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Frederick Schiller Faust
American novelist, and short story writer (1892–1944)
Ignacio Bolívar
Spanish naturalist (1850-1944)
Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity (1890-1944)
Kang Gyeong-ae
Korean writer, novelist and poet (1906–1944)
Georg Dascher
German handball player (1911-1944)
John Walter Christie
Automotive Engineer and Inventor (1865-1944)
Georges Mandel
French Jewish politician, resistance fighter and art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1885-1944)
Tatyana Makarova
Russian aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (1920–1944)
Hamid Olimjon
writer, poet (1909–1944)
Juliette Atkinson
US tennis player (1873-1944)
Hermann Hansen
German handball player (1912-1944)
William Dickey
American Olympic diver (1874-1944)
Michael Pedersen Friis
journalist and an official and 1911-1923 he was the public trustee of Denmark
Octav Băncilă
Romanian artist (1872-1944)
Charles L. McNary
American politician
Alexander Koshetz
Ukrainian composer and musicologist (1875–1944)
Jean Prévost
French resistance member (1901–1944)
Erich Marcks
German general (1891–1944)
Itzhak Katzenelson
Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist, murdered in Holocaust (1886-1944)
Hans Graf von Sponeck
German general (1888–1944)
Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi
Indian Islamic scholar (1885–1944)
Józef Kałuża
Polish footballer (1896-1944)
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
pilot for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II (1920–1944)
David Prain
Scottish botanist and phycologist (1857-1944)
Tsunesaburō Makiguchi
Japanese educator (1871-1944)
Victor Basch
Hungarian born French literary historian, philosopher, Germanist, journalist and university teacher (1863-1944)
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
German noble (1905–1944)
Isolde Kurz
German poet (1853–1944)
Erich Salomon
German photojournalist (1886-1944)
Max Uhle
German archaeologist (1856-1944)
Eugen Burg
German actor (1871–1944)
Settela Steinbach
Holocaust victim (1934–1944)
Tadeusz Gajcy
Polish poet of the time of the war (1922–1944)
Carl Eduard Hellmayr
Austrian ornithologist (1878-1944)
Bruno Lüdke
German alleged serial killer (1908–1944)
Shōji Nishimura
Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1889-1944)
Albert B. Fall
American politician (1861–1944)
George B. Seitz
American film director, producer and screenwriter (1888-1944)
Lauri Koskela
Finnish wrestler (1907–1944)
Andrei Toshev
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1867-1944)
Eva Heyman
Holocaust victim
Inigo Campioni
Italian naval officer (1878-1944)
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski
Polish writer (1885–1944)
Dietrich Kraiss
German general (1889-1944)
Margaret Eliza Maltby
American physicist (1860–1944)
William Henry O'Connell
American Roman Catholic cardinal (1859–1944)
Grace Chisholm Young
English mathematician (1878–1944)
Ernest Townsend
painter who worked in Derby and did camouflage during WWII (1880-1944)
Rudolf Fickeisen
German rower
Ulrich Wilcken
German historian (1862–1944)
Harry Chamberlin
Equestrian and US Army brigadier general (1887–1944)
Nikolai Roslavets
Russian modernist composer and music theorist (1881–1944)
Nelson Stepanyan
Soviet aviator (1913–1944)
Caesar von Hofacker
German Luftwaffe lieutenant-colonel, member of the 20 July 1944 plot
Olga Bancic
French Resistance fighter (1912-1944)
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal
German lawyer, officer and resistance fighter (1907-1944)
Joseph Maréchal
Belgian Jesuit priest and philosopher (1878–1944)
Charles Benedict Davenport
American botanist, zoologist and eugenicist (1866 – 1944)
Joseph Jastrow
American psychologist (1863-1944)
Violeta Yakova
partisan and member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1923–1944)