1944 deaths

Polish general (1895–1944)

Czech Holocaust victim

Hungarian politician (1871-1944)

actress (1908-1944)

French diplomat, writer (1859-1944)

Crimean Tatar embroiderer and master weaver (1879–1974)

Army officer (1881–1944)

Hungarian violinist and teacher, 1873-1944

German World War II general (1903–1944)

French equestrian (1887–1944)

member of the Swiss Federal Council (1868-1944)

German noble and diplomat (1909-1944)

German general (1885–1944)

actress (1864-1944)

Czech archeologist (1865–1944)

French fashion designer (1879–1944)

Serbian Chetnik commander (1879–1944)

Ukrainian symbolist poet and playwright (1878–1944)

British artist (1852–1944)

American activist (1914-1944)

Russian pianist (1874–1944)

actress and political activist, Militant Suffragette (1871-1944)

Okinawan karateka (1870–1944)

French painter (1867-1944)

Italian operatic soprano (1874-1944)

Russian artist of Jewish origin (1888-1944)

SS officer (1914–1944)

Azerbaijani geurilla (1918–1944)

Archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)

Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1885–1944)

Actor (1894-1944)

Austrian politician (1871–1944)

Catholic cardinal (1877–1944)

French-speaking Belgian liberal politician (1872–1944)

French general (1851–1944)

American sculptor (1861-1944)

Japanese admiral (1885–1944)

Turkish poet (1869–1944)

Polish politician, social worker, activist, and diplomat (1894–1944)

Soviet Air Force navigator, Heroine of the Soviet Union (1921–1944)

Argentine chess player (1900–1944)

German NAZI politician (1890-1944)

Dutch rower (1875-1944)

German handball player (1911-1944)

Polish politician and archaeologist (1892-1944)

Turkish writer (1866–1944)

British ornithologist and police officer (1864-1944)

American stage and film actor (1913–1944)

Automotive Engineer and Inventor (1865-1944)

Irish political activist, soldier and police commissioner (1890–1944)

German general (1897-1944)

Head of Judenrat in Lodz Ghetto.

American swimmer, water polo player and coach (1893–1944)

Korean writer, novelist and poet (1906–1944)

Russian aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (1920–1944)

Serbian politician and criminal (1886-1944)

educator (1860–1944)

French Jewish politician, resistance fighter and art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1885-1944)

French politician (1903-1944)

American mobster (1899-1947)