Death year 1944 celebrities
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Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray, GC (1917–1944), known as Cy Gray, of the Royal Canadian Air Force was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his self-sacrifice in putting the lives of his comrades ahead of his own.
Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, also Manette (Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde; 28 May 1884 – 26 October 1944) was the second daughter of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and the Austrian-born Princess Marie of Windisch-Grae
Maria Bard (7 July 1900 – 8 April 1944) was a German stage actress, who made a handful of films in the silent era for Rimax, her first husband Wilhelm Graaff’s company. By 1930, her marriage with Graaff was over, and she appeared with Werner Krauss
William Vaness McGill (November 10, 1873 – August 29, 1944) was an American major league baseball pitcher. He played professionally for the Cleveland Infants, Cincinnati Porkers, St. Louis Browns, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Browns and the Philadelp
Kiichi Hasegawa (長谷川 喜一, Hasegawa Kiichi, 15 April 1894 – 29 March 1944) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Reginald John “Rex” Whistler (24 June 1905 – 18 July 1944) was a British artist, designer and illustrator.
Theodore Goldsmith “Ted” Joslin was press secretary to President Herbert Hoover from 1931 until 1933.
Aimee Semple McPherson (October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee, was a Canadian-American Los Angeles–based evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s. She founded the Foursquare Church. McPherson has been not
Henri Ghéon (March 15, 1875 – June 13, 1944), born Henri Vangeon in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, was a French playwright, novelist, poet and critic.
Claude Raymond Hendrix (April 13, 1889 – March 22, 1944) born in Olathe, Kansas, USA, is a former professional baseball player who played pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1911–13), Chicago Chi-Feds/Chicago Whales (1914
Princess Marie Alexandra of Baden (Marie Alexandra Thyra Victoria Louise Carola Hilda) (1 August 1902 in Salem – 29 January 1944 in Frankfurt am Main) was a Princess and Landgravine of Hesse and wife of the designated Crown Prince of Finland.
Alice-Jacqueline Luzgart was born October 8, 1933, in Paris. The ten-year-old girl wrote this letter to her mother Sarah a few months before the Nazi raid at the Children’s Home at Izieu. She was deported to Auschwitz and murdered immediately upon ar