After gaining independence in 1943, the Lebanese government formed an official delegation in 1944 to negotiate with the French the terms related to handing over the LAF.

* Rafic Hariri ( 1944 – 2005 ), Lebanese business tycoon and Lebanese Prime Minister ( 1992 – 1998 ; 2000 – 2004 )

In 1944, the Syrian and Lebanese parties became separate organisations.

* Boutros Harb ( born 1944 ), Lebanese politician

For about twenty years, the LCP organized communist political activities in both Lebanon and Syria, but in 1944 the party was split into the Lebanese Communist Party and the Syrian Communist Party.

Karim Pakradouni ( ) ( born 18 August 1944 ) is a Lebanese attorney and politician of Armenian origin.

Dahesh was imprisoned on September 9, 1944 and later on stripped of his Lebanese nationality and exiled from Lebanon in 1944 during the reign of Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury.

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician

* 1944 – Glenn Miller, American musician ( presumed date of death ) ( b. 1904 )

* 1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

* 1944 – Eric Bloom, American musician ( Blue Öyster Cult )

* 1944 – Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive and politician

* 1944 – Mick Jones, British musician ( Foreigner )

* 1944 – Guido De Angelis, Italian musician

* 1944 – Bobby Colomby, American musician ( Blood, Sweat & Tears )

* 2002 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian musician ( The Lovin ' Spoonful ) ( b. 1944 )

* 1944 – Nicky Hopkins, British musician ( d. 1994 )

* 1944 – Johnny Winter, American musician

* 1944 – Al Kooper, American musician

* 1944 – John " Charlie " Whitney, English musician ( Family, Axis Point, Streetwalkers )

* 1944 – Michel Polnareff, French singer-songwriter and musician

* 1944 – Barbara Thomson, English musician and composer ( Colosseum )

* 1944 – Roger Daltrey, English musician ( The Who )

* 1944 – Bob Henrit, English musician ( Argent, The Roulettes, The Kinks, and Unit 4 + 2 )

* 1944 – Pete Staples, English musician ( The Troggs )

* 1944 – Gary Glitter, English singer-songwriter and musician

* Mayo Thompson ( born 1944 ), American musician and visual artist

* 1944 – Albert Hammond, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( The Family Dogg )

* 1944 – Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Poco and Buffalo Springfield )

* 1944 – Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter and musician ( d. 2003 )

* 1944 – Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist

* Clovis AAF, New Mexico, 6 February 1944

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

Between 1940 and 1944, 684 lobotomies were performed in the United States.

* " The Boy Next Door ", Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944, performed by Judy Garland.

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

* " The Trolley Song ", Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944, performed by Chorus and Judy Garland.

* " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944, performed by Judy Garland.

The opera was composed in 1941 – 1944 and first performed at La Scala opera house in Milan on February 22, 1948.

Later American composers, such as Alan Hovhaness ( beginning with his Lousadzak of 1944 ) used procedures superficially similar to Cowell's, in which different short patterns with specified pitches and rhythm are assigned to several parts, with instructions that they be performed repeatedly at their own speed without coordination with the rest of the ensemble.

During two extended tours for the USO in 1944 and 1945, she performed for Allied troops on the front lines in Algeria, Italy, England and France and went into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton.

A Child of Our Time was completed in 1941 but not performed until 1944.

His autobiographical light comedy, The Druid's Rest was first performed at the St Martin's Theatre, London, in 1944.

For the rest of the year, the orchestra played in the hall of Bedford School, and after the launch of the V-1 raids in 1944 the remaining broadcast concerts of that year's Proms season were performed at the Bedford Corn Exchange.

In 1944, Loesser worked as the lyricist on a little known musical intended to be performed by and for US soldiers abroad, titled Hi Yank !, the music for which was composed by Alex North.

By 1944, the drafting of boys resulted in most of the " land service " help with the harvest was performed by girls.

The result was the Te Deum and Jubilate of the service known as Collegium Regale, performed in 1944, followed the following year by the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and completed in 1956 by the Office of Holy Communion.

She performed as herself in several features, notably I Dood It ( MGM 1943 ), Broadway Rhythm ( MGM 1944 ), with Lena Horne and in the otherwise all-white cast The Heat's On ( Columbia 1943 ), Something to Shout About ( Columbia 1943 ), and Rhapsody in Blue ( Warner Bros 1945 ).

The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in May 1944.

During his military service Ward managed to compose two serious orchestral compositions, Adagio and Allegro, first performed in New York in 1944, and Jubilation: An Overture, which was written mostly on Okinawa, Japan, in 1945, and was premiered at Carnegie Hall by the National Orchestral Association the following spring.

He performed with the conductor Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic a second time in December 1944, playing Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.

The division performed home defence duties for most of World War II, before deactivation in 1944.

A successful outflanking manoeuvre planned and performed by General Maczek allowed the liberation of the city of Breda without any civilian casualties ( October 29, 1944 ).

In 1944 it was performed at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Birmingham from November 13th.

In April 1944, Merce Cunningham accompanied his dance with music that was composed and performed by John Cage who said that Cunningham's dance " no longer relies on linear elements (...) nor does it rely on a movement towards and away from climax.

By Autumn 1944 anti-Polish actions stopped and terror was used only against those who co-operated with the NKVD, but in late 1944 and in the beginning of 1945 UPA performed last massive anti-Polish action in Ternopil region.