Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

Working closely with Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt sent his forces into the Pacific against Japan, then into North Africa against Italy and Germany, and finally into Europe starting with France and Italy in 1944 against the Germans.

* Joseph Matthew Sebastian was a major political figure in St. Kitts from 1918 to his death in 1944.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

* November 28 – WWII – Tehran Conference: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy ( on November 30 they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord ).

* July 15 – Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist ( d. 1944 )

Joseph Stalin awarded the unit the name Niemen for its participation in the Battle of the Niemen River ( 1944 ).

* Balkoski, Joseph, Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain ( 24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951 ), generally known as Philippe Pétain ( or Marshal Pétain ( Maréchal Pétain ), was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France ( Chef de l ' État Français ), a puppet government, from 1940 to 1944.

* Joseph Hone, editor ( 1944 ), J. B. Yeats Letters to his son W. B. Yeats and Others 1969-1922, Faber and Faber, 1 & 2 eds., republished Martin Secker and Waburg Ltd, ( 1983 ).

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

* Papers of Joseph W. Carlson ( an officer with the Army Corps of Engineers at Normandy Base Section ( 1944 )) — Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

* Angell, Joseph W., " History of the Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command – Part One – Historical Outline 1933 – 1944 ", The Historical Branch, Army Air Forces Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Florida, 1944, reprint by Office of History, Munitions Systems Division, Eglin AFB, Florida, 1989

* Joseph Brinkman ( born April 9, 1944 in Little Falls, Minnesota ) was raised in Holdingford, Minnesota and graduated from Holdingford High School.

* William Joseph Fallon ( born 1944 ), United States Navy Admiral who is the current Commander of United States Central Command.

* William Joseph Fallon ( born 1944 ), United States Navy Admiral who is the current Commander of United States Central Command.

* Joseph W. Harding, 1944 to 1949

Joseph Stalin chose Bagration as the name of the Soviet offensive launched on 22 June 1944 that defeated the German Army Group Centre and drove the forces of Nazi Germany out of what is now Belarus.

* John Gibson and Joseph Julian in the 1943 – 1944 radio series The Adventures of Nero Wolfe

It was also presented as an hour-long drama on Lux Radio Theater, first on April 27, 1942 with Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, then on May 8, 1944 with Joseph Cotten and Irene Dunne.

Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci was born on the 28 October 1944, several weeks after the liberation of Paris, in a hospital in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.

* 1944 – 1953: Joseph Leclercq ( PSB )

A review for the 1944 Joseph Lewis film Minstrel Man stated " the music, scored by Ferde Grofé, is an outstanding item.

In 1944, Stalin met with Churchill in the Moscow Conference.

Italian and French communist leaders were prevented by party rules from pointing out that it was actually Stalin who had directed them not to take opposition stances in 1944.

Roosevelt gave Stalin a pledge that he had been waiting for since June 1941: that the British and the Americans would open a second front in France in the spring of 1944.

In February 1944 Stalin deported all the Chechens and Ingush to Kazakh and Kirghiz SSRs.

He graduated in 1944 and then moved to the Stalin Naval Air School.

Stalin removed Timoshenko from front-line command, giving him roles as overall commander of the Stalingrad ( June 1942 ), then North-Western ( October 1942 ), Leningrad ( June 1943 ), Caucasus ( June 1944 ) and Baltic ( August 1944 ) fronts.

During the Moscow Conference in October 1944 Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, proposed an agreement to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on how to split up Eastern Europe into spheres of influence after the war.

The new anthem was presented to Stalin in the summer of 1943 and was introduced as the country's new anthem on January 1, 1944.

His choir participated successfully in the Universal Exposition of 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, Stalin commissioned him and lyrist Sergey Mikhalkov to create a new Soviet national anthem, which was officially adopted on 1 January 1944.

In October 1944, Churchill traveled to Moscow and agreed to divide the Balkans into respective spheres of influence, and at Yalta Roosevelt signed a separate deal with Stalin in regard of Asia and refused to support Churchill on the issues of Poland and the Reparations.

On September 21, 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in the Karagandy Province of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic ( SSR ) of the Soviet Union, in the small village of Shakai, during the mass deportation of the Chechen people ordered in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.

Meeting with Stalin in Moscow on 9 October 1944, Churchill penciled a list of which power was to have what degree of " dominance " in each country lying between the Soviet Union and western Europe.

On 22 July 1944, Stalin announced the creation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, the PKWN.

There is no doubt that Stalin meant all this seriously, and tried to prove it by dissolving the Comintern in 1943, and the Communist Party of the USA in 1944.

In 1944 all Kalmyks were expelled to Siberia by Stalin, accused of supporting invading Axis armies attacking Stalingrad ( Volgograd ).

In 1944 and 1945, the last two years of the Second World War the award ceremonies for the Stalin Prize were not held.

Soviet leadership policies were often more measured, however: the Soviet Union eventually withdrew from Northern Iran, at Anglo-American behest ; Stalin did observe his 1944 agreement with Churchill and did not aid the communists in the struggle against government in Greece ; in Finland he accepted a friendly, non-communist government ; and Russian troops were withdrawn from Czechoslovakia by the end of 1945.

In 1944 he was appointed Deputy Commissar for Defence, under Stalin, and served as Stalin's principal agent in the High Command of the Red Army.