Events
January
February-March
May
June
July-August
September
October
November-December
Other events
January-July
- January 5 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- February 26 - - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
- March 1 - USS Tarawa laid down
- March 4 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing.
- May 30 - Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne resigns from her rights in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later reigning Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
- June 17 - Iceland declares full independence from Denmark.
- July 17 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California killing 232.
August-November
December
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Ongoing events
Year in topic
Births
For more 1944 births see Category:1944 births
January
February
- February 3 - Dave Davies, musician
- February 5 - Al Kooper, musician
- February 5 - Michael Mann, director, writer, producer
- February 9 - Alice Walker, writer
- February 10 - Vernor Vinge (science fiction novelist)
- February 11 - Michael G. Oxley, American politician
- February 13 - Jerry Springer, television host
- February 14 - Carl Bernstein, journalist
- February 14 - Alan Parker, director, writer
- February 16 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
- February 22 - Jonathan Demme, director
- February 23 - Johnny Winter, musician
March
- March 1 - Roger Daltrey, musician (The Who)
- March 1 - John Breaux, United States Senator from Louisiana
- March 2 - Uschi Glas, actress
- March 6 - Kiri Te Kanawa, opera singer
- March 15 - Sly Stone, singer
- March 17 - John Sebastian, singer-songwriter, also a member of the Lovin' Spoonful
- March 19 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
- March 19 - Sirhan Sirhan, assassin
- March 24 - R. Lee Ermey, actor and retired USMC gunnery sergeant
- March 26 - Diana Ross, singer
- March 28 - Rick Barry, basketball star
- March 29 - Denny McLain, baseball pitcher
April
May
- May 1 - Suresh Kalmadi, politician
- May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, actor
- May 8 - Gary Glitter, singer
- May 9 - Richie Furay, musician ("Poco", "Buffalo Springfield")
- May 10 - Jim Abrahams, director
- May 13 - Armistead Maupin, author
- May 14 - George Lucas, film director and producer
- May 18 - Justus Frantz, pianist
- May 20 - Joe Cocker, British singer
- May 20 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
- May 20 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman and founder of Red Bull
- May 21 - Mary Robinson, first female President of Ireland
- May 25 - Frank Oz, puppeteer, director
- May 28 - Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City, 1993-2001
- May 28 - Gladys Knight singer
June
August
September
October
November
- November 10 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
- November 12 - Booker T. Jones, musician, singer, songwriter ("Booker T. and the M.G.'s")
- November 12 - Al Michaels, sportscaster
- November 17 - Danny DeVito, actor
- November 17 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- November 17 - Lorne Michaels, producer
- November 17 - Tom Seaver, Baseball Hall of Fame player
- November 25 - Ben Stein, law professor, actor, and author.
December
Deaths
For more 1944 deaths see Category:1944 deaths
January-May
- January 11 - Edgard Potier, Belgian MI9 agent - Head of Possum Escape Line (b. 1903)
- January 20 - James McKeen Cattell, first professor of psychology in U.S.
- January 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter
- January 31 - William Allen White, journalist (b. 1868)
- February 1 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter
- February 11 - Carl Meinhof, German linguist
- February 11 - Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Dmitri Shostakovich
- March 12 - Werner Drechsler, of U-118
- March 22 - Pierre Brossolette, journalist, French Resistance fighter
- March 24 - Orde Wingate, British soldier
- April 9 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet World War II heroine, killed by Nazis
- April 19 - Thomas Hitchcock Jr, polo player
- April 28 - Paul Poiret, French couturier
- May 12 - Max Brand, author
- May 12 - Q, British writer
- May 16 - George Ade, author
July-August
- July 6 - Andrée Borrel, SOE agent, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 6 - Vera Leigh, SOE agent, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 6 - Sonia Olschanezky, SOE recruit, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 6 - Diana Rowden, SOE agent, WW II heroine executed by the Nazis
- July 26 - Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran
- July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer
- August 8 - Chaim Soutine, painter
- August 12 - Suzanne Spaak, Belgian heroine of WW II, executed by the Nazis
- August 23 - Abdul Mejid II, Deposed Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
- August 26 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, lawyer, diplomat executed by the Nazis
- August 27 - Princess Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy, executed by the Nazis
September-November
- September 6 - Gustave Biéler, heroic SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- September 8 ? Lela Carayannis, who led Greece?s largest anti-fascist resistance movement during World War II, executed by the Nazis
- September 9 - Robert Benoist, Grand Prix driver/war hero, executed by the Nazis
- September 11 - Madeleine Damerment, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis
- September 11 - Eliane Plewman, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis
- September 11 - Noor Inayat Khan, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis
- September 11 - Yolande Beekman, WW II heroine, executed by the Nazis
- September 13 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator
- September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
- October 14 - Erwin Rommel, German Feldmarschall (b. 1891)
- October 21 - Alois Kayser, German missionary, working in Nauru
- November 2 - Thomas Midgley, chemist and inventor
- November 7 - Hannah Szenes, WW II heroine, executed
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