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1944
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.
Gregorian calendar | 1944 MCMXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2697 |
Armenian calendar | 1393 ԹՎ ՌՅՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6694 |
Baháʼí calendar | 100–101 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1865–1866 |
Bengali calendar | 1351 |
Berber calendar | 2894 |
British Regnal year | 8 Geo. 6 – 9 Geo. 6 |
Buddhist calendar | 2488 |
Burmese calendar | 1306 |
Byzantine calendar | 7452–7453 |
Chinese calendar | 癸未年 (Water Goat) 4641 or 4434 — to — 甲申年 (Wood Monkey) 4642 or 4435 |
Coptic calendar | 1660–1661 |
Discordian calendar | 3110 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1936–1937 |
Hebrew calendar | 5704–5705 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2000–2001 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1865–1866 |
- Kali Yuga | 5044–5045 |
Holocene calendar | 11944 |
Igbo calendar | 944–945 |
Iranian calendar | 1322–1323 |
Islamic calendar | 1363–1364 |
Japanese calendar | Shōwa 19 (昭和19年) |
Javanese calendar | 1874–1875 |
Juche calendar | 33 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4277 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 33 民國33年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 476 |
Thai solar calendar | 2487 |
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 edit
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January edit
- 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 Kraków-Płaszów 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
- 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:
- 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 Tinnsjå 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 Ryūsei Maru and Tango Maru; 7,998 drown.[5]
- February 26
- Kurt Gerron begins shooting the Nazi propaganda film Theresienstadt in Theresienstadt concentration camp. He and many others who are featured in it are transferred to Auschwitz and gassed upon the film's completion.
- Sue S. Dauser becomes the first woman appointed to the substantive rank of captain, in the United States Navy Nurse Corps.
- February 29 – WWII: Pacific War – The Admiralty Islands campaign (Operation Brewer) opens when U.S. forces land on Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands.
March edit
- 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 over 95% of the town.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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 Rîbnița.
- 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.[9][10]
- March 20 – WWII:
- Landing on Emirau: 4,000 United States Marines land on Emirau Island in the Bismarck Archipelago to develop an airbase, as part of Operation Cartwheel.
- British Royal Air Force Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade's bomber is hit over Germany, and he has to bail out without a parachute from a height of over 4,000 meters (13,123 ft). Tree branches interrupt his fall and he lands safely on deep snow.
- March 23 – WWII: Members of the Italian Resistance attack Nazis marching in Via Rasella, killing 33.
- March 24 – WWII:
- Ardeatine massacre: In Rome, 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the Italian Resistance from various groups.
- In Markowa, Poland, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their 6 children and 8 Jews they were hiding.
- The "Great Escape": 76 Royal Air Force prisoners of war escape by tunnel "Harry" from Stalag Luft III in Silesia 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.[11]
- March 27 – In Sweden, Ruben Rausing patents Erik Wallenberg's method of packaging milk in paper, origin of the international company Tetra Pak.[12]
April edit
- April 1 – The Swiss city of Schaffhausen is accidentally bombed by the United States causing serious damage to the city and killing or wounding more than 100 people.[13]
- 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 4½ 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 Alfréd Wetzler escape from Auschwitz concentration camp; on April 25–27 they prepare the Vrba–Wetzler report, one of the earliest and most detailed descriptions of the extermination of Jews in the camp.
- WWII: As part of the Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive, the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front capture the city of Odessa in Southern Ukraine.[14]
- 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.
- WWII: As part of the Japanese-supported Axis forces led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, fighting for India's liberation from British rule, Col. Shaukat Ali Malik of the Bahadur Group of the Indian National Army enters Moirang in modern-day Manipur in northeastern India and raises the flag of the Azri Hukumat e-Azad Hind for the first time on Indian soil. This is considered to be one of the first times in British Indian history where an army of liberation raises the national flag on Indian mainland.[15]
- 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 20
- Members of Slovene Home guard swear an oath to Hitler on his birthday at Bežigrad stadium.
- April 22 – WWII: Battle of Hollandia: American forces disembark at Tanahmerah Bay and at Yos Sudarso Bay, near Hollandia. The landings are undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious invasion of Aitape ("Operation Persecution") to the east.[16]
- April 25
- The Holocaust: SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann opens "blood for goods" negotiations with Joel Brand, to offer the release of thousands of Jews from eastern Europe to the Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee, in exchange for supplies for the German Eastern Front.
- The United Negro College Fund is incorporated in the United States.
- April 26 – WWII:
- German General Kreipe is kidnapped on Crete, Greece.
- American submarine USS Jack torpedoes Japanese cargo carrier Yoshida Maru No. 1; 2,649 drown.[17]
- 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.[18][19][20][21]
May edit
- May – Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist drama No Exit (Huis Clos) premières in Nazi-occupied Paris.
- May 1 – WWII: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens, Greece, in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by Partisans at Molaoi.
- May 5 – WWII: Mohandas Gandhi is released from jail in India, on health grounds.
- May 9 – WWII: In the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, Soviet troops completely drive out German forces, who had been ordered by Hitler to “fight to the last man.”[22]
- 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 Władysław Anders from Polish II Corps, take the stronghold after a struggle that has claimed 20,000 lives.
- Crimean Tatars are deported by the Soviet Union.
- May 24 – WWII: West Loch disaster: Six LSTs are accidentally destroyed and 163 men killed, in Pearl Harbor.
- May 30 – Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne, resigns in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, who later reigns as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
- May 31 – WWII: 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
- 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.[23]
- June 2 – WWII: The Provisional Government of the French Republic is established.
- June 3 – Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome.[24][25]
- 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.[26][27]
- 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: Δανάη), carrying 600 Cretans (including 350 Greek Jews) on the first leg of the journey to Auschwitz, is sunk, with no known survivors, off Santorini.
- Joel Brand is intercepted by British agents in Aleppo.
- 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.[28]
- 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, African-American teenage boy George Stinney Jr. becomes the youngest person ever executed by electric chair 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 Kármán line and reach the edge of space.[29]
- 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.[30]
July edit
- 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-Lô, capturing the city.
- British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen. The offensive ends 2 days later with minimal gains.
- Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort and is succeeded on July 22 by Kuniaki Koiso.
- July 20
- WWII: Adolf Hitler survives the 20 July plot to assassinate him led by Claus von Stauffenberg; he and his fellow conspirators in this and Operation Valkyrie are executed the following day.
- The annular solar eclipse of July 20, 1944 is visible in Africa, Indian Ocean, Asia, Pacific Ocean and Australia, and is the 35th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 135.
- July 21 – WWII:
- Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam (the battle ends August 10).
- The Soviet-sponsored Polish Committee of National Liberation is created, in opposition to the Polish government-in-exile.
- July 22
- The Bretton Woods Conference ends with agreements signed to set up the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and International Monetary Fund.
- The new Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes the PKWN Manifesto in Chełm, calling for a continuation of fighting against Nazi Germany, radical reforms including nationalisation of industry, and a "decent border in the West" (the Oder–Neisse line).
- United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara,[31] 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.[32][33][34][35]
- 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.
- Operation Cobra: American forces launch an air and ground offensive against the German defenders in western Normandy, forcing them to retreat.
- 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.[36]
- July 27 – WWII: Soviet forces capture Lvov, and the following day enter Brest-Litovsk.
- July 31 – WWII: American submarine USS Parche torpedoes Japanese troop transport Yoshino Maru; 2,495 drown.[6]
August edit
- August 1 – WWII: The Warsaw Uprising begins.
- August 2 – WWII:
- Turkey ends diplomatic and economic relations with Germany.
- The First Assembly of ASNOM (the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People's Liberation of Macedonia) is held in the Prohor Pčinjski monastery.
- August 3 – The Education Act in the United Kingdom, promoted by Rab Butler, creates a Tripartite system of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.[37]
- 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.[38]
- The Finnish Parliament, by derogation, elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti, who has resigned.[39]
- 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.
- The Warsaw Uprising:
- 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.[40]
- August 19 – WWII:
- American submarine USS Spadefish torpedoes Japanese landing craft depot ship Tamatsu Maru; more than 4,400 Japanese servicemen drown.[41]
- 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.[28]
- 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, 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'état 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: Forces of Free France are the first of the Allies to enter Paris.
- At Buchères in France, men of the 51st SS-Brigade massacre 68 civilians (half of them women) aged from 6 months to above seventy years.[42]
- Japanese vessels attack and sink the submarine USS Harder off Luzon.
- August 25 – WWII:
- German surrender of Paris:The Allies enter Paris in force and General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders the city to them, in defiance of Hitler's orders to destroy it. This successfully completes Operation Overlord.
- Maillé massacre: 129 civilians (70% women and children) are massacred by the Gestapo at Maillé, Indre-et-Loire.
- Hungary decides to continue the war together with Germany.
- The Red Ball Express convoy system begins operation, supplying tons of materiel to Allied forces in France.
- August 29 – WWII: The Slovak National Uprising against the Axis powers begins.
- August 31 –
- WWII: The Romanian capital Bucharest is captured by the Red Army.
- The Mad Gasser of Mattoon apparently resumes his mysterious attacks in Mattoon, Illinois for two weeks.
September edit
- September – The Dutch famine ("Hongerwinter") begins, in the occupied northern part of the Netherlands.[43]
- 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.[44]
- 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, launched from The Hague.[28]
- The French town of Menton is liberated from German forces.
- Bulgaria declares war on Germany.
- September 9 – WWII: The Bulgarian government is overthrown by the Fatherland Front coalition, which establishes a pro-Soviet government.
- September 10 – WWII: Liberation of Luxembourg.
- September 11 – WWII:
- The Laksevåg floating dry dock at Bergen (Norway) is sunk by British X-class submarine X-24.
- An approaching formation of 36 US bombers is engaged by a German fighter squadron (Jagdgeschwader) in the Battle over the Ore Mountains. After the first German attack on the bombers, US Mustangs attack the German squadron in aerial dogfights.
- September 12 – WWII: Allied forces from Operation Overlord (in northern France) and Operation Dragoon (in the south) link up near Dijon.
- September 13 – WWII: The Battle of Meligalas begins, between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist Security Battalions.
- September 14 – The Great Atlantic hurricane makes landfall in the New York City area.
- September 15 – WWII: The Battle of Peleliu begins in the Pacific.
- September 17 – WWII: Operation Market Garden: Allied airborne landings begin in the Netherlands and Germany.
- September 17–20 – WWII: Italian Campaign – In the Battle of San Marino, British and Empire forces take the occupied neutral republic of San Marino from the German Army.
- September 18 – WWII:
- British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Japanese "hell ship" Jun'yō Maru; 5,620 drown.[45]
- 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:
- The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, ending the Continuation War.
- The Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins, east of the Belgian–German border.
- September 22 – WWII: The Red Army captures Tallinn, Estonia. Prime Minister in Duties of the President of Estonia Jüri Uluots and 80,000 Estonian civilians manage to escape to Sweden and Germany. The evacuees include almost the entire population of Estonian Swedes. Soviet bombing raids on the evacuating ships sink several, with thousands on board.
- September 24 – WWII: The U.S. 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of Épinal 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
- October 2 – WWII: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising. This is followed by the Destruction of Warsaw.
- October 4 – WWII: Milan Nedić's collaborationist puppet government of the Axis powers, the Government of National Salvation in Nazi-occupied Serbia, is disbanded.
- October 5 – WWII: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German Me 262 over the Netherlands.[clarification needed]
- October 6
- WWII: The Battle of Debrecen starts on the Eastern Front, lasting until October 29.
- Milan Nedić, president of the Serbian collaborationist puppet state of the Axis powers, the Government of National Salvation, flees from Belgrade in Nazi-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.
- WWII: Soviet forces reach the Baltic Sea coast in Lithuania, cutting off German Army Group North and creating the Courland Pocket.
- October 11 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed into the Soviet Union.
- October 12
- WWII: The Germans leave Athens, as the first Allied troops and Greek guerrillas enter the city
- 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.[22][46][47]
- October 13 – WWII:
- 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 Nedić's collaborationist Serbian puppet state, the Government of National Salvation, are abolished.
- American and Filipino troops (with Filipino guerrillas) begin the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines. American forces land on Red Beach in Palo, Leyte, as General Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines with Philippine Commonwealth president Sergio Osmeña and Armed Forces of the Philippines Generals Basilio J. Valdes and Carlos P. Romulo. American forces land on the beaches in Dulag, Leyte, 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,[49] 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.[50]
- 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".[51] 5 days later she suffers a fatal heart attack, dying at home on November 26.
- October 27 – WWII: German forces capture Banská Bystrica, the center of anti-Nazi opposition in Slovakia, bringing the Slovak National Uprising to an end.
- October 30
- The Holocaust: Anne Frank and her sister Margot are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
- Appalachian Spring, a ballet by Martha Graham with music by Aaron Copland, debuts at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with Graham in the lead role.
- October 31 – Serial killer Dr Marcel Petiot is apprehended at a Paris Métro station after 7 months on the run.
November edit
- November 1–December 7 – Delegates of 52 nations meet at the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago, to plan for postwar international cooperation, framing the constitution of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- November 3 – WWII: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest, are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
- November 7
- 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.[52]
- November 11
- Operational ships of the French Navy re-enter their base at Toulon.[citation needed]
- The 1942–44 musicians' strike ends in the United States when RCA Victor and Columbia Records capitulate to the union's demands.
- November 12 – WWII: Operation Catechism – German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by British Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers near Tromsø in Norway.[28] 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.[53]
- 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.[53]
- 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.[54]
- 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.[55]
- 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.[56]
December edit
- 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.[57]
- 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 Léopoldville is sunk in the English Channel by German submarine U-486. Approximately 763 soldiers of the U.S. 66th Infantry Division, bound for the Battle of the Bulge, drown.[58]
- 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.[59][60]
- 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 Soviet forces, beginning the Siege of Budapest.
- 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 February Winter Olympics scheduled for Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy), are suspended due to WWII.
- National Committee for Education on Alcoholism, predecessor of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, is established in the United States by Marty Mann.
- Last known evidence of the existence of the Asiatic lion in the wild in Khuzestan Province, Persia.[61]
- The BC Žalgiris professional basketball club is founded in Kaunas, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.[62]
Births edit
January edit
- January 1
- Omar al-Bashir, 7th President of Sudan
- Mohammad Abdul Hamid, President of Bangladesh
- Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. 1999)
- Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2020)
- Robert Lee Minor, American actor, stunt performer
- January 2 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician (d. 2021)
- January 3 – Chris von Saltza, American swimmer
- January 6
- Bonnie Franklin, American actress, singer, dancer and television director (d. 2013)
- Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- January 7 – Mike Hebert, American volleyball coach (d. 2019)
- January 8 – Terry Brooks, American fantasy fiction writer
- January 9
- Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, author and lecturer (d. 2014)
- Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
- Jimmy Page, English rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
- January 10
- Rory Byrne, South African engineer and car designer
- William Sanderson, American actor
- Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2016)[63]
- January 12
- Joe Frazier, African-American boxer (d. 2011)
- Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster
- Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor and comedian
- Klaus Wedemeier, German politician
- January 17
- Jan Guillou, Swedish author
- Françoise Hardy, French singer
- January 18
- January 19 – Shelley Fabares, American actress, singer
- January 20 – Isao Okano, Japanese judoka
- January 23
- Sergei Belov, Soviet basketball player (d. 2013)
- Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, writer and environmentalist (d. 2019)
- January 24
- David Gerrold, American screenwriter and novelist
- Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
- January 25
- Sally Beauman, English journalist and novelist (d. 2016)
- Evan Chandler, American screenwriter and dentist (suicide 2009)
- January 26
- Angela Davis, African-American political activist, academic and author[64]
- Jerry Sandusky, American child molester, Penn State coach
- January 27
- Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
- Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Nick Mason, English rock drummer (Pink Floyd)
- January 28
- Susan Howard, American actress
- Rosalía Mera, Spanish fashion retailer (Zara) (d. 2013)
- John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
- January 29 – Susana Giménez, Argentinian television presenter
- January 31 – Connie Booth, American writer, actress
February edit
- February 2
- Andrew Davis, English conductor (d. 2024)
- Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
- Oqil Oqilov, Tajikistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Tajikistan
- February 4
- Punch Gunalan, Malaysian badminton star (d. 2012)
- Maruja Carrasco, Spanish botanist and academic (d. 2018)
- February 5
- Al Kooper, American rock musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- Thekla Carola Wied, German actress
- February 8
- Bunky Henry, American professional golfer (d. 2018)
- Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
- February 9 – Alice Walker, African-American novelist, writer, poet and activist
- February 10
- Peter Allen, Australian-born Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist (d. 1992)
- Jean-Daniel Cadinot, French photographer, director and producer (d. 2008)
- February 11 – Michael G. Oxley, American politician (d. 2016)
- February 12 – Moe Bandy, American country music singer
- February 13
- Stockard Channing, American actress
- Michael Ensign, American actor
- Jerry Springer, English-born American politician and television personality (d. 2023)
- February 14
- Carl Bernstein, American journalist
- Marie-Denise Fabien Jean-Louis, Haitian physician and politician[65]
- Sir Alan Parker, English film director, producer, actor and writer (d. 2020)
- Hong Shin-seon, Korean poet
- February 15
- Mick Avory, English rock drummer (The Kinks)
- Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen leader, first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 1996)
- February 16
- Richard Ford, American fiction writer
- António Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde (d. 2016)
- February 17
- Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer[66]
- Bernie Grant, British Labour Party MP (d. 2000)
- February 19 – Donald F. Glut, American writer, film director and screenwriter
- February 20
- Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin, Malaysian politician and diplomat (d. 2014)
- Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
- February 22
- Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2017)
- Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
- Robert Kardashian, American attorney and businessman (d. 2003)
- February 23 – Johnny Winter, American rock musician (d. 2014)
- February 24
- Ivica Račan, Croatian politician (d. 2007)
- David J. Wineland, American Nobel-laureate physicist
- February 25 – François Cevert, French racing driver (d. 1973)
- February 27
- Ken Grimwood, American fantasy fiction writer (d. 2003)
- Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (d. 2020)
- February 28
- Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (d. 1983)
- Sepp Maier, German footballer
- February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor (d. 2013)
March edit
- March 1
- John Breaux, American politician
- Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter (The Who), actor
- March 2
- Uschi Glas, German actress
- Leif Segerstam, Finnish conductor and composer
- March 3 – Odessa Cleveland, American actress (M*A*S*H)
- March 4
- Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (d. 1999)
- Bobby Womack, African-American singer and songwriter (d. 2014)
- March 5 – Peter Brandes, Danish artist
- March 6
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
- Mary Wilson, African-American singer (The Supremes) (d. 2021)
- March 7
- Michael Rosbash, American geneticist and chronobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Townes Van Zandt, American country singer (d. 1997)
- March 8 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
- March 11
- Graham Lyle, Grammy-winning Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for writing several international hits for Tina Turner
- Don Maclean, English comedian and broadcaster
- March 15
- Emmerich Danzer, Austrian figure skater
- Ralph MacDonald, American percussionist, songwriter (d. 2011)
- March 17
- Pattie Boyd, English model and first wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton
- John Sebastian, American singer-songwriter (The Lovin' Spoonful)
- March 18 – Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur
- March 19
- Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
- Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
- March 20 – Erwin Neher, German biophysicist
- March 21 – Hilary Minster, English actor (d. 1999)
- March 23 – Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter and record producer (The Cars) (d. 2019)
- March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, American actor and Marine drill instructor (d. 2018)
- March 26 – Diana Ross, African-American actress and singer
- March 27 – Ann Sidney, Miss World
- March 28
- Rick Barry, American basketball player
- Ken Howard, American actor (d. 2016)
- March 29
- Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
- Denny McLain, American baseball player
April edit
- April 3
- Tony Orlando, American pop singer-songwriter, producer and actor
- April 4
- Faisal bin Musaid, assassin and nephew of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (d. 1975)
- Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
- Craig T. Nelson, American actor
- April 5 – Peter T. King, American politician
- April 6
- Judith McConnell, American actress
- Anita Pallenberg, Italian-born model and actress (d. 2017)
- Dame Felicity Palmer, English soprano
- Charles Sobhraj, French-Indian serial killer
- April 7
- Shel Bachrach, American insurance broker, investor, businessman and philanthropist
- Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (d. 2012)
- Makoto Kobayashi, Japanese physicist
- Oshik Levi, Israeli singer and actor
- Gerhard Schröder, 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 Phú 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 (d. 2023)
- 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
- May 1
- Costa Cordalis, German singer (d. 2019)
- Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
- Marva Whitney, American singer (d. 2012)
- May 2 – Gloria Lizárraga de Capriles, Venezuelan politician (d. 2021)[67]
- May 4
- Walker Boone, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
- Russi Taylor, American actress (d. 2019)
- May 5
- Roger Rees, Welsh actor and director (d. 2015)[68]
- John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor[69]
- May 8 – Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd), English glam rock singer and paedophile
- May 9
- Richie Furay, American rock singer-songwriter (Poco, Buffalo Springfield)
- Lars Norén, Swedish playwright, novelist and poet (d. 2021)
- Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
- May 10
- Jim Abrahams, American film director
- Jackie Lomax, English rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
- May 12 – Sara Kestelman, English actress
- May 13
- Armistead Maupin, American fiction writer
- Carolyn Franklin, American soul singer-songwriter (d. 1988)
- May 14
- Connie Lawn, American journalist (d. 2018)
- George Lucas, American film director and producer
- May 15
- Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (d. 2015)
- Gunilla Hutton, Swedish-born American actress and singer
- May 16 – Danny Trejo, Hispanic-American actor
- May 17
- Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Cape Verdean diplomat and civil servant
- Jesse Winchester, American-Canadian country singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
- May 19
- Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (d. 2019)
- Jaan Talts, Estonian-Soviet weightlifter
- 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[70]
- 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, Austrian actor (d. 2023)
- May 30 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
- May 31 – Ayad Allawi, 38th Prime Minister of Iraq
June edit
- June 1
- Robert Powell, English actor
- Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan-born architect (d. 2023)
- June 2
- Garo Yepremian, American football player (d. 2015)
- Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (d. 2012)
- June 3 – Edith McGuire, American sprinter
- June 4 – Michelle Phillips, American singer and actress
- June 5
- Colm Wilkinson, Irish actor and singer
- Whitfield Diffie, American cryptographer
- June 6
- Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Edgar Froese, German electronic musician (d. 2015)
- Tommie Smith, American athlete
- June 7 – Annette Lu, Taiwanese politician, 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
- June 8
- Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- Don Grady, American actor and singer (d. 2012)
- Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
- Boz Scaggs, American singer and guitarist
- June 10 – Ze'ev 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 Sánchez Cerén, 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
- Gérard 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 (d. 2023)
- 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)
- Zezé Motta, Brazilian actress and singer
- Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (d. 2019)
- June 28 – Luis Nicolao, Argentine butterfly swimmer
- June 29
- Gary Busey, American actor
- Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
- June 30
- Daniel Kablan Duncan, Ivorian politician
- Terry Funk, American professional wrestler (d. 2023)
- Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
- Alan C. Fox, American author, philanthropist and entrepreneur
- Glenn Shorrock, English-born Australian rock singer-songwriter
July edit
- July 1
- Mercedes Bresso, Italian politician
- Mike Horan, Australian politician
- Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor of chemistry and textbook writer (d. 2021)[71]
- Diron Talbert, American football player
- Syd Jackson, Australian rules footballer
- July 2
- Billy Campbell, Northern Irish footballer
- Vicente de la Mata, Argentine football midfielder
- Paul Schudel, American football player and coach
- July 3 – Michel Polnareff, French singer
- July 4
- Joe Berardo, Portuguese businessman, investor and art collector
- Joe Critchlow, Canadian football player
- Albert Kapengut, Soviet chess master
- July 5
- Mick Andrews, English international motorcycle trials rider
- Hendrik Born, German vice admiral
- Enrique Irazoqui, Spanish movie actor
- July 6
- Tim Brown, Australian darts player
- Gunhild Hoffmeister, East German middle-distance runner
- Max Timisela, Indonesian footballer
- July 7
- Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (d. 1983)
- Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro
- Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricketer
- Jürgen Grabowski, German footballer (d. 2022)
- Tony Jacklin, English golfer
- George Logan, British female impersonator of the comedy act Hinge and Bracket
- 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 – Ernő 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 Križanović, Bosnian politician (d. 2009)
- July 31
- Geraldine Chaplin, English-American actress
- Robert C. Merton, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August edit
- August 1
- Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (d. 2019)
- Yury Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut
- August 2
- Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
- Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian percussionist and vocalist (d. 2016)
- August 3 – Jonas Falk, Swedish actor (d. 2010)
- August 4
- 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 10 – Luisa Teresa Pacheco, Venezuelan politician[72]
- 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[73]
- 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 – Ayşen Gruda, Turkish actress and comedian (d. 2019)
- August 23
- Saira Banu, Indian actress
- Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing political leader (d. 1992)
- August 24 – Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler and father of Dwayne Johnson (d. 2020)
- August 25 – Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (d. 1974)
- August 25
- Pat Martino, American jazz guitarist (d. 2021)
- Abdullah Tarmugi, Singaporean politician
- 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 boxer (d. 2022)
September edit
- 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 Milutinović, 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 – İsmet Özel, 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 – Angélica María, American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress[74]
- September 28 – Miloš Zeman, 3rd President of the Czech Republic
- September 30 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
October edit
- October 2 – Vernor Vinge, American science fiction writer (d. 2024)
- October 4
- Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
- Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
- October 5 – Arnhim Eustace, Vincentian politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- October 6
- Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, pioneering female Thai Buddhist monk, previously academic
- Mylon LeFevre, American singer and evangelist (d. 2023)
- 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&B singer (Labelle)
- Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1987)
- October 14 – Udo Kier, German actor
- October 15
- Mac Collins, American politician (d. 2018)
- Şerif Gören, Turkish film director
- Haim Saban, Israeli-American media proprietor
- David Trimble, Northern Irish Unionist political leader; recipient of the 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 Kovács, Hungarian jazz, pop and rock musician
- Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
- October 27 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
- October 28
- Dennis Franz, American actor
- Marián 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
- 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 (d. 2024)
- 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&B singer-songwriter, musician and producer
- Al Michaels, American sportscaster
- November 17
- Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach
- Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
- Danny DeVito, American actor, film producer and director
- Gary Goldman, American animator, film producer and director
- Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
- Lorne Michaels, Canadian television and film producer
- Tom Seaver, American baseball pitcher (d. 2020)
- Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1966)
- November 18
- Wolfgang Joop, German artist, fashion designer and art collector
- Ed Krupp, American astronomer, director of the Griffith Observatory
- November 20 Louie Dampier, American basketball player
- November 21
- Dick Durbin, American politician
- Earl Monroe, American basketball player
- Harold Ramis, American actor, director and comedy writer (d. 2014)
- November 23 – Peter Lindbergh, German fashion photographer and film director (d. 2019)
- November 24
- Candy Darling, American actress (d. 1974)
- Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar and diplomat
- November 25
- Ben Stein, American law professor, actor and author
- Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya
- November 30 – George Graham, Scottish football player and manager
December edit
- 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 Krabbé, 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 and convicted sex offender
- December 7
- Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
- Georges Coste, French rugby player and coach
- December 8 – Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress and model
- December 9
- Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, 80th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (d. 2020)
- Tadashi Irie, Japanese yakuza boss
- Ki Longfellow, American novelist
- Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (d. 2019)
- December 10 – Andris Bērziņš, 8th President of Latvia
- December 11
- Gianni Morandi, Italian singer
- 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)
- María Martha Serra Lima, Argentine singer (d. 2017)
- Tim Reid, African-American actor and film director
- Terry Underwood, Australian author
- December 20 – Ray Martin, Australian journalist and television presenter
- December 21
- Bill Atkinson, English footballer
- 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 (Señor Barriga and Ñoño in El Chavo del Ocho)
- December 30 – Joseph Hilbe, American statistician and author (d. 2017)
- December 31
- Neil Ross, British-American voice actor and announcer
- Jan Widströmer, Swedish painter and poet
Date unknown edit
- Lea Hopkins, American LGBT rights activist from Missouri
Deaths edit
January edit
- 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
- 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)
- Italian leaders of the Grand Council of Fascism executed following the Verona Trial
- January 12
- Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung, Thai Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1895)
- Juliette Atkinson, American tennis champion (b. 1873)
- January 13 – King Yuhi V of Rwanda (b. 1883)
- January 14 – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer (b. 1869)
- January 18 – Léon Brunschvicg, French philosopher (b. 1869)
- January 20 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
- January 21 – Yoshimi Nishida, Japanese general (b. 1892)
- January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- January 25 – Teresa Grillo Michel, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1855)
- January 29 – William Allen White, American journalist (b. 1868)
- January 31 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
February edit
- 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 Ehrensvärd, 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 24 – Fanny Clar, French journalist and writer (b. 1875)
- February 29 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish politician, 1st Prime Minister and 3rd President of Finland (b. 1861)
March edit
- March 3 – Paul-Émile 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)
- Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières 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
- 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)[75]
- March 31
- Antoni Kiewnarski, Polish WWII hero (b. 1899)
- Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
- Włodzimierz Kolanowski, Polish army officer (b. 1913)
April edit
- 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
- 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 Kozłowski, 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)[76]
- May 17 – Milena Jesenská, 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 (killed in action) (b. 1893)
- Luigi Mascherpa, Italian admiral (executed) (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
- June 5 – Józef Beck, Polish statesman (b. 1894)
- June 6
- Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist (b. 1879)
- Wilhelm Falley, German general (killed in action) (b. 1897)
- Don Pratt, American general (killed in action) (b. 1892)
- Ker-Xavier Roussel, French painter (b. 1867)
- June 12 – Erich Marcks, German general (b. 1891)
- June 16
- Marc Bloch, French historian (b. 1886)
- Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist (b. 1861)
- George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy convicted of murder in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. Executed by electric chair. (b. 1929)
- June 18 – Harry Fielding Reid, American geophysicist and seismologist (b. 1859)
- June 25
- Dénes Berinkey, 21st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
- Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
- María Chinchilla Recinos, Guatemalan teacher (b. 1909)
- June 27 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (b. 1878)
- June 28 – Anton Breinl, Australian medical practitioner and researcher (b. 1880)
July edit
- July 1 – Carl Mayer, Austrian screenwriter (b. 1894)
- July 6
- Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (b. 1919)
- Vera Leigh, British World War II heroine (b. 1903)
- Chūichi Nagumo, Japanese admiral (b. 1887)
- Sonya Olschanezky, German World War II heroine (b. 1923)
- Diana Rowden, British World War II heroine (b. 1915)
- July 7
- Georges Mandel, French politician and WWII hero (b. 1885)
- Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch, American dentist (b. 1882)[77]
- July 8
- George B. Seitz, American director (b. 1888)
- Takeo Takagi, Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. 1892)
- July 9
- Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish pilot (b. 1920)
- Kent Rogers, American voice actor (b. 1923)
- July 12
- Jesus Baza Duenas, Guamese Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (b. 1911)
- Theodore Roosevelt Jr., American political and business leader (b. 1887)
- July 14 – Asmahan, Syrian-born Egyptian singer (b.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) [78]
- Günther 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 Uexküll, Baltic German biologist (b. 1864)
- July 26
- Clóvis Beviláqua, Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist (b. 1859)
- Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, German resistance member (suicide) (b. 1899)
- Takakazu Kinashi, Japanese army officer (b. 1902)
- Reza Shah, 20th Prime Minister of Iran and Shah of Iran (b. 1878)
- July 27 – Perry McGillivray, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
- July 28 – Werner Schrader, German resistance member (suicide) (b. 1895)
- July 30
- Nikolai Polikarpov, Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer (b. 1892)
- Lee Powell, American actor (b. 1908)
- July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and children's writer (b. 1900)
August edit
- August 1
- Jean Prévost, French writer and journalist, member of the Maquis (b. 1901)
- Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino statesman, soldier and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
- August 2 – Kakuji Kakuta, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
- August 4 – Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet (b. 1921)
- August 5 – Jędrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1870)
- August 7
- Agustín Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (b. 1885)[79]
- 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)
- Eugénio de Castro, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1869)
- August 18
- Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, Polish pilot (b. 1917)
- Ernst Thälmann, German Communist leader (executed) (b. 1886)
- August 19
- Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1882)
- Sir Henry Wood, British conductor (b. 1869)
- August 21
- Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (b. 1895)
- Maciej Kalenkiewicz, Polish engineer and military officer (b. 1906)
- Marian Lalewicz, Polish architect (b. 1876)
- August 23
- Aleksander Augustynowicz, Polish painter (b. 1865)
- Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1868)
- 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 Stülpnagel, German general and resistance leader (b. 1886)
September edit
- September 1 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
- September 2 – Maria Vetulani de Nisau, Polish soldier (b. 1898)
- September 3 – Friedrich Alpers, German Nazi politician and general (b. 1901)
- September 4
- Erich Fellgiebel, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1886)
- Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, German resistance fighter (b. 1909)
- Fritz Thiele, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1894)
- September 5 – Gustave Biéler, Swiss WWII hero (b. 1904)
- September 6 – Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Polish Dominican friar, martyr and blessed (b. 1897)
- September 7 – Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer (b. 1897)
- September 8
- Georg Hansen, German resistance fighter (b. 1904)
- Ulrich von Hassell, German diplomat and resistance fighter (b. 1881)
- Paul Lejeune-Jung, German resistance fighter (b. 1882)
- Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German resistance fighter (b. 1902)
- Günther Smend, German resistance fighter (b. 1912)
- Josef Wirmer, German resistance fighter (b. 1901)
- September 11
- Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (b. 1895)
- Joseph Müller, German Roman Catholic priest and Servant of God (executed) (b. 1894)
- September 12 – Robert Fiske, American actor (b. 1889)
- September 13
- 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)
- Roméo Sabourin, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1923)
- Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1877)
- Hermann Josef Wehrle, German Catholic priest and resistance member (executed) (b. 1899)
- September 16 – Gustav Bauer, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
- September 18
- Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch policeman, politician and businessman, 25th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1869)
- Anton Saefkow, German communist (executed) (b. 1903)
- September 20 – Friedrich Boedicker, German admiral (b. 1866)
- 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)[80]
- Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
- David Dougal Williams, British painter (b. 1888)
- September 28 – Josef Bürckel, German Nazi gauleiter (b. 1895)
- September 29
- Otto Herfurth, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1893)
- Wilhelm Leuschner German politician and resistance fighter (b. 1890)
- Joachim Meichssner, German resistance fighter (b. 1906)
- Joachim Sadrozinski, German resistance fighter (b. 1907)
October edit
- October 1
- Max Ehrlich, German actor, screenwriter and humor writer (b. 1892)[81]
- 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)
- Julián Felipe, Filipino musician and bandleader (b. 1861)
- Maeda Toshisada, Japanese politician (b. 1874)
- October 4 – Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
- October 5 – Prince Gustav of Denmark (b. 1887)
- October 8 – Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
- October 9
- Kitty Marion, German-born actress and women's rights activist in England and the United States (b. 1871)
- Stefanina Moro, Italian resistance member (b. 1927)
- October 12
- Ramón Castillo, Argentinian politician, 25th President of Argentina (b. 1873)
- Carl Langbehn, German resistance member (b. 1901)
- Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz, German resistance member (b. 1886)
- October 13
- Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, German resistance member (b. 1907)
- Roland von Hößlin, German resistance member (b. 1915)
- October 14 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
- October 17 – Anton Hafner, German aviator (b. 1918)
- October 18
- Alexander, Prince of Erbach-Schönberg (b. 1872)
- Josef Maria Eder, Austrian chemist (b. 1855)
- October 19
- Isadore Bernstein, American screenwriter (b. 1876)
- Deneys Reitz, South African soldier and diplomat (b. 1882)
- October 20
- Eduard Brücklmeier, German diplomat and resistance member (b. 1903)
- Hermann Maaß, German politician and resistance member (b. 1897)
- Adolf Reichwein, German politician and resistance member (b. 1898)
- October 21
- Nell Brinkley, American illustrator and comic artist (b. 1886)[82]
- 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 Thüngen, German general and resistance member (executed) (b. 1893)
- October 25
- Shōji Nishimura, Japanese vice admiral (b. 1889)
- José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, Peruvian historian, writer and politician, 84th Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1885)
- 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)
- 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)[83]
November edit
- November 1
- Ismael Pérez Pazmiño, 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, German-born 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)[84]
- George Houston, American actor (b. 1896)
- Otto Frank, German physiologist (b. 1865)[85]
- 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)
- Sir 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 Lüninck, German politician and resistance member (b. 1888)
- November 16 – Maria Rodziewiczówna, Polish writer (b. 1863)
- November 19 – Ignacio Bolívar, Spanish naturalist and entomologist (b. 1850)
- November 22
- Joseph Caillaux, French politician, 57th Prime Minister of France (b. 1863)
- Sir Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, physicist and mathematician (b. 1882)
- Sadakichi Hartmann, Japanese-born American critic and poet (b. 1867)[86]
- 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
- December 1 – Franciszek Pius Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman and activist (b. 1878)
- December 2
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor and art theorist, founder of the Futurist movement (b. 1876)
- Josef Lhévinne, Soviet pianist (b. 1874)
- December 3 – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (b. 1882)
- December 4 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and member 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 Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and singer (b. 1908)
- December 15 – Glenn Miller, American band leader (accident) (b. 1904)
- December 19 – King Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
- December 20
- Caesar von Hofacker, German resistance member (b. 1896)
- Fritz Pfeffer, German-Dutch housemate of Anne Frank (b. 1889)[87]
- 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)[88]
- Peter Deunov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (b. 1864)
- Sára Salkaházi, Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1899)
- December 30 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 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
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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 nbsp 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 nbsp 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 nbsp 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 over 95 of the town 7 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 8 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 9 10 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 in Silesia 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 11 March 27 In Sweden Ruben Rausing patents Erik Wallenberg s method of packaging milk in paper origin of the international company Tetra Pak 12 April edit Main article April 1944 April 1 The Swiss city of Schaffhausen is accidentally bombed by the United States causing serious damage to the city and killing or wounding more than 100 people 13 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 WWII As part of the Dnieper Carpathian Offensive the Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front capture the city of Odessa in Southern Ukraine 14 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 WWII As part of the Japanese supported Axis forces led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose fighting for India s liberation from British rule Col Shaukat Ali Malik of the Bahadur Group of the Indian National Army enters Moirang in modern day Manipur in northeastern India and raises the flag of the Azri Hukumat e Azad Hind for the first time on Indian soil This is considered to be one of the first times in British Indian history where an army of liberation raises the national flag on Indian mainland 15 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 20 Members of Slovene Home guard swear an oath to Hitler on his birthday at Bezigrad stadium April 22 WWII Battle of Hollandia American forces disembark at Tanahmerah Bay and at Yos Sudarso Bay near Hollandia The landings are undertaken simultaneously with the amphibious invasion of Aitape Operation Persecution to the east 16 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 17 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 18 19 20 21 May edit Main article May 1944 nbsp 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 22 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 nbsp Allied troops land on the beaches of Normandy during D Day nbsp 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 23 June 2 WWII The Provisional Government of the French Republic is established June 3 Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome 24 25 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 26 27 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 28 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 African American teenage boy George Stinney Jr becomes the youngest person ever executed by electric chair 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 29 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 30 July edit Main article July 1944 nbsp Aftermath of the failed 20 July plot to kill Hitler nbsp Soviet soldiers fight in the streets of Jelgava summer 1944 nbsp 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 31 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 32 33 34 35 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 Operation Cobra American forces launch an air and ground offensive against the German defenders in western Normandy forcing them to retreat 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 36 July 27 WWII Soviet forces capture Lvov and the following day enter Brest Litovsk July 31 WWII American submarine USS Parche torpedoes Japanese troop transport Yoshino Maru 2 495 drown 6 August edit Main article August 1944 nbsp Szare Szeregi Scouts also fought in the Warsaw Uprising nbsp Jewish prisoners of Gesiowka liberated by Polish soldiers from Batalion Zoska August 5 1944 nbsp 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 37 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 38 The Finnish Parliament by derogation elects Marshal C G E Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti who has resigned 39 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 40 August 19 WWII American submarine USS Spadefish torpedoes Japanese landing craft depot ship Tamatsu Maru more than 4 400 Japanese servicemen drown 41 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 28 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 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 Forces of Free France are the first of the Allies to enter Paris At Bucheres in France men of the 51st SS Brigade massacre 68 civilians half of them women aged from 6 months to above seventy years 42 Japanese vessels attack and sink the submarine USS Harder off Luzon August 25 WWII German surrender of Paris The Allies enter Paris in force and General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders the city to them in defiance of Hitler s orders to destroy it This successfully completes Operation Overlord 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 WWII The Romanian capital Bucharest is captured by the Red Army The Mad Gasser of Mattoon apparently resumes his mysterious attacks in Mattoon Illinois for two weeks September edit Main article September 1944 nbsp 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 43 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 44 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 launched from The Hague 28 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 45 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 The Moscow 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 nbsp Henry Larsen becomes the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions July October 1944 nbsp American troops advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island October 20 1944 nbsp Light aircraft carrier USS Princeton afire east of Luzon October 24 1944 nbsp Volkssturm founded in October 1944 nbsp Battle of Leyte begins General MacArthur returns to the Philippines October 20 1944 nbsp 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 WWII Soviet forces reach the Baltic Sea coast in Lithuania cutting off German Army Group North and creating the Courland Pocket October 11 The Tuvan People s Republic is annexed into the Soviet Union October 12 WWII The Germans leave Athens as the first Allied troops and Greek guerrillas enter the city nbsp Athenian Liberty flag raised on the Acropolis of Athens on the liberation of the city on 12 October 1944 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 22 46 47 October 13 WWII Riga the capital of Latvia is taken by the Red Army The first V 2 rocket attack on Antwerp takes place 48 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 49 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 50 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 51 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 52 November 11 Operational ships of the French Navy re enter their base at Toulon citation needed The 1942 44 musicians strike ends in the United States when RCA Victor and Columbia Records capitulate to the union s demands November 12 WWII Operation Catechism German battleship Tirpitz is sunk by British Royal Air Force Lancaster bombers near Tromso in Norway 28 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 53 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 53 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 54 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 55 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 56 December edit Main article December 1944 nbsp 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 57 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 58 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 59 60 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 Soviet forces beginning the Siege of Budapest 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 February Winter Olympics scheduled for Cortina d Ampezzo in Italy are suspended due to WWII National Committee for Education on Alcoholism predecessor of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is established in the United States by Marty Mann Last known evidence of the existence of the Asiatic lion in the wild in Khuzestan Province Persia 61 The BC Zalgiris professional basketball club is founded in Kaunas Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic 62 Births editBirths January February March April May June July August September October November December January edit nbsp Omar al Bashir nbsp Jimmy Page nbsp Carlos Villagran nbsp Paul Keating nbsp Angela Davis January 1 Omar al Bashir 7th 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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 30 Joseph Hilbe American statistician and author d 2017 December 31 Neil Ross British American voice actor and announcer Jan Widstromer Swedish painter and poet Date unknown edit Lea Hopkins American LGBT rights activist from MissouriDeaths editDeaths January February March April May June July August September October November December January edit nbsp Kaj Munk nbsp Andrey Toshev nbsp Yuhi V Musinga nbsp Edvard Munch nbsp 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 Jean Tatlock American psychiatrist b 1914 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 February edit nbsp Piet Mondrian nbsp Margaret Woodrow Wilson nbsp 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 24 Fanny Clar French journalist and writer b 1875 February 29 Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Finnish politician 1st Prime Minister and 3rd President of Finland b 1861 March edit nbsp Paul Emile Janson nbsp 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 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 75 March 31 Antoni Kiewnarski Polish WWII hero b 1899 Mineichi Koga Japanese admiral b 1885 Wlodzimierz Kolanowski Polish army officer b 1913 April edit nbsp 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 nbsp Leon Kozlowski nbsp Edel Quinn nbsp Patriarch Sergius of Moscow nbsp 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 76 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 killed in action b 1893 Luigi Mascherpa Italian admiral executed 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 nbsp 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 16 Marc Bloch French historian b 1886 Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray Indian chemist b 1861 George Stinney a 14 year old African American boy convicted of murder in his hometown of Alcolu South Carolina Executed by electric chair b 1929 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 nbsp Carl Mayer nbsp Theodore Roosevelt Jr nbsp Tarsykiya Matskiv nbsp 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 77 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 78 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 1878 July 27 Perry McGillivray American Olympic swimmer b 1893 July 28 Werner Schrader German resistance member suicide b 1895 July 30 Nikolai 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 nbsp Jedrzej Moraczewski nbsp Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg nbsp Joseph P Kennedy Jr nbsp 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 79 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 nbsp Robert Benoist nbsp Joseph Muller nbsp Gustav Bauer nbsp Hendrikus Colijn nbsp 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 11 Robert Benoist French race car driver and war hero b 1895 Joseph Muller German Roman Catholic priest and Servant of God executed b 1894 September 12 Robert Fiske American actor b 1889 September 13 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 20 Friedrich Boedicker German admiral b 1866 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 80 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 nbsp Stefanina Moro nbsp Ramon Castillo nbsp Erwin Rommel nbsp Jose de la Riva Aguero y Osma October 1 Max Ehrlich German actor screenwriter and humor writer b 1892 81 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 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1898 October 21 Nell Brinkley American illustrator and comic artist b 1886 82 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 Jose de la Riva Aguero y Osma Peruvian historian writer and politician 84th Prime Minister of Peru b 1885 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 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 83 November edit nbsp Andrey Sheptytsky nbsp Blessed Carl Lampert nbsp Joseph Caillaux nbsp 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 German born 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 84 George Houston American actor b 1896 Otto Frank German physiologist b 1865 85 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 Sir 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 86 Johan Pitka Estonian entrepreneur sea captain and admiral b 1872 November 25 Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1st commissioner of Major League Baseball b 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