1944 deaths

British sailor (1882-1944)

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

British Army officer, creator of the Chindit mission in World War II (1903–1944)

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

former President of Argentina (1873-1944)

47th Secretary of the Navy of the United States (1874-1944)

Finnish poet (1901-1944)

Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and author (1882-1944)

German army officer (1907-1944)

Dutch politician (1869-1944)

French anarchist and art critic (1861-1944)

German general (1886–1944)

American artist and illustrator (1867-1944)

Polish-Russian-German SS-Brigadeführer (1899-1944)

French poet and novelist (1908–1944)

Soviet WWII sniper and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1919–1944)

Czech theologian, orientalist and explorer (1868–1944)

Austro-Hungarian army officer

Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)

Christian philosopher, Teacher of Esoteric Christianity (1864–1944)

Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)

German general and resistance fighter (1886–1944)

American illustrator (1874-1944)

American actor and comedian (1884–1944)

British military officer during World Wars I and II (1892–1944)

German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1918–1944)

Paraguayan composer and musician (1885-1944)

Soviet War Hero (1902–1944)

Indian Bengali educationist

Polish American Yiddish novelist and translator (1893-1944)

Czech composer (1899-1944)

Dutch footballer (1903-1944)

British diplomat and Viceroy of India (1858–1944)

French association football player (1905-1944)

admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

German boxer (1907-1943)

German politician (1896-1944)

Russian and Soviet linguist (1880-1944)

German Jewish painter, murdered by Nazis in the Holocaust (1904–1944)

French Guiana politician (1884-1944)

Olympic wrestler (1902–1944)

Danish playwright (1898–1944)

British writer and literary critic (1863–1944)

Danish prince (1887–1944)

British physicist (1855-1944)

Italian writer and activist (1909–1944)

German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism (1881–1944)

Heroine of the Soviet Union and WWII bomber navigator (1920-1944)

Austrian policeman and war criminal (1904-1944)

British politician, businessman and army officer (1880-1944)

English paleontologist (1864–1944)

Polish historian (1900-1944)

Serbian Chetnik commander (1879–1944)

Crimean Tatar embroiderer and master weaver (1879–1974)

Czech archeologist (1865–1944)

German general (1896–1944)

French equestrian (1887–1944)

Romanian biologist and naturalist (1867-1944)

American politician (1861–1944)

Polish general (1895–1944)