1944 deaths

English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)

American journalist (1857-1944)

Slovak politician and journalist (1878-1944)

French industrialist

Mexican actress, dancer and vedette (1908—1944)

Portuguese president (1851-1944)

Hungarian Jewish Christian poet (1909–1944)

The last Amir of Emirate of Bukhara (1911–1920)

Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II

American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)

French composer and pianist (1857-1944)

German resistance fighter (1908–1944)

Black American wrongfully convicted of murder (1929–1944)

German general (1890–1944)

Russian writer (1872–1944)

American mathematician (1884-1944)

American psychologist (1860–1944)

German general (1882–1944)

French politician (1863-1944)

French cyclist (1876–1944)

Russian diarist (1930–1944)

American lawyer and corporate executive (1892–1944)

Polish poet and solider (1921–1944)

Archduchess of Austria (1867-1944)

Czech victim of Holocaust (1928–1944)

German diplomat who served as the last German ambassador to the Soviet Union before Operation Barbarossa

US Army Medal of Honor recipient (1886–1944)

French cabaret singer

American composer and pianist

Latvian politician, president of Latvia (1881-1944)

acting First Lady of the United States (1914-1915)

Vietnamese emperor (1871-1944)

Romanian writer (1885-1944)

English conductor (1869–1944)

American athlete (1873–1944)

Savoyard and Hesse-Kasselian Royal

German general (1857–1944)

American sociologist (1864–1944)

Baltic German biologist, zoologist, and philosopher (1864-1944)

Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister (1899-1944)

German Jewish film actor, director and singer murdered at Auschwitz (1897-1944)

Armenian resistance fighter and poet (1906-1944)

Austrian composer (1898–1944)

American cartoonist (1880-1944)

German resistance member (1905-1944)

Hungarian fencer (1906–1944)

Polish diplomat and military officer (1894-1944)

Russian journalist (1870–1944)

junior officer in the United States Navy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy

Soviet partisan and intelligence agent

German mathematician (1867–1944)

French engineer (1881–1944)

first woman to be ordained as a rabbi (1902–1944)

German Colonel General and Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe in World War II

French statesman and historian (1853-1944)

British aristocrat (1855-1944); father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; maternal grandfather of Elizabeth II

American middle distance runner (1872–1944)

British sailor (1882-1944)

head of the Russian Orthodox Church (1867–1944)

Nazi German police chief, extermination camp commandant, Holocaust perpetrator (1885–1944)