* 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English pilot ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player ( b. 1879 )

* 1944 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher

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

* 1944 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor

* " 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.

* Roger Wybot ( 1944 – 1959 )

* Roger King ( 1944 – 2007 ), Producer, Owner of King World Productions, produces game shows such as Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy!

* Dr. Roger C. Schlobin, ( b. 1944 ).

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE ( born 1 March 1944 ), is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who.

* Roger Touhy, Gangster, 1944

The original members were Reg King ( lead vocals ) ( born Reginald King, 5 February 1945, Paddington, West London, died, 8 October 2010, Belvedere, Kent ), Alan ' Bam ' King ( lead guitar, vocals ) ( born Alan King, 18 September 1945, Muswell Hill, North London ), Mike " Ace " Evans ( bass guitar, vocals ) ( born Michael Evans, 10 July 1944, Henley, Berkshire, died 15 January 2010, London ) and Roger Powell ( drums ) ( born 4 July 1945, Camden Town, North West London ).

* Roger Daltrey ( born 1944 ) – rock singer with The Who

Roger Manvell's authoritative Film ( Pelican Books, 1944, 1950 revision, p. 208 ) refers to a first London showing in 1946.

This led to a further re-flowering-in the Depression and war years between 1930 and 1955-and this can be seen in the work of: artists such as John Piper ; John Tunnard, David Jones ; Graham Sutherland ; John Craxton ; John Minton ; Stanley Spencer ; Eric Ravilious ; Robin Tanner ; Bettina Shaw-Lawrence ; writers such as John Cowper Powys ; J. R. R. Tolkien ; Mervyn Peake ; C. S. Lewis ; Arthur Machen ; T. H. White ; Dylan Thomas ; Geoffrey Grigson ; and Herbert Read ; film-makers such as Humphrey Jennings ; Powell and Pressburger ( e. g.: A Canterbury Tale, 1944 and Gone to Earth, 1950 ); and photographers such as Edwin Smith ; Roger Mayne ; and John Deakin.

Roger Short MVO ( 9 December 1944 – 20 November 2003 ) was a veteran British diplomat who was killed on 20 November 2003 in a truck bombing in Istanbul while serving as the British Consul-General in Turkey.

Roger Philip Bresnahan ( June 11, 1879 – December 4, 1944 ), nicknamed " The Duke of Tralee ", was an American player and manager in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

Live-action and animation were later combined to successful effect in features such as The Three Caballeros ( 1944 ), Anchors Aweigh ( 1945 ), Song of the South ( 1946 ), Mary Poppins ( 1964 ), Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 ), Heavy Traffic ( 1973 ), Coonskin ( 1975 ) Pete's Dragon ( 1977 ), Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), Rock-a-Doodle ( 1992 ), Cool World ( 1992 ), The Pagemaster ( 1994 ) Space Jam ( 1996 ), and Looney Tunes: Back In Action ( 2003 ).

* Roger Rees ( born 1944 ), British-American actor

Roger Dean ( born 31 August 1944 ) is an English artist, designer, architect, and publisher.

Roger Maurice Knapman ( born 20 February 1944 in Crediton, Devon ) is a British politician and the former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ).

Roger Helmer ( born 25 January 1944 in London ) is a British business executive and politician and a United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region.

By the time shooting resumed in Paris in early spring of 1944, the Director of Photography, Roger Hubert, had been assigned to another production and Philippe Agostini, who replaced him, had to analyze all the reels in order to match the lighting of the non-sequential shot list ; all the while, electricity in the Paris Studios was intermittent.

* Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors ( 1944 )

* 1898 – Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr ( d. 1944 )

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( commonly called Kaj Munk ) ( 13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944 ) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.

* Aimee Semple McPherson ( 1890 – 1944 ) Evangelist, pastor, and organizer of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

In 1944 Torrey Johnson, a Baptist minister and pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church staged " Chicagoland for Christ " and became the most successful advocate of this type of campaign.

The Voice of the Martyrs was founded in 1967 by Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Lutheran / Anglican pastor, who had worked with the underground church in Romania after it was taken over by the USSR in 1944.

Emanuel Cleaver II ( born October 26, 1944 ) is a United Methodist pastor and the U. S. Representative for, serving since 2005.

Dr. Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson ( March 23, 1913 – May 21, 2009 ) was the pastor of Angelus Temple and president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, serving in that capacity from 1944 to 1988.

* 1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate

* 1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist ( b. 1875 )

He was offered a post at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich in 1944 and finally managed to travel there in March 1945.

In 1944, the Swiss Council of States granted permission to build the proposed power station.

Fellow Swiss musician Ernest Ansermet, a champion of his music from 1918 on, conducted recordings of many of Martin's works, such as the oratorio for soloists, double chorus & orchestra In Terra Pax, written in 1944, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 14, 1944 and handed over office on June 30, 1961.

Edmund Schulthess ( Brugg, 2 March 1868-22 April 1944 ) was a Swiss politician.

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 13, 1928 and handed over office on December 31, 1944.

In 1944, after the failed July 20th assassination attempt against Hitler, Gisevius first hid at the home of his future wife, the Swiss national Gerda Woog, and fled to Switzerland in 1945, making him one of the few conspirators to survive the war.

Perhaps the largest and best-known operation by the Milice was the Battle of Glières, its attempt in March 1944 to suppress the Resistance in the département of Haute-Savoie in the southeast of France near the Swiss border.

By November 1944, over 100 U. S. airmen were confined in Wauwilermoos, and were only released after the U. S. Legation in Switzerland presented a protest authorized by the acting U. S. Secretary of State, which accused the Swiss Army of violating provisions of the 1929 Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war.

* Dieter Moebius ( born 1944 ), German / Swiss musician

Wolfgang Schirmacher ( born 1944 ) is a Swiss editor and educator in the field of philosophy and the program director at the European Graduate School.

* Claude Nicollier ( born 1944 ), first Swiss astronaut

They won the Swiss championship in the years 1936, 1949 and 1961 and the prestigious Spengler Cup in 1944 and 1945.

From 1932 Sion played in the fourth tier of Swiss football, where they spent much of the next twenty years, briefely interrupted by promotion to the third tier in 1944, quickly followed by relegation in 1946.

Carl Aeschbacher ( 31 March 1886 in Bümpliz, Bern-29 January 1944 in Zürich ), sometimes also spelled " Äschbacher ", was a Swiss choir leader and composer.

Graham won the Governor General's Award twice, for her first novel Swiss Sonata in 1938, and for Earth and High Heaven in 1944.

* Maximilian Jaeger, Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944

* Marie-Louise ( film ), 1944 Swiss film

Edgar Parin, originally of Swiss citizenship, was born in Munich, Germany to the noted Italian portrait painter Gino Parin ( 1867 – 1944 ) and Ella Auler, a talented artist and musician who had moved from St. Louis to Paris.

1944 )), a splinter-group of Swiss Party of Labour in Basel.

This series, published with colorful illustrations, included such titles as Heidi, an expurgated edition of Gulliver's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, The Boy's King Arthur ( published under the title King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table ), and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( a 1956 reprinting of the 1944 edition with new illustrations by Evelyn Copelman, and published under the title The Wizard of Oz ).

* Stephanie von Fürstenberg ( born 1944 ), a Swiss German painter