1944

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1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Millennium: 2nd millennium
Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and
Centuries: 19th century ·
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the
20th century ·
2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year
of the 1940s decade. 21st century
Decades: 1920s · 1930s ·
1940s · 1950s ·
1960s
Contents
Years: 1941 · 1942 · 1943 ·
Events 1944 · 1945 · 1946 ·
Births 1947
Deaths
1944 in various calendars
Nobel Prizes
Gregorian 1944
References
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Ab urbe condita 2697
Events Armenian 1393
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Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Assyrian 6694
calendar
January Baháʼí calendar 100–101
January 2 – WWII: Balinese saka 1865–1866
calendar
Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is
appointed to command French Army B, part of the Bengali 1351
Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. calendar
Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops Berber calendar 2894
land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off
a Japanese retreat. British Regnal 8 Geo. 6 –
year 9 Geo. 6
January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops
enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon, and Buddhist 2488
attack Japanese forces. calendar
January 11 Burmese 1306
President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt calendar
proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and Byzantine 7452–7453
economic security, in his State of the Union address.
calendar
Chinese 癸未年
calendar (Water Goat)
 The Nazi German administration expands Kraków- 4640 or 4580
Płaszów concentration camp into the larger — to —
standalone Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei
Krakau.
甲申年
(Wood Monkey)
January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de 4641 or 4581
Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech.
Coptic calendar 1660–1661
January 14 – WWII: Soviet troops start the offensive at
Leningrad and Novgorod. Discordian 3110
January 15 calendar

WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division Ethiopian 1936–1937
is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest calendar
by the Polish Home Army. Hebrew 5704–5705
1944 San Juan earthquake: An earthquake hits San calendar
Juan, Argentina, killing an estimated 10,000 people,
in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history. Hindu calendars

January 17 – WWII: - Vikram 2000–2001

Samvat
The Battle of Monte Cassino begins in Italy. British
forces cross the Garigliano River. U.S. Fifth Army - Shaka 1865–1866
troops, commanded by Lieutenant-General Mark W. Samvat
Clark, arrive at the Garigliano, to begin their attack - Kali Yuga 5044–5045
against the Gustav Line south of Rome. The French
Expeditionary Corps, under command of General Holocene 11944
Alphonse Juin, moves into the mountains north of calendar
Monte Cassino.[1] Igbo calendar 944–945
The Soviet Union ceases production of the Mosin–
Iranian calendar 1322–1323
Nagant 1891/30 sniper rifle.
Meat rationing ends in Australia. Islamic calendar 1363–1364
January 20 – WWII: Japanese Shōwa 19

The Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on

calendar ( 昭和１９年)
Berlin. Javanese 1874–1875
The United States 36th Infantry Division in Italy calendar
attempts to cross the Rapido River. Juche calendar 33
January 22 – WWII: Operation Shingle: The Allies begin Julian calendar Gregorian minus
the assault on Anzio, Italy. The U.S. 45th Infantry
13 days
Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent
assaults for four months. Korean 4277
January 25 – A total solar eclipse is visible in Pacific calendar
Ocean, South America, Atlantic Ocean and Africa, the Minguo ROC 33
48th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130.
calendar ⺠國33年
January 27 - WWII:
Nanakshahi 476
The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted. calendar
Light cruiser HMS Spartan is sunk by a Henschel Hs
Thai solar 2487
293 guided missile, from a German aircraft off Anzio,
western Italy, with the loss of 46 men. calendar

January 29 – WWII: Koniuchy massacre – A unit of Tibetan 阴⽔⽺年

Soviet partisans accompanied by Jewish partisans kills calendar (female Water-Goat)
at least 38 civilians in the village of Koniuchy in Nazi 2070 or 1689 or
occupied Lithuania. 917
 January 30 – WWII: — to —

The Battle of Cisterna opens, as United States Army

阳⽊猴年
(male Wood-
Rangers attempt to break out of the Anzio
beachhead. Monkey)

United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall 2071 or 1690 or

Islands. 918
January 31 – WWII: Battle of Kwajalein: American
forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands, in the
Japanese-held Marshall Islands.

February
The Zadran tribe rises up against the Afghan
government, starting the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–
1947.[2]
US Army troops landing at Anzio
February 1 – WWII: Pacific War - United States troops during Operation Shingle, late
land in the Marshall Islands. January 1944.
February 2 – The first issue of Human Events is
published in Washington, D.C.
February 3 – WWII: United States troops capture the
Marshall Islands.
February 7 – WWII: At Anzio, German forces launch a
counteroffensive.
February 8 – WWII:
2,765 drown when USS Snook torpedoes Lima
Maru.[3]
2,670 drown when HMS Sportsman torpedoes The Abbey of Monte Cassino in ruins
Petrella.[4] after being destroyed by Allied
February 14 – WWII: An anti-Japanese revolt breaks out bombing, February 1944.
on Java.
February 15 – WWII – Battle of Monte Cassino: The
monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
February 17 – WWII: Pacific War – The Battle of Eniwetok begins when U.S. forces invade
the atoll in the Marshall Islands.
February 18 – WWII: Light cruiser HMS Penelope is torpedoed and sunk by U-410; 417 of
her crew, including the captain, go down with the ship; 206 survive.
February 20 – WWII:
The "Big Week" begins, with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing
centers.
The United States takes Eniwetok Atoll.
Norwegian heavy water sabotage: The Norwegian resistance sinks train ferry SF Hydro
which is carrying a shipment of heavy water from the Vemork plant to Germany on
Tinnsjå in Telemark.
February 22 – The United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe is organized from the Eighth
Air Force's strategic planning staff, subsuming strategic planning for all US Army Air Forces
in Europe and Africa.
February 23 – WWII:
 Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush ("Operation Lentil"): Forced deportation of
Chechens and Ingush people from North Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in
Central Asia by the Soviet authorities begins.
The Battle of Eniwetok concludes when U.S. forces secure the last islands in the
Eniwetok Atoll.
February 24 – WWII: USS Rasher torpedoes Ryūsei Maru and Tango Maru; 7,998 drown.[5]
February 26
Kurt Gerron begins shooting the Nazi propaganda film Theresienstadt in Theresienstadt
concentration camp. He and many others who are featured in it are transferred to
Auschwitz and gassed upon the film's completion.
Sue S. Dauser becomes the first woman appointed to the substantive rank of captain, in
the United States Navy Nurse Corps.
February 29 – WWII: Pacific War – The Admiralty Islands campaign (Operation Brewer)
opens when U.S. forces land on Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands.

March
March – Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek
publishes his book The Road to Serfdom in London.
March 1 – WWII: USS Trout torpedoes Sakito Maru;
2,495 drown.[6]
March 2 – The 16th Academy Awards Ceremony is held,
the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue,
Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Casablanca,
(directed by Michael Curtiz), wins the Best Picture
Award.
March 3 – WWII: The Order of Nakhimov and the Order
of Ushakov are instituted in the USSR.
March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the
leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed
at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel Weiss and Louis
Capone.
March 6 – WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Narva,
Estonia, destroying almost the entire baroque old town.
March 9 – WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, The March 1944 eruption of Mount
Estonia, killing 757 and leaving 25,000 homeless. Vesuvius.
March 10

In Britain, the prohibition on married women working as teachers is lifted.[7]

Resistance leader Joop Westerweel is arrested while returning to the Netherlands,
having escorted a group of Jewish children to safety in Spain.
March 12 – WWII: The Political Committee of National Liberation is created in Greece.
March 15
WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb the monastery, and an assault is
staged.
WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance
programme.
The Soviet Union introduces a new anthem, replacing The Internationale.
In Sweden, the 1864 law which had criminalized homosexuality is abolished.
 March 18
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26, and causes thousands to flee their
homes.
WWII: The Nazis execute almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-fascist
Romanians at Rîbnița.
March 19 - WWII: Operation Margarethe: German forces occupy Hungary.
March 20 - WWII:
Landing on Emirau: 4,000 United States Marines land on Emirau Island in the Bismarck
Archipelago to develop an airbase, as part of Operation Cartwheel.
British Royal Air Force Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade's bomber is hit over
Germany, and he has to bail out without a parachute from a height of over 4,000 meters
(13,123 ft). Tree branches interrupt his fall and he lands safely on deep snow.
March 23 – WWII: Members of the Italian Resistance attack Nazis marching in Via Rasella,
killing 33.
March 24 – WWII:
Ardeatine massacre: In Rome, 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200
members of the Italian Resistance from various groups.
In Markowa, Poland, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their 6 children and 8
Jews they were hiding.
The "Great Escape": 76 Royal Air Force prisoners of war escape by tunnel "Harry" from
Stalag Luft III this night. Only 3 men (2 Norwegians and a Dutchman) return to the UK; of
those recaptured, 50 are summarily executed soon afterwards, in the Stalag Luft III
murders.

April
April 2 – WWII: Ascq massacre: Members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend shoot
85 civilians suspected of blowing up their train, on its approach to the Gare d'Ascq in
France.
April 4 – WWII: An Allied photoreconnaissance aircraft of 60 Squadron SAAF photographs
part of Auschwitz concentration camp.
April 4 – WWII: Allied bombardment of Bucharest, Romania begins. United States Air Force
and the British Royal Air Force, with approximately 3,640 bombers of different types,
accompanied by about 1,830 fighters bomb Romania for the following 4 and a 1/2 months.
As collateral damage, 5,524 inhabitants were killed, 3,373 were injured, and 47,974 were
left homeless.
April 10 – The Holocaust: Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Auschwitz
concentration camp; on April 25–27 they prepare the Vrba–Wetzler report, one of the earliest
and most detailed descriptions of the extermination of Jews in the camp.
April 14 – Bombay Explosion: Freighter SS Fort Stikine, carrying a mixed cargo of
ammunition, cotton bales and gold, explodes in harbour at Bombay (India), sinking
surrounding ships and killing around 800 people.
April 15 – Italian fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile is assassinated in Florence by Bruno
Fanciullacci, a member of the partisan group GAP.
April 16 – WWII: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This
bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
April 19 – WWII:
The Japanese launch the Operation Ichi-Go offensive in central and south China.
 American and British planes bomb the city of Rouen (semaine rouge).[8]
April 25
The Holocaust: SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann opens "blood for goods"
negotiations with Joel Brand, to offer the release of thousands of Jews from eastern
Europe to the Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee, in exchange for supplies for the
German Eastern Front.
The United Negro College Fund is incorporated in the United States.
April 26
German General Kreipe is kidnapped on Crete, Greece.
WWII: USS Jack torpedoes Yoshida Maru No. 1; 2,649 drown.[9]
April 28 – WWII: Allied convoy T4, forming part of amphibious Exercise Tiger (a full-scale
rehearsal for the Normandy landings) in Start Bay, off the Devon coast of England, is
attacked by E-boats, resulting in the deaths of 749 American servicemen from
LSTs.[10][11][12][13]

May
May – Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist drama No Exit
(Huis Clos) premières in Nazi-occupied Paris.
May 1 – WWII: Two hundred Communist prisoners are
shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens, Greece, in
reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by
Partisans at Molaoi.
May 5 – WWII: Mohandas Gandhi is released from jail in
India, on health grounds.
May 9 – WWII: In the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, Soviet The prime ministers of Britain and
troops completely drive out German forces, who had the four major dominions at the 1944
been ordered by Hitler to “fight to the last man.”[14] Commonwealth Prime Ministers'
May 12 – WWII: Soviet troops finalize the liberation of Conference, May 1, 1944.
the Crimea.
May 14 – The Holocaust: Predominantly Muslim
Albanian troops of the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian)
round up 281 Jews in Pristina, and hand them over to the Germans for transportation to
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
May 15–July 8 – The Holocaust: Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz, and other Nazi
concentration camps.
May 18 – WWII:
Battle of Monte Cassino: The Germans evacuate Monte Cassino, and Allied forces, led
by Władysław Anders from Polish II Corps, take the stronghold after a struggle that has
claimed 20,000 lives.
Crimean Tatars are deported by the Soviet Union.
May 24 – WWII: West Loch disaster: Six LSTs are accidentally destroyed and 163 men
killed, in Pearl Harbor.
May 30 – Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne,
resigns in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, who later
reigns as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
May 31 – WWII: Destroyer escort USS England sinks the sixth Japanese submarine in two
weeks. This anti-submarine warfare performance remains unmatched through the 20th-
 century.

June
June 1
WWII: The BBC transmits coded messages
(including the first line of the poem "Chanson
d'automne" by Paul Verlaine) to the French
Resistance, signalling to them that the invasion of
Europe was imminent.
Two K-class blimps of the United States Navy
complete the first transatlantic crossing by non-rigid
airships, from the U.S. to French Morocco, with two
Allied troops land on the beaches of
stops.[15]
Normandy during D-Day.
June 2 – WWII: The Provisional Government of the
French Republic is established.
June 3 – Hans Asperger publishes his paper on
Asperger syndrome.[16][17]
June 4 – WWII:
Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy
captures the German submarine U-505, marking the
first time a U.S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy
vessel at sea since the War of 1812. Some
significant intelligence data is acquired. LVTs heading for shore on June 15,
June 5 – WWII: 1944, during the Battle of Saipan.

The German navy's Enigma messages are decoded

almost in real time.
British Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather
conditions over the English Channel, which will permit the following day's Normandy
landings to take place (having been deferred from today due to unfavourable weather).
At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits coded messages including the second line of
the Paul Verlaine poem "Chanson d'automne" to the French Resistance, indicating that
the invasion of Europe is about to begin.[18][19]
More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on
the Normandy coast, in preparation for D-Day.
US and British airborne divisions drop into Normandy, in preparation for D-Day.
D-Day naval deceptions are launched.
June 6 – WWII: D-Day: 155,000 Allied troops shipped from England land on the beaches of
Normandy in northern France, beginning Operation Overlord and the Invasion of Normandy.
The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest
amphibious military operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany,
and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.
June 7 – WWII:
The steamer Danae (Greek: Δανάη), carrying 600 Cretans (including 350 Greek Jews)
on the first leg of the journey to Auschwitz, is sunk, with no known survivors, off
Santorini.
Joel Brand is intercepted by British agents in Aleppo.
 Bayeux is liberated by British troops.
Operation Perch, a British attempt to capture Caen from the Germans, commences; it is
abandoned on June 14.
June 9 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin launches the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive
against Finland, with the intent of defeating Finland before pushing for Berlin.
June 10 – WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: 642 men, women and children are killed in
France.
June 13 – WWII: Germany launches the first V-1 flying bomb attack on London.[20]
June 15 – WWII: Battle of Saipan: United States forces land on Saipan.
June 15/16 – WWII: Bombing of Yawata: The United States Army Air Forces conduct the first
air raid on the Japanese home islands.
June 16 – At age 14, George Stinney becomes the youngest person ever executed in the
United States.
June 17 – Iceland declares full independence from Denmark.
June 19 – A severe storm badly damages the Mulberry harbours on the Normandy coast.
June 20 – WWII: A V-2 rocket becomes the first man-made object to cross the Kármán line
and reach the edge of space.[21]
June 22 – WWII:
Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from
Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest
defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.
Burma Campaign: The Battle of Kohima ends in a British victory.
June 23 – The Holocaust: Maurice Rossel of the International Committee of the Red Cross
visits Theresienstadt concentration camp, uncritically accepting the propaganda view of it
presented by the Schutzstaffel.
June 25 – WWII:
Battle of Tali-Ihantala (the largest battle ever in the Nordic countries): Finland is able to
resist the Soviet attack, and thus manages to remain an independent nation.
Cherbourg is bombarded by ships of the United States Navy and British Royal Navy, in
support of U.S. ground troops.
June 26 – WWII: American troops enter Cherbourg.
June 29 – WWII: USS Sturgeon torpedoes Toyama Maru; 5,400 drown.[4]
June 30 – WWII: USS Tang torpedoes Nikkin Maru; 3,219 drown.[22]

July
July–October – WWII: Germans are driven out of
Lithuania leading to reimposition of the Lithuanian
Soviet Socialist Republic.
July 1 – The United Nations Monetary and Financial
Conference begins at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire,
United States.
July 3 – WWII:
Soviet troops liberate Minsk. The aftermath of the failed 20 July
Battle of Imphal: Japanese forces call off their plot to kill Hitler.
advance, ending the battle with a British victory.
July 6
Hartford circus fire: More than 100 children die in one
of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United
States.
WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and
1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-
martialed, for refusing to move to the back of a
segregated U.S. Army bus (he is eventually
acquitted).
Soviet soldiers fight in the streets of
July 9 – WWII: British and Canadian forces capture Jelgava, summer 1944.
Caen.
July 10 – WWII: Soviet troops begin operations to
liberate the Baltic countries.
July 10–11—Operation Jupiter took place during the
Battle of Normandy of World War II, involving the
victorious United Kingdom of Great Britain versus the
loser, Nazi Germany.
July 12–21 – WWII: Dortan massacre – 35–36 French
civilians are killed by Ostlegionen (Cossacks) serving
with the Wehrmacht.
July 13 – WWII: Vilnius is freed by Soviet forces.
July 16 – WWII: The first contingent of the Brazilian American medics helping injured
Expeditionary Force arrives in Italy. soldier in France, 1944.
July 17 – WWII:
The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, under Royal
Canadian Navy protection.
Port Chicago disaster: The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port
Chicago, California, Naval Magazine, killing 320 sailors and civilian personnel.
July 18 – WWII:
American forces push back the Germans in Saint-Lô, capturing the city.
British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the
Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen. The offensive ends 2 days later with
minimal gains.
Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war
effort and is succeeded on July 22 by Kuniaki Koiso.
July 20
WWII: Adolf Hitler survives the 20 July plot to assassinate him led by Claus von
Stauffenberg; he and his fellow conspirators in this and Operation Valkyrie are executed
the following day.
The annular solar eclipse of July 20, 1944 is visible in Africa, Indian Ocean, Asia, Pacific
Ocean and Australia, and is the 35th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 135.
July 21 – WWII:
Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam (the battle ends August 10).
The Soviet-sponsored Polish Committee of National Liberation is created, in opposition
to the Polish government-in-exile.
July 22
 The Bretton Woods Conference ends with agreements signed to set up the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and
International Monetary Fund.
The new Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes the PKWN Manifesto in
Chełm, calling for a continuation of fighting against Nazi Germany, radical reforms
including nationalisation of industry, and a "decent border in the West" (the Oder–Neisse
line).
United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara,[23] the only Japanese American draft avoidance
case to be dismissed on a due process violation of the U.S. Constitution.
July 25
WWII – Operation Spring: One of the bloodiest days for Canadian forces during the war
results in 1,550 casualties, including 450 killed, during the Normandy Campaign.
WWII – The Battle of Tannenberg Line (or the "Battle of the Blue Hills" in Northeastern
Estonia) begins: The Red Army will gain a Pyrrhic victory by August 10.
July 26 – WWII: A Messerschmitt Me 262 becomes the first jet fighter aircraft to have an
operational victory.[24]
July 31 – WWII: USS Parche torpedoes Yoshino Maru; 2,495 drown.[6]

August
August 1 – WWII: The Warsaw Uprising begins.
August 2 – WWII:
Turkey ends diplomatic and economic relations with Germany.
The First Assembly of ASNOM (the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People's Liberation of
Macedonia) is held in the Prohor Pčinjski monastery.
August 3 – The Education Act in the United Kingdom, promoted by Rab Butler, creates a
Tripartite system of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.[25]
August 4 – WWII:
The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an
Amsterdam warehouse, where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and
others in hiding. All will die in the Holocaust, except for Otto Frank, Anne's father.[26]
The Finnish Parliament, by derogation, elected Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as
President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti, who had resigned.[27]
August 5 – WWII:
The Warsaw Uprising:
The Wola massacre begins. Between now and August 12, 40,000 to 50,000 Polish
civilians will be indiscriminately massacred by occupying SS troops.
The Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing
348 Jewish prisoners.
Cowra breakout: Over 500 Japanese prisoners of war attempt a mass breakout from the
Cowra camp in Australia. In the ensuing manhunt, 231 Japanese escapees and four
Australian soldiers are killed.
August 7 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence
Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
August 9 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release
the first posters featuring Smokey Bear.
August 12 – WWII:
The Allies capture Florence, Italy.
Operation Pluto: The world's first undersea oil
pipeline is laid between England and France.
August 15 – WWII: Operation Dragoon lands Allies
in southern France. The U.S. 45th Infantry Division
participates in its fourth assault landing at Sainte-
Maxime, spearheading the drive for the Belfort Gap.
August 18 – WWII: Submarine USS Rasher sinks
Teia Maru, Eishin Maru, Teiyu Maru, and aircraft Szare Szeregi Scouts also fought in the
carrier Taiyō from Japanese convoy HI71, in one of Warsaw Uprising.
the most effective American "wolfpack" attacks of
the war.[28]
August 19 – WWII:
More than 4,400 Japanese servicemen drown,
when USS Spadefish torpedoes Tamatsu
Maru.[29]
An insurrection starts in Paris.
August 20 – WWII:
Jewish prisoners of Gęsiówka liberated by
American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces
Polish soldiers from Batalion Zośka,
at Chambois, closing the Falaise Pocket.
August 5, 1944.
168 captured Allied airmen, including Phil
Lamason, accused of being "terror fliers" by the
Gestapo, arrive at Buchenwald concentration
camp, where they form the KLB Club.
August 21
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference (Washington
Conversations on International Peace and
Security Organization) opens in Washington,
D.C.: U.S., British, Chinese, French and Soviet
representatives meet to plan the foundation of
the United Nations.[20]
Crowds of French people line the Champs
WWII: Operation Tractable concludes, when Élysées following the Liberation of Paris,
Canadian troops relieve the Polish and link with August 26, 1944.
the Americans, capturing remaining German
forces in the Falaise Pocket, and securing the
strategically important French town of Falaise, in the final offensive of the Battle of
Normandy.
August 22 – WWII:
Tsushima Maru, an unmarked Japanese passenger/cargo ship, is sunk by torpedoes
launched by the submarine USS Bowfin off Akuseki-jima, killing 1,484 civilians,
including 767 schoolchildren.
Holocaust of Kedros: German Wehrmacht infantry begin an intimidatory razing operation,
killing 164, against the civilian residents of nine villages in the Amari Valley on the
occupied Greek island of Crete.
August 23 – WWII:
King Michael's Coup: Ion Antonescu,the Conducator of Romania and Mihai Antonescu
prime minister of Romania, are arrested and a new military government established.
 Romania leaves the war against the Soviet Union, joining the Allies.General Constantin
Sanatescu is the "armed force" of the coup d'etat and he'll be appointed by King Michael
of Romania as prime minister of Romania on September 1st 1944.
Padule di Fucecchio massacre: At least 174 Italian civilians are killed by members of the
23rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht).
August 24 – WWII:
Liberation of Paris: The Allies enter Paris, successfully completing Operation Overlord.
Japanese vessels attack and sink the submarine USS Harder off Luzon.
August 25 – WWII:
German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies,
in defiance of Hitler's orders to destroy it.
Maillé massacre: 129 civilians (70% women and children) are massacred by the
Gestapo at Maillé, Indre-et-Loire.
Hungary decides to continue the war together with Germany.
The Red Ball Express convoy system begins operation, supplying tons of materiel to
Allied forces in France.
August 29 – WWII: The Slovak National Uprising against the Axis powers begins.
August 31 – The Mad Gasser of Mattoon apparently resumes his mysterious attacks in
Mattoon, Illinois for two weeks.

September
September – The Dutch famine ("Hongerwinter") begins,
in the occupied northern part of the Netherlands.[30]
September 1 – WWII: In Bulgaria, the Bagryanov
government resigns.
September 2
The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family
are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork
to Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving 3 days
later.
Waves of paratroopers land in the
¡Hola! magazine is launched in Barcelona. Netherlands during Operation Market
The last execution of a Finn in Finland will take Garden in September 1944.
place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by
shooting in Oulu.[31]
September 3 – WWII: The Allies liberate Brussels.
September 4 – WWII:
The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the city of Antwerp, Belgium.
Finland breaks off relations with Germany.
September 5
WWII: The Soviet Union declares war on Bulgaria.
Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
September 6 – WWII: The Tartu Offensive in Estonia concludes, with Soviet forces capturing
Tartu.
September 7 – WWII:
 The Belgian government in exile returns to Brussels from London.
Members of Vichy France's collaborationist government are relocated to Germany where
an enclave is established for them in Sigmaringen Castle.
Shin'yō Maru incident: Japanese cargo ship SS Shinyō Maru is torpedoed and sunk in
the Sulu Sea by American submarine USS Paddle while carrying 750 American
prisoners of war; 688 perish.
September 8 – WWII:
The first V-2 rocket attack on London takes place.[20]
The French town of Menton is liberated from German forces.
Bulgaria declares war on Germany.
September 9 – WWII: The Bulgarian government is overthrown by the Fatherland Front
coalition, which establishes a pro-Soviet government.
September 10 – WWII: Liberation of Luxembourg.
September 11 – WWII:
The Laksevåg floating dry dock at Bergen (Norway) is sunk by British X-class submarine
X-24.
An approaching formation of 36 US bombers is engaged by a German fighter squadron
(Jagdgeschwader) in the Battle over the Ore Mountains. After the first German attack on
the bombers, US Mustangs attack the German squadron in aerial dogfights.
September 12 – WWII: Allied forces from Operation Overlord (in northern France) and
Operation Dragoon (in the south) link up near Dijon.
September 13 – WWII: The Battle of Meligalas begins, between the Greek Resistance forces
of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist Security Battalions.
September 14 – The Great Atlantic hurricane makes landfall in the New York City area.
September 15 – WWII: The Battle of Peleliu begins in the Pacific.
September 17 – WWII: Operation Market Garden: Allied airborne landings begin in the
Netherlands and Germany.
September 17–20 – WWII: Italian Campaign – In the Battle of San Marino, British and
Empire forces take the occupied neutral republic of San Marino from the German Army.
September 18 – WWII:
HMS Tradewind torpedoes Jun'yō Maru; 5,620 drown.[32]
After German forces declare the evacuation of Estonia the day before, the Estonian
national government briefly resumes control of Tallinn before the Soviet advance.
September 19 – WWII:
An armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, ending the Continuation
War.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins, east of the Belgian–German border.
September 22 – WWII: The Red Army captures Tallinn, Estonia. Prime Minister in Duties of
the President of Estonia Jüri Uluots and 80,000 Estonian civilians manage to escape to
Sweden and Germany. The evacuees include almost the entire population of the Estonian
Swedes. Soviet bombing raids on the evacuating ships sink several, with thousands on
board.
September 24 – WWII: The U.S. 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of
Épinal before crossing the Moselle River and entering the western foothills of the Vosges.
September 26 – WWII:
Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.
 On the middle front of the Gothic Line, Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region
after 10 days of fighting.

October
October 2 – WWII: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
This is followed by the Destruction of Warsaw.
October 4 – WWII: Milan Nedić's collaborationist puppet
government of the Axis powers, the Government of
National Salvation in Nazi-occupied Serbia, is
disbanded.
October 5 – WWII: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots
shoot down the first German Me 262 over the
Netherlands.
October 6
WWII: The Battle of Debrecen starts on the Eastern
Front, lasting until October 29.
Milan Nedić, president of the Serbian collaborationist
puppet state of the Axis powers, the Government of
National Salvation, flees from Belgrade in Nazi- Henry Larsen becomes the first
occupied Serbia by air together with other Serbian person successfully to navigate the
collaborators and German officials, via Hungary to Northwest Passage in both
Austria. directions, westbound, July–October
1944.
The Holocaust: Members of the Sonderkommando
(Jewish work units) in Auschwitz concentration camp
stage a revolt, killing 3 SS men before being
massacred themselves.
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference concludes.
October 8 – The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio
show debuts in the United States.
October 9 – WWII: Fourth Moscow Conference: British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier
Joseph Stalin begin a 9-day conference in Moscow, to
discuss the future of Europe.
October 10
American troops advance towards
The Holocaust/Porajmos: 800 Romani children are San Jose on Leyte Island, October
systematically murdered at the Auschwitz 20, 1944.
concentration camp.
WWII: 10/10 Air Raid: Allied forces inflict significant
losses upon Imperial Japanese Navy ships moored in Naha Harbor, destroying much of
the city of Naha, Okinawa as well..
October 11 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed into the Soviet Union.
October 12
WWII: The Allies land in Athens.
Canadian Arctic explorer Henry Larsen returns to Vancouver, becoming the first person
successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions, in the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch. His westbound voyage is the first
completed in a single season, and the first passage through the Prince of Wales
Strait.[14][33][34]
October 13 – WWII:
Riga, the capital of Latvia, is taken by the Red Army.
The first V-2 rocket attack on Antwerp takes place.[35]
October 14 – WWII: German Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel commits forced suicide rather than face public
disgrace and execution for allegedly conspiring against
Adolf Hitler.
October 16 – WWII: American bombing of Salzburg
destroys the dome of the city's cathedral and most of a The light aircraft carrier
Mozart family home. USS Princeton afire, east of Luzon,
October 18 – WWII: The Volkssturm Nazi militia is October 24, 1944.
founded, on Adolf Hitler's orders.
October 19 – The Guatemalan Revolution begins with
the overthrow of Federico Ponce Vaides by a popular
leftist movement.
October 20 – WWII:
Belgrade Offensive ends when Belgrade is liberated Volkssturm founded in October 1944.
by Yugoslav Partisans, together with the Bulgarian
Army and the Red Army, and the remnants of Nedić's
collaborationist Serbian puppet state, the
Government of National Salvation, are abolished.
American and Filipino troops (with Filipino guerrillas)
begin the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. American
forces land on Red Beach in Palo, Leyte, as General
Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines with
Philippine Commonwealth president Sergio Osmeña
and Armed Forces of the Philippines Generals
Basilio J. Valdes and Carlos P. Romulo. American
forces land on the beaches in Dulag, Leyte, The beginning of the Battle of Leyte,
accompanied by Filipino troops entering the town, October 20, 1944.
and fiercely opposed by the Japanese occupation
forces. The combined forces liberate Tacloban.
Operation Pheasant begins - an offensive in the
Netherlands which supports the ongoing Battle of the
Scheldt.
October 21 – WWII: Aachen, the first German city to fall,
is captured by American troops.
October 23–26 – WWII: Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf in the
Philippines – In the largest naval battle in history by most
criteria and the last naval battle in history between
battleships,[36] combined United States and Australian
naval forces decisively defeat the Imperial Japanese Battle of Leyte Gulf between United
Navy. This is the first battle in which Japanese aircraft States and Japan, October 23, 1944.
carry out organized kamikaze attacks.[37]
October 24
Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Japanese battleship Musashi is sunk by United States aircraft.
The Allies recognise Charles de Gaulle's cabinet as the provisional government of
France.
October 25
 WWII: The Red Army liberates Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to be liberated.
WWII: USS Tang is sunk in the Formosa Strait by one of her own torpedoes. Medal of
Honor-winning submarine ace Richard O'Kane becomes a prisoner of war.
Padule di Fucecchio massacre: Nazi German soldiers murder at least 174 Italian
civilians in a reprisal killing.
Florence Foster Jenkins gives a recital in Carnegie Hall, New York.
October 27 – WWII: German forces capture Banská Bystrica, the center of anti-Nazi
opposition in Slovakia, bringing the Slovak National Uprising to an end.
October 30
The Holocaust: Anne Frank and her sister Margot are deported from Auschwitz to the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Appalachian Spring, a ballet by Martha Graham with music by Aaron Copland, debuts at
the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in the lead role.
October 31 – Serial killer Dr Marcel Petiot is apprehended at a Paris Métro station after 7
months on the run.

November
November 1–December 7 – Delegates of 52 nations meet at the International Civil Aviation
Conference in Chicago, to plan for postwar international cooperation, framing the
constitution of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
November 3 – WWII: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals
Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest, are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
November 7
United States presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over
Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the only U.S. president elected to a
fourth term.
Election day rail accident in Puerto Rico: A passenger train derails at Aguadilla due to
excessive speed on a downgrade; 16 are killed, 50 injured.
November 10 – WWII: Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood disintegrates from the accidental
detonation of 3,800 tons of cargo, in the Seeadler Harbor fleet anchorage at Manus Island.
22 small boats are destroyed, 36 nearby ships damaged, 432 men are killed and 371 more
are injured.[38]
November 11 – Operational ships of the French Navy re-enter their base at Toulon.
November 12 – WWII: Operation Catechism – German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by British
Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers near Tromsø.[20] Estimated casualties range from 950 to
1,204.
November 14 – WWII: USS Queenfish torpedoes Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru;
2,246 drown.[39]
November 16 – WWII: U.S. forces begin the month-long Operation Queen in the Rur Valley.
November 18
The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
WWII: USS Picuda torpedoes Mayasan Maru; 3,546 drown.[39]
November 22
Conscription Crisis: Prime Minister of Canada William Mackenzie King agrees a one-
time conscription levy in Canada for overseas service.
 Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London. It is the
most acclaimed and the most successful movie version of a Shakespeare play made up
to that time, and the first in Technicolor. Olivier both stars and directs.[40]
November 24 – WWII: German forces evacuate from the West Estonian Archipelago.
November 26 – American amateur operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins dies in her
sleep from a heart attack on Manhattan, at the age of 76.
November 27
RAF Fauld explosion: Between 3,450 and 3,930 tons (3,500 and 4,000 tonnes) of
ordnance explodes at an underground storage depot in Staffordshire, England, leaving
about 75 dead and a crater 1,200 metres (1,300 yd) across and 120 metres (390 ft) deep.
The blast is one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, and the largest on UK
soil.[41]
Operation Tigerfish: The Royal Air Force bombing of Freiburg im Breisgau kills 2,800.
November 29 – WWII: Submarine USS Archerfish sinks Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano.
Shinano is the largest carrier built to this date, and will remain through the twentieth century
the largest ship sunk by a submarine.[42]

December
December 1–Edward Stettinius, Jr. becomes the last
United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt
administration, filling the seat left by Cordell Hull.
December 3 – WWII:
Fighting breaks out between Communists and
royalists in newly liberated Greece, eventually
leading to a full-scale Greek Civil War.
The British Home Guard is stood down.
December 7 – The Convention on International Civil
Aviation is signed in Chicago, creating the International
Civil Aviation Organization.
The Arab Women's Congress of 1944 takes place in
Victims of the Malmedy massacre
Cairo in Egypt, leading to the establishment of the
Arab Feminist Union.
December 10 – Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini leads a concert performance of the first
half of Beethoven's Fidelio (minus its spoken dialogue) on NBC Radio, starring Rose
Bampton. He chooses this opera for its political message: a statement against tyranny and
dictatorship. Conducting it in German, Toscanini intends it as a tribute to the German people
who are being oppressed by Hitler. The second half is broadcast a week later. The
performance is later released on LP and CD, the first of 7 operas that Toscanini conducts on
radio.
December 12–December 13 – WWII: British units attempt to take the hilltop town of
Tossignano, but are repulsed.
December 13 – Battle of Mindoro: United States, Australian and Philippine Commonwealth
troops land on Mindoro Island in the Philippines.
December 14
The Soviet government changes Turkish place names to Russian in the Crimea.
The film National Velvet is released in the United States, bringing a young Elizabeth
Taylor to stardom.
December 15 – A USAAF utility aircraft carrying bandleader Major Glenn Miller disappears
in heavy fog over the English Channel, while flying to Paris.
December 16 – WWII:
Germany begins the Ardennes offensive, later known as the Battle of the Bulge.
General George C. Marshall becomes the first U.S. Five-Star General.
December 17
WWII: Malmedy massacre: German SS troops under Joachim Peiper machine gun
American prisoners of war captured during the Battle of the Bulge near Malmedy, and
elsewhere in Belgium.
WWII: Bombing of Ulm: 707 people are killed and 25,000 are left homeless.
December 18 – General Douglas MacArthur becomes the second U.S. Five-Star General.
December 19 – The daily newspaper Le Monde begins publication in Paris.
December 20
The United States Women Airforce Service Pilots are disbanded.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower is promoted to the rank of 5-star U.S. Five-Star General.
December 22
WWII: Brigadier General Anthony C. McAuliffe, commander of the U.S. forces defending
Bastogne, refuses to accept demands for surrender by sending a one-word reply, "Nuts!",
to the German command.
The Vietnam People's Army is formed in French Indochina.
December 24
WWII: Troopship SS Léopoldville is sunk in the English Channel by German
submarine U-486. Approximately 763 soldiers of the U.S. 66th Infantry Division, bound
for the Battle of the Bulge, drown.[43]
WWII: German tanks reach the furthest point of the Bulge at Celles.
WWII: Fifty German V-1 flying bombs, air-launched from Heinkel He 111 bombers flying
over the North Sea, target Manchester in England, killing 42 and injuring more than 100
in the Oldham area.[44][45]
WWII: Bande massacre: 34 men between the ages of 17 and 32 are executed by the
Sicherheitsdienst near Bande, Belgium, in retaliation for the killing of 3 German soldiers.
The first complete U.S. production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is presented in
San Francisco, choreographed by Willam Christensen. It will become an annual tradition
there, and for the next ten years, the San Francisco Ballet will be the only company in
the United States performing the complete work.
December 26
WWII: American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne.
The original stage version of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams premieres in
Chicago.
Esztergom, Hungary, is captured by the Russians.
December 30
King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
"Stage Door Cartoon" is the first cartoon produced by Eddie Selzer.
December 31 – WWII: Battle of Leyte – Tens of thousands of Imperial Japanese Army
soldiers are killed in action, in a significant Filipino/Allied military victory.
 The Arab Women's Congress of 1944 is hosted by the Egyptian Feminist Union in Cairo and
the Pan-Arabian Arab Feminist Union is founded.

Date unknown
The 1944 Summer Olympics, scheduled for London (together with the February Winter
Olympics scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy), are suspended due to WWII.
In Sweden, Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing invent a way to package milk in paper, and
start the company Tetra Pak.
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is established in the United
States.
Last known evidence of the existence of the Asiatic lion in the wild in Khuzestan Province,
Persia.[46]
The BC Žalgiris professional basketball club is founded in Kaunas, Lithuanian Soviet
Socialist Republic.[47]

Births
Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November ·
December

January
January 1
Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, 7th President of Sudan
Abdul Hamid, 16th President of Bangladesh
Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. 1999)
Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician, 15th Prime Minister of
Pakistan (d. 2020)
Bob Minor, American actor, stunt performer Omar Hassan
January 2 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician (d. 2021) Ahmad al-Bashir
January 3 – Chris von Saltza, American swimmer
January 6
Bonnie Franklin, American actress, singer, dancer and television
director (d. 2013)
Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine
January 7 – Mike Hebert, American volleyball coach (d. 2019)
January 8 – Terry Brooks, American writer
January 9 Jimmy Page
Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, author, and lecturer (d. 2014)
Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
Jimmy Page, English rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
January 10
 Rory Byrne, South African engineer and car designer
William Sanderson, American actor
Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)[48]
January 12
Joe Frazier, African-American boxer (d. 2011)
Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster
Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor and comedian Joe Frazier
Klaus Wedemeier, German politician
January 17
Jan Guillou, Swedish author
Françoise Hardy, French singer
January 18
Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
Alexander Van der Bellen, 12th President of Austria
January 19 – Shelley Fabares, American actress, singer Paul Keating
January 20 – Isao Okano, Japanese judoka
January 23
Sergei Belov, Soviet basketball player (d. 2013)
Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist (d. 2019)
January 24
David Gerrold, American screenwriter and novelist
Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
Rutger Hauer
January 25
Sally Beauman, English writer (d. 2016)
Evan Chandler, American screenwriter, dentist (suicide 2009)
January 26
Angela Davis, African-American political activist, academic, and
author[49]
Jerry Sandusky, American child molester, Penn State coach
January 27
Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
Angela Davis
Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish peace activist, recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize
Nick Mason, English rock drummer (Pink Floyd)
January 28
Susan Howard, American actress
Rosalía Mera, Spanish fashion retailer (Zara) (d. 2013)
John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
January 29 – Susana Giménez, Argentinian television presenter
January 31 – Connie Booth, American writer, actress
February
February 2
Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
Oqil Oqilov, Tajikistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Tajikistan
February 4
Punch Gunalan, Malaysian badminton star (d. 2012)
Maruja Carrasco, Spanish botanist and academic (d. 2018)
Stockard
February 5 Channing
Al Kooper, American rock musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
Thekla Carola Wied, German actress
February 8
Bunky Henry, American professional golfer (d. 2018)
Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist, writer, poet and
activist
February 10 Jerry Springer

Peter Allen, Australian-born Academy Award-winning composer and

lyricist (d. 1992)
Jean-Daniel Cadinot, French photographer, director and producer (d.
2008)
February 11 – Michael G. Oxley, American politician (d. 2016)
February 12 – Moe Bandy, American country music singer Johnny Winter
February 13
Stockard Channing, American actress
Michael Ensign, American actor
Jerry Springer, English-born American politician and television personality
February 14
Carl Bernstein, American journalist
Sir Alan Parker, English film director, producer, actor and writer (d. 2020)
February 15
Mick Avory, English musician (The Kinks)
Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen leader, first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
(d. 1996)
February 16
Richard Ford, American writer
António Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde (d. 2016)
February 17

Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer[50]

Bernie Grant, British Labour Party MP (d. 2000)
February 19 – Donald F. Glut, American writer, film director and screenwriter
February 20
 Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin, Malaysian politician and diplomat (d. 2014)
Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
February 22
Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2017)
Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
Robert Kardashian, American attorney and businessman (d. 2003)
February 23 – Johnny Winter, American rock musician (d. 2014)
February 24
Ivica Račan, Croatian politician (d. 2007)
David J. Wineland, American Nobel-laureate physicist
February 25 – François Cevert, French racing driver (d. 1973)
February 27
Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (d. 2020)
February 28
Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (d. 1983)
Sepp Maier, German footballer
February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor (d. 2013)

March
March 1
John Breaux, American politician
Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter (The Who), actor
March 2
Uschi Glas, German actress
Roger Daltrey
Leif Segerstam, Finnish conductor and composer
March 3 – Odessa Cleveland, American actress (M*A*S*H)
March 4
Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (d.
1999)
Bobby Womack, African-American singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
March 5 – Peter Brandes, Danish artist
March 6 Uschi Glas

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano

Mary Wilson, African-American singer (The Supremes) (d. 2021)
March 7
Michael Rosbash, American geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine
Townes Van Zandt, American country singer (d. 1997)
March 8 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
 March 11
Graham Lyle, Grammy-winning Scottish singer-songwriter and
guitarist, known for writing several international hits for Tina Turner
Don Maclean, English comedian and broadcaster
March 15
Emmerich Danzer, Austrian figure skater
Ralph MacDonald, American percussionist, songwriter (d. 2011) Ric Ocasek

March 17
Pattie Boyd, English model and first wife of George Harrison and Eric
Clapton
John Sebastian, American singer-songwriter (The Lovin' Spoonful)
March 18 – Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur
March 19
Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy Diana Ross

March 20 – Erwin Neher, German biophysicist

March 21 – Hilary Minster, English actor (d. 1999)
March 23 – Ric Ocasek, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
(The Cars) (d. 2019)
March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, American actor, and Marine drill instructor (d.
2018)
March 26 – Diana Ross, African-American actress and singer
March 27 – Ann Sidney, Miss World
Nana Akufo-
March 28 Addo
Rick Barry, American basketball player
Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016)
March 29
Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
Denny McLain, American baseball player

April
April 3 – Tony Orlando, American musician
April 4
Faisal bin Musaid, assassin and nephew of King Faisal of Saudi
Arabia (d. 1975)
Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
Craig T. Nelson, American actor
April 5 – Peter T. King, American politician
Craig T. Nelson
April 6
Judith McConnell, American actress
Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born model and actress (d. 2017)
Dame Felicity Palmer, English soprano
 Charles Sobhraj, French-Indian serial killer
April 7
Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman
and philanthropist
Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (d. 2012)
Makoto Kobayashi, Japanese physicist
Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor Makoto
Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany Kobayashi
April 8
Burny Bos, Dutch producer, scenarist and children's book writer.
Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
Jimmy Walker, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
April 10 – Abubakar Habu Hashidu, Nigerian politician (d. 2018)
April 11 – John Milius, American film director, producer and screenwriter
April 13 – Jack Casady, American rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot
Tuna)
April 14 – Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary Gerhard
of the Communist Party and President Schröder

April 15 – Kunishige Kamamoto, Japanese footballer, manager and

politician
April 18
Charlie Tuna, American disc jockey and game show announcer (d.
2016)
Isao Shibata, former Japanese professional baseball player
April 19
Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist, composer (Parliament- Thein Sein
Funkadelic) (d. 2016)
James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 20 – Thein Sein, Burmese politician, 8th President of Myanmar
April 22 – Steve Fossett, American aviator, sailor and millionaire
adventurer (d. 2007)
April 24 – Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer
April 25 – Len Goodman, British ballroom dancer and television
personality
April 26
Princess
Amien Rais, Indonesian politician Benedikte of
Larry H. Miller, American sports owner (Utah Jazz; d. 2009) Denmark
April 27
Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
Cuba Gooding Sr., American actor and singer (d. 2017)
April 28 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
April 29
Princess Benedikte of Denmark
 Richard Kline, American actor and television director
April 30
Rudi Assauer, German footballer and manager (d. 2019)
Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010)
Michael Angelis, English actor (d. 2020)

May
May 1
Costa Cordalis, German singer (d. 2019)
Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
Marva Whitney, American singer (d. 2012) Roger Rees
May 2 – Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles, Venezuelan politician (d. 2021)[51]
May 4
Walker Boone, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
Russi Taylor, American actress (d. 2019)
May 5

Roger Rees, Welsh actor and director (d. 2015)[52]

John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor[53]
John Rhys-
May 8 – Gary Glitter, English singer
Davies
May 9
Richie Furay, American musician (Poco, Buffalo Springfield)
Lars Norén, Swedish playwright, novelist and poet (d. 2021)
Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
May 10
Jim Abrahams, American film director
Jackie Lomax, English singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
May 12 – Sara Kestelman, English actress George Lucas
May 13
Armistead Maupin, American author
Carolyn Franklin, American singer (d. 1988)
May 14
Connie Lawn, American journalist (d. 2018)
George Lucas, American film director and producer
May 15
Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (d. 2015) Danny Trejo

Gunilla Hutton, Swedish-born American actress and singer

May 16 – Danny Trejo, Hispanic-American actor
May 17
Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verdean diplomat and civil servant
 Jesse Winchester, American-Canadian musician and songwriter (d.
2014)
May 19 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d. 2019)
May 20
Joe Cocker, English rock singer (d. 2014)
Peter Mayhew
Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
May 21 – Mary Robinson, President of Ireland[54]
May 22 – Roberto A. Abad, Filipino lawyer
May 23
John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
Avraham Oz, Israeli theater professor, translator, and political activist
May 24 – Patti LaBelle, American singer, actress and entrepreneur Joe Cocker
May 25 – Frank Oz, English puppeteer and film director
May 26 – Jan Schakowsky, U.S. Representative, Illinois's 9th
congressional district
May 27 – Chris Dodd, American politician
May 28
Rudy Giuliani, American politician, former Mayor of New York City
Gladys Knight, American singer
Sondra Locke, American actress and director (d. 2018)
Rita MacNeil, Canadian folk singer (d. 2013) Mary Robinson
Patricia, Lady Stephens (née Quinn), retired Northern Irish actress
Gary Stewart, American country rock singer, songwriter and musician
(d. 2003)
May 29 – Helmut Berger, Austrian actor
May 30 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
May 31 – Ayad Allawi, 38th Prime Minister of Iraq

June Rudy Giuliani

June 1 – Robert Powell, English actor

June 2
Garo Yepremian, American football player (d. 2015)
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer, conductor (d. 2012)
June 3 – Edith McGuire, American sprinter
June 4 – Michelle Phillips, American singer and actress
June 5 Gladys Knight

Colm Wilkinson, Irish actor and singer

Whitfield Diffie, American cryptographer
June 6
Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine
 Edgar Froese, German musician (d. 2015)
Tommie Smith, American athlete
June 7 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician, 8th Vice President of the
Republic of China
June 8
Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
Don Grady, American actor and singer (d. 2012) Michelle Phillips
Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
Boz Scaggs, American singer and guitarist
June 13 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and 8th Secretary-
General of the United Nations
June 15 – Malaysia Vasudevan, Tamil playback singer and actor (d. 2011)
June 16 – Henri Richelet, French painter
June 17 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and impressionist (d. 2012)
June 18
Salvador Sánchez Cerén, 45th President of El Salvador Tommie Smith

Sandy Posey, American musician

Rick Griffin, American artist (d. 1991)
June 19 – Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
June 21
Carmen Cardinali Paoa, Chilean professor
Franco Cordova, Italian international football player
Corinna Tsopei, Greek actress, model and beauty queen who won
Miss Universe 1964 Ban Ki-moon
Ray Davies, English rock-singer and songwriter, co-founder of The
Kinks
Kenny O'Dell, American country singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
Tony Scott, English film director (d. 2012)
Luigi Sgarbozza, Italian former cyclist
Chris Wood, English musician (Traffic) (d. 1983)
June 22
Ercole Gualazzini, Italian professional road bicycle racer
Gérard Mourou, French electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Salvador
Prize in Physics Sánchez Cerén

June 23
Silvestre Bello III, Filipino businessman and lawyer
Gan Ee Kiang, Malaysian pharmacologist
June 24
Dennis Butler, English former footballer and football manager Ray Davies
John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist
Jeff Beck, English rock musician
June 25 – Ricardo Salgado, Portuguese economist and banker
June 27
 Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (d. 2019)
Zezé Motta, Brazilian actress and singer
Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (d. (2019)
June 28 – Luis Nicolao, Argentine butterfly swimmer
June 29
Gary Busey, American actor
Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
June 30 Jeff Beck

Daniel Kablan Duncan, Ivorian politician

Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
Alan C. Fox, American author, philanthropist and entrepreneur
Glenn Shorrock, English musician

July
Gary Busey
July 1
Mercedes Bresso, Italian politician
Mike Horan, Australian politician
Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (d. 2021)[55]
Diron Talbert, American football player
Syd Jackson, Australian rules footballer
July 2
Mercedes
Billy Campbell, Northern Irish professional footballer
Bresso
Vicente de la Mata, Argentine former football midfielder
Paul Schudel, American football player and coach
July 3 – Michel Polnareff, French singer
July 4
Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman, investor, and art collector
Joe Critchlow, Canadian football player
Albert Kapengut, Soviet chess master
July 5
Jeffrey Tambor
Mick Andrews, English international motorcycle trials rider
Hendrik Born, German vice admiral
Enrique Irazoqui, Spanish movie actor
July 6
Tim Brown, Australian darts player
Gunhild Hoffmeister, East German middle-distance runner
Max Timisela, Indonesian footballer
July 7
Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (d. 1983)
 Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro
Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer
Jürgen Grabowski, German footballer
Tony Jacklin, English golfer
Feleti Sevele, former Prime Minister of Tonga
Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham, British Army officer
July 8
Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson, American drummer David Hemery

Jeffrey Tambor, American actor

William H. Pitsenbarger, United States Air Force Medal of Honour
recipient (d. 1966)
July 10 – Carlos Ruckauf, Argentine politician
July 11
Keith Doncon, Australian rules footballer
Geraldine
Neil Vant, Anglican clergyman, prospector, businessman and former
Chaplin
political figure
Valdeir Vieira, Brazilian football manager
July 12
Terry Cooper, English former football player and manager
Clarence Parfitt, Bermudian-Scottish cricketer
July 13 – Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
July 16
Clarence Parfitt, Bermudian and Scottish cricketer
Jose L. Cuisia Jr., Philippine diplomat and banker Robert C.
July 17 Merton

Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricket captain

Catherine Schell, Hungarian actress
Charles Lapointe, Canadian businessman, politician and public servant
Tom Kalinske, American businessman
Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2016)
July 18 – David Hemery, British Olympic athlete
July 20
Mel Daniels, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
W. Cary Edwards, American politician (d. 2010)
July 21
John Atta Mills, 13th President of Ghana (d. 2012)
Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
July 26
Celeste Yarnall, American actress (d. 2018)
Kiel Martin, American actor (d. 1990)
July 28 – Jozo Križanović, Bosnian politician (d. 2009)
July 31
 Geraldine Chaplin, English-American actress
Robert C. Merton, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

August
August 1
Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (d. 2019)
Yury Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut
August 2
Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussionist and vocalist (d. 2016)
August 3 – Jonas Falk, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
August 4 Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
William Frankfather, American actor (d. 1998)
Orhan Gencebay, Turkish musician, composer, singer and actor
August 7
John Glover, American actor
Robert Mueller, American lawyer and former FBI director
August 8
Robert Mueller
Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
Hasyim Muzadi, Indonesian Islamic scholar (d. 2017)
August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
August 11
Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
Frederick W. Smith, American founder of FedEx
August 12 – Larry Troutman, American musician (d. 1999)
August 13 – Kevin Tighe, American actor Sam Elliott
August 15 – Sylvie Vartan, French singer
August 18
Robert Hitchcock, Australian sculptor
Volker Lechtenbrink, German television actor and singer
Helena Rojo, Mexican actress and model
August 19
Ian McDiarmid
Mordechai Spiegler, Israeli footballer and manager[56]
Charles Wang, Chinese-born American businessman, philanthropist
and sports team owner (d. 2018)
Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer (d. 2016)
August 20 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
August 21
Kari S. Tikka, Finnish Professor of Finance (d. 2006)
 Peter Weir, Australian film director
August 22 – Ayşen Gruda, Turkish actress and comedian (d. 2019)
August 23
Saira Banu, Indian actress
Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing
political leader (d. 1992)
August 24 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2020) Rajiv Gandhi
August 25 – Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (d. 1974)
August 25 – Pat Martino, American Jazz guitarist (d. 2021)
August 26 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
August 27 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
August 30 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
August 31
Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Earnie Shavers, African-American professional wrestler

September
September 1 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
September 2 – Gilles Marchal, French musician
September 3
Ty Warner, American Businessman, Inventor: Beanie Babies
September 4 – Tony Atkinson, British economist (d. 2017)
September 6
Christian Boltanski, French artist Barry White
Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
September 7
Abul Hayat, Bangladeshi actor
Earl Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
Bora Milutinović, Serbian footballer and coach
Sam Sloan, American chess player and autodidact
September 11 – Serge Haroche, French physicist Peter Cetera
September 12
Leonard Peltier, Native American activist and convicted murderer
Barry White, African-American singer (d. 2003)
September 13
Carol Barnes, British newsreader (d. 2008)
Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
Peter Cetera, lead singer and guitarist of American rock group
Yoweri
Chicago
Museveni
September 15
Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan politician, 9th President of Uganda
 Graham Taylor, English footballer and football manager (d. 2017)
September 16 – B.J. Ward, American voice actress
September 17 – Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
September 18
Veronica Carlson, English actress and model
Satan's Angel, American exotic dancer
September 19 – İsmet Özel, Turkish poet
Michael Douglas
September 21
Caleb Deschanel, American cinematographer and film director
Hamilton Jordan, Jimmy Carter's first White House Chief of Staff (d. 2008)
September 22 – Frazer Hines, British actor
September 25 – Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
September 26 – Anne Robinson, British television host
September 27 – Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress[57]
September 28 – Miloš Zeman, 3rd President of the Czech Republic
September 30 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)

October
October 2 – Vernor Vinge, American science fiction writer
October 4
Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
October 5 – Arnhim Eustace, Vincentian politician and 3rd Prime Minister
of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
October 6 Rocío Dúrcal

Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, pioneering

female Thai Buddhist monk, previously academic
Mylon LeFevre, American singer and evangelist
October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality
and writer
October 9
Arnhim Eustace
John Entwistle, English rock bass guitarist and singer-songwriter (The
Who) (d. 2002)
Nona Hendryx, American R&B singer (Labelle)
Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1987)
October 14 – Udo Kier, German actor
October 15
Mac Collins, American politician (d. 2018)
Şerif Gören, Turkish film director
Haim Saban, Israeli-American media proprietor
David Trimble, Northern Irish Unionist political leader; recipient of the Dale Dye
Nobel Peace Prize 1998
 October 16 – Elizabeth Loftus, American cognitive psychologist and
memory specialist
October 20 – Clive Hornby, English actor (d. 2008)
October 21 – Jean-Pierre Sauvage, French scientist; recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
October 25
Jon Anderson, English rock singer-songwriter and musician
Ron Coote, Australian rugby league player Elizabeth Loftus
Kati Kovács, Hungarian jazz, pop and rock musician
Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
October 27 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
October 28
Dennis Franz, American actor
Ian Marter, English actor and writer (d. 1986)
Marián Labuda, Slovak actor (d. 2018)
October 30 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (d. 2015)
October 31 – Hal Wick, American politician (d. 2018)

November
November 1
Kinky Friedman, American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist,
politician, and columnist
Rafic Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 2005) Askar
Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and Akayevich
commentator (d. 2017) Akayev
Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
November 2
Michael Buffer, American Ring announcer, and actor
Keith Emerson, English keyboardist (d. 2016)
November 4 – Linda Gary, American actress (d. 1995)
November 7 – Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
November 10
Danny DeVito
Askar Akayev, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan
Silvestre Reyes, American politician
Tim Rice, English lyricist, writer and broadcaster
November 11 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish comedian
November 12
Booker T. Jones, American musician, singer and songwriter
Al Michaels, American sportscaster
November 17 Lorne Michaels

Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach

Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
 Danny DeVito, American actor, film producer and director
Gary Goldman, American animator, film producer and director
Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
Lorne Michaels, Canadian television and film producer
Tom Seaver, American baseball pitcher (d. 2020)
Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1966)
November 18
Ben Stein
Wolfgang Joop, German artist, fashion designer, and art collector
Edwin C. Krupp, American astronomer author, and Director of the
Griffith Observatory
November 20 Louie Dampier, American basketball player
November 21
Richard Durbin, American politician
Earl Monroe, American basketball player
Harold Ramis, American actor, director and comedy writer (d. 2014)
November 23 – Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer, and film director (d. 2019)
November 24
Candy Darling, American actress (d. 1974)
Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar and diplomat
November 25
Ben Stein, American law professor, actor and author
Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya
November 30 – George Graham, Scottish football player and manager

December
December 1 – John Densmore, drummer, member of The Doors.
December 2
Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (That's Incredible!)
Ibrahim Rugova, 1st President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
December 3 – Ralph McTell English singer songwriter
December 4 – Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer
(d. 1983) John Densmore
December 5 – Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor and film director
December 6
Kit Culkin, American stage actor
Ron Kenoly, American Christian leader
Sutiyoso, Indonesian politician, former general and former governor of Jakarta
Jonathan King, British music producer
December 7
Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
Georges Coste, French Rugby player and coach
December 8 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress and model
December 9
Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and
Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2020)
Tadashi Irie, Japanese yakuza boss
Ki Longfellow, American novelist
Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (d. 2019)
December 10 – Andris Bērziņš, 8th President of Latvia Dennis Wilson
December 11
Brenda Lee, American singer
Lynda Day George, American actress
Teri Garr, American actress
December 12
Diana Bracho, Mexican actress
Kenneth Cranham, Scottish born actor
Cara Duff-MacCormick, Canadian stage actress
December 17 – Bernard Hill, British actor Andris Bērziņš

December 19
Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (d. 2019)
María Martha Serra Lima, Argentine singer (d. 2017)
Tim Reid, African-American actor and film director
Terry Underwood, Australian author
December 20 – Ray Martin, Australian journalist and television presenter
December 21
Bill Atkinson, English footballer Giacomo dalla
Torre
Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
December 22 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player
December 23
Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
Ingar Knudtsen, Norwegian writer
December 24 – Erhard Keller, German speed skater
December 25 – Jairzinho, Brazilian football player Brenda Lee
December 26
Bill Ayers, American education theorist and former radical anti-war
activist
Jane Lapotaire, British actress
Aleksey Mikhalyov, Russian translator
December 28
Bernard Hill
Edgar Vivar, Mexican actor, Señor Barriga and Ñoño in El Chavo del
Ocho
Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
 December 29 – King Birendra of Nepal (d. 2001)
December 30 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author
December 31
Neil Ross, British-American voice actor and announcer
Jan Widströmer, Swedish artist

Deaths Tim Reid

Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November ·
December

January
January 1
Sir Edwin Lutyens, British architect (b. 1869)
Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
January 3 – Franz Reichleitner, Austrian SS officer and Nazi
concentration camp commandant (b. 1906) Kaj Munk

January 4 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor and martyr (b.
1898)
January 6 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist and muckraker (b. 1857)
January 7 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
January 9 – Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (b. 1874)
January 10
William Emerson Ritter, American biologist (b. 1856)
Andrey Toshev
Andrey Toshev, Bulgarian scientist and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1867)
January 11
Notable Italian Fascist leaders executed in the Verona Trial
Emilio De Bono, General, former member of the Grand Council of
Fascism (b. 1866) King Yuhi V of
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari, Rwanda
aristocrat and diplomat, former member of the Grand Council of
Fascism (b. 1903)
Giovanni Marinelli, former member of the Grand Council of Fascism (b. 1879)
Charles King, American actor (b. 1889)
Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (suicide) (b. 1903)
January 12
Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung, Thai Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1895)
Juliette Atkinson, American tennis champion (b. 1873)
January 13 – King Yuhi V of Rwanda (b. 1883)
 January 14 – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer (b. 1869)
January 18 – Léon Brunschvicg, French philosopher (b. 1869)
January 20 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
January 21 – Yoshimi Nishida, Japanese general (b. 1892)
January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
January 25 – Teresa Grillo Michel, Italian Roman Catholic nun and
blessed (b. 1855)
January 29 – William Allen White, American journalist (b. 1868)
Edvard Munch
January 31
Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
Árpád Weisz, Hungarian footballer (b. 1896)

February
February 1 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
February 3 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
February 7 – Robert E. Park, American sociologist (b. 1864)
February 9 – Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux, British poet, essayist and
novelist (b. 1857)
February 11 – Carl Meinhof, German linguist (b. 1857)
Blessed Teresa
February 12
Grillo Michel
Kenneth Gandar-Dower, English sportsman, aviator, explorer and
author (b. 1908)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American singer; Presidential daughter (b.
1886)
February 13 – Edgar Selwyn, American screenwriter (b. 1875)
February 16
Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish admiral (b. 1858)
Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and director (b. 1868)
Piet Mondrian
February 21 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
February 23 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-born American chemist (b. 1863)
February 29 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish politician, 1st Prime
Minister and 3rd President of Finland (b. 1861)

March
March 2 – Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the
London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
March 3 – Paul-Émile Janson, Belgian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Margaret
Belgium (b. 1872) Woodrow Wilson
March 4 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish-born American mobster, head of
Murder, Inc. (executed) (b. 1897)
March 5
Max Jacob, French poet (b. 1876)
Neel E. Kearby, American fighter ace (killed in action) (b. 1911)
 March 8 - Xu Zonghan, Chinese medical doctor, politician and
revolutionary (b. 1877)
March 9 – Demetrios Capetanakis, Greek poet, essayist and critic (b.
1912)
March 11
Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian, journalist
and writer (b. 1882)
Irvin S. Cobb, American writer (b. 1876) Pehr Evind
March 15 Svinhufvud

Otto von Below, German general (b. 1857)

Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Soviet national hero (b. 1905)
March 17 – Mario Bravo, Argentinian politician and writer (b. 1882)
March 19
Giuseppe de Liguoro, Italian actor and director (b. 1869)
Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, French general (b.
1851)
March 22 – Pierre Brossolette, journalist and French Resistance fighter Paul-Emile
(b. 1903) Janson
March 23 – Myron Selznick, American film producer (b. 1898)
March 24
Aldo Finzi, Italian politician (executed) (b. 1891)
Pietro Pappagallo, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b.
1888)
Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
March 25 – Omelyan Kovch, Soviet Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox
priest, martyr and blessed (b. 1884)
March 28 – Stephen Leacock, British-born Canadian humorist, author and Otto von Below
economist (b. 1869)[58]
March 31
Antoni Kiewnarski, Polish WWII hero (b. 1899)
Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
Włodzimierz Kolanowski, Polish army officer (b. 1913)

April
April 1 – Sharifzyan Kazanbaev, Soviet army officer (b. 1916)
April 2 – John Batchelor, British missionary and reverend (b. 1855)
April 9 – Yevgeniya Rudneva, Soviet WWII heroine (b. 1920)
April 13 – Bartolomeo Gosio, Italian scientist (b. 1863)
April 15 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher and Fascist politician (assassinated) (b.
1875)
April 17 – J. T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867)
April 21 – Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (b. 1890)
April 24 – Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888)
 April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (b. 1880)
April 28
Mohammed Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara (b. 1880)
Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy during WWII (b. 1874)
April 29
Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (b. 1874)
Bernardino Machado, Portuguese political figure, 2-time Prime Bernardino
Minister of Portugal and 2-time President of Portugal, leader of the Machado
World War I (b. 1851)
April 30 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (b. 1879)

May
May 5 – Bertha Benz, German automotive pioneer, wife and business
partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz (b. 1849)
May 7 – William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and
naval historian (b. 1860)
May 8 – Albert Leo Stevens, pioneering American balloonist (b. 1877)
May 11 – Leon Kozłowski, Polish archaeologist and politician, 25th Prime
Minister of Poland (b. 1892)
May 12
Max Brand, American author (b. 1892) Leon Kozłowski
Harold Lowe, British sailor, 5th officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1882)
Arthur Quiller-Couch, British writer (b. 1863)
Edel Quinn, Irish Roman Catholic laywoman, missionary and
venerable (b. 1907)
May 15 – Patriarch Sergius I (b. 1867)
May 16 – George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
May 17 – Milena Jesenská, Czechoslovakian journalist, writer, editor and
translator (b. 1896) Edel Quinn
May 20
Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (b. 1921)
Eugenio Colorni, Italian philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
Vincent Rose, American musician and band leader (b. 1880)
May 21
Edmund Mortimer, American actor and director (b. 1874)
Li Jiayu, Chinese general of the National Revolutionary Army (b.
1892)
May 23 – Thomas Curtis, American Olympic athlete (b. 1873)
Serguis I
May 24
Inigo Campioni, Italian admiral (executed) (b. 1878)
Matsuji Ijuin, Japanese admiral (b. 1893)
Luigi Mascherpa, Italian admiral (b. 1893)
Harold Bell Wright, American writer (b. 1872)
 May 25 – Clark Daniel Stearns, 9th Governor of American Samoa (b.
1870)
May 30
Patriarch Mesrob I Naroyan of Constantinople (b. 1875)
Jessie Ralph, American actress (b. 1864)

June Thomas Curtis

June 5 – Józef Beck, Polish statesman (b. 1894)

June 6
Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist (b. 1879)
Wilhelm Falley, German general (killed in action) (b. 1897)
Don Pratt, American general (killed in action) (b. 1892)
Ker-Xavier Roussel, French painter (b. 1867)
June 12 – Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891) Dénes Berinkey
June 14 – George Stinney, American executed minor (b. 1929)
June 16
Marc Bloch, French historian (b. 1886)
Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist (b. 1861)
June 18 – Harry Fielding Reid, American geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1859)
June 25
Dénes Berinkey, 21st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
María Chinchilla Recinos, Guatemalan teacher (b. 1909)
June 27 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (b.
1878)
June 28 – Anton Breinl, Australian medical practitioner and researcher (b. 1880)

July
July 1 – Carl Mayer, Austrian screenwriter (b. 1894)
July 6
Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (b. 1919) Carl Mayer
Vera Leigh, British World War II heroine (b. 1903)
Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese admiral (b. 1887)
Sonya Olschanezky, German World War II heroine (b. 1923)
Diana Rowden, British World War II heroine (b. 1915)
July 7 – Georges Mandel, French politician and WWII hero (b. 1885)
July 8
George B. Seitz, American director (b. 1888)
Takeo Takagi, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1892) Theodore
July 9 Roosevelt Jr.
 Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish pilot (b. 1920)
Kent Rogers, American voice actor (b. 1923)
July 12
Jesus Baza Duenas, Guamese Roman Catholic priest, martyr and
blessed (b. 1911)
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., American political and business leader (b.
1887)
July 14 – Asmahan, Syrian-born Egyptian singer (b.1918) Tarsykiya
Matskiv
July 15 – Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, French aviator (b. 1891)
July 16 – Moncena Dunn, American inventor (b. 1867)
July 17 – Tarsykiya Matskiv, Soviet Eastern Catholic religious sister and
blessed (b. 1919)
July 18
Augusto De Angelis, Italian writer and journalist (b. 1888)
George Holt, American actor and director (b. 1878)
Rex Whistler, British artist (b. 1905)
July 20
Claus von
Heinz Brandt, German officer (b. 1907) Stauffenberg
Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901) [59]
Günther Korten, German colonel-general, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe
(b. 1898)
Claus von Stauffenberg, German resistance leader (b. 1907)
July 21
Ludwig Beck, German general and Chief of the German General Staff
(b. 1880)
Werner von Haeften, German resistance member (executed) (b. 1908)
Reza Pahlavi
Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, German resistance leader (b. 1905)
Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen, German resistance member (suicide) (b.
1915)
Friedrich Olbricht, German resistance leader (b. 1888)
Henning von Tresckow, German general and resistance leader (suicide) (b. 1901)
July 23 – Eduard Wagner, German general and resistance member (suicide) (b. 1894)
July 25
Lesley J. McNair, American general (b. 1883)
Jakob von Uexküll, Baltic German biologist (b. 1864)
July 26
Clóvis Beviláqua, Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist (b. 1859)
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, German resistance member (suicide) (b. 1899)
Takakazu Kinashi, Japanese army officer (b. 1902)
Reza Pahlavi, 20th Prime Minister of Iran and Shah of Iran (b. 1877)
July 27 – Perry McGillivray, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
July 28 – Werner Schrader, German resistance member (suicide) (b. 1895)
July 30
 Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov, Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (b.
1892)
Lee Powell, American actor (b. 1908)
July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)

August
August 1
Jean Prévost, French writer and journalist, member of the Maquis (b.
1901)
Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino statesman, soldier and politician, 2nd
President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
August 2 – Kakuji Kakuta, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
August 4 – Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet (b. 1921) Manuel L.
Quezon
August 5 – Jędrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician, 2nd Prime Minister of
Poland (b. 1870)
August 7 – Jadwiga Falkowska, Polish teacher and activist (b. 1889)
August 8
Robert Bernardis, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1908)
Albrecht von Hagen, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1904)
Paul von Hase, German general and resistance leader (executed) (b.
1885)
Erich Hoepner, German colonel-general and resistance leader Jędrzej
(executed) (b. 1886) Moraczewski
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish journalist and novelist (b. 1885)
Hellmuth Stieff, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1901)
Michael Wittmann, German tank commander (killed in action) (b.
1914)
Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal and resistance leader
(executed) (b. 1881)
Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, German resistance fighter (executed) (b.
1904)
August 9 – Felix Nussbaum, German painter (b. 1904)
August 10
Berthold Schenk
Alfred Kranzfelder, German resistance fighter (b. 1908) Graf von
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German resistance fighter (b. 1902) Stauffenberg
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Nazi opponent and lawyer (b.
1905)
Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1917)
August 11
Francesco Federico Falco, Italian doctor (b. 1866)
Hideyoshi Obata, Japanese general (b. 1890)
August 12
Jose Garvida Flores, Filipino writer, poet and playwright (b. 1900)
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American fighter pilot, oldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy (b. 1915)
 Suzanne Spaak, Belgian World War II heroine (b. 1905)
August 15
Egbert Hayessen, German resistance fighter (b. 1913)
Hans Bernd von Haeften, German resistance fighter (b. 1905)
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, German police chief and resistance
fighter (b. 1896)
August 17
Joseph P.
Franciszek Brodniewicz, Polish actor (b. 1892) Kennedy Jr.
Eugénio de Castro, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1869)
August 18
Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, Polish pilot (b. 1917)
Ernst Thälmann, German Communist leader (executed) (b. 1886)
August 19
Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1882)
Sir Henry Wood, British conductor (b. 1869)
August 21
Teresa Bracco
Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (b. 1895)
Maciej Kalenkiewicz, Polish engineer and military officer (b. 1906)
Marian Lalewicz, Polish architect (b. 1876)
August 23
Aleksander Augustynowicz, Polish painter (b. 1865)
Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1868)
Otto Kiep, German resistance fighter (b. 1886)
Nikolai Roslavets, Soviet composer (b. 1880)
August 24 – Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia, Italian aviator (b. 1915)
August 25 – Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, Italian pilot (b. 1917)
August 26
Hans Georg Klamroth, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1898)
Hans Leesment, Estonian general (b. 1873)
Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1906)
Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat and resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1909)
August 27
Carlo Fecia di Cossato, Italian navy officer (b. 1908)
Princess Mafalda of Savoy (b. 1902)
August 28
Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (killed in battle) (b.
1924)
Rudolf Breitscheid, German politician (b. 1874)
Bronislaw Kaminski, Polish army officer (b. 1899)
August 30
Moissaye Boguslawski, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
 Eberhard Finckh, German resistance fighter (b. 1899)
Hans Otfried von Linstow, German resistance fighter (b. 1899)
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, German general and resistance leader (b. 1886)

September
September 1 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
September 2 – Maria Vetulani de Nisau, Polish soldier (b. 1898)
September 3 - Friedrich Alpers, German Nazi politician and general (b.
1901)
September 4
Erich Fellgiebel, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1886)
Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, German resistance fighter (b. Robert Benoist
1909)
Fritz Thiele, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1894)
September 5 – Gustave Biéler, Swiss WWII hero (b. 1904)
September 6 – Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Polish Dominican friar, martyr
and blessed (b. 1897)
September 7 – Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer (b. 1897)
September 8
Georg Hansen, German resistance fighter (b. 1904)
Ulrich von Hassell, German diplomat and resistance fighter (b. 1881) Joseph Müller

Paul Lejeune-Jung, German resistance fighter (b. 1882)

Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German resistance
fighter (b. 1902)
Günther Smend, German resistance fighter (b. 1912)
Josef Wirmer, German resistance fighter (b. 1901)
September 9 – Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (b.
1895)
September 11 – Joseph Müller, German Roman Catholic priest and
Servant of God (executed) (b. 1894) Gustav Bauer

September 12 – Robert Fiske, American actor (b. 1889)

September 13
Grigore Bălan, Romanian general (died of wounds) (b. 1896)
Yolande Beekman, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1911)
Madeleine Damerment, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1917)
Noor Inayat Khan, Indian WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1914)
Eliane Plewman, British WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1917)
W. Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872) Hendrikus Colijn
September 14
Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1882)
John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1914)
Michael Graf von Matuschka, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1888)
Frank Pickersgill, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1915)
 Roméo Sabourin, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1923)
Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband, German resistance fighter
(executed) (b. 1877)
Hermann Josef Wehrle, German Catholic priest and resistance
member (executed) (b. 1899)
September 16 – Gustav Bauer, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
September 18
Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch policeman, politician and businessman, 25th David Dougal
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1869) Williams (artist)

Anton Saefkow, German communist (executed) (b. 1903)

September 22 – Fritz Lindemann, German army officer (died of wounds) (b. 1894)
September 23 – Matylda Palfyova, Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (b. 1912)
September 25
Walter Breisky, Austrian civil servant, acting Chancellor of Austria (b. 1871)
Eugeniusz Lokajski, Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer (b. 1909)
Leo Chiozza Money, Italian-British economist and politician (b. 1870)
September 27

Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist (b. 1890)[60]

Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
David Dougal Williams, British painter (b. 1888)
September 28 – Josef Bürckel, German Nazi gauleiter (b. 1895)
September 29
Otto Herfurth, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1893)
Wilhelm Leuschner German politician and resistance fighter (b. 1890)
Joachim Meichssner, German resistance fighter (b. 1906)
Joachim Sadrozinski, German resistance fighter (b. 1907)

October
October 1
Sir William Mulock, Canadian lawyer, politician and businessman (b.
1843)
Rudolf Schmundt, German general (b. 1896)
October 2
Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and Stefanina Moro
existentialist philosopher (gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp)
(b. 1898)
Julián Felipe, Filipino musician and bandleader (b. 1861)
Maeda Toshisada, Japanese politician (b. 1874)
October 4 – Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
October 5 – Prince Gustav of Denmark (b. 1887)
October 8 – Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
October 9
 Kitty Marion, German-born actress and women's rights activist in
England and the United States (b. 1871)
Stefanina Moro, Italian resistance member (b. 1927)
October 12
Ramón Castillo, Argentinian politician, 25th President of Argentina (b.
1873)
Carl Langbehn, German resistance member (b. 1901)
Ramon Castillo
Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German resistance member (b. 1886)
October 13
Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, German resistance member (b. 1907)
Roland von Hößlin, German resistance member (b. 1915)
October 14 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
October 17 – Anton Hafner, German aviator (b. 1918)
October 18
Alexander, Prince of Erbach-Schönberg (b. 1872)
Josef Maria Eder, Austrian chemist (b. 1855) Erwin Rommel
October 19
Isadore Bernstein, American screenwriter (b. 1876)
Deneys Reitz, South African soldier and diplomat (b. 1882)
October 20
Eduard Brücklmeier, German diplomat and resistance member (b.
1903)
Hermann Maaß, German politician and resistance member (b. 1897)
Adolf Reichwein, German politician and resistance member (b. 1898)
José de la Riva-
October 21 Agüero y Osma
Alois Kayser, German missionary (b. 1877)
Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter (b. 1862)
October 22 – Richard Bennett, American actor (b. 1870)
October 23 – Charles Glover Barkla, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
October 24
Shōji Nishimura, Japanese vice admiral (b. 1889)
Karl Freiherr von Thüngen, German general and resistance member (executed) (b.
1893)
October 25 - Yukio Seki, Japanese kamikaze pilot (b. 1921)
October 26
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, youngest and last surviving child of Queen
Victoria (b. 1857)
Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese fighter ace (b. 1920)
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, Peruvian historian, writer and politician, 84th Prime
Minister of Peru (b. 1885)
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
October 27 – Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
October 31 – Henrietta Crosman, American actress (b. 1861)
November
November 1
Ismael Pérez Pazmiño, Ecuadoran writer (b. 1876)
Andrey Sheptytsky, Soviet Eastern Catholic archbishop and
venerable (b. 1865)
November 2
Karol Irzykowski, Polish writer (b. 1873) Andrey
Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) Sheptytsky

November 4 – Sir John Dill, British field marshal (b. 1881)

November 5 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
November 7
Max Bergmann, German biochemist (b. 1886)
Richard Sorge, Soviet spy, executed (b. 1895)
Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine, poet, executed (b.
1921)
Carl Lampert
November 8 – Jane Grey, American actress (b. 1883)
November 10
Wang Jingwei, Chinese statesman, President of the Nanjing-based
and Japanese-supported collaborationist Government of the Republic
of China (b. 1883)
Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat and
resistance member (b. 1875)
November 12
Joseph Caillaux
George F. Houston, American actor (b. 1896)
Otto Frank, German physiologist (b. 1865)[61]
November 13
Carl Lampert, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1894)
Friedrich Lorenz, German Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b.
1897)
November 14
Walter Cramer, German resistance member (b. 1886)
Florence Foster
Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Jenkins
Marshal (b. 1892)
Bernhard Letterhaus, German trade unionist and resistance member
(b. 1894)
Ferdinand von Lüninck, German politician and resistance member (b. 1888)
November 16 – Maria Rodziewiczówna, Polish writer (b. 1863)
November 19 – Ignacio Bolívar, Spanish naturalist and entomologist (b. 1850)
November 22
Joseph Caillaux, French politician, 57th Prime Minister of France (b. 1863)
 Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, physicist and mathematician (b. 1882)
Sadakichi Hartmann, Japanese-born American critic and poet (b. 1867)[62]
Johan Pitka, Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain, and admiral (b. 1872)
November 25 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 1st commissioner of Major League Baseball (b.
1866)
November 26 – Florence Foster Jenkins, American socialite and singer (b. 1868)
November 30 – Lilo Gloeden, German resistance member (b. 1903)

December
December 1 – Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman and activist
(b. 1878)
December 2
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor and art theorist, founder
of the Futurist movement (b. 1876)
Josef Lhévinne, Soviet pianist (b. 1874)
December 3 – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (b. 1882)
December 4 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and member Prince Andrew
of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1879) of Greece and
December 9 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913) Denmark

December 11 – Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, American WWII hero (b.

1919)
December 12 – Bernard Chrzanowski, Polish activist (b. 1861)
December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born Polish artist (b. 1866)
December 14 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and singer (b. 1908)
December 15 – Glenn Miller, American band leader (accident) (b. 1904)
December 19 – King Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
December 20
Caesar von Hofacker, German resistance member (b. 1896)
Wassily
Carl Wentzel, German resistance member (b. 1875) Kandinsky
December 22 – Harry Langdon, American comedian (b. 1884)
December 26 – George Bellamy, British actor (b. 1866)
December 27
Amy Beach, American pianist and composer (b. 1867)[63]
Peter Deunov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (b. 1864)
Sára Salkaházi, Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister and
blessed (b. 1899)
December 30 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. Lupe Vélez
1866)
December 31
Vicente Lim, Filipino general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (b. 1888)
Ruth Hanna McCormick, American politician, activist and publisher (b. 1880)

Nobel Prizes
 Physics – Isidor Isaac Rabi
Chemistry – Otto Hahn[64]
Medicine – Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
Literature – Johannes V. Jensen
Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross

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