List of Famous people who died in 1944

Florence Foster Jenkins

First Name Florence
Last Name Jenkins
Born on July 19, 1868
Died on November 26, 1944 (aged 76)

Florence Foster Jenkins, an American socialite and amateur soprano, became known, and mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile ranked her "the world's worst opera singer ... No one, before or since, has succeeded in liberating themselves quite so completely from the shackles of musical notation."

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

George Stinney

First Name George
Last Name Stinney
Born on October 21, 1929
Died on June 16, 1944 (aged 14)

George Junius Stinney Jr., was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was convicted, in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial in 2014, of murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 7, in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was executed by electric chair in June 1944. Stinney is the youngest American to be sentenced to death and executed since Hannah Ocuish in 1786.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

First Name Prince
Last Name Denmark
Born on February 2, 1882
Died on December 3, 1944 (aged 62)

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. He was a grandson of Christian IX of Denmark and father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was from birth a prince of both Denmark and Greece by virtue of his patrilineal descent.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Dadasaheb Phalke

First Name Dadasaheb
Born on April 30, 1870
Died on February 16, 1944 (aged 73)
Born in India

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke, was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema. His debut film, Raja Harishchandra, was the first Indian movie in 1913, and is now known as India's first full-length feature film. He made 95 feature-length films and 27 short films in his career, spanning 19 years, until 1937, including his most noted works: Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), Satyavan Savitri (1914), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and Kaliya Mardan (1919).

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

August Landmesser

First Name August
Last Name Landmesser
Born on May 24, 1910
Died on October 17, 1944 (aged 34)

August Landmesser was a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. He became known as the possible identity of a man appearing in a 1936 photograph, conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute with the other workers. Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. Later, he was imprisoned and eventually, he was drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

First Name Theodore
Last Name Jr.
Born on September 13, 1887
Died on July 12, 1944 (aged 56)

Theodore Roosevelt III, known as Theodore Roosevelt Jr., was an American government, business, and military leader. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Roosevelt is known for his World War II service, including the directing of troops at Utah Beach during the Normandy landings, for which he received the Medal of Honor.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

John R. Fox

First Name John
Last Name Fox
Born on May 18, 1915
Died on December 26, 1944 (aged 29)

John Robert Fox was a United States Army first lieutenant who was killed in action after calling in artillery fire on the enemy during World War II. In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on December 26, 1944, in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, Italy.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Erwin Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel
First Name Erwin
Last Name Rommel
Born on November 15, 1891
Died on October 14, 1944 (aged 52)

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Al Smith

Alfred Emanuel Smith
First Name Al
Last Name Smith
Born on December 30, 1873
Died on October 4, 1944 (aged 70)

Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who served four terms as Governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 1928.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her

Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller
First Name Glenn
Last Name Miller
Born on March 1, 1904
Died on December 15, 1944 (aged 40)

Alton Glenn Miller was an American big-band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best-known big bands. Miller's recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A String of Pearls", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", and "Little Brown Jug". In just four years Glenn Miller scored 16 number-one records and 69 top ten hits—more than Elvis Presley and the Beatles did in their careers.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.044010162353516s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.035856008529663s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.035802841186523s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.026769876480103s
t_/blocks/person-card: 10x 0.025903701782227s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0065040588378906s
router_page: 1x 0.0049550533294678s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0041859149932861s
headline: 2x 0.0026302337646484s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00039911270141602s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00039887428283691s
head-facts: 1x 0.00037193298339844s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 6.4849853515625E-5s
qids: 1.5x 1.0013580322266E-5s
related: 1x 5.0067901611328E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 0s
----- END OF DUMP (2024-03-19 02:26:03)  -----