1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar).
The number 1944 is a triple factorial, being equal to 12!!! (some mathematiciams prefer 12!3 and read as "twelve triple factorial") or 12*9*6*3. The next factorial-like years will not occur until 2310 (11# - read as "eleven primorial" and equal to 11*7*5*3*2) or 3840 (10!2 - read as "ten double factorial" and equal to 10*8*6*4*2).
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Other events
January-July
- January 5 - The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
- January 15 - Earthquake in San Juan, Argentina, kills 8000-10000 people.
- February 26 - - Shooting begins of the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuehrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
- March 1 - USS Tarawa laid down
- March 4 - In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing.
- March 24 - In the Polish village of Markowa, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their six children and eight Jewish people they were hiding.
- May 30 - Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne resigns from her rights in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later reigning Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
- June 17 - Iceland declares full independence from Denmark.
- July 1 - Start of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
- July 6 - A fire broke out during a performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in Hartford, Connecticut, resulting in the deaths of 168 people, most of them children. See Hartford Circus Fire
- July 17 - Port Chicago disaster: Near the San Francisco Bay, two ships laden with ammunition for the war explode in Port Chicago, California killing 232.
- July 22 - End of Bretton Woods conference and signing of Agreements.
August-November
December
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
For more 1944 births see Category:1944 births
January
- January 1 - Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir President of the Sudan
- January 2 - Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
- January 6 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
- January 6 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 9 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
- January 12 - Joe Frazier, American boxer
- January 17 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
- January 18 - Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
- January 23 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
- January 24 - Neil Diamond, American singer
- January 25 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress
- January 26 - Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
- January 27 - Mairead Corrigan, Northern Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- January 27 - Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
February
- February 3 - Dave Davies, British musician (The Kinks)
- February 5 - Al Kooper, American musician (Blood, Sweat, and Tears)
- February 9 - Alice Walker, American writer
- February 10 - Vernor Vinge, American writer
- February 11 - Michael G. Oxley, American politician
- February 13 - Stockard Channing, American actress
- February 13 - Jerry Springer, English-born television host
- February 14 - Carl Bernstein, American journalist
- February 14 - Alan Parker, English-born film director, actor, and writer
- February 16 - Richard Ford, American writer
- February 17 - Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
- February 20 - Willem van Hanegem, Dutch football player and coach
- February 22 - Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer, and writer
- February 22 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
- February 23 - Johnny Winter, American musician
- February 24 - Nicky Hopkins, British musician (d. 1994)
- February 28 - Sepp Maier, German footballer
March
- March 1 - John Breaux, U.S. Senator from Louisiana
- March 1 - Roger Daltrey, English musician (The Who)
- March 2 - Uschi Glas, German actress
- March 4 - Bobby Womack, American singer and songwriter
- March 6 - Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
- March 11 - Don Maclean, British comedian
- March 15 - Sly Stone, American singer
- March 17 - John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter (The Lovin' Spoonful)
- March 19 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
- March 19 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
- March 24 - R. Lee Ermey, U.S. Marine and actor
- March 26 - Diana Ross, American singer
- March 28 - Rick Barry, American basketball player
- March 29 - Denny McLain, baseball player
April
- April 3 - Tony Orlando, American musician
- April 4 - Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
- April 4 - Craig T. Nelson, American actor
- April 6 - Felicity Palmer, English soprano
- April 7 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany
- April 8 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
- April 11 - John Milius, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
- April 19 - James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 22 - Steve Fossett, American millionaire adventurer
- April 28 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
- April 29 - Richard Kline, American actor and television director
- April 30 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress
May
- May 1 - Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
- May 4 - Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
- May 5 - John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
- May 8 - Gary Glitter, English singer
- May 9 - Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)
- May 10 - Jim Abrahams, American film director
- May 12 - Sara Kestelman, British actor
- May 13 - Armistead Maupin, American author
- May 14 - George Lucas, American film director and producer
- May 20 - Joe Cocker, British singer
- May 20 - Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
- May 20 - Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
- May 21 - Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
- May 23 - John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
- May 25 - Frank Oz, English puppeteer and film director
- May 28 - Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City
- May 28 - Gladys Knight, American singer
- May 28 - Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
- May 30 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
June
July
- July 13 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
- July 17 - Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricket captains
- July 21 - Tony Scott, English film director
- July 21 - Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
- July 27 - Tony Capstick, English comedian, actor, and musician (d. 2003)
- July 31 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
- July 31 - Robert Carhart Merton, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August
- August 2 - Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
- August 4 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
- August 8 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
- August 9 - Sam Elliott, American actor
- August 10 - Gregory Weitzel, American Businessman & Noted Poker Player
- August 11 - Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
- August 19 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
- August 21 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
- August 21 - Kari S. Tikka, Finnish Professor of Finance (d. 2006)
- August 23 - Saira Banu, Indian actress
- August 26- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
- August 31 - Roger Dean, British artist
September
- September 1 - Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
- September 7 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
- September 7 - Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach
- September 12 - Leonard Peltier, U.S. Presidential candidate
- September 12 - Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
- September 21 - Hamilton Jordan, Carter's first Chief of Staff
- September 22 - Frazer Hines, British actor
- September 25 - Michael Douglas, American actor
- September 26 - Anne Robinson, British television host
- September 30 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer
October
November
- November 9 - Melvin Maskin, American teacher
- November 10 - Silvestre Reyes, American politician
- November 12 - Booker T. Jones, American musician, singer, and songwriter (Booker T. and the M.G.'s)
- November 12 - Al Michaels, American sportscaster
- November 17 - Danny DeVito, American actor
- November 17 - Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- November 17 - Lorne Michaels, Canadian film producer
- November 17 - Tom Seaver, baseball player
- November 18 - Wolfgang Joop, German artist, fashion designer and art collector
- November 21 - Dick Durbin, American politician
- November 24 - Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar and diplomat
- November 25 - Ben Stein, American law professor, actor, and author
December
- December 2 - Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
- December 7 - Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
- December 17 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist (d. 2005)
- December 21 - Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
- December 21 - Bill Atkinson, English footballer
- December 22 - Steve Carlton, baseball player
- December 23 - Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
- December 25 - Jairzinho, Brazilian football player
- December 28 - Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
For more 1944 deaths see
Category:1944 deaths
January-March
- January 1 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
- January 11 - Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (b. 1903)
- January 20 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
- January 23 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- January 31 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
- January 31 - William Allen White, American journalist (b. 1868)
- February 1 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
- February 4 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
- February 11 - Carl Meinhof, German linguist (b. 1857)
- February 21 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
- March 4 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (b. 1897)
- March 5 - Max Jacob, French poet (b. 1876)
- March 22 - Pierre Brossolette, journalist and French Resistance fighter (b. 1903)
- March 24 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
April-June
July-August
- July 6 - Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1919)
- July 6 - Vera Leigh, English World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1903)
- July 6 - Sonia Olschanezky, German World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1923)
- July 6 - Diana Rowden, English World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1915)
- July 7 - Georges Mandel, French politician and World War II hero (executed) (b. 1885)
- July 26 - Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1877)
- July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
- August 1 -Manuel L. Quezon, Philippine president (b. 1878)
- August 8 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1893)
- August 12 - Suzanne Spaak, Belgian World War II heroine (executed)
- August 23 - Abdul Mejid II, Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1868)
- August 26 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (executed) (b. 1909)
- August 26 – Hans Leesment, Estonian general
- August 27 - Princess Mafalda Maria Elisabetta of Savoy (executed) (b. 1902)
September-October
- September 6 - Gustave Biéler, Swiss World War II hero (executed) (b. 1904)
- September 9 - Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (executed) (b. 1895)
- September 11 - Yolande Beekman, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1911)
- September 11 - Madeleine Damerment, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1917)
- September 11 - Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914)
- September 13 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872)
- September 14 - John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. 1914)
- September 14 - Frank Pickersgill, Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. 1915)
- September 14 - Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II hero (executed) (b. 1923)
- September 16 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
- October 4 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
- October 14 - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (b. 1891)
- October 21 - Alois Kayser, German missionary (b. 1877)
- October 23 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- October 26 - William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
November-December
Date unknown
Nobel prizes
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