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1944

January 09, 2023

This article is about the year 1944. For other uses, see 1944 (disambiguation).

1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.

1944 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1944
MCMXLIV
Ab urbe condita2697
Armenian calendar1393
ԹՎ ՌՅՂԳ
Assyrian calendar6694
Baháʼí calendar100–101
Balinese saka calendar1865–1866
Bengali calendar1351
Berber calendar2894
British Regnal year8 Geo. 6 – 9 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar2488
Burmese calendar1306
Byzantine calendar7452–7453
Chinese calendar癸未年 (Water Goat)
4640 or 4580
    — to —
甲申年 (Wood Monkey)
4641 or 4581
Coptic calendar1660–1661
Discordian calendar3110
Ethiopian calendar1936–1937
Hebrew calendar5704–5705
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2000–2001
 - Shaka Samvat1865–1866
 - Kali Yuga5044–5045
Holocene calendar11944
Igbo calendar944–945
Iranian calendar1322–1323
Islamic calendar1363–1364
Japanese calendarShōwa 19
(昭和１９年)
Javanese calendar1874–1875
Juche calendar33
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4277
Minguo calendarROC 33
民國33年
Nanakshahi calendar476
Thai solar calendar2487
Tibetan calendar阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
2070 or 1689 or 917
    — to —
阳木猴年
(male Wood-Monkey)
2071 or 1690 or 918
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Events

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

January

Main article: January 1944
 
US Army troops landing at Anzio during Operation Shingle, late January 1944.

February

Main article: February 1944
 
The Abbey of Monte Cassino in ruins after being destroyed by Allied bombing, February 1944.

March

Main article: March 1944
 
The March 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

April

Main article: April 1944

May

Main article: May 1944
 
The prime ministers of Britain and the four major dominions at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, May 1, 1944.

June

Main article: June 1944
 
Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
 
LVTs heading for shore on June 15, 1944, during the Battle of Saipan.

July

Main article: July 1944
 
Aftermath of the failed 20 July plot to kill Hitler.
 
Soviet soldiers fight in the streets of Jelgava, summer 1944.
 
American medics helping injured soldier in France, 1944.

August

Main article: August 1944
 
Szare Szeregi Scouts also fought in the Warsaw Uprising.
 
Jewish prisoners of Gęsiówka liberated by Polish soldiers from Batalion Zośka, August 5, 1944.
 
Crowds of French people line the Champs Élysées following the Liberation of Paris, August 26, 1944.

September

Main article: September 1944
 
Waves of paratroopers land in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.

October

Main article: October 1944
 
Henry Larsen becomes the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions, July–October 1944.
 
American troops advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island, October 20, 1944.
 
Light aircraft carrier USS Princeton afire, east of Luzon, October 24, 1944.
 
Volkssturm founded in October 1944.
 
Battle of Leyte begins – General MacArthur returns to the Philippines, October 20, 1944.
 
Battle of Leyte Gulf between United States and Japan, October 23, 1944.

November

Main article: November 1944

December

Main article: December 1944
 
Victims of the Malmedy massacre

Date unknown

Births

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

January

February

March

April

May

June

 
Sir Ray Davies

July

August

September

October

November

December

Deaths

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

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

 
Blessed Teresa Bracco

September

October

November

 
Blessed Carl Lampert

December

 
Blessed Sára Salkaházi

Nobel Prizes

 

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This article is about the year 1944 For other uses see 1944 disambiguation 1944 January February March April May June July August September October November December 1944 MCMXLIV was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar the 1944th year of the Common Era CE and Anno Domini AD designations the 944th year of the 2nd millennium the 44th year of the 20th century and the 5th year of the 1940s decade Millennium 2nd millenniumCenturies 19th century 20th century 21st centuryDecades 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960sYears 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 19471944 in various calendarsGregorian calendar1944MCMXLIVAb urbe condita2697Armenian calendar1393ԹՎ ՌՅՂԳAssyrian calendar6694Bahaʼi calendar100 101Balinese saka calendar1865 1866Bengali calendar1351Berber calendar2894British Regnal year8 Geo 6 9 Geo 6Buddhist calendar2488Burmese calendar1306Byzantine calendar7452 7453Chinese calendar癸未年 Water Goat 4640 or 4580 to 甲申年 Wood Monkey 4641 or 4581Coptic calendar1660 1661Discordian calendar3110Ethiopian calendar1936 1937Hebrew calendar5704 5705Hindu calendars Vikram Samvat2000 2001 Shaka Samvat1865 1866 Kali Yuga5044 5045Holocene calendar11944Igbo calendar944 945Iranian calendar1322 1323Islamic calendar1363 1364Japanese calendarShōwa 19 昭和１９年 Javanese calendar1874 1875Juche calendar33Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 daysKorean calendar4277Minguo calendarROC 33民國33年Nanakshahi calendar476Thai solar calendar2487Tibetan calendar阴水羊年 female Water Goat 2070 or 1689 or 917 to 阳木猴年 male Wood Monkey 2071 or 1690 or 918Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944 Contents 1 Events 1 1 January 1 2 February 1 3 March 1 4 April 1 5 May 1 6 June 1 7 July 1 8 August 1 9 September 1 10 October 1 11 November 1 12 December 1 13 Date unknown 2 Births 2 1 January 2 2 February 2 3 March 2 4 April 2 5 May 2 6 June 2 7 July 2 8 August 2 9 September 2 10 October 2 11 November 2 12 December 3 Deaths 3 1 January 3 2 February 3 3 March 3 4 April 3 5 May 3 6 June 3 7 July 3 8 August 3 9 September 3 10 October 3 11 November 3 12 December 4 Nobel Prizes 5 ReferencesEvents EditBelow the events of World War II have the WWII prefix January Edit Main article January 1944 US Army troops landing at Anzio during Operation Shingle late January 1944 January 2 WWII Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa Landing at Saidor 13 000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat January 8 WWII Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces January 11 President of the United States Franklin D Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security in his State of the Union address The Nazi German administration expands Krakow Plaszow concentration camp into the larger standalone Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau in occupied Poland January 12 WWII Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2 day conference in Marrakech January 14 WWII Soviet troops start the offensive at Leningrad and Novgorod January 15 WWII The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re created marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army a resistance force 1944 San Juan earthquake An earthquake hits San Juan Argentina killing an estimated 10 000 people in the worst natural disaster in Argentina s history January 17 WWII The Battle of Monte Cassino begins in Italy British forces cross the Garigliano River U S Fifth Army troops commanded by Lieutenant General Mark W Clark arrive at the Garigliano to begin their attack against the Gustav Line south of Rome The French Expeditionary Corps under command of General Alphonse Juin moves into the mountains north of Monte Cassino 1 The Soviet Union ceases production of the Mosin Nagant 1891 30 sniper rifle January 20 WWII The Royal Air Force drops 2 300 tons of bombs on Berlin The United States 36th Infantry Division in Italy attempts to cross the Rapido River January 22 WWII Operation Shingle The Allies begin the assault on Anzio Italy The U S 45th Infantry Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for four months January 25 A total solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean South America Atlantic Ocean and Africa the 48th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130 January 27 WWII The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted Light cruiser HMS Spartan is sunk by a Henschel Hs 293 guided missile from a German aircraft off Anzio western Italy with the loss of 46 men January 29 WWII Koniuchy massacre A unit of Soviet partisans accompanied by Jewish partisans kills at least 38 civilians in the village of Koniuchy in Nazi occupied Lithuania January 30 WWII The Battle of Cisterna opens as United States Army Rangers attempt to break out of the Anzio beachhead United States troops invade Majuro Marshall Islands January 31 WWII Battle of Kwajalein American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese held Marshall Islands February Edit Main article February 1944 The Abbey of Monte Cassino in ruins after being destroyed by Allied bombing February 1944 The Zadran tribe rises up against the Afghan government starting the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944 1947 2 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 American submarine USS Snook torpedoes Japanese troop transport Lima Maru 3 2 670 drown when British submarine HMS Sportsman torpedoes German captured Petrella carrying Italian prisoners of war 4 February 14 WWII An anti Japanese revolt breaks out 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 British light cruiser HMS Penelope is torpedoed and sunk by U 410 in the Mediterranean 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 along Tinnsja in Telemark February 22 WWII 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 American submarine USS Rasher torpedoes Japanese transports Ryusei 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 Edit Main article March 1944 The March 1944 eruption of Mount Vesuvius March Austrian born economist Friedrich Hayek publishes his book The Road to Serfdom in London March 1 WWII American submarine USS Trout torpedoes Japanese merchant cruiser 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 Award for Best Picture March 3 WWII The Order of Nakhimov and the Order of Ushakov are instituted in the USSR March 4 Louis Buchalter the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder Inc is executed at Sing Sing in Ossining New York 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 Estonia killing 757 and leaving 25 000 homeless 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 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 Ribnița March 19 WWII Operation Margarethe German forces occupy Hungary The secular oratorio A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett is premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London 8 9 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 Jozef 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 March 27 In Sweden Ruben Rausing patents Erik Wallenberg s method of packaging milk in paper origin of the international company Tetra Pak 10 April Edit Main article April 1944 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 Allied bombardment of Bucharest Romania begins The United States Air Force and British Royal Air Force with approximately 3 640 bombers of different types accompanied by about 1 830 fighters bomb Romania for the following 4 months As collateral damage 5 524 inhabitants are killed 3 373 injured and 47 974 left homeless An Allied photoreconnaissance aircraft of 60 Squadron SAAF photographs part of Auschwitz concentration camp April 10 The Holocaust Rudolf Vrba and Alfred 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 Gruppi di Azione Patriottica April 16 WWII Allied forces start bombing Belgrade killing about 1 100 people This bombing falls on the Orthodox Christian Easter April 19 WWII The Japanese launch the Operation Ichi Go offensive in central and south China Semaine rouge American and British planes bomb the city of Rouen April 25 The Holocaust SS Obersturmbannfuhrer 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 WWII German General Kreipe is kidnapped on Crete Greece American submarine USS Jack torpedoes Japanese cargo carrier Yoshida Maru No 1 2 649 drown 11 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 12 13 14 15 May Edit Main article May 1944 The prime ministers of Britain and the four major dominions at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference May 1 1944 May Jean Paul Sartre s existentialist drama No Exit Huis Clos premieres 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 troops completely drive out German forces who had been ordered by Hitler to fight to the last man 16 May 12 WWII Soviet troops finalize the liberation of 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 Wladyslaw 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 American destroyer escort USS England sinks the sixth Japanese submarine in two weeks This anti submarine warfare performance remains unmatched through the 20th century June Edit Main article June 1944 Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during D Day LVTs heading for shore on June 15 1944 during the Battle of Saipan June 1 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 stops 17 June 2 WWII The Provisional Government of the French Republic is established June 3 Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome 18 19 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 June 5 WWII The German navy s Enigma messages are decoded in England 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 20 21 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 Bayeux is liberated by British troops Operation Perch a British attempt to capture Caen from the Germans commences it is abandoned on June 14 The steamer Danae Greek Danah 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 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 22 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 WWII 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 Karman line and reach the edge of space 23 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 American submarine USS Sturgeon torpedoes Japanese troop transport Toyama Maru 5 400 drown 4 June 30 WWII American submarine USS Tang torpedoes Japanese troop transport SS Nikkin Maru 3 219 drown 24 July Edit Main article July 1944 Aftermath of the failed 20 July plot to kill Hitler Soviet soldiers fight in the streets of Jelgava summer 1944 American medics helping injured soldier in France 1944 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 Battle of Imphal Japanese forces call off their advance ending the battle with a British victory July 6 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 July 9 WWII British and Canadian forces capture Caen July 10 11 WWII Operation Jupiter during the Battle of Normandy of World War II British strategic victory over German Panzer Corps July 10 WWII Soviet troops begin operations to liberate the Baltic countries from Nazi occupation 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 Expeditionary Force arrives in Italy 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 Lo 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 Chelm 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 25 the only Japanese American draft avoidance case to be dismissed on a due process violation of the U S Constitution July 24 The Holocaust Majdanek concentration camp is liberated by the Soviet Red Army and much incriminating evidence of the atrocities committed there is found 26 27 28 29 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 Battle of Tannenberg Line or 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 30 July 31 WWII American submarine USS Parche torpedoes Japanese troop transport Yoshino Maru 2 495 drown 6 August Edit Main article August 1944 Szare Szeregi Scouts also fought in the Warsaw Uprising Jewish prisoners of Gesiowka liberated by Polish soldiers from Batalion Zoska August 5 1944 Crowds of French people line the Champs Elysees following the Liberation of Paris August 26 1944 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 Pcinjski 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 31 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 captivity except for Otto Frank Anne s father 32 The Finnish Parliament by derogation elects Marshal C G E Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti who has resigned 33 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 American submarine USS Rasher sinks Teia Maru Eishin Maru Teiyu Maru and aircraft carrier Taiyō from Japanese convoy HI71 in one of the most effective American wolfpack attacks of the war 34 August 19 WWII American submarine USS Spadefish torpedoes Japanese landing craft depot ship Tamatsu Maru more than 4 400 Japanese servicemen drown 35 Liberation of Paris starts with resistance forces staging an insurrection against the German occupiers August 20 WWII American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces at Chambois closing the Falaise Pocket 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 22 WWII Operation Tractable concludes when Canadian troops relieve the Polish and link with 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 will be appointed by King Michael of Romania as prime minister of Romania on September 1 Padule di Fucecchio massacre At least 174 Italian civilians are killed by members of the 23rd Infantry Division Wehrmacht as a reprisal for the wounding of two soldiers 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 Maille massacre 129 civilians 70 women and children are massacred by the Gestapo at Maille 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 Edit Main article September 1944 Waves of paratroopers land in the Netherlands during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 September The Dutch famine Hongerwinter begins in the occupied northern part of the Netherlands 36 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 Hola magazine is launched in Barcelona The last execution of a Finn in Finland will take place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu 37 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 22 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 Laksevag 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 British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Japanese hell ship Jun yō Maru 5 620 drown 38 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 Hurtgen 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 Juri Uluots and 80 000 Estonian civilians manage to escape to Sweden and Germany The evacuees include almost the entire population of 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 Epinal in France 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 Edit Main article October 1944 Henry Larsen becomes the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions July October 1944 American troops advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island October 20 1944 Light aircraft carrier USS Princeton afire east of Luzon October 24 1944 Volkssturm founded in October 1944 Battle of Leyte begins General MacArthur returns to the Philippines October 20 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf between United States and Japan October 23 1944 October 2 WWII Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising This is followed by the Destruction of Warsaw October 4 WWII Milan Nedic 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 clarification needed October 6 WWII The Battle of Debrecen starts on the Eastern Front lasting until October 29 Milan Nedic president of the Serbian collaborationist puppet state of the Axis powers the Government of National Salvation flees from Belgrade in Nazi occupied Serbia by air together with other Serbian collaborators and German officials via Hungary to Austria 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 The Holocaust Porajmos 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz 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 16 39 40 October 13 WWII Riga the capital of Latvia is taken by the Red Army The first V 2 rocket attack on Antwerp takes place 41 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 Mozart family home October 18 WWII The Volkssturm Nazi militia is 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 by Yugoslav Partisans together with the Bulgarian Army and the Red Army and the remnants of Nedic 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 Osmena and Armed Forces of the Philippines Generals Basilio J Valdes and Carlos P Romulo American forces land on the beaches in Dulag Leyte accompanied by Filipino troops entering the town 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 42 combined United States and Australian naval forces decisively defeat the Imperial Japanese Navy This is the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carry out organized kamikaze attacks 43 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 76 year old American amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins gives a sell out public recital in Carnegie Hall New York The audience and press are scathing she can sing everything except notes 44 5 days later she suffers a fatal heart attack dying at home on November 26 October 27 WWII German forces capture Banska 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 Metro station after 7 months on the run November Edit Main article November 1944 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 Jan Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured tortured and later executed by German forces November 7 1944 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 45 November 11 Operational ships of the French Navy re enter their base at Toulon citation needed November 12 WWII Operation Catechism German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by British Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers near Tromso 22 Estimated casualties range from 950 to 1 204 November 14 WWII American submarine USS Queenfish torpedoes Japanese aircraft carrier Akitsu Maru in the East China Sea 2 246 drown 46 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 American submarine USS Picuda torpedoes Japanese landing craft depot ship Mayasan Maru 3 546 drown 46 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 this time and the first in Technicolor Olivier both stars and directs 47 November 24 WWII German forces evacuate from the West Estonian Archipelago 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 48 Operation Tigerfish Royal Air Force bombing of Freiburg im Breisgau kills 2 800 November 29 WWII American submarine USS Archerfish sinks Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano the largest carrier built to this date and will remain through the twentieth century the largest ship sunk by a submarine 49 December Edit Main article December 1944 Victims of the Malmedy massacre 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 Home Guard United Kingdom 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 is hosted by the Egyptian Feminist Union in Cairo leading to establishment of the Arab Feminist Union An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1223 people 50 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 Presenting 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 13 WWII British units attempt to take the Italian hilltop town of Tossignano but are repulsed December 13 WWII 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 Bombing of Ulm 707 people are killed and 25 000 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 Leopoldville 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 51 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 52 53 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 24 26 Agana race riot in Guam between white and black United States Marines 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 Date unknown Edit The 1944 Summer Olympics scheduled for London together with the 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Levi Israeli singer and actor Gerhard Schroder Chancellor of Germany 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 Phu Trọng Vietnamese politician General Secretary of the Communist Party and President April 15 Kunishige Kamamoto Japanese footballer manager and politician April 18 Isao Shibata Japanese baseball player Charlie Tuna American disc jockey and game show announcer d 2016 April 19 Bernie Worrell American keyboardist composer Parliament 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 millionaire aviator sailor and 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 Amien Rais Indonesian politician Larry H Miller American sports owner Utah Jazz d 2009 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 Edit Russi Taylor Roger Rees John Rhys Davies George Lucas Danny Trejo Peter Mayhew Joe Cocker Mary Robinson Rudy Giuliani Gladys Knight Sondra Locke May 1 Costa Cordalis German singer d 2019 Suresh Kalmadi Indian politician Marva Whitney American singer d 2012 May 2 Gloria Lizarraga de Capriles Venezuelan politician d 2021 59 May 4 Walker Boone Canadian actor d 2021 Russi Taylor 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Mayhew English American actor d 2019 May 20 Joe Cocker English rock singer d 2014 Boudewijn de Groot Batavian born Dutch folk singer songwriter Dietrich Mateschitz Austrian businessman d 2022 May 21 Mary Robinson President of Ireland 62 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 David Mark Berger Israeli weightlifter d 1972 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 Mayor of New York City Gladys Knight American singer Sondra Locke American actress and director d 2018 Rita MacNeil Canadian folk singer d 2013 Gary Stewart American country rock singer songwriter and musician d 2003 Patricia Quinn Lady Stephens Northern Irish actress May 29 Helmut Berger 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Friedman Israeli weightlifter d 1972 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 d 2020 June 17 Bill Rafferty American comedian and impressionist d 2012 June 18 Salvador Sanchez Ceren 45th President of El Salvador Rick Griffin American graphic artist d 1991 Sandy Posey American pop singer Bonar Sianturi Indonesian army officer d 2022 June 19 Chico Buarque Brazilian singer songwriter June 21 Carmen Cardinali Chilean professor governor of Rapa Nui Franco Cordova Italian international football player Corinna Tsopei Greek actress model and beauty queen winner of Miss Universe 1964 Sir Ray Davies English rock singer 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 road racing cyclist Chris Wood English rock musician Traffic d 1983 June 22 Ercole Gualazzini Italian professional road bicycle racer Gerard Mourou French electrical engineer recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics June 23 Silvestre Bello III Filipino businessman and lawyer Gan Ee Kiang Malaysian pharmacologist June 24 Jeff Beck English rock musician Dennis Butler English footballer and football manager John Charlie Whitney English guitarist June 25 Ricardo Salgado Portuguese economist and banker June 27 Paul Koslo German Canadian actor d 2019 Zeze Motta Brazilian actress and singer Patrick Sercu Belgian cyclist d 2019 June 28 Luis Nicolao Argentine butterfly swimmer June 29 Gary Busey American actor Sean Patrick O Malley American cardinal June 30 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 born Australian rock singer songwriterJuly Edit Mercedes Bresso Jeffrey Tambor David Hemery John Atta Mills 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Grabowski German footballer Tony Jacklin English golfer Feleti Sevele Prime Minister of Tonga Michael Walker Baron Walker of Aldringham British Army officer July 8 Johanny Jaimoe Johanson American drummer 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 Neil Vant Canadian Anglican clergyman prospector businessman and political figure Valdeir Vieira Brazilian football manager July 12 Terry Cooper English football player and manager July 13 Erno Rubik Hungarian inventor July 16 Clarence Parfitt Bermudian and Scottish cricketer Jose L Cuisia Jr Philippine diplomat and banker July 17 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 Krizanovic Bosnian politician d 2009 July 31 Geraldine Chaplin English American actress Robert C Merton American economist Nobel Prize laureateAugust Edit Richard Belzer Robert Mueller Sam Elliott Ian McDiarmid Rajiv Gandhi 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 Nana Vasconcelos Brazilian percussionist and vocalist d 2016 August 3 Jonas Falk Swedish actor d 2010 August 4 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 FBI director August 8 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 funk musician d 1999 August 13 Kevin Tighe American actor 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 Mordechai Spiegler Israeli footballer and manager 64 Charles Wang Chinese born American businessman philanthropist and sports team owner d 2018 Bodil Malmsten Swedish novelist and poet 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 Aysen 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 August 25 Christine Chubbuck American television reporter d 1974 August 25 Pat Martino American jazz guitarist d 2021 Abdullah Tarmugi Speaker of the Parliament of Singapore 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 wrestlerSeptember Edit Barry White Peter Cetera Yoweri Museveni Michael Douglas September 1 Leonard Slatkin American conductor September 2 Gilles Marchal French singer songwriter September 3 Ty Warner American businessman inventor of Beanie Babies September 4 Tony Atkinson British economist d 2017 September 6 Christian Boltanski French artist Swoosie Kurtz American actress September 7 Abul Hayat Bangladeshi actor Earl Manigault American basketball player d 1998 Bora Milutinovic Serbian footballer and coach Sam Sloan American chess player and autodidact September 11 Serge Haroche French physicist 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 Chicago 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 Ismet Ozel Turkish poet 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 Angelica Maria American born Mexican singer songwriter and actress 65 September 28 Milos Zeman 3rd President of the Czech Republic September 30 Jimmy Johnstone Scottish footballer d 2006 October Edit Rocio Durcal Arnhim Eustace Sir Donald Tsang Dale Dye Peter Tosh Elizabeth Loftus Kati Kovacs October 2 Vernor Vinge American science fiction writer October 4 Rocio Durcal 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 Dhammananda Bhikkhuni born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh pioneering female Thai Buddhist monk previously academic Mylon LeFevre American singer and evangelist October 7 Sir Donald Tsang 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong October 8 Dale Dye American actor technical advisor radio personality and writer October 9 John Entwistle English rock bass guitarist and singer songwriter The Who d 2002 Nona Hendryx American R amp 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 Serif Goren Turkish film director Haim Saban Israeli American media proprietor David Trimble Northern Irish Unionist political leader recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1998 d 2022 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 Kati Kovacs 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 Marian Labuda Slovak actor d 2018 Ian Marter English actor and writer d 1986 October 30 Ahmed Chalabi Iraqi businessman and politician d 2015 October 31 Hal Wick American politician d 2018 November Edit Askar Akayev Danny DeVito Lorne Michaels Ben Stein November 1 Kinky Friedman American singer songwriter novelist humorist politician and columnist Rafic Hariri 2 Time Prime Minister of Lebanon d 2005 Bobby Heenan American professional wrestling manager and commentator d 2017 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 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 R amp B singer songwriter musician and producer Al Michaels American sportscaster November 17 Jim Boeheim American basketball player and 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30 George Graham Scottish football player and managerDecember Edit John Densmore Dennis Wilson Andris Berzins Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto Brenda Lee Bernard Hill Tim Reid 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 folk singer songwriter December 4 Dennis Wilson American pop singer songwriter and drummer d 1983 December 5 Jeroen Krabbe Dutch actor and film director December 6 Kit Culkin American stage actor Ron Kenoly American Christian leader Sutiyoso Indonesian politician and general governor of Jakarta Jonathan King English 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 Berzins 8th President of Latvia 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 December 19 Mitchell Feigenbaum American mathematical physicist d 2019 Maria 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 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 novelist and poet December 24 Erhard Keller German speed skater December 25 Jairzinho Brazilian football player Kenny Everett British comedian and radio DJ d 1995 December 26 Bill Ayers American education theorist previously radical anti war activist Jane Lapotaire British actress Aleksey Mikhalyov Russian translator December 28 Kary Mullis American chemist Nobel Prize laureate d 2019 Edgar Vivar Mexican actor Senor Barriga and Nono in El Chavo del Ocho 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 Widstromer Swedish painter and poetDeaths EditDeathsJanuary February March April May June July August September October November December January Edit Kaj Munk Andrey Toshev Yuhi V Musinga Edvard Munch Blessed Teresa Grillo Michel 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 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 Bulgarian scientist and diplomat 26th Prime Minister of Bulgaria b 1867 January 11 Italian leaders of the Grand Council of Fascism executed following the Verona Trial Emilio De Bono general b 1866 Galeazzo Ciano aristocrat and diplomat b 1903 Giovanni Marinelli politician 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 Leon 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 January 31 Jean Giraudoux French writer b 1882 Arpad Weisz Hungarian footballer b 1896 February Edit Piet Mondrian Margaret Woodrow Wilson Pehr Evind Svinhufvud 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 February 12 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 Ehrensvard Swedish admiral b 1858 Henri Nathansen Danish writer and director b 1868 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 Edit Paul Emile Janson Otto von Below March 3 Paul Emile Janson Belgian politician 30th Prime Minister of Belgium b 1872 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 March 15 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 Noel Edouard vicomte de Curieres de Castelnau French general b 1851 March 22 Pierre Brossolette journalist and French Resistance fighter b 1903 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 economist b 1869 66 March 31 Antoni Kiewnarski Polish WWII hero b 1899 Mineichi Koga Japanese admiral b 1885 Wlodzimierz Kolanowski Polish army officer b 1913 April Edit Bernardino Machado 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 Minister of Portugal and 2 time President of Portugal leader of the World War I b 1851 April 30 Paul Poiret French couturier b 1879 May Edit Leon Kozlowski Edel Quinn Patriarch Sergius of Moscow Thomas Curtis 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 11 Leon Kozlowski Polish archaeologist and politician 25th Prime Minister of Poland b 1892 May 12 Max Brand American author b 1892 Harold Lowe British sailor 5th officer of the RMS Titanic b 1882 Arthur Quiller Couch British writer and academic 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 Filip Mișea Aromanian activist physician and politician b 1873 67 May 17 Milena Jesenska Czechoslovakian journalist writer editor and translator b 1896 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 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 Edit Denes Berinkey June 5 Jozef 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 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 Denes Berinkey 21st Prime Minister of Hungary b 1871 Lucha Reyes Mexican singer b 1906 Maria Chinchilla Recinos Guatemalan teacher b 1909 June 27 Milan Hodza Slovak politician champion of regional integration in Europe b 1878 June 28 Anton Breinl Australian medical practitioner and researcher b 1880 July Edit Carl Mayer Theodore Roosevelt Jr Tarsykiya Matskiv Claus von Stauffenberg Reza Shah July 1 Carl Mayer Austrian screenwriter b 1894 July 6 Andree Borrel French World War II heroine b 1919 Vera Leigh British World War II heroine b 1903 Chuichi 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 Leonie von Meusebach Zesch American dentist b 1882 68 July 8 George B Seitz American director b 1888 Takeo Takagi Japanese admiral killed in action b 1892 July 9 Ingvar Fredrik Hakansson 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 1912 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 Ludwig Beck German general and Chief of the German General Staff b 1880 Heinz Brandt German officer b 1907 Mildred Harris American actress b 1901 69 Gunther Korten German colonel general chief of staff of the Luftwaffe b 1898 Claus von Stauffenberg German resistance leader b 1907 July 21 Werner von Haeften German resistance member executed b 1908 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 Uexkull Baltic German biologist b 1864 July 26 Clovis Bevilaqua 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 Shah 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 Exupery French pilot and children s writer b 1900 August Edit Jedrzej Moraczewski Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Joseph P Kennedy Jr Blessed Teresa Bracco August 1 Jean Prevost 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 Baczynski Polish poet b 1921 August 5 Jedrzej Moraczewski Polish politician 2nd Prime Minister of Poland b 1870 August 7 Agustin Barrios Paraguayan guitarist and composer b 1885 70 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 executed b 1886 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 Alfred Kranzfelder German resistance fighter b 1908 Fritz Dietlof von der Schulenburg German resistance fighter b 1902 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 Franciszek Brodniewicz Polish actor b 1892 Eugenio de Castro Portuguese poet and writer b 1869 August 18 Eugeniusz Horbaczewski Polish pilot b 1917 Ernst Thalmann German Communist leader executed b 1886 August 19 Gunther von Kluge German field marshal suicide b 1882 Sir Henry Wood British conductor b 1869 August 21 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 Abdulmecid II last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire b 1868 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 Otto Kiep German resistance fighter b 1886 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 Stulpnagel German general and resistance leader b 1886 September Edit Robert Benoist Joseph Muller Gustav Bauer Hendrikus Colijn David Dougal Williams September 1 Krystyna Dabrowska 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 1909 Fritz Thiele German general and resistance fighter b 1894 September 5 Gustave Bieler Swiss WWII hero b 1904 September 6 Jan Franciszek Czartoryski Polish Dominican friar martyr and blessed b 1897 September 7 Eduardo Sanchez 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 Paul Lejeune Jung German resistance fighter b 1882 Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld German resistance fighter b 1902 Gunther 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 Muller German Roman Catholic priest and Servant of God executed b 1894 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 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 Romeo Sabourin Canadian WWII hero b 1923 Nikolaus von Uxkull 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 Prime Minister of the Netherlands b 1869 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 71 Aristide Maillol French sculptor and painter b 1861 David Dougal Williams British painter b 1888 September 28 Josef Burckel 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 Edit Stefanina Moro Ramon Castillo Erwin Rommel Jose de la Riva Aguero y Osma 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 existentialist philosopher gassed in Auschwitz concentration camp b 1898 Julian 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 Ramon Castillo Argentinian politician 25th President of Argentina b 1873 Carl Langbehn German resistance member b 1901 Rudolf von Marogna Redwitz German resistance member b 1886 October 13 Hans Jurgen von Blumenthal German resistance member b 1907 Roland von Hosslin 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 Schonberg b 1872 Josef Maria Eder Austrian chemist b 1855 October 19 Isadore Bernstein American screenwriter b 1876 Deneys Reitz South African soldier and diplomat b 1882 October 20 Eduard Brucklmeier 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 October 21 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 Louis Renault French industrialist founder of Renault b 1877 Karl Freiherr von Thungen German general and resistance member executed b 1893 October 25 Shōji Nishimura Japanese vice admiral b 1889 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 Jose de la Riva Aguero 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 Joseph Hubert Priestley British botanist b 1883 72 November Edit Andrey Sheptytsky Blessed Carl Lampert Joseph Caillaux Florence Foster Jenkins November 1 Ismael Perez Pazmino Ecuadoran journalist and politician b 1876 Andrey Sheptytsky Soviet Eastern Catholic archbishop and venerable b 1865 November 2 Karol Irzykowski Polish writer b 1873 Thomas Midgley Jr American chemist and inventor b 1889 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 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 Graf von der Schulenburg German diplomat and resistance member b 1875 November 12 George David Birkhoff American mathematician b 1884 73 George Houston American actor b 1896 Otto Frank German physiologist b 1865 74 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 Trafford Leigh Mallory British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal b 1892 Bernhard Letterhaus German trade unionist and resistance member b 1894 Ferdinand von Luninck German politician and resistance member b 1888 November 16 Maria Rodziewiczowna Polish writer b 1863 November 19 Ignacio Bolivar Spanish naturalist and entomologist b 1850 November 22 Joseph Caillaux French politician 57th Prime Minister of France b 1863 Sir Arthur Eddington British astronomer physicist and mathematician b 1882 Sadakichi Hartmann Japanese born American critic and poet b 1867 75 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 Edit Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark Wassily Kandinsky Lupe Velez Blessed Sara Salkahazi Vicente Lim December 1 Franciszek Pius Radziwill 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 Lhevinne Soviet pianist b 1874 December 3 Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark b 1882 December 4 Roger Bresnahan American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame b 1879 December 9 Laird Cregar American actor b 1913 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 Velez 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 Carl Wentzel German resistance member b 1875 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 76 Peter Deunov Bulgarian spiritual teacher b 1864 Sara Salkahazi Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed b 1899 December 30 Romain Rolland French writer Nobel Prize laureate b 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 Edit Physics Isidor Isaac Rabi Chemistry Otto Hahn 77 Medicine Joseph Erlanger Herbert Spencer Gasser Literature Johannes V Jensen Peace International Committee of the Red CrossReferences Edit Ford Ken 2004 Cassino 1944 Breaking the Gustav Line Oxford Osprey p 12 ISBN 978 1 84176 623 2 GLAVA XXXVIII VOSSTANIE PUShTUNSKIH PLEMEN 1944 1945 GG V scibook net Retrieved April 29 2020 Convoy Mo Ta 06 モタ61船団 PDF All Japan Seamen s Union Retrieved November 18 2011 a b Greatest Maritime Disasters International Registry of Sunken Ships 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