| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known 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 |
