Famous Deaths for Year 1944

Months in Year 1944: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 1 - 150 of 256

Jan 1st - C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies
Jan 1st - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
Jan 1st - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
Jan 3rd - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
Jan 4th - Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder
Jan 4th - Kaj Munk, [Harald Leininger], anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies
Jan 5th - Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80
Jan 6th - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
Jan 7th - J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
Jan 7th - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
Jan 7th - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
Jan 8th - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
Jan 11th - Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies
Jan 12th - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
Jan 14th - Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
Jan 19th - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer, dies at 71
Jan 20th - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
Jan 21st - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74
Jan 21st - Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
Painter/Print Maker Edvard Munch (Jan 23rd) Jan 23rd - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream), dies at 80
Jan 23rd - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
Jan 29th - William Allen White, US journalist (Emporia Gazette), dies at 75
Jan 31st - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
Feb 1st - Martin Lunssens, composer, dies at 72
Feb 1st - Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
Feb 4th - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
Feb 4th - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
Feb 5th - Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79
Feb 7th - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
Feb 8th - Clem Wilson, cricketer (bro of Rockley, 2 Tests for Engld 1896), dies
Feb 10th - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
Feb 11th - Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies
Feb 16th - Edmund von Borck, composer, dies at 37
Feb 17th - Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter, dies at 64
Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian (Feb 1st) Feb 19th - Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer, dies at 76
Feb 21st - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
Feb 22nd - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
Feb 23rd - Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor (Bakelite), dies
Feb 24th - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
Feb 29th - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (b. 1861)
Mar 1st - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
Mar 4th - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
Mar 4th - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
Mar 4th - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
Mar 5th - Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
Mar 10th - David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
Mar 11th - Hendrik W van Loon, Neth/US radio commentator/writer, dies at 62
Mar 12th - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
Mar 14th - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
Mar 15th - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I), dies at 86
Mar 18th - Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79
Mar 19th - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
Mar 20th - Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83
Mar 22nd - ... Pucheu, French Internal minister to Vichy, executed
Mar 23rd - O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
Mar 28th - Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis
Mar 28th - Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
Mar 31st - Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
Apr 2nd - Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71
Apr 4th - John Peale Bishop, US poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51
Apr 4th - Karel Weis, composer, dies at 82
Apr 5th - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
Apr 5th - Willy Derby, [Dieben], singer (Hello Bandoeng), dies
Apr 9th - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59
Apr 9th - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
Apr 13th - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 86
Apr 13th - Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65
Apr 17th - J T Hearne, cricketer (took 49 wkts in 12 Tests for England), dies
Apr 18th - Cécile Chamindale, composer, dies
Apr 19th - Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies at 44
Apr 22nd - Mezio Agostini, composer, dies at 68
Apr 24th - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
Apr 25th - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
Apr 26th - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
Apr 28th - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
Apr 29th - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
May 9th - Ethel Mary Smyth, composer, dies at 86
May 11th - Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
May 12th - Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
May 16th - George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
May 16th - Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
May 16th - Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
May 16th - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
May 26th - C M Francois, cricketer (WWII, 252 runs in 5 Tests for South Africa), dies
May 28th - Katri Vala, Finnish poet, dies at 42
May 30th - Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
Jun 5th - Riccardo Zandonai, composer, dies at 61
Jun 6th - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
Jun 6th - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
Jun 9th - 99 inhabitants of Tulle, hanged by SS
Jun 10th - French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
Jun 10th - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41
Jun 10th - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
Jun 10th - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
Jun 13th - Christopher Heseltine, cricketer (2 Tests for England 1895-96), dies
Jun 14th - Lubor Niederle, Czech archaeologist/slavist, dies at 78
Jun 14th - Robert H Iseley, US pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle
Jun 16th - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
Jun 19th - Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899), dies
Jun 19th - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65
Jun 21st - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies
Jun 24th - Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36
Jun 25th - Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
Jun 26th - Billy Newham, cricketer (England Test 1887), dies
Jun 27th - Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52
Jun 27th - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
Jul 1st - Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49
Jul 5th - William Gillies Whittaker, composer, dies at 67
Jul 7th - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
Jul 7th - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
Jul 11th - Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle
Jul 16th - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed
Jul 17th - Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
Jul 17th - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
Jul 18th - George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60
Jul 18th - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74
Jul 19th - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
Jul 19th - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
Jul 19th - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
Jul 20th - Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71
Jul 20th - Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
Jul 20th - Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies
Jul 20th - Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
Jul 20th - Heinz Burns, German (Olympic-gold-1936), dies in bombing
Jul 20th - Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
Jul 20th - Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
Jul 20th - Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
Jul 20th - Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds
Jul 20th - Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
Jul 20th - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
Jul 21st - Gerrit van den Bosch, led illegal Dutch CPN party, dies in Dachau
Jul 21st - Henning von Tresckow, Gen-Maj, "July 20th plotter", commits suicide
Jul 23rd - Bernard M Cohen, attorney, killed at Belsen concentration camp
Jul 23rd - Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed
Jul 23rd - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79
Jul 24th - Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49
Jul 25th - Lesley J McNair, US lt-general, killed by US bomb at St-Lo
Jul 26th - Rezā Shāh Pahlavi [Rezā Khan], Shah of Iran (1925-41), dies at 66 of a heart ailment
Jul 27th - Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer, dies at 68
Aug 1st - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina, pres of Philippines (1935-42), dies at 65
Aug 3rd - Felix Nussbaum, German painter (Widerstandskunst), dies in Auschwitz
Aug 3rd - Felka Platek, wife of painter Felix Nussbaum, dies in Auschwitz
Aug 5th - Maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies
Aug 8th - Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged at 62
Aug 10th - Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, attempt Hitler assassination, dies
Aug 12th - Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., brother of President John F. Kennedy (b. 1915)
Aug 16th - Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
Aug 17th - John Trumble, cricketer (brother of Hugh 7 Tests 1885-86), dies
Aug 18th - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 87
Aug 18th - Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies