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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1944</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1944 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/516/000113177/">George Ade</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1944</tt></td> <td>Fables in Slang</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000094081/">Leo Baekeland</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>Father of plastics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/549/000099252/">Charles Glover Barkla</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td>X-ray scattering</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/189/000179649/">Georges Barrère</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1944</tt></td> <td>Franco-American flautist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/833/000089566/">Gustav Bauer</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>German Chancellor 1919-20</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/155/000087891/">Ludwig Beck</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>Supported failed coup against Hitler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000209379/">Charles Bedaux</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>Industrial efficiency expert</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/926/000166428/">George David Birkhoff</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Modern theory of dynamical systems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000091171/">G. W. Bitzer</a></td> <td><center>Cinematographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td>The Birth of a Nation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/657/000177126/">Joseph L. Bristow</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jul-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Kansas, 1909-15</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/170/000125792/">Alexis Carrel</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Sutured blood vessels</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000165815/">James McKeen Cattell</a></td> <td><center>Psychologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Academic freedom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/700/000115355/">Irvin S. Cobb</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td>Old Judge Priest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/356/000136945/">Laird Cregar</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>The Lodger</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/990/000278156/">Alan Dinehart</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>Born to Dance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000168859/">Arthur Eddington</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Eddington luminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/250/000129860/">Albert Fall</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>US Interior Secy., Teapot Dome Scandal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000208515/">Frederick B. Fancher</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Dakota, 1899-1901</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/270/000113928/">Jean Giraudoux</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>The Madwoman of Chaillot</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/145/000206524/">Thomas W. Hardwick</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Senator and Governor from Georgia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/152/000169642/">Masujiro Hashimoto</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1875</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Founder of Nissan Motor Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000128803/">Lou Hoover</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Wife of US President Herbert Hoover</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/128/000113786/">Max Jacob</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td>Le Cornet à dés</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000082596/">Wassily Kandinsky</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>Abstractionist and theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000132254/">Noor Inayat Khan</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/268/000206647/">Frank Knox</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/156/000167652/">Kenesaw Mountain Landis</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>First Commissioner of Baseball</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000091652/">Harry Langdon</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>The Strong Man</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000084969/">Stephen Leacock</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td>Literary Lapses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/306/000112967/">Louis Lepke</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td>Head of Murder, Inc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000114485/">Hendrik Willem van Loon</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1944</tt></td> <td>Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000084635/">Edwin Lutyens</a></td> <td><center>Architect</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Laid the plan for New Delhi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/509/000118155/">Aristide Maillol</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>Sculptor of the female nude</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/202/000117848/">Charles L. McNary</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Oregon, 1917-44</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000103532/">Aimee Semple McPherson</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>Evangelist, faith healer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000205112/">Thomas Midgley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Ethyl gasoline, Freon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/846/000043717/">Glenn Miller</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>Popular bandleader and trombonist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/370/000024298/">Piet Mondrian</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>Dutch abstract painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/725/000029638/">Edvard Munch</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>Scream</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/327/000205709/">Jimmie Noone</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td>New Orleans jazz clarinetist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000121254/">George W. Norris</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jul-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td>US Senator from Nebraska, 1913-43</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000087923/">Friedrich Olbricht</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>German general, failed coup plotter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000120325/">Reza Shah Pahlavi</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>Shah of Iran, 1925-41</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000113668/">Robert E. Park</a></td> <td><center>Sociologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1944</tt></td> <td>Race and Culture</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000164298/">Dick Purcell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td>The Bank Dick</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000098853/">Manuel Quezon</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1878</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td>2nd President of the Philippines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000278963/">Jessie Ralph</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1944</tt></td> <td>San Francisco</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/902/000177371/">Louis Renault</a></td> <td><center>Engineer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td>Founder of Renault</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/168/000114823/">Romain Rolland</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>Jean-Christophe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000087879/">Erwin Rommel</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td>The Desert Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000115844/">Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>The Little Prince</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/902/000345864/">George B. Seitz</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jan-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>Andy Hardy series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/568/000056400/">Alfred E. Smith</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td>Twice Governor of New York</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000113369/">Richard Sorge</a></td> <td><center>Spy</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000098170/">Chaim Soutine</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td>Expressionist painter, Carcass of Beef</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/377/000206756/">William D. Stephens</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1944</tt></td> <td>Governor of California, 1917-23</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/485/000114143/">Ida M. Tarbell</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>History of the Standard Oil Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000179770/">William Temple</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td>Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000044139/">Lupe Velez</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td>The Mexican Spitfire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/175/000087911/">Günther von Kluge</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Oct-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td>Nazi general</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000087721/">Claus von Stauffenberg</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Nov-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1944</tt></td> <td>Tried to kill Hitler in 1944</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/194/000087930/">Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td>Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/196/000087932/">Erwin von Witzleben</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1944</tt></td> <td>German general, tried to overthrow Hitler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/984/000114642/">William Allen White</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1944</tt></td> <td>The Emporia Gazette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000055520/">Wendell Willkie</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1944</tt></td> <td>Defeated by Roosevelt in 1940</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/737/000114395/">Harold Bell Wright</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1944</tt></td> <td>The Winning of Barbara Worth</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106136" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/925/000003916/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/925/3916/s3916.jpg" width=128> Beef Map</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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