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* 1944 – William Stephens, American politician ( b. 1859 )
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" 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 )
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* 1859 – William Stephens, American politician and 24th Governor of California ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – William J. Fallon, U. S. Navy Admiral, former U. S. Central Command commander
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.
His crew for the mission, which occurred on September 2, 1944, included Radioman Second Class John Delaney and Lieutenant Junior Grade William White.
William Gary Busey ( born June 29, 1944 ), best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor, and artist.
On July 10, 1944, a U. S. Navy Martin PBM-3-D Mariner flying boat ( BuNo 48199 ), piloted by William Hines, had an engine fire and made a forced landing in the ocean offshore of Howland.
* 1944 – William Sanderson, American actor
The longest serving president in Liberian history was William Tubman, serving from 1944 until his death in 1971.
* William B. Mayo, ( 1860 – 1944 ), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company
* 1878 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American scion ( d. 1944 )
Rudolph William Louis " Rudy " Giuliani, KBE (; born May 28, 1944 ) is an American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York.
** William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury ( d. 1944 )
* January 11 – William E. Reynolds, Commandant of the United States Coastguard ( d. 1944 )
** William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and naval historian ( d. 1944 )
* February 10 – William Allen White, American journalist ( d. 1944 )
* April 1 – William James Sidis, American mathematician ( d. 1944 )
* November 21 – William Emerson Ritter, American biologist ( d. 1944 )
He was promoted to full colonel at the end of March 1944, as Assistant Director of Military Intelligence in India, giving intelligence support to the Burma campaign of William Slim.
William Hale Thompson ( May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944 ) was Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.
Director William Wyler had flown combat missions over Europe in filming Memphis Belle ( 1944 ) and worked hard to get accurate depictions of the combat veterans he had encountered.
* Lionel Robert Wilberforce ( 1861 – 1944 ), British physicist, great-grandson of William Wilberforce and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum
Commander William S. Donaldson III ( 1944 – August 22, 2001 ) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran.
* Buckingham, William F., Arnhem 1944.
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