* 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician

* 1944 – Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner ( d. 1988 )

* 1944 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer

* December 22 – Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, Brazilian environmental activist ( b. 1944 )

* Chico Buarque ( born 1944 ), Brazilian singer and writer

* Chico Mendes ( 1944 – 1988 ), Brazilian environmental activist

From 1944, he maintained a relationship with Brazilian singer and guitarist Olga Praguer Coelho, which was to last for over a decade.

* Eliseu Visconti ( 1866 – 1944 ) Brazilian

Sebastião Salgado ( born February 8, 1944 ) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.

This air-land force fought in Italy from September 1944 to May 1945, while the Brazilian Navy as well as the Air Force also acted in the Atlantic Ocean from the middle of 1942 until the end of war.

In late July, two more transports with Brazilian troops reached Italy, with three more following in September and November 1944, and February 1945.

Between the end of February and beginning of March 1945, in preparation for the Spring offensive, the Brazilian Division and the U. S. 10th Mountain Division were able to capture important positions on the Apennines, which deprived the Germans of key artillery positions on the mountains, whose effective fire had since the fall of 1944 blocked the Allied path to Bologna.

The Brazilian pilots initially flew from 31 October 1944, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons, at first in affiliation flights and progressively taking part in more dangerous missions.

Brazilian Expeditionary Force | Brazilian troops arrived in the Italian city of Massarosa-Italy-Sep 1944.

* Chico Mendes ( 1944 – 1988 ), Brazilian environmental activist

In 1944 he gained further notoriety by writing a glowing preface to the Brazilian translation of The Soviet Power by the Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, the Anglican Dean of Canterbury known as " The Red Dean " for his uncompromising support of the Soviet Union.

The General arrived in Italy with the first Brazilian troops in June 1944 and commanded the Brazilian forces until the surrender of the Axis forces in Italy, on May 2, 1945.

Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira ( born December 13, 1944 in Brazil ), more famous under his pen name Léo is a Brazilian comics creator.

The Brazilian pilots initially flew from 31 October 1944, as individual elements of flights attached to 350th FG squadrons, at first in affiliation flights and progressively taking part in more dangerous missions.

Between 1944 and 1949 he was a member of the Brazilian Writers Association ( Rio de Janeiro branch ).

Cristovam Ricardo Cavalcanti Buarque ( in standard orthography, Cristóvão Ricardo Cavalcate Buarque ; or ; Recife, February 20, 1944 ) is a Brazilian politician and university professor, member of Democratic Labour Party ( PDT ).

* Gabriel Chagas ( born 1944 ), a Brazilian bridge player

* 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.

* 1944 – The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with CSAR operations in the China-Burma-India theater.

* 1996 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Soviet Air Force general and Chechen leader, 1st President of Ichkeria ( b. 1944 )

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

* 1944 – World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U. S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.

At the end of 1944, Kelly enlisted in the U. S. Naval Air Service and was commissioned as lieutenant junior grade.

Howland was occupied by a battalion of the United States Marine Corps in September 1943 and known as Howland Naval Air Station until May 1944.

* 1944 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist ( Traffic and Ginger Baker's Air Force ) ( d. 1983 )

One month after his 18th birthday on 19 May 1944 Brabham enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

The Balkan Air Force was formed in June 1944 to control operations that were mainly aimed at aiding his forces.

Soon after Le Mans was liberated by the U. S. 79th and 90th Infantry Divisions on 8 August 1944, engineers of the Ninth Air Force IX Engineering Command began construction of a combat Advanced Landing Ground outside of the town.

His preference was for navigator rather than pilot, for which he underwent extensive training in Canada, to qualify as an Air Navigator with the rank of Sergeant in 1944.

* 1944 – The Soviet Air Forces conduct heavy bombing on Tallinn, Estonia, killing 757 people, mostly civilians.

* 1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.

* 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12, 000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

* 1944 – Denny Laine, English musician ( Moody Blues, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings )

Sometime soon after 1944, she held a brief job at Maxwell Air Force Base, which as federal property did not permit racial segregation.

On 26 June 1944, it was bombed by the British Royal Air Force which mistakenly believed it had been overrun by German forces and was being used to amass stores and ammunitions.

SAC's United States Army Air Forces predecessor, the Continental Air Forces, was established on 13 December 1944 and activated on 15 December 1944.