Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

" at Civic Auditorium in Oakland, California, in January 1944.

In January 1944, he resumed command of ETOUSA and the following month was officially designated as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ), serving in a dual role until the end of hostilities in Europe in May 1945.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Munch died in his house at Ekely near Oslo on 23 January 1944, about a month after his 80th birthday.

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

The communist partisans regrouped and gained control of southern Albania in January 1944.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

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.

He was arrested and subsequently assassinated by the Gestapo on the night of 4 January 1944 at Hørbylunde, near Silkeborg.

* Syria ( France ), 29 September 1923 – 1 January 1944.

In January 1944, the Istiqlal ( Independence ) Party, which subsequently provided most of the leadership for the nationalist movement, released a manifesto demanding full independence, national reunification, and a democratic constitution.

The RAF bombing raid on the night of 16 January 1944, destroyed much of the city.

Paul John Keating ( born 18 January 1944 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996.

After a site survey in September by Papa Riedel and Schubert, Kammler chose the code name Zement ( cement ) for it in December, and work to blast an underground cavern into a cliff at Lake Traunsee near Gmunden commenced in January 1944.

Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.

The total number of Rifle Corps started at 62 on 22 June 1941, dropped to six by 1 January 1942, but then increased to 34 by February 1943, and 161 by New Year's Day 1944.

* Sir Lyman Poore Duff ( as Chief Justice, ( March 17, 1933 – January 2, 1944 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, June 4, 1906 )

* Henry Hague Davis ( January 31, 1935 – June 30, 1944 )

27 December 1943 the Free French authorities agreed to transfer their remaining powers to Syria from 1 January 1944.

" Premiered respectively by Prokofiev ( No. 6: 8 April 1940 ), Sviatoslav Richter ( No. 7: Moscow, 18 January 1943 ) and Emil Gilels ( No. 8: Moscow, 30 December 1944 ), they were subsequently championed in particular by Richter.

She has four children: Karenna Aitcheson Gore Schiff ( born on August 6, 1973 ), Kristin Carlson Gore ( born on June 5, 1977 ), Sarah LaFon Gore ( born on January 7, 1979 ), and Albert Gore III ( born on October 19, 1982 ).

On January 1, 1875, Jacob Schiff ( 1847-1920 ), Solomon Loeb's son-in-law, joined the firm and began a remarkable reign as its leader, during which it grew to be the second most prestigious investment bank in the United States, behind J. Pierpont Morgan's, J. P. Morgan & Co.

Jacob Henry Schiff ( born Jakob Heinrich Schiff ; January 10, 1847 – September 25, 1920 ) was an American banker, businessman, and philanthropist.

Schiff accepted Kuhn's invitation in January 1875, bringing to Kuhn, Loeb & Company his connections with Sir Ernest Cassel of London, Robert Fleming of Dundee ( later of London ), and Edouard Noetzlin of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas.

Anne implies in her diary ( 12 January 1944 ) that Peter Schiff gave her a pendant as a gift, which she cherished from then on.

Moritz Schiff ( January 28, 1823, Frankfurt am Main – October 6, 1896, Geneva ) was a German physiologist.

Warburg, the School of American Ballet opened to students on January 2, 1934, less than 3 months after Balanchine arrived in the U. S. Later that year, Balanchine had his students play a recital, where they premiered his new work Serenade to music by Tchaikovsky at the Warburg's summer estate.

In January 1964 it was published in the United Kingdom as Monkey Planet by Secker & Warburg of London, then re-issued as Planet of the Apes in August 1973 to tie it in to the film franchise it inspired.

In January 1986, Warburg Pincus sold 15 percent of the studio's stock to Viacom International, a cable and broadcasting company.

On 1 January 1975 came municipal reorganization, which saw 16 formerly independent municipalities merged into a new greater town of Warburg.

In January 1970, Siegmund finally got the name changed to E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Company to differentiate it from S. G. Warburg & Company.

Hermann Oppenheim ( January 1, 1858, Warburg, Province of Westphalia-May 5, 1919, Berlin ) was one of the leading neurologists in Germany.

Paul Moritz Warburg ( August 10, 1868 – January 24, 1932 ) was a German-born American banker and early advocate of the U. S. Federal Reserve System.

Warburg died at his home in New York City on January 24, 1932, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

( However, Paul Warburg died in January 1932, before Hitler was elected Chancellor.

In January 1768, Mesmer married Anna Maria von Posch, a wealthy widow, and established himself as a physician in the Austrian capital Vienna.

On January 6, 1759, Washington married the wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis, then 28 years old.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

After practicing as a circuit lawyer for several years, Jefferson married the 23-year-old widow Martha Wayles Skelton on January 1, 1772.

* January 8 – Michiel de Ruyter marries the widow Anna van Gelder and plans retirement, but months later becomes a vice-commodore in the First Anglo-Dutch War.

** January – Harold II marries Edith, daughter of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia, and widow of Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

About January 1066, Harold married Edith ( or Ealdgyth ), daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, and widow of the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

On 5 January 1066, according to the Vita Ædwardi Regis, he died, but not before briefly regaining consciousness and commending his widow and the kingdom to Harold's " protection ".

The last member of the family, Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, widow of the 4th baron and Paul Reuter's granddaughter-in-law, died on January 25, 2009, at the age of 96.

* 21 January 1793 – 16 October 1793: La Veuve (" the widow ") Capet

His unfinished opera Die drei Pintos ( The Three Pintos ) was originally given by Weber's widow to Giacomo Meyerbeer for completion ; it was eventually completed by Gustav Mahler, who conducted the first performance in this form in Leipzig on 20 January 1888.

* On January 5, 1172, Donna Berta di Bernardo, a widow and resident of the house of dell ' Opera di Santa Maria, bequeathed sixty soldi to the Opera Campanilis petrarum Sancte Marie.

On January 14, 1878, Mrs. William Flemming, who was newly a widow, gave Dr. Carter the two lots south of his home site.

John Howard was married firstly in 1442 to Katherine Moleyns ( 1429 – 3 November 1465 ), the daughter of William de Moleyns and Anne Whalesborough of Cornwall by whom he had six children ; and then secondly sometime before 22 January 1467 to Margaret ( 1436 – 1494 ), the daughter of Sir John Chedworth and his wife, Margaret Bowett, and widow, firstly of Nicholas Wyfold ( 1420 – 1456 ), the Lord Mayor of London and, secondly, of Sir John Norreys ( 1400 – 1466 ), Keeper of the Wardrobe.

On 8 January 1652 he married the widow Anna van Gelder and decided the time had come to retire.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

He died of lung cancer on January 15, 1983, age 80, leaving behind a widow and three children.

He died on 7 January 1988, from a combination of bronchitis, influenza and jaundice, in Arkley, Barnet, aged 74, survived by his widow Helen.

* January 2 — The first All-Star game in ice hockey history is held at Montreal to benefit the widow of Hod Stuart, killed in an off-season swimming accident.

His second wife, whom he married between 12 March 1625 and 20 January 1626, was Susan ( née Rowe ) Halliday ( 1582-1646 ), daughter of Sir Henry Rowe, Lord Mayor of London, and his wife, Susan Kighley, and widow of William Halliday ( d. 1624 ), Alderman of London.

Margaret Neville died between 20 November 1506 and 14 January 1507, and Oxford married secondly Elizabeth Scrope, the widow of his colleague William, 2nd Viscount Beaumont, and daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Scrope, the second son of Henry, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton, by Eleanor, the daughter of Norman Washbourne.

It was reported in the London Evening Standard on 11 January 2006 that, as a widow living alone, the seven-bedroom house was too full of memories and that she wanted to sell her lease.

One of his great-grandfathers, Pierre de Lesseps ( Bayonne, 2 January 1690 – Bayonne, 20 August 1759 ), son of Bertrand Lesseps ( 1649 – 1708 ) and wife ( m. 18 April 1675 ) Louise Fisson ( 1654 – 1690 ), was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II of Spain, exiled to Bayonne after the accession of Philip V, and married on 7 January 1715 his great-grandmother Catherine Fourcade ( 2 June 1690 – 22 August 1760 ), by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom died in childhood: Dominique de Lesseps ( 1715 – 1794 ), Pierre de Lesseps ( 1716 –?

Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx ( born 12 January 1916 ) is an English poet, best known as the widow of former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.