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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
George Ade
Author
9-Feb-1866 16-May-1944 Fables in Slang
Leo Baekeland
Scientist
14-Nov-1863 23-Feb-1944 Father of plastics
Charles Glover Barkla
Physicist
7-Jun-1877 23-Oct-1944 X-ray scattering
Georges Barrère
Musician
31-Oct-1876 14-Jun-1944 Franco-American flautist
Gustav Bauer
Head of State
6-Jan-1870 16-Sep-1944 German Chancellor 1919-20
Ludwig Beck
Military
29-Jun-1880 20-Jul-1944 Supported failed coup against Hitler
Charles Bedaux
Business
26-Oct-1887 18-Feb-1944 Industrial efficiency expert
George David Birkhoff
Mathematician
21-Mar-1884 12-Nov-1944 Modern theory of dynamical systems
G. W. Bitzer
Cinematographer
21-Apr-1872 29-Apr-1944 The Birth of a Nation
Joseph L. Bristow
Politician
22-Jul-1861 14-Jul-1944 US Senator from Kansas, 1909-15
Alexis Carrel
Doctor
28-Jun-1873 5-Nov-1944 Sutured blood vessels
James McKeen Cattell
Psychologist
24-May-1860 20-Jan-1944 Academic freedom
Irvin S. Cobb
Author
23-Jun-1876 10-Mar-1944 Old Judge Priest
Laird Cregar
Actor
28-Jul-1916 9-Dec-1944 The Lodger
Alan Dinehart
Actor
3-Oct-1889 17-Jul-1944 Born to Dance
Arthur Eddington
Astronomer
28-Dec-1882 22-Nov-1944 Eddington luminosity
Albert Fall
Government
26-Nov-1861 30-Nov-1944 US Interior Secy., Teapot Dome Scandal
Frederick B. Fancher
Politician
2-Apr-1852 10-Jan-1944 Governor of North Dakota, 1899-1901
Jean Giraudoux
Novelist
29-Oct-1882 31-Jan-1944 The Madwoman of Chaillot
Thomas W. Hardwick
Politician
9-Dec-1872 31-Jan-1944 Senator and Governor from Georgia
Masujiro Hashimoto
Business
1875 Jan-1944 Founder of Nissan Motor Co.
Lou Hoover
First Lady
29-Mar-1874 7-Jan-1944 Wife of US President Herbert Hoover
Max Jacob
Poet
12-Jul-1876 5-Mar-1944 Le Cornet à dés
Wassily Kandinsky
Artist
16-Dec-1866 13-Dec-1944 Abstractionist and theorist
Noor Inayat Khan
Spy
1-Jan-1914 13-Sep-1944 British spy, children's author, captured by Nazis
Frank Knox
Politician
1-Jan-1874 28-Apr-1944 US Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Baseball
20-Nov-1866 25-Nov-1944 First Commissioner of Baseball
Harry Langdon
Actor
15-Jun-1884 22-Dec-1944 The Strong Man
Stephen Leacock
Author
30-Dec-1869 28-Mar-1944 Literary Lapses
Louis Lepke
Criminal
6-Feb-1897 4-Mar-1944 Head of Murder, Inc.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Historian
14-Jan-1882 11-Mar-1944 Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind
Edwin Lutyens
Architect
29-Mar-1869 1-Jan-1944 Laid the plan for New Delhi
Aristide Maillol
Sculptor
8-Apr-1861 27-Sep-1944 Sculptor of the female nude
Charles L. McNary
Politician
12-Jun-1874 25-Feb-1944 US Senator from Oregon, 1917-44
Aimee Semple McPherson
Religion
9-Oct-1890 27-Sep-1944 Evangelist, faith healer
Thomas Midgley
Chemist
18-May-1889 2-Nov-1944 Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Glenn Miller
Musician
1-Mar-1904 15-Dec-1944 Popular bandleader and trombonist
Piet Mondrian
Painter
7-Mar-1872 1-Feb-1944 Dutch abstract painter
Edvard Munch
Painter
12-Dec-1863 23-Jan-1944 Scream
Jimmie Noone
Jazz Musician
23-Apr-1895 19-Apr-1944 New Orleans jazz clarinetist
George W. Norris
Politician
11-Jul-1861 2-Sep-1944 US Senator from Nebraska, 1913-43
Friedrich Olbricht
Military
4-Oct-1888 20-Jul-1944 German general, failed coup plotter
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Head of State
16-Mar-1878 26-Jul-1944 Shah of Iran, 1925-41
Robert E. Park
Sociologist
14-Feb-1864 7-Feb-1944 Race and Culture
Dick Purcell
Actor
6-Aug-1908 10-Apr-1944 The Bank Dick
Manuel Quezon
Head of State
19-Aug-1878 1-Aug-1944 2nd President of the Philippines
Jessie Ralph
Actor
5-Nov-1864 30-May-1944 San Francisco
Louis Renault
Engineer
15-Feb-1877 24-Oct-1944 Founder of Renault
Romain Rolland
Novelist
29-Jan-1866 30-Dec-1944 Jean-Christophe
Erwin Rommel
Military
15-Nov-1891 14-Oct-1944 The Desert Fox
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Author
29-Jun-1900 31-Jul-1944 The Little Prince
George B. Seitz
Film Director
3-Jan-1888 8-Jul-1944 Andy Hardy series
Alfred E. Smith
Government
30-Dec-1873 4-Oct-1944 Twice Governor of New York
Richard Sorge
Spy
4-Oct-1895 7-Nov-1944 Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa
Chaim Soutine
Painter
1894 8-Aug-1944 Expressionist painter, Carcass of Beef
William D. Stephens
Politician
26-Dec-1859 25-Apr-1944 Governor of California, 1917-23
Ida M. Tarbell
Journalist
5-Nov-1857 6-Jan-1944 History of the Standard Oil Company
William Temple
Religion
15-Oct-1881 26-Oct-1944 Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44
Lupe Velez
Actor
18-Jul-1908 13-Dec-1944 The Mexican Spitfire
Günther von Kluge
Military
30-Oct-1882 18-Aug-1944 Nazi general
Claus von Stauffenberg
Military
15-Nov-1907 20-Jul-1944 Tried to kill Hitler in 1944
Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel
Military
2-Jan-1886 30-Aug-1944 Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler
Erwin von Witzleben
Military
4-Dec-1881 8-Aug-1944 German general, tried to overthrow Hitler
William Allen White
Journalist
10-Feb-1868 29-Jan-1944 The Emporia Gazette
Wendell Willkie
Politician
18-Feb-1892 8-Oct-1944 Defeated by Roosevelt in 1940
Harold Bell Wright
Novelist
4-May-1872 24-May-1944 The Winning of Barbara Worth


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