 ), son of Thomas and Louise Hitchcock, was born in Aiken.