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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
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Abdul Mejid II
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Al Michaels
Alan Richard "Al" Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television sportscaster. Now employed by NBC Sports after nearly three decades (1977–2006) with ABC Sports, Michaels is one of the most prominent members of his profession. He is perhaps best known for his many years of calling play-by-play of National Football League games, including nearly two decades with Monday Night Football. He is also known for famous calls in other sports, including the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the earthquake-interrupted Game 3 of the 1989 World Series.
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Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry and Hollywood and was a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain.
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Alex Buzo
Alex Buzo (23 July 1944 –16 August 2006) was an Australian playwright and author who wrote 88 works.
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Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
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Alfred Wetzler
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Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an African American author and poet. She has written at length on issues of race and gender, and is most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Alois Kayser
Alois Kayser (March 29, 1877 in Lupstein/Alsace – October 21, 1944 in Chuuk) was a French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost 40 years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar (and possibly a Nauruan language dictionary). In 1943 he was deported along with most of the Nauruan population by the Japanese to Micronesia, where he died. In his honour the government of Nauru named the technical school in the district Ewa after him.
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Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was a North Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. He also led a workshop that was the leading producer of prints in Venice before 1500.
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Andrée Borrel
Andrée Raymonde Borrel (November 18, 1919 – July 6, 1944) was a French heroine of World War II.
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Angela Davis
Angela Davis (b. January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist, philosopher, political activist and retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was the director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Davis was largely active during the Civil Rights Movement and was associated with the Black Panthers. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons.
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Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg (born 25 January 1944, Rome, Italy) is an Italian-born actress, model, and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979, by whom she has two surviving children.
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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (; 12 June 1929 in Frankfurt am Main – early March 1945 in Bergen Belsen) is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.
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Anne Robinson
Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) is a British television presenter and former journalist, known for her assertive views and acerbic style of presenting. She was one of the presenters on the long-running British consumer affairs series, Watchdog, from 1993 to 2001 before returning in 2009, but has also gained notoriety as the hostess of the BBC television game show The Weakest Link which has earned her the nickname "Queen of Mean".
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Anthony C. McAuliffe
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Aristide Maillol
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Aristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol (December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.
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Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 (later extended to 1918), and for his literary criticism. He guided the taste of many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84 Charing Cross Road, its sequel, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=8aUJAAAACAAJ&dq;=q%27s+legacy Q's Legacy], and the putatively fictional Horace Rumpole via John Mortimer, his literary amanuensis.
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Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini (; March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th century and 20th century, he was renowned for his brilliant intensity, his restless perfectionism, his phenomenal ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory. As music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra he became a household name through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
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Askar Akayev
Askar Akayevich Akayev (Аскар Акаевич Акаев) (born 10 November 1944 in Kyzyl-Bairak, Kirghiz SSR) served as the President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until he was overthrown in March 2005 in the Tulip Revolution.
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Asmahan
Amal al-Atrash (Arabic: ; 25 November 1918 – 14 July 1944), better known by her stage name Asmahan ( ), was a Syrian-Egyptian singer and actress. Having immigrated to Egypt in childhood, she became an apprentice of Egyptian classical music pioneers, Dawood Hosni, Mohamed El Qasabgi and Zakariyya Ahmad. She also sang the compositions of Mohammed Abdel Wahab and her brother Farid al-Atrash, a then rising star musician in his own right. Hers was the only voice in Arab music to ever pose a serious competition to that of Umm Kulthum, who is considered to be the Arab world's most distinguished singer of the 20th century. Her mysterious death by drowning at the age of twenty-six drew speculations about tribulations in her personal life and an espionage role in World War II.
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (née Ericsson) (, 14 November 1907 – 28 January 2002) was a Swedish author and screenwriter who is the world's 25th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide. She is best known for the Pippi Longstocking, Karlsson-on-the-Roof and the Six Bullerby Children book series.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon ( hanja:潘基文; born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence.
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Barry White
Barry Eugene White ( – ) was an American record producer and singer-songwriter.
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Beethoven
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Ben Stein
Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American actor, writer, lawyer, and commentator on political and economic issues. He attained early success as a speechwriter for American presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Later he entered the entertainment field and became an actor, comedian, and Emmy Award-winning game show host.
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Betty Kelley
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Billy Bitzer
Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (b.April 21, 1874, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, d.April 29, 1944) was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith, working with him on some of his most important films and contributing significantly to cinematic innovations attributed to Griffith. In 1910, he photographed Griffith's silent short, In Old California, in the Los Angeles village of "Hollywoodland", qualifying Bitzer as, arguably, Hollywood's first Director of Photography. Bitzer, it is said, "developed camera techniques that set the standard for all future motion pictures."
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Bob Minor
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Bobby Heenan
Raymond Louis Heenan (born November 1, 1944), better known as Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, is a former American professional wrestling manager and color commentator, best known for his time with the American Wrestling Association, World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation. He was known for his skill in drawing heel heat for himself and his wrestlers, and for his on-screen repartee with Gorilla Monsoon as a color commentator.
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Bobby Womack
Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack () (born March 4, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40 years and has spanned a repertoire in the styles of R&B;, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country.
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Bodil Malmsten
Bodil Malmsten (born 19 August 1944) is a Swedish poet and novelist. She was born close to Östersund in Jämtland, Sweden and grew up at her grandparents.
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Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Gail Franklin (born January 6, 1944) is an American actress, best known for her starring role in the television series One Day at a Time.
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Booker T. Jones
Booker T. Jones (born November 12, 1944) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for fronting the band Booker T. and the MGs. He has also worked in the studios with some of the highest regarded artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, earning him a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.
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Bora Milutinovic
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Boudewijn de Groot
Boudewijn de Groot (born 20 May 1944) is one of the most famous Dutch singer/songwriters. He is known for the songs "Welterusten Meneer de President" (1966), "Land van Maas en Waal" (1967), "Jimmy" (1973) and "Avond" (1996) among others. On 19 January 2007 he issued his latest album Lage Landen (Low Countries).
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Brooke Bundy
Brooke Bundy (born August 8, 1944) is an American actress who has appeared in a number of films and television shows.
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Buzz Hargrove
Basil Eldon "Buzz" Hargrove, OC (born March 8, 1944, Bath, New Brunswick, Canada) is the former National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union. He is currently serving as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management and Ombudsman of the NHL Players Association .
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Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein ( ) (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who, at The Washington Post, teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did the majority of the most important news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations, the indictment of a vast number of White House Officians such as H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and John Mitchell, and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. For his role in breaking the scandal, Bernstein received many awards; his work helped earn the Post a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1973.
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Carl Mayer
:For the German playwright (1896-1977), see Carl Zuckmayer.
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Carl Meinhof
Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof (July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.
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Carol Barnes
Carol Lesley Barnes (13 September 1944 – 8 March 2008) was a British television newsreader and broadcaster. She worked for ITN from 1975 to 2004.
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Charlie Tuna
Charlie Tuna (born April 18, 1944) is a radio personality based in Los Angeles, California currently working at KRTH-FM.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Chris Dodd
Christopher John "Chris" Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Connecticut.
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Chris von Saltza
Susan Christina ("Chris") von Saltza (born January 3, 1944 in San Francisco, California) is a former competitive freestyle swimmer from the United States who, at the age of 16, won one silver and three gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. She set the world record in the 400 meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials. She later attended Stanford University, which had no women's swim team in the pre-Title IX days.
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Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski (born 6 September 1944) is a French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.
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Christine Chubbuck
Christine Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who committed suicide during a live television broadcast.
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Clark Daniel Stearns
Clark Daniel Stearns (1870 - May 25, 1944) was the ninth Naval Governor of American Samoa. Stearns commanded various vessels, on which he set up organized committees for the crew to give suggestions to the officers. He hoped to alleviate tensions between the enlisted men and officers. However, upon his appointment to the USS Michigan, he was removed from command for these activities.
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Clive Hornby
Clive Hornby (20 October 1944 – 3 July 2008) was an English actor, known for his part in ITV's Emmerdale as farmer Jack Sugden.
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Colm Wilkinson
Colm Wilkinson, (also known as C.T. Wilkinson in Ireland) was born 5 June 1944 in Dublin. He is an Irish musical theatre actor and singer, best known for originating the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. He was among the most frequent players of Valjean, originating the role in the West End and on Broadway. He reprised the role at the . He appeared on several cast albums and a DVD of the Concert.
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Cordell Hull
Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871 – July 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, holding the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during much of World War II. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the Father of the United Nations.
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Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars (sg. Qırımtatar, pl. Qırımtatarlar) or Crimeans (sg. Qırım, Qırımlı, pl. Qırımlar, Qırımlılar) are a Turkic ethnic group originally residing in Crimea. They speak the Crimean Tatar language. They are not to be confused with the Volga Tatars.
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Cuba Gooding, Sr.
:For the actor, see Cuba Gooding, Jr.
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Daniel Chorzempa
Daniel Walter Chorzempa (born December 7, 1944) is an American organist.
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Danny DeVito
Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVito, Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, director, and producer. He first gained prominence for his portrayal of Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC TV series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
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Dave Davies
:This is about the English musician; for others, see Dave Davies (disambiguation).
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David Mark Berger
David Mark Berger (June 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an American-born weightlifter for the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. A lawyer by education, Berger was one of 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Arab terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games.
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David Trimble
William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (born 15 October 1944, in Belfast), is a politician from Northern Ireland. He served as Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP; 1995–2005), was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland (1998–2002), and was a Member of the British Parliament (1990–2005). He is currently a life peer for the Conservative Party. Trimble was awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, along with John Hume.
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Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina (born February 29, 1944) is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor, often typecast as a mobster or police officer.
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Dennis Franz
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Dennis Franz (born October 28, 1944) is an American actor best known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a gritty police detective in the television series NYPD Blue. He previously appeared as Lt. Norman Buntz on Hill Street Blues, playing a large part in many episodes during the final two seasons.
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Denny McLain
Dennis Dale "Denny" McLain (born March 29, 1944) is a former American professional baseball player, and the last major league pitcher to win 30 or more games during a season (31–6 in 1968)—a feat accomplished by only thirteen players in the 20th century.
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Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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Diana Rowden
Diana Hope Rowden (31 January 1915 - 6 July 1944) was a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member who was executed in a Nazi concentration camp.
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Dick Durbin
Richard Joseph "Dick" Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is the senior United States Senator from the U.S. state of Illinois and Democratic Party Whip, the second highest position in the Democratic Party leadership in the Senate, and became Majority Whip when Democrats took control of the Senate on January 3, 2007. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of "America's 10 Best Senators." He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the other senator from Illinois. He was reelected in November 2008 for a term ending in January 2015.
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Dietrich Mateschitz
Dietrich Mateschitz (born 20 May 1944) is an Austrian businessman. Mateschitz is a cofounder of the energy drink producer Red Bull, and holds 49 percent of the company's shares.
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Don Grady
Don Agrati (born June 8, 1944, in San Diego, California), better known as Don Grady, is an American composer, musician and actor. He is remembered both as one of Mickey Mouse's original Mouseketeers, and as Robbie Douglas, from My Three Sons. His sister was also an actress, billed as Lani O'Grady. Their mother was a talent agent, known as Mary Grady.
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Don Maclean
Don Maclean (born 11 March 1944) is an English actor and comedian, who hosted the BBC television series Crackerjack with Michael Aspel, Peter Glaze, and Jan Hunt in the 1970s.
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Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign. Arthur MacArthur, Jr., and Douglas MacArthur were the first father and son to each be awarded the medal. He was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of general of the army in the U.S. Army, and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( ; October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas – March 28, 1969), at Walter Reed Army Hospital, in Washington D. C. was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.
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Dzhokhar Dudayev
Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev (; ) (February 1944 – April 21, 1996) was a Soviet Air Force general and a Chechen leader, the first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, a breakaway state in the North Caucasus.
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Edgar Selwyn
Edgar Selwyn (October 20, 1875 - February 13, 1944) was a prominent figure in American theater and film in the first half of the 20th Century.
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Edgard Potier
Dominique Edgard Antoine Potier (2 November 1903 – 11 January 1944) was a Belgian airforce officer during World War II who participated in a combat rescue program known as Mission Martin in Belgium and the Possum Line in France. Captured and tortured by the Germans, Potier committed suicide.
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Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (, 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.
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Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses.
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Eli Cohen
:This article is about the Israeli spy. For other people with the same name, see Eli Cohen (disambiguation).
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Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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Erhard Keller
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Ernő Rubik
Ernő Rubik (born July 13, 1944) is a Hungarian inventor, sculptor and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubik's Magic, Rubik's Snake and Rubik's 360.
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Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel () (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944), popularly known as the Desert Fox (Wüstenfuchs, ), was a famous German Field Marshal of World War II.
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Evgeniya Rudneva
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Felicity Palmer
Felicity Joan Palmer, CBE (born 6 April 1944, Cheltenham), is an English mezzo-soprano and music professor. She sang soprano roles until 1983.
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Ferenc Szisz
Ferenc Szisz (September 20, 1873–February 21, 1944), was a Hungarian race car driver and the winner of the first Grand Prix motor racing event on a Renault Grand Prix 90CV on 26 June, 1906.
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Frank Knox
William Franklin "Frank" Knox (January 1, 1874 – April 28, 1944) was an American newspaper editor and publisher. He was also the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936, and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II.
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Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born Richard Frank Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is a British-born American film director, actor and puppeteer who is known for creating the characters Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show and for directing films including the 1986 Little Shop Of Horrors remake and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He is also the operator and voice of Yoda.
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Frank Pickersgill
Frank Herbert Dedrick Pickersgill (May 28, 1915, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - September 14, 1944, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany) is a Canadian hero of World War II.
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Françoise Hardy
Françoise Madeleine Hardy (pronounced ; born 17 January 1944) is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, music and style.
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Frazer Hines
Frazer Hines (born in Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England)
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Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August Hayek CH (8 May 189923 March 1992), born Friedrich August von Hayek, was an Austrian-born economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought. He is considered to be one of the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. Hayek's account of how changing prices communicate signals which enable individuals to coordinate their plans is widely regarded as an important achievement in economics. Hayek also produced significant work in the fields of systems thinking, jurisprudence, neuroscience and the history of ideas.
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Gary Busey
Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American film and stage actor and artist.
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Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter (born Paul Francis Gadd on 8 May 1944) is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.
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Geoffrey Hughes
Geoffrey Hughes, DL (born 2 February 1944) is an English actor.
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George Ade
George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.
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George B. Seitz
George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was a playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director who is known for his screenplays for action serials, including:
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George Balanchine
George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 – April 30, 1983), born Georgi Melitonovitch Balanchivadze () in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical forms and techniques. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he did not illustrate music but expressed it in dance and worked extensively with Igor Stravinsky.
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George C. Marshall
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George F. Houston
George Fleming Houston (January 11, 1896 – November 12, 1944) was an American B-western film actor and accomplished singer in the early half of the 20th century.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the science fiction franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.25 billion as of 2010.
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Georges Coste
Georges Coste (born Perpignan, December 7, 1944) is a French rugby union coach and former player.
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Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel (June 5, 1885—July 7, 1944) was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader.
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Gerald Haxton
Frederick Gerald Haxton (1892 – 1944), a native of San Francisco, was the long term secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham.
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Geraldine Chaplin
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Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is an American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.
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Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder ( ; 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor he served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (1990-1998). Following the 2005 federal election, which his party lost, after three weeks of negotiations he stood down as Chancellor in favour of Angela Merkel of the rival Christian Democratic Union. He is currently the chairman of the board of Nord Stream AG.
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Gilles Marchal
Gilles Marchal (born Gilles Pastre on September 2, 1944 in Paris) is a French songwriter and singer who reached the height of his career during the 1970s.
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Glenn Miller
Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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Gustav Bauer
(6 January 1870 – 16 September 1944) was a German Social Democratic Party leader and Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920.
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Gustave Biéler
Gustave Daniel Alfred Biéler DSO MBE (March 26, 1904 – September 5, 1944) was a Special Operations Executive agent during World War II.
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Hamilton Jordan
William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan (September 21, 1944 – May 20, 2008) was Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter.
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Hannah Szenes
Hannah Szenes () (Hungarian: Szenes Anikó) (July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jew, one of 37 Jews who lived in the British Mandate for Palestine (now Israel), who were trained by the British army to parachute into Yugoslavia during the Second World War in order to help save the Jews of Hungary, who were about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.
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Hans Asperger
Hans Asperger (February 18, 1906 – October 21, 1980) was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named.
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Hans Leesment
Hans Leesment (February 13, 1873 – August 26, 1944, Tallinn) was an Estonian General. From 1919 up until 1940, he was the president of the Estonian Red Cross. On February 24, 1933, he was promoted to the rank of Major General.
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Harold Bell Wright
Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872 – May 24, 1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and non-fiction during the first half of the 20th century. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he is said to have been the first American writer to sell a million copies of a novel and the first to make $1 million from writing fiction. Between 1902 and 1942 Wright wrote 19 books, several stage plays, and many magazine articles. More than twenty one movies were made or claimed to be made from Wright's stories, including Gary Cooper's first major movie, The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) and the John Wayne film, The Shepherd of the Hills (1941).
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Harold Lowe
Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe RD RNR (21 November 1882 – 12 May 1944) was the Fifth Officer of the .
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Harvey Postlethwaite
Dr. Harvey Postlethwaite (4 March 1944 – 15 April 1999) was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of a heart attack in Spain while supervising the testing of the abortive Honda F1 project. He was married to Cherry and had two children, Ben and Amey.
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Henri Richelet
Henri Richelet, born 16 June 1944 in Frebécourt (Vosges), is a French painter.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted government intervention under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. To date, Hoover is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with William Howard Taft) to have been elected President without electoral experience or high military rank. The nation was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.
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Hideki Tojo
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Hilary Minster
Roger Michael Hilary Minster, better known as Hilary Minster, (21 March 1944 Surrey, England – 24 November 1999 ) was an English character actor.
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Hitler
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Ian Hornak
Ian Hornak (January 9, 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 9, 2002, Southampton, New York) was an American painter and draughtsman associated with the Hyperrealist art movement.
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Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid (; born 11 August 1944) is a Scottish theatre actor and director, who has also made sporadic appearances on film and television.
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Ibrahim Gambari
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR (born on November 24, 1944 in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985. Gambari has been appointed by the Secretary-General of United Nations Ban Ki-moon and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission as Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur effective from 1 January 2010. He is currently the Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) for the Department of Political Affairs (DPA). He was appointed on June 10, 2005 and assumed the post on July 1 of that year.
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Ibrahim Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova (2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was an Albanian politician who was the first President of Kosovo and of its leading political party, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).
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Ida Tarbell
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Ingar Knudtsen
Ingar Knudtsen is a Norwegian novelist and poet, who was born 23 December 1944, in Smøla, Norway. He published his first book in 1975. Since then, he has released roughly one book every year. Only a few of his works have been translated into English.
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Ingush people
The Ingush (Ingush: ГIалгIай Ghalghai, pronounced ) are a native ethnic group of the North Caucasus, mostly inhabiting the Russian republic of Ingushetia. They refer to themselves as Ghalghai (галгай, from Ingush ghal "fortress" and ghai "inhabitants". The Ingush are predominantly Sufi Muslim and speak the Ingush language. Despite popular misconceptions, Ingush is not mutually intelligible with Chechen, though they are closely related. The Ingush and Chechen peoples are collectively known as the Vainakh.
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Ion Antonescu
Ion Victor Antonescu (June 15, 1882 – June 1, 1946) was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător of Romania during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships. A Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with the far right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period. He was a military attaché to France and later Chief of the General Staff, briefly serving as Defense Minister in the National Christian cabinet of Octavian Goga. During the late 1930s, his political stance brought him into conflict with King Carol II and led to his detainment. Antonescu nevertheless rose to political prominence during the political crisis of 1940, and established the National Legionary State, an uneasy partnership with the Iron Guard's leader Horia Sima. After entering Romania into an alliance with Nazi Germany and the Axis and ensuring Adolf Hitler's confidence, he eliminated the Guard during the Legionary Rebellion of 1941. In addition to leadership of the executive, he assumed the offices of Foreign Affairs and Defense Minister. Soon after Romania joined the Axis in Operation Barbarossa, recovering Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Antonescu also became Marshal of Romania.
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Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.
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Isidor Isaac Rabi
Isidor Isaac Rabi (; 29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Ismet Özel
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Ivo Opstelten
Ivo Willem Opstelten (born January 31, 1944) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He has served as Mayor of seven different Municipalities. Most recently as Acting Mayor of Tilburg from November 4, 2009 until July 16, 2010. He was Mayor of Utrecht from November 1, 1992 until February 16, 1999 when he became Mayor of Rotterdam; which he served for ten years until January 1, 2009. He is the Party Chairman of People's Party for Freedom and Democracy sinds March 31, 2008.
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Jack Casady
Jack Casady (born John William Casady, April 13, 1944 in Washington D.C), is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane. First playing as a lead guitarist with the Washington D.C. area rhythm and blues band "The Triumphs", he switched to bass during his high school years and while still underage (and with a forged I.D.), played the Washington D.C club scene, backing artists such as Little Anthony and the Imperials and Ray Charles. He became the bass player for Jefferson Airplane when lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, a high school friend and former Triumphs rhythm guitarist, invited him to join in late September 1965. Jefferson Airplane became the first successful exponent of the San Francisco sound. Their singles, including "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit," had a more polished style and successfully charted in 1967 and 1968. Casady, along with the other members of Jefferson Airplane, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.
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Jack Sugden
John Jacob "Jack" Sugden is a fictional character in the British television soap opera Emmerdale. The character was originally played by Andrew Burt from 1972 to 1974 with a brief return in 1976, when he left for Italy to write a book. On his return in 1980 he was played by Clive Hornby. Hornby stayed in the role until 2008 when he was forced to take a break from Emmerdale due to illness. His last on-screen appearance was on 21 February 2008, and his absence was explained by the character visiting his mother, Annie Brearly in Spain. Hornby died of the illness without returning to the series.
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Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. The example of his character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
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Jairzinho
Jair Ventura Filho, better known as Jairzinho (; born December 25, 1944), is a former Brazilian footballer. A quick, powerful winger, he was a member of the legendary Brazilian national team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup, during which he scored in every game Brazil played. In doing so, he became one of only 3 players - the others being Alcides Ghiggia and Just Fontaine - in the history of the World Cup to have scored in every game of the tournament. He was listed at number 27 in World Soccer Magazine's list of the 100 greatest players of the 20th century, one place ahead of Zinedine Zidane.
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Jakob von Uexküll
Jakob Johann von Uexküll (September 8, 1864, Koonga Parish, Estonia - July 25, 1944) was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology, animal behaviour studies, and the cybernetics of life. However, his most notable contribution is the notion of umwelt, used by semiotician Thomas Sebeok. His works established Biosemiotics.
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James Heckman
James Joseph Heckman (born 19 April 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate. He is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, Distinguished Chair of Microeconometrics at University College, London, and University College, Dublin.
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James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860 - January 20, 1944), American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science.
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Jan Widströmer
Jan Widströmer (born 31 December 1944) is a Swedish artist, now living in Falkenberg, Sweden. His father was a primary school teacher and a founder of a school for adults of which he was the headmaster; his mother was a piano teacher.
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Jean Giraudoux
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 – January 31, 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, existentialism, and Marxism, and his work continues to influence fields such as Marxist philosophy, sociology, and literary studies. Sartre was also noted for his long relationship with the author and social theorist, Simone de Beauvoir. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature but refused the honour.
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He is one of the three noted guitarists, along with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to have played with The Yardbirds. Beck also formed The Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, besides his successful solo career.
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Jeroen Krabbe
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Jessie Ralph
Jessie Ralph (November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures.
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Jew
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Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944) is an American actress.
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Jim Abrahams
Jim Abrahams (born 10 May 1944) is an American movie director and writer.
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Jim Capaldi
Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English musician and songwriter and a founding member of Traffic. He drummed with several famous singers and musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Alvin Lee, and Mylon LeFevre.
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Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE (born 20 May 1944, Sheffield, England) is an English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He is the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song "Up Where We Belong", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked #97 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest singers list.
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Joe Frazier
Joseph William "Joe" Frazier, known as '''Smokin' Joe''' (; born January 12, 1944), is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a brief comeback in 1981.
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Joe Niekro
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Joseph Franklin Niekro (November 7, 1944 – October 27, 2006) was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball, the younger brother of pitcher Phil Niekro, and the father of pitcher Lance Niekro. A native of Blaine, Ohio, Niekro attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio and attended West Liberty University in West Liberty, West Virginia. He batted and threw right-handed. He debuted on April 16, 1967 and went on to play in 22 major league seasons, half with the Houston Astros and the rest with six other teams.
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John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (; born March 1, 1944) is a former United States senator from Louisiana who served from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
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John Entwistle
John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band The Who. His aggressive lead sound influenced many rock bass players. He has been described as "the greatest bassist in the history of rock" by Greenwich Time and The Ledger.
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John Glover (actor)
John Soursby Glover Jr. (born August 7, 1944) is an American actor, perhaps best known for a range of villainous roles in films and television, including Lionel Luthor on the Superman-inspired television series Smallville.
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John Milius
John Frederick Milius (born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures.
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John Newcombe
:''For additional information on John Newcombe, please see John Newcombe career statistics.
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John Sebastian
John Benson Sebastian, Jr. (March 17, 1944, in Greenwich Village, New York City) is an American songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. His tie-dyed denim jacket is prominently displayed there.
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John Tavener
Sir John Tavener (born 28 January 1944) is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The whale", and "Ikos". He began as prodigy; he was described by the Guardian as "the musical discovery of the year", while the Times said he was "among the very best creative talents of his generation." Tavener was knighted in 2000 for his services to music. He has won an Ivor Novello Award.
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Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born 23 February 1944) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer.
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Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme (born February 22, 1944) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Jos LeDuc
Michel Pigeon (August 31, 1944 – May 1, 1999) was a Canadian professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Jos LeDuc. Wrestling with a lumberjack gimmick, he debuted in Stampede Wrestling with his kayfabe brother, Paul LeDuc. The pair later won several titles in Montreal, where they feuded with the Rougeau wrestling family, and Florida, where they held the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship. After an injury ended Paul's career, LeDuc competed as a singles wrestler and involved in a heated feud with Dusty Rhodes. LeDuc then moved to Tennessee, where he had a rivalry with Jerry Lawler over the NWA Mid-America Southern Tag Team Championship.
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Josef Lhévinne
Josef Lhévinne (13 December 18742 December 1944) was a Russian pianist and piano teacher.
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Joseph Erlanger
Joseph Erlanger (January 5, 1874 – December 5, 1965) was an American physiologist.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and head of state who served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. After the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924, Stalin rose to become the leader of the Soviet Union, which he ruled as a dictator.
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Judith McConnell
Judith McConnell (born April 6, 1944 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, best known for her role as Sophia Wayne Capwell on the TV series Santa Barbara, on which she appeared from 1984 to 1993.
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Ján Golian
Ján Golian (January 26, 1906, Dombóvár, Hungary – 1945, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany) was a Slovak Brigadier General who became famous as one of the main organizers and the commander of the insurrectionist 1st Czecho-Slovak Army in Slovakia during the Slovak National Uprising against the Nazis. He was the supreme military leader of the uprising from April 27, 1944 (while the uprising was still in preparation) until the arrival of Division General Rudolf Viest on October 7, 1944. Afterwards, General Ján Golian served as Viest's deputy. Despite fierce fighting, the outnumbered and surrounded insurrectionist army could not resist well-equipped German forces. When Viest and Golian ordered their remaining units to start a guerrilla war on October 27, 1944, they did not know that it would be the last order they issued. Both Generals were captured by German special forces on November 3, 1944 in Pohronský Bukovec. In violation of the international law, they were tortured and executed in a German concentration camp (1945).
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Kaj Munk
Kaj Harald Leininger Munk (commonly called Kaj Munk) (13 January, 1898 – 4 January, 1944) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran priest, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during World War II. He is commemorated as a martyr in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on August 14 with Maximilian Kolbe.
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Kari S. Tikka
Kari Sulo Tikka (21 August 1944 in Lahti – 25 May 2006 in Helsinki) was a Finnish legal scholar. He was Professor of Finance Law at the University of Helsinki and one of Finland's leading experts on taxation.
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Karl Jenkins
Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer.
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Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis (born December 28, 1944) is a Nobel Prize winning American biochemist, author, and lecturer. In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year. The process was first described by Kjell Kleppe and 1968 Nobel laureate H. Gobind Khorana, and allows the amplification of specific DNA sequences. The improvements made by Mullis allowed PCR to become a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, described by The New York Times as "highly original and significant, virtually dividing biology into the two epochs of before P.C.R. and after P.C.R."
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Kemal Sunal
Kemal Sunal (11 November 1944, Istanbul - 3 July 2000, Istanbul) was a master of comedy in the Turkish history of cinema. Famed for his parts as "İnek Şaban", "Tosun Paşa", "Kibar Feyzo", "Süt Kardeşler". With "Hababam Sınıfı", "Kapıcılar Kralı" and "Davaro", Sunal gained large popularity amongst Turkish cinema goers.
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Ken Grimwood
Kenneth Milton Grimwood (February 27, 1944 – June 6, 2003) was an American author who was born in Dothan, Alabama. In his fantasy fiction Grimwood combined themes of life-affirmation and hope with metaphysical concepts, themes found in his best-known novel, the highly popular Replay. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms, including Alan Cochran.
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Ken Howard
Kenneth Joseph "Ken" Howard, Jr. (born March 28, 1944) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and the television show The White Shadow as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves, a basketball major with a minor in life. He was elected to be the president of the Screen Actor's Guild in September 2009.
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Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a Northern Irish actor and film director. He is known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays.
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Kenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a Scottish-born film, television and stage actor who has appeared in Layer Cake, Gangster No. 1, Rome, Oliver! and many other films. Amongst his contemporaries, he is renowned for the title role in the popular 1980s comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon, However, he is probably best known to genre fans as the deranged Dr. Philip Channard and his Cenobitic alter-ego from . His many stage credits include West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls, (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic).
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Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe (born John Kevin Fishburn; August 13, 1944) is a American character actor of stage, primarily known for his roles on television. Tighe is best known for his role as Roy DeSoto, a senior paramedic, on the NBC-Universal 1970s television series Emergency!, from 1972 to 1977. He and Randolph Mantooth, who was also in the series, have remained close friends since that time.
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Khosrow Shakibai
'''Khosrow Shakibā'í''' (March 27, 1944, Tehran, Iran — July 18, 2008, Tehran) () was a celebrated Iranian stage and cinema actor. He ranks amongst the most accomplished of actors of his generation.
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Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, ONZ, DBE, AC (; born 6 March 1944, Gisborne, New Zealand) is a New Zealand soprano who has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved sopranos in both the United States and Britain she possesses a warm full lyric soprano voice, singing a wide array of works in multiple languages from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini.
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Klaus Nomi
Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.
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Laird Cregar
Laird Cregar (July 28, 1913 – December 9, 1944) was an American film actor.
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Larry H. Miller
Lawrence Horne "Larry H." Miller (April 26, 1944 – February 20, 2009) was a Utah businessman and philanthropist. Well known as the owner of the NBA's Utah Jazz, Miller was also the owner of 39 automotive dealerships throughout the Western United States , and a variety of other business ventures including Prestige Financial, Jordan Commons, Megaplex Theatres, KJZZ-TV, Miller Motorsports Park, the FANZZ chain of sports apparel stores, and the EnergySolutions Arena (formerly the "Delta Center").
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Larry Troutman
Larry Troutman (August 12, 1944 – April 25, 1999) was a musician and a founding member of the Funk/R&B; band, Zapp alongside his younger brother, Roger Troutman. The band enjoyed a string of hits throughout the 1980s, Most notably "Computer Love" and "More Bounce to the Ounce".
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered British actors of the 20th century. He married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright.
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Laurence Owen
Laurence Rochon "Laurie" Owen (May 9, 1944 – February 15, 1961) was an American figure skater. She was the 1961 U.S. National Champion and represented the United States at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where she placed 6th. She was the daughter of Maribel Vinson and Guy Owen and the sister of Maribel Owen. Laurence Owen died in a plane crash en route to the 1961 World Championships.
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Lee Powell (actor)
Lee Powell (born Lee Berrian Powell on May 15, 1908 Long Beach, California - died July 30, 1944 Tinian) was a film actor famed for the leading roles in several serials. During World War II he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps seeing action on several Pacific Islands and died of alcohol poisoning.
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Len Goodman
Lennard Gordon "Len" Goodman (born 25 April 1944) is a British professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He is a leading personality on television dance programmes, and runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.
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Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier (born September 12, 1944) is an American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Peltier's indictment is the subject of the 1992 documentary Incident at Oglala, a film by Robert Redford and Michael Apted.
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Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor and composer.
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Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
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Lou Henry Hoover
Louise Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944), known as Lou Henry Hoover, was the wife of Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States.
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Louis Buchalter
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February 1897 – 4 March 1944) was a Jewish American mobster who operated during the 1930s. He is the only major mob boss to receive the death penalty in the United States.
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Louis Capone
Louis Capone (1896 – March 4, 1944) was a New York organized crime figure who became a supervisor for the notorious Murder Inc. Louis Capone was not related to the boss of the Chicago Outfit, Al Capone.
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Lupe Velez
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Lynda Day George
For other entertainers with similar names, see Linda George (disambiguation).
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Madeleine Damerment
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (November 11, 1917, Lille, France – September 13, 1944, Dachau concentration camp) was a World War II spy.
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Magda Aelvoet
Magdalena Godelieve Hilda "Magda" Aelvoet (born 4 April 1944 in Steenokkerzeel, Belgium) is a Belgian, Flemish politician. She is a former president of the Greens in the European Parliament.
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Mairead Corrigan
Mairead Corrigan (born 27 January 1944), also known as Máiread Corrigan-Maguire, is an Irish peace activist. She co-founded, with Betty Williams, the Community of Peace People, an organisation which attempts to encourage a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The two women received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. Corrigan has won several other awards.
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Marcel Petiot
Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French doctor and serial killer convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 26 people in his home in Paris after World War II. He is suspected of killing more than 60 victims during his life.
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Mark Belanger
Mark Henry Belanger (June 8, 1944 – October 6, 1998) was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career with the Baltimore Orioles. A defensive standout, he won eight Gold Glove Awards between 1969 and 1978, leading the American League in assists and fielding percentage three times each, and retired with the highest career fielding average by an AL shortstop (.977). He set franchise records for career games, assists and double plays as a shortstop, all of which were later broken by Cal Ripken, Jr. After his playing career, he became an official with the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. Graham was a galvanizing performer, a choreographer of astounding moves. She invented a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience. She danced and choreographed for over seventy years, and during that time was the first dancer ever to perform at The White House, the first dancer ever to travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and the first dancer ever to receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
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Mary Robinson
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (née Bourke) (; born 21 May 1944) served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002. She first rose to prominence as an academic, barrister, campaigner and member of the Irish Senate (1969–1989). She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.
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Mary Wilson (singer)
Mary Wilson (born March 6, 1944) is an American singer, who gained fame as a founding member of the Motown female singing group The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson was the only singer to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year hit-making tenure. Today Wilson remains a strong advocate for the group's legacy and regularly performs concerts of their music, but has gone on to become a jazz and blues singer, humanitarian, and successful political advocate for artist's rights. She has published the autobiographies , ''Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together, and a combination of the two entitled Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme''.
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Max Brand
Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, but today is primarily known by only one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, George Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost.
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Max Jacob
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Max Jacob (July 12, 1876 – March 5, 1944) was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards, first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street''. Douglas received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2009.
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Michael Ensign
Michael Ensign (born February 13, 1944) is an American actor.
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Michael Fish
Michael Fish MBE (born 27 April 1944 in Eastbourne, East Sussex) is a semi-retired British weather forecaster, most known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office.
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Michael G. Oxley
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Michelle Phillips
Michelle Phillips (born June 4, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She gained fame as a member of the 1960s group The Mamas & the Papas, and is the last surviving original member of the group.
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Mildred Harris
Mildred Harris (November 29, 1901 – July 20, 1944) was an American film actress. Harris began her career in the film industry as a popular child actress at age eleven. At the age of fifteen, she was cast as a harem girl in D. W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916). She appeared as a leading lady through the 1920s but her career slowed with the advent of the "talkies". She was critically praised for No, No Nanette in 1930, had a few bit parts in the early 1940s, and made her last appearance in the posthumously released Having A Wonderful Crime of 1945.
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Moe Bandy
Marion Franklin Bandy, Jr.–better known professionally as Moe Bandy–(born February 12, 1944 in Meridian, Mississippi) is a country music singer. He was most popular during the 1970s, when he had several hit songs, both alone and with his singing partner Joe Stampley.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Mylon LeFevre
Mylon LeFevre (born October 6, 1944 in Gulfport, Mississippi) is the former Christian rock singer of the Grammy Award-winning band Mylon and Broken Heart and a Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame member He currently travels around the United States, ministering, teaching and singing. He frequently appears on such television networks as the Trinity Broadcasting Network and the Daystar Television Network.
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Nicholas Alkemade
Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade (1923–1987) was a tail gunner for a Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster bomber during World War II who survived a fall of 18,000 feet (5500 m) without a parachute after his plane was shot down over Germany.
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Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. He has been the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965. He also competes in auto racing events, such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Nona Hendryx
Nona Hendryx (born October 9, 1944 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American vocalist, producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress.
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Noor Inayat Khan
Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan / Nora Baker, () GC, MBE (1 January 1914, Moscow - 13 September 1944, Dachau concentration camp), usually known as Noor Inayat Khan was of Indian Muslim origin. She was a British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II and the first female radio operator to be sent into occupied France to aid the French Résistance.
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Norodom Ranariddh
Prince Norodom Ranariddh (born January 2, 1944) is the second son of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half brother of the current king, Norodom Sihamoni.
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Odd Nerdrum
Odd Nerdrum (born April 8, 1944 in Sweden), is a Norwegian figurative painter. The style and themes in Nerdrum's work, based on anecdote and narrative place him in direct conflict with the abstraction and conceptual art considered acceptable in much of his native Norway.
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Orde Wingate
Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO and two bars (26 February 1903 – 24 March 1944), was a British Army officer and creator of special military units in Palestine in the 1930s and in World War II.
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Orhan Gencebay
Orhan Gencebay (born August 4, 1944 in Samsun, Turkey as Orhan Kencebay) is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.
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Oscar Temaru
Oscar Manutahi Temaru (born November 1, 1944) is a French Polynesian politician. He has been President of French Polynesia (président de la Polynésie française), a French dependency with broad powers of self-rule, on four occasions: in 2004, from 2005 to 2006, from 2007 to 2008 and in 2009.
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Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age". Hahn served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
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Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle (born Patricia Louise Holte; May 24, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She fronted two groups, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, which received minor success on the pop charts in the 1960s, and Labelle, which received acclaim and a mainstream breakthrough in 1974 with their song "Lady Marmalade". She went on to have a solo recording career, earning another U.S. #1 single in 1986 with "On My Own", a duet with Michael McDonald.
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Paul Keating
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is a former Australian politician, and was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer when the Hawke Labor government came to power at the 1983 federal election. After becoming prime minister in 1991, he led Labor to its fifth consecutive victory in the 1993 federal election against the Liberal/National coalition led by John Hewson. Many had considered this election unwinnable for Labor, mainly due to the effects that the early 1990s recession had on Australia, as well as the longevity of Labor as the federal government. However, the Labor Party was decisively defeated at the 1996 federal election by the Liberal/National coalition led by John Howard.
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Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
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Paul Wellstone
Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was a two-term U.S. Senator from the state of Minnesota and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. Before being elected to the Senate in 1990, he was a professor of political science at Carleton College. Wellstone was a progressive and a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party. He served in the Senate from 1991 until his death in a plane crash on 25 October 2002, 11 days before the US senate election in which he was running for a third term. His wife, Sheila, and daughter, Marcia, also died in the crash. They had two other grown children, David and Mark, who now co-chair the Wellstone Action nonprofit group.
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Peter Akinola
Peter Jasper Akinola (born 27 January 1944) is the former Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria. He is also the former Bishop of Abuja (Nigeria's capital) and Archbishop of Province III, which covers the northern and central parts of the country.
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Peter Cetera
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Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago, before launching a successful solo career. As a solo artist Cetera has scored five Top 40 singles, including two that reached number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
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Peter T. King
Peter T. King (born April 5, 1944) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of New York, currently the United States Congressman for the state's 3rd Congressional District. Along with Chris Lee, who represents New York's 26th congressional district, King is one of only two Republicans to represent the state of New York at the federal level. King was considered a possible candidate for United States Senate in 2010, but has decided to run again for his congressional seat. However, in January 2010, King said he was reconsidering a Senate run.
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Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a reggae musician who was a core member of The Wailers who then went on to have a successful solo career as well as being a trailblazer for the Rastafari movement.
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Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir AM (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir relocated to the US and directed a diverse group of American and international films—many of them major box office hits—including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and .
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Phillip Allen Sharp
Phillip Allen Sharp (born June 6, 1944) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence".
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Pierre Brossolette
Pierre Brossolette (25 June 1903 – 22 March 1944) was a French journalist, left-wing politician, a top leader and major hero of French Resistance.
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Piet Mondriaan
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Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi Långstrump) is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series. Pippi was named by Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school.
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R. Lee Ermey
Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a retired U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and an actor.
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Raymond Moody
Raymond Moody (born June 30, 1944) is a psychologist and medical doctor. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences (NDE), a term that he coined in 1975. His best-selling title is Life After Life.
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Red Cross
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Reinhold Messner
:For the unrelated music album, see The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
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Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born ) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO (Architectuur Metropolitaanse Officie), currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.
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Rex Whistler
'''Reginald John 'Rex' Whistler' (b. 24 June 1905, Eltham, Kent; d.'' 18 July 1944) was an English artist, designer and illustrator.
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Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer (born August 4, 1944) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as John Munch, which he has portrayed as a regular cast member on the NBC police drama series ' and '.
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Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.
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Richard O'Kane
Rear Admiral '''Richard Hetherington “Dick” O'Kane''' (February 2, 1911 – February 16, 1994) was a United States Navy submarine commander in World War II, who received a Medal of Honor for his service on the . Having also served on the near legendary , as Executive Officer (XO) and 'Approach Officer', he participated (directly) in more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other fighting submarine officer during the war.
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Richie Furay
Richie Furay (born Paul Richard Furay, 9 May 1944, Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner. His best known song (originally written during his tenure in Buffalo Springfield, but eventually performed by Poco, as well) was "Kind Woman", which he wrote for his wife, Nancy.
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Rick Barry
Richard (Rick) Francis Dennis Barry III (born March 28, 1944, in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is considered by many veteran basketball observers to be one of the greatest pure small forwards of all time as a result of his very precise outside shot, uncanny court vision, knowledge and execution of team defense principles, tenacious and ofttimes demanding will to win, and unorthodox but accurate underhanded free throw shooting. Barry is one of few elite players who altered their games without losing effectiveness; he broke into the professional ranks as a rebounder and all-purpose scorer before he became a primary ball distributor and lethal perimeter threat.
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Rita MacNeil
Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (born May 28, 1944) is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country charts throughout her career. In the United Kingdom, MacNeil's song "Working Man" was a #11 hit in 1990.
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Robert Benoist
Robert Marcel Charles Benoist (March 20, 1895 – September 9, 1944) was a French Grand Prix motor racing driver and war hero.
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Robert C. Merton
Robert Carhart Merton (born 31 July 1944) is an American economist, university professor and Nobel laureate in economics.
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Robert Hitchcock
Robert Charles Hitchcock (born 18 August 1944) is an Australian sculptor. He commenced his career in 1970 and works in a wide variety of subjects and materials. Hitchcock is one of the leading portrait sculptors currently working in Australia today. He is known for his life size (and super life size) bronze sculptures which are located in private collections as well as public works of art in Australia and overseas.
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Robert Powell
Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, probably most famous for his title role in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries.
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Rocío Jurado
María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060601/ap_en_mu/obit_jurado_2], [http://www.el-mundo.es/documentos/2006/05/rocio_jurado/vida.html]
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Roger Bresnahan
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Roger Philip Bresnahan (June 11, 1879 – December 4, 1944), nicknamed "The Duke of Tralee" for his Irish roots, was an American player in Major League Baseball who starred primarily as a catcher and a player-manager. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.
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Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films.
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Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC (born January 6, 1944 in Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland) is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.
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Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.
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Roméo Sabourin
Roméo Sabourin (January 1, 1923, Montreal, Quebec - September 14, 1944, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany) is a Canadian hero of World War II.
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Rose Bampton
Rose Bampton (November 28, 1907 – August 21, 2007) was a celebrated American opera singer who had an active international career during the 1930s and 1940s. She began her professional career performing mostly minor roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1929 but later switched to singing primarily leading soprano roles in 1937 until her retirement from the opera stage in 1963. She notably had a lengthy and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, singing there for eighteen consecutive seasons between 1932 and 1950. Her greatest successes were from the dramatic soprano repertoire, particularly in operas by Richard Wagner. Not a stranger to the concert repertoire, Bampton was particularly known for her performances of works by Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and her friend Samuel Barber, notably having performed their compositions with the composers accompanying her in concert.
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Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg (September 11, 1924 – March 27, 2006) was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. He came to public attention in 1944 when, in April that year, he and a friend, Alfréd Wetzler, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and passed information to the Allies about the mass murder that was taking place there. The 32 pages of information the men dictated to horrified Jewish officials in Slovakia became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report. It was the first detailed information about the camp to reach the Allies that they accepted as credible.
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Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani, KBE (; born May 28, 1944) is an American lawyer, businessman, and politician from New York. He served as Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
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Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; ; born 23 January 1944) is a Dutch stage, television and film actor. His career began in 1969 with the title role in the popular Dutch television series "Floris", directed by Paul Verhoeven. His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins.
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Said Musa
Said Wilbert Musa (born March 19, 1944) is a Belizean lawyer and politician. He was the Prime Minister of Belize from August 28, 1998 to February 8, 2008.
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Sara Kestelman
Sara Kestelman (born 12 May 1944 in London) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Lady Frances Brandon, Jane's mother, in Lady Jane.
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Sepp Maier
Josef Dieter "Sepp" Maier (born 28 February 1944) is a German former professional football goalkeeper. His nickname was "Die Katze von Anzing" ("the cat from Anzing") for his fast reflexes.
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Sergio Osmeña
Sergio Osmeña y Suico (September 9, 1878 – October 19, 1961) was the President of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. He was Vice President under Manuel L. Quezon, and rose to the presidency upon Quezon's death in 1944. He was a founder of Nacionalista Party.
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Shelley Fabares
Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer. Fabares is known for her roles as Donna Reed's oldest child, "Mary Stone," on The Donna Reed Show (from 1958 to 1963), and as Craig T. Nelson's love interest and eventual wife, Christine Armstrong Fox, on the sitcom Coach. She was also Elvis Presley's costar in three films.
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Shoji Nishimura
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Silvestre Reyes
Silvestre "Silver" Reyes (born November 10, 1944 in Canutillo, Texas) is an American politician representing Texas's 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He is the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the primary Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and other executive branch departments and agencies. Reyes is also a Senior Member of the House Armed Services Committee, the primary Committee responsible for the funding and oversight of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Armed Forces, as well as substantial portions of the Department of Energy. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Steve Carlton
Steven Norman Carlton (born December 22, 1944) is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, from to . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in . He was affectionately known to Philadelphia fans as "Lefty". He played the most number of years for the Philadelphia Phillies, receiving his greatest acclaim as a professional and winning four Cy Young Awards. In addition, Carlton spent time with the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins.
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Steve Fossett
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007) was an American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer and the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon. He made his fortune in the financial services industry, and was best known for many world records, including five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
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Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of Six Degrees of Separation.
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Suresh Kalmadi
Suresh Kalmadi(born May 1, 1944) is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator. He is a member of the Indian National Congress political party. He is the president of the Indian Olympic Association, Asian Athletics Association, and Athletics Federation of India.
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Susan Howard
Jeri Lynn Mooney (born January 28, 1944), better known as Susan Howard, is an American actress, writer, and political activist; best known for portraying the character Donna Culver Krebbs on the soap opera Dallas, Maggie Petrocelli on the television show Petrocelli, and to fans for portraying Mara, the first female Klingon with a speaking role, in the episode "Day of the Dove". Howard is also a screenwriter and member of the Writers Guild of America.
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Suzanne Spaak
Suzanne Spaak (c. 1905 - 12 August 1944), World War II heroine.
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Sylvie Vartan
Sylvie Vartan (; ; born 15 August 1944) is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French and Italian TV. Yearly shows with her husband at the time Johnny Hallyday attracted full houses at the Olympia and the Palais des congrès de Paris throughout the 1960s and Mid-1970s. After a break in performances, she began recording and giving concerts of jazz ballads in the French speaking countries again in late 2004.
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Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) born Thomas Lanier Williams, was an American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the Southeastern U.S. state, his father's birthplace.
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Teri Garr
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Terry Ann "Teri" Garr (born December 11, 1944) is an American actor and comedian.
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Terry Funk
Terrence "Terry" Funk (born June 30, 1944) is an American professional wrestler and actor known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that inspired many younger wrestlers, including Mick Foley. Funk has appeared in the NWA, AWA, WWF/E, WCW, ECW, USWA, ROH, and TNA.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was the 47th Governor of New York (1943–1954). In 1944 and 1948, he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost both times. He led the liberal faction of the Republican Party, in which he fought conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. Dewey advocated for the professional and business community of the Northeastern United States, which would later be called the "Eastern Establishment." This organization accepted the majority of New Deal social-welfare reforms enacted during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It consisted of internationalists who were in favor of the United Nations and the "Cold War" fought against communism and the Soviet Union. In addition, he played a large part in the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President in 1952. Dewey's successor as leader of the liberal Republicans was Nelson Rockefeller, who became governor of New York in 1959. The New York State Thruway is named in Dewey's honor.
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Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Thomas Midgley, Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944), was an American mechanical engineer turned chemist. He developed both the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), and held over a hundred patents. While lauded at the time for his discoveries, today his legacy is seen as far more mixed considering the serious negative environmental impacts of these innovations. One historian remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
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Tim Reid
Timothy L. "Tim" Reid (born December 19, 1944) is an American actor, comedian and film director best known for his roles in prime time American television programs, such as Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-82), Marcel "Downtown" Brown on Simon & Simon (1983-87) and Ray Campbell on Sister, Sister (1994-99).
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Tom Okker
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Tom Seaver
George Thomas "Tom" Seaver (born November 17, 1944) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played in the major leagues from 1967 to 1986. He played for four different teams in his career, but is noted primarily for his time with the New York Mets. "Tom Terrific" had 311 wins, 3,640 strikeouts and a 2.86 earned run average during a 20-year career. In , he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the highest percentage ever recorded (98.8%), and has the only plaque at Cooperstown wearing a New York Mets hat. As of 2010, Seaver is also the only Met player to have his jersey number retired by the team.
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Tony La Russa
Anthony "Tony" La Russa, Jr. (; born October 4, 1944 in Tampa, Florida) is a manager in Major League Baseball, currently with the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2004 he became the sixth manager in history to win pennants with both American and National League teams; in 2006 he became the first manager ever to win multiple pennants in both leagues and became one of only two managers to win the World Series in both leagues. With a 2,552–2,217–4 (.535) record as a manager (through Oct. 4, 2009), he is ranked third all-time for total number of Baseball All-time Managerial Wins list, trailing only Connie Mack (3,731) and John McGraw (2,763). He is also second all-time for games managed (4,773), trailing only Mack who is leading at 7,755 (3,731–3,948–76), passing McGraw at 4,769 (2,763–1,948-58), on October 1, 2009. He is one of only four managers to be named Manager of the Year in both of baseball's major leagues.
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Tony Orlando
Tony Orlando (born April 3, 1944) is an American singer best known for his work with the group Dawn in the early 1970s.
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Tony Visconti
Anthony Edward Visconti (born April 24, 1944) is an American record producer and sometimes a musician or singer.
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Trisha Noble
Patricia Ann Ruth "Trisha" Noble (born February 3, 1944) is an Australian singer and actress.
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Uschi Glas
Uschi Glas (born Helga Ursula Glas March 2, 1944) is a German film and television actress.
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Vera Leigh
Vera Leigh (born Vera Glass on 17 March 1903 in Leeds, England - died 6 July 1944 in Natzweiler-Struthof) was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance. In 1944 she was captured by the Germans and executed.
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Vernor Vinge
Vernor Steffen Vinge () (born October 2, 1944 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S.) is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002) and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay "The Coming Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences.
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Vicente Lim
Brigadier General Vicente Lim (1888-1944) was a World War II Filipino general. He was born in the town of Calamba, Laguna, on the 24th of February, 1888, the third of Jose Ayala Lim-Yaoco’s four children. His father was a full-blooded Chinese who braided his hair in a queue. His mother, Antonia Podico, was a Chinese mistiza. But Vicente and the other Lim children, Joaquin, Olympia and Basilisa, like many of the offsprings of Filipino-Chinese marriages, grew up identifying themselves with the Filipino rather than the Chinese community. Among the friends of Jose and Antonia was the family of Jose Rizal, later recognized as the country’s national hero.
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Vincent Rose
Vincent Rose (born 1880 in Palermo, Italy; died 1944 in Rockville Center, NY, USA) was a musician and band leader.
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W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (pronounced , ), CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.
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Wang Jingwei
Wang Jingwei (traditional Chinese: 汪精衛; simplified Chinese: 汪精卫; pinyin: Wāng Jīngwèi; Wade-Giles: Wang Ching-wei) (May 4, 1883 – November 10, 1944), alternate name Wang Zhaoming (traditional Chinese: 汪兆銘), was a Chinese politician. He was initially known as a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT), but he was staunchly anti-Communist, and his politics veered sharply to the right later in his career. A close associate of Sun Yat-sen, Wang is most noted for disagreements with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his formation of a Japanese-supported collaborationist government in Nanjing. For this role he has often been labeled as a Hanjian. His name in China is also now a term used to refer to a traitor, similar to "Benedict Arnold" for Americans or "Quisling" for Norwegians.
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; , ''Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij''; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
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Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and was the dark horse Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election, where he crusaded against the policies of the New Deal, which he thought were inefficient and anti-business, but waffled on the issue of intervention or isolation in the world war that Nazi Germany was winning. His opponent Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term, with 55% of the popular vote and 85% of the electoral vote. Roosevelt found Willkie to be a compatible liberal and brought him aboard as a special ambassador-at-large. Willkie criss-crossed the globe, bringing home a vision of "One World" freed from imperialism and colonialism. His liberalism lost him supporters in the GOP and he dropped out of the 1944 race, then died of a heart attack.
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Wesley Clark
Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr., KBE (born December 23, 1944) is a retired general of the United States Army. Graduating as valedictorian of his class at West Point, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford where he obtained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later graduated from the Command and General Staff College with a master's degree in military science. He spent 34 years in the Army and the Department of Defense, receiving many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Wild Man Fischer
Larry "Wild Man" Fischer (born Lawrence Wayne Fischer, November 6, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is a prolific songwriter in the outsider genre. He is notable for being responsible for Rhino Records' first release, Go To Rhino Records (1975). Described by Allmusic as "certified paranoid schizophrenic and acid casualty", Fischer's highly unusual style has developed a cult following.
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Willem van Hanegem
Willem "Wim" van Hanegem (born 20 February 1944) is a Dutch football player and coach born in Breskens, Zeeland. In a playing career spanning over 20 years he won several domestic honours in the Netherlands, as well as two UEFA trophies, all with Feyenoord. He was also a finalist in the FIFA World Cup 1974. AS a manager he won the league and cup with Feyenoord and spent a period as the Dutch national team's assistant coach. He was appointed manager of FC Utrecht in July 2007.
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William Allen White
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 29, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement. Between 1896 and his death White became the iconic spokesman for middle America.
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William Christensen
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William Frankfather
William Frankfather (August 4, 1944 – December 28, 1998) was an American film and television actor.
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940–1945 and 1951–1955). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to be recognised as an honorary citizen of the United States.
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Wolfgang Joop
Wolfgang Joop (born November 18, 1944 in Potsdam) is a German fashion designer. He is the founder of the fashion and cosmetics company JOOP!, and father of fashion designer Jette Joop.
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Yolande Beekman
Yolande Beekman (born 7 November 1911, Paris - died 13 September 1944, Dachau concentration camp, Germany) was a World War II spy.
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Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko (, Jurij Viktorovič Romanenko; born August 1, 1944, USSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Over his career, Yuri Romanenko spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space and 18 hours in space walks. In 1987 he was a resident of the Mir space station, launching on Soyuz TM-2 and landing aboard Soyuz TM-3. He remained on Mir for 326 days that was the longest stay in space at that time. His son, Roman Romanenko is also a cosmonaut, and has become the third second-generation space traveler on Soyuz TMA-15 in May 2009.
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Yvette Guilbert
Yvette Guilbert (20 January 1865 in Paris – 3 February 1944 in Aix-en-Provence) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.
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Zheng Xiaoyu
Zheng Xiaoyu (Chinese: 郑筱萸; Pinyin: Zhèng Xiǎoyú; December 21, 1944 - July 10, 2007) was director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China. He was sentenced to death in the first instance trial at Beijing No.1 Intermediate Court on May 29, 2007. He was executed on July 10, 2007 for corruption and possibly tainted products in Mainland China.
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Şerif Gören
Şerif Gören (born 1944 in Xanthi, Greece) is a Turkish film director. Aside from important films under his own signature, he is also the winner of the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") award in Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for the film Yol, which he had directed on behalf of Yılmaz Güney, who at the time was serving a prison sentence for the murder of Yumurtalık judge Safa Mutlu.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (; Dutch ) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, with an urban population of 1,364,422 and a metropolitan population of 2,158,372. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of approximately 6.7 million.
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Anzio
Anzio is a city and comune on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy, about south of Rome.
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Australia
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Baltic states
The Baltic states (, , , Russian: Прибалтика (Pribaltika) lit. "At the Baltic Sea"), Baltic nations or Baltic countries are three countries in Northern Europe, all members of the European Union: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Between 1918 and 1920 in the aftermath of World War I, following centuries of foreign domination, the Baltic countries were established as independent nations. For a relatively-short time following 1918, Finland was considered to be one of the Baltic States - since it too had emerged from Russian domination along with the other three countries under similar circumstances. Today however, Finland is more often grouped within the Nordic countries.
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Barcelona
Barcelona (Catalan , Spanish ) is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 4,200,000 on an area of , it is the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. About 5 million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean coast. The main part of a union of adjacent cities and municipalities named Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) with a population of 3,186,461 in an area of 636 km² (density 5.010 hab/km²). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge ().
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Battle of Kwajalein
The Battle of Kwajalein was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from January 31, 1944, to February 3, 1944, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing the hard-learned lessons of the battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the south and Roi-Namur in the north. The Japanese defenders put up a stiff resistance though outnumbered and under-prepared. The determined defense of Roi-Namur left only 51 survivors of an original garrison of 3,500.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and also the largest naval battle in history.
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Battle of Saipan
The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June 1944 to 9 July 1944. The invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the same day Operation Overlord in Europe was launched.
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Belarus
Belarus, ( ; , ), officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno (Hrodna), Gomel (Homiel), Mogilev (Mahilyow) and Vitebsk (Viciebsk). Forty percent of its is forested, and its strongest economic sectors are agriculture and manufacturing.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Belgrade
Belgrade (Serbian: Београд, Beograd - ) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. With a population of 1,630,000 (official estimate 2007), Belgrade is the fourth largest city in Southeastern Europe, after Istanbul, Athens and Bucharest. Its name in Serbian translates to White city.
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Berlin
Berlin (; ) is the capital city of Germany and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Area, comprising 5 million people from over 190 nations. Geographically embedded in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's territory is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.
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Brussels
Brussels (, pronounced ; , pronounced ), officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region (, Dutch: ), is the de facto capital city of the European Union (EU) and the largest urban area in Belgium. It comprises 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels proper, which is the constitutional capital of Belgium, the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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Canada
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Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Chicago
Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Crete
Crete (, Kriti or occasionally Krētē) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at . Crete is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece and covers the same area as the Greek region of Crete from before the 1987 administrative reform. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece; while it retains its own local cultural traits (such as its own music and dialect), Cretans identify themselves as Greeks. Heraklion is the largest city and capital of Crete.
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Crimea
Crimea (), or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (, Avtonomna Respublika Krym; , Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym; , Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриети), is an autonomous republic under the jurisdiction of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name.
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Denmark
Denmark (; , , archaic: ), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: ) together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands, is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland (Jylland) and many islands, most notably Zealand (Sjælland), Funen (Fyn), Vendsyssel-Thy (commonly considered a part of Jutland), Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago. Denmark has long controlled the approach to the Baltic Sea; before the digging of the Kiel Canal, water passage to the Baltic Sea was possible only through the three channels known as the "Danish straits".
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Devon
Devon () is a large county in southwestern England. The county is occasionally referred to as Devonshire, although that is an unofficial name, rarely used inside the county itself and often indicating a traditional or historical context. The county shares borders with Cornwall to the west and Dorset and Somerset to the east. Its southern coast abuts the English Channel and its northern coast the Bristol Channel.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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English Channel
The English Channel (, the "sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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Finland
Finland (pronounced ), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden on the west, Norway on the north and Russia on the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
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Florence
Florence ( , ; alternative obsolete spelling: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area).
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France
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia (, ) is a French overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeete). Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007.
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Garigliano River
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Germany
Germany (), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (, ), is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The territory of Germany covers 357.021 km2 and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state of the European Union, and home to the third-largest number of international migrants worldwide.
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Gestapo
The Gestapo (; abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning in April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei). From September 1939 forward it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service") and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("security police").
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Greece
Greece (; , Elláda, ; , Hellás, ), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .
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Guam
Guam (; Chamorro: ) is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. The island's capital is Hagåtña (formerly Agana). Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands.
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Halifax Harbour
Halifax Harbour is a large natural harbour on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, located in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
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Hungary
Hungary ( ), officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság ), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Visegrád Group, and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, being part of the Finno-Ugric family.
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Ilocos Sur
Ilocos Sur (Filipino:Timog Ilokos) is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Vigan City, located on the mouth of the Mestizo River is the provincial capital. Ilocos Sur is bordered by Ilocos Norte and Abra to the north, Mountain Province to the east, La Union and Benguet to the south, and the South China Sea to the west.
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India
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India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Invasion of Normandy
The invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II. The invasion was the largest amphibious operation in history. This article covers from the initial landings on 6 June 1944, until the time of the Allied breakout in late July.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
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Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Latvia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia () is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia (343 km), to the south by Lithuania (588 km), to the east by the Russian Federation (276 km), and to the southeast by Belarus (141 km). Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden. The territory of Latvia covers and it has a temperate seasonal climate.
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Liberation of Paris
The Liberation of Paris (also known as Battle for Paris) took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the surrender of the occupying German garrison on the 25 of August 1944 and is accounted as the last battle in the Campaign for Normandy and the transitional conclusion of the Allied invasion breakout in Operation Overlord into a broad-fronted general offensive. The capital region of France had been administered by Nazi Germany since the Second Compiègne armistice in June 1940 when Germany occupied the north and west of France and when the Vichy regime was created in city of Vichy in central France.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and number of books. The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress, currently James H. Billington.
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Luzon
Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important island in the Philippines. It is also the name for one of the three island groups in the country centred on the Island of Luzon, the other two being the Visayas and Mindanao. Luzon as an island group includes the island of Luzon itself, plus the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, and the main and outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, and Mindoro in the south.. It is home to the capital city, Manila.
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Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth largest island in Papua New Guinea with an area of 2,100 km², measuring around 100 km × 30 km. It is covered in rugged jungles, which can be broadly described as lowland tropical rain forest.
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Marshall Islands
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. The population is about 62,000. In 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
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Minsk
Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers. Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is also the administrative centre of Minsk voblast (province) and Minsk raion (district). It has a population of 1,837,000 inhabitants (2009).
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Monaco
Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco (; Monégasque: Principatu de Múnegu; ; ), is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe on the northern central coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is surrounded on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with an estimated population of almost 33,000.
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Monte Cassino
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Moscow
Moscow ( or ; ; see also ) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. Moscow is the most populous city on the continent of Europe and the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. The population of Moscow (as of 1 January 2010) is 10,563,038.
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Mulberry harbour
A Mulberry Harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy.
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Munich massacre
The Munich massacre is an informal name for events that occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Southern Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by the terrorist group Black September. Members of Black September contended that Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization secretly endorsed the operation. Fatah, however, disputed the accusation. Black September called the operation "Ikrit and Biram".
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Narva
Narva () is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, is the common name for the country of Germany while governed by Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1933 to 1945. Third Reich () denotes the Nazi state as a historical successor to the medieval Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) and to the modern German Empire (1871–1918). Nazi Germany had two official names, the Deutsches Reich (German Reich), from 1933 to 1943, when it became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (all of which use a Nordic Cross flag) and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Svalbard and Åland. Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries, although within the Nordic countries the terms are considered distinct.
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Norway
Norway (; Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk)), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe occupying the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, as well as Jan Mayen and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.8 million. It is one of the most sparsely populated countries in Europe. The majority of the country shares a border to the east with Sweden; its northernmost region is bordered by Finland to the south and Russia to the east; and Denmark lies south of its southern tip across the Skagerrak Strait. The capital city of Norway is Oslo. Norway's extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is home to its famous fjords.
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Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name for the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. The operation commenced on 6 June 1944 with the Normandy landings (commonly known as D-Day). A 12,000-plane airborne assault preceded an amphibious assault involving almost 7,000 vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June; more than 3 million troops were in France by the end of August.
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Padua
Padua ( , , Latin: Patavium, ) is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 (). The city is sometimes included, with Venice (Italian Venezia), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, having a population of c. 1,600,000.
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Palo, Leyte
Palo is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 47,982 people in 9,272 households.
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Philippines
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The Philippines ( ), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (), is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Puerto Rico ( or ), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( — literally Associated Free State of Puerto Rico), is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.
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Riga
Riga (, ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava. With 706,413 inhabitants (2010) it is the largest city of the Baltic states and third-largest in the Baltic region, behind Saint Petersburg and Stockholm (counting residents within the city limits). Riga's territory covers and lies between above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.
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Romania
Romania ( ; dated: Rumania; ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, north of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Romania shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.
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Rome
Rome (; , ; ) is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . In 2006 the population of the metropolitan area was estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to have a population of 3.7 million.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg () is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd (, 1914–1924) and Leningrad (, 1924–1991). It is often called just Petersburg () and is informally known as Piter ().
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Saipan
Saipan () is the largest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), a chain of 15 tropical islands belonging to the Marianas archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean (15°10’51”N, 145°45’21”E) with a total area of . The 2000 census population was 62,392.
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Salerno
Salerno is a small city and comune in Campania (south-western Italy) and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million.
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San Juan is the capital city of the Argentine province of San Juan in the Cuyo region, located in the Tulúm Valley, west of the San Juan River, at above mean sea level, with a population of around 112,000 as per the (over 450,000 in the metropolitan area).
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Sevastopol
Sevastopol (; ) (see pronunciation below) is a port city, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451 (2001). The city, formerly the home of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, is now home to a Ukrainian naval base and facilities leased by the Russian Navy and used as the headquarters of both the Ukrainian Naval Forces and Russia's Black Sea Fleet. In 1993, the city was the subject of a territorial dispute between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
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Slovakia
The Slovak Republic (short form: Slovakia ; Slovak:, long form ) is a state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is a landlocked country bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. The largest city is the capital, Bratislava, and the second largest is Košice. Slovakia is a member state of the European Union, NATO, United Nations, OECD and WTO among others. The official language is Slovak, a member of the Slavic language family.
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Sofia
Sofia (, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 47th largest city by population in the European Union, with 1.4 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR, , abbreviated СССР, SSSR), informally known as the Soviet Union () or Soviet Russia, was a constitutionally socialist state that existed on the territory of most of the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (, or ; abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders. It adjoins the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire, and Shropshire.
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Sudan
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Sudan (), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east,Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.
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Sweden
Sweden (pronounced , ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany, and Poland to the south, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia to the east. Sweden is also connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.
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Tacloban City
The City of Tacloban (Filipino: Lungsod ng Tacloban, Waray: Siudad han Tacloban) is a port city approximately 360 miles southeast of Manila. It is the first in Eastern Visayas to be classified as a Highly Urbanized City. It is the capital of the Philippine province of Leyte and is the largest city in terms of population in Eastern Visayas. It is also considered as the regional center of the Region VIII. Tacloban was briefly the seat of the Philippine Commonwealth Government, from October 20, 1944 to February 27, 1945.
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Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 411,196. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, west of Saint Petersburg.
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Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Vilnius
Vilnius (, see also other names) is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 (850,324 together with Vilnius County) as of 2010. is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County.
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Vosges
This article is about the department of France named Vosges. For the mountain range, see Vosges Mountains.
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Warsaw
Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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D-Day, June 6th 1944
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- Duration: 9:59
- Published: 31 Jul 2006
- Uploaded: 04 Jul 2011
- Author: jpkeenan24
This is a documentary I made about D-Day for my 8th grade school project. It goes through the planning, execution, and impact of that monumental day. In relation to the "largest invasion force question" I based the fact off of this military website: www.militaryhistoryonline.com
Solid Potato Salad - The Ross Sisters (1944)
Never underestimate a woman who can get both legs behind her head and wrap her feet around her face. (HINT: Watch past the first 45 seconds or so. Whoah!) Solid Potato Salad? No, it's not what you get when you leave the deli container out of the fridge too long. It's a 1940s term for...something (I have no idea what. ) In this classic footage from the movie "Broadway Rhythm" (1944), the Ross sisters, Aggie, Maggie and Elmira, sing and move in ways that don't look humanly possible. Yoga anyone? Movie buffs will recognize the tune as one of the background instrumentals from "The Godfather." It starts out looking like another kitschy 40's tune, but give it a minute. Things get wild! Now if I can just figure out what apples have to do with potato salad... (Extra trivia: While the Ross Sisters are billed in their act as Aggie, Maggie and Elmira Ross, their real-life names were actually Vicki, Dixie and Betsy Ross.)
Warsaw 1944
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- Duration: 3:31
- Published: 11 Oct 2006
- Uploaded: 04 Jul 2011
- Author: DonBadylios
Uprising in Warsaw 1944.
WW2 Reenactment - Holland 1944
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- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 10 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 01 Jul 2011
- Author: digitalbase0202
Kubelwagen, Nebelwerfer, MP40, Bren Gun Carrier, Zundapp, Fallshirmjager, Waffen, US Airborne, Jeeps, White Scout Car, British
Normandy invasion (1944): D-Day German footage
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- Duration: 8:58
- Published: 11 Oct 2007
- Uploaded: 26 Jun 2011
- Author: WW2GermanNewsreels
Combat footage. Die Deutsche Wochenschau. 6th June 1944, Normandy invasion from German perspective. As late as 13:35 the German 352nd division was reporting that the assault had been hurled back into the sea. From their vantage point at Pointe de la Percée overlooking the whole of the beach from the western end the German perception was that the assault had been stopped at the beach. An officer there noted that troops were seeking cover behind obstacles and counted ten tanks burning. However, as early as 07:35 the third battalion 726th Grenadier Regiment, defending Draw F-1 on Fox Green beach, was reporting that 100--200 American troops had penetrated its front, with enemy inside the wire at WN-62 and WN-61 under attack from the rear. Casualties amongst the defenders were mounting and at the same time that the 916th regiment, defending the centre of the 352nd zone, was reporting that the landings had been frustrated, it was also requesting reinforcement. The request could not be met because the situation elsewhere in Normandy was becoming more urgent for the defenders.
FDR D-Day Speech June 6, 1944
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- Duration: 6:29
- Published: 07 Jun 2007
- Uploaded: 03 Jul 2011
- Author: zymurg2007
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speech on the eve of invasion of Normandy, June 06, 1944. Prevelant today.
Private SNAFU - Booby Traps (1944)
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- Duration: 4:18
- Published: 27 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 03 Jul 2011
- Author: shaggylocks
Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way. This is one of 26 Private SNAFU (Situation Normal, All F***ed Up) cartoons made by the US Army Signal Corps to educate and boost the morale the troops. Originally created by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Phil Eastman, most of the cartoons were produced by Warner Brothers Animation Studios - employing their animators, voice actors (primarily Mel Blanc) and Carl Stalling's music. Production Company: US Army Signal Corps / Warner Brothers
Jane Eyre (1944)
Jane Eyre (1944) Directed by Robert Stevenson "First vanity, and now insurrection." Peggy Ann Garner
Tali-Ihantala 1944 trailer
Trailer from the official site of the upcoming movie, www.tali-ihantala.fi
Groovie Movie (1944). Funny jitterbug instructional video.
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- Duration: 9:18
- Published: 16 Apr 2007
- Uploaded: 02 Jul 2011
- Author: avorobjovs
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"Groovie Movie" by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1944. Funny jitterbug instructional video.
The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / Powstanie Warszawskie 1944
No copyright infringement intended. The Warsaw Uprising, was a struggle of the Polish underground which, between August 1, 1944 and October 2, 1944, conducted an armed struggle aimed at liberating Warsaw and its 1000000 inhabitants from the German occupation at the time the Soviet army was approaching the city limits from the east. As the city fought desperately and the Germans began to bring in reinforcements, the reaction of the Soviets was silence. Soviet forces, which had advanced confidently throughout the summer, stopped within miles of Warsaw. Some equipment and ammunition was dropped by the Allies, but this was largely ineffective. Since British and American planes werent allowed to land at Soviet air bases a few kilometers away, they were forced to fly from Italy and back, carrying only half their potential load, and dropping it largely into enemy hands. The airlifts were quickly abandoned, and the Poles were left alone to defend their capital. German forces introduced new types of weapons into Warsaw: Karl Morser heavy mortar, Wufrrehmen incendiary rockets, and Goliath, a remote-controlled vehicle mine. These weapons will play a crucial role in the German offensive: isolated areas were bombarded non-stop by planes, heavy artillery and rockets, then Goliaths and tanks are sent in, followed by the infantry. During the 63 days of the Uprising, an estimated 200000 of Warsaw's inhabitants lost their lives, mostly from mass murders conducted by troops fighting on the <b>...</b>
Stalingrad 1944
Series of clips (Some from actual battle and another from a movie) of the defeat of the Germans at Stalingrad, showing footage of the IS-2, T-34 and the SU-122. (to the music of Farewell Slavianka)
St. Crispin's Day Speech - Henry V (1944)
Laurence Olivier's 1944 version of Henry V Here's the speech, I'm pretty sure it's word for word and the film version: What's he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day: then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd; We few, we happy <b>...</b>
Steel Town 1944
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- Duration: 15:43
- Published: 20 Jul 2008
- Uploaded: 29 Jun 2011
- Author: travelfilmarchive
A film about the steel mill town of Youngstown,Ohio and its workers in 1944.To license footage from this subject, go to: www.travelfilmarchive.com
Double Indemnity - Trailer (1944)
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- Duration: 1:20
- Published: 17 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Jun 2011
- Author: Adlerangriffe
Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband's automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go to plan...
1944-45 "THUNDERBOLT" Uncensored Complete Version (2 of 5)
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- Duration: 9:13
- Published: 02 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 28 Jun 2011
- Author: UnknownWW2InColor
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THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAINS ANY CONTENT FROM CRAZE PRODUCTIONS!!! A new HD version of this complete film is available here: www.youtube.com www.romanoarchives.tk "Thunderbolt" (1947) (Part 2 of 5) Director William Wyler, John Sturges Production Company: Carl Krueger Production Introduced by James Stewart Filmed in 1944 and early 1945 but edited only in 1947, this 45 minutes well preserved and almost forgotten documentary (by the great William Wyler) is about the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter bomber and its use in missions over Italy. In the prologue outstanding shots showing various placements of 1944 late model automatic color movie-cameras on board of the planes. "SUBSCRIBING to this Channel is a MUST for researchers and RARE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE fans!!!" V. Romano This is a clip from the ROMANO-ARCHIVES' new website-"Unknown World War 2 in Color"-"WW2 Europe" section. At: www.webalice.it Visit also: romanoarchives.altervista.org Or: digilander.libero.it Hi-def version of the complete film is available. Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP. --------------- THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAINS ANY CONTENT FROM CRAZE PRODUCTIONS!!! "The material used in the video is in the public domain and the original film is preserved in the Archives of Congress. The video contains a part (on a total of five) of this film. The film and ALL this kind of <b>...</b>
Goofy - How to Play Football (1944)
Goofy sports series. Fantastic animation ;) Enjoyy
'Where Did You Sleep Last Night' LEADBELLY (1944) Blues Guitar Legend
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- Duration: 2:09
- Published: 13 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 04 Jul 2011
- Author: RagtimeDorianHenry
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" Where Did You Sleep Last Night " (1944)LEADBELLY The " RED HOT BLUES " (1925-1945) Texas Alexander Pink Anderson Kokomo Arnold Barbecue Bob Scrapper Blackwell Black Ace Ed Bell Blind Blake Ishman Bracey Big Bill Broonzy Richard "Rabbit" Brown Willie Brown Bumble Bee Slim Gus Cannon Bo Carter Sam Collins Floyd Council Gary Davis Sleepy John Estes Blind Boy Fuller Son House Peg Leg Howell Mississippi John Hurt Papa Charlie Jackson Jim Jackson Skip James Blind Lemon Jefferson Blind Willie Johnson Lonnie Johnson Robert Johnson Tommy Johnson Charley Jordan Luke Jordan Leadbelly Furry Lewis Cripple Clarence Lofton Tommy McClennan Robert Lee McCoy Blind Willie McTell The Memphis Jug Band Buddy Moss Memphis Minnie Hambone Willie Newbern Charley Patton Robert Petway Jimmie Rodgers Frank Stokes Sonny Terry Henry Thomas Ramblin Thomas Curley Weaver Casey Bill Weldon Peetie Wheatstraw Bukka White Josh White Robert Wilkins Big Joe Williams
Breakdowns of 1944
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- Duration: 6:48
- Published: 14 Sep 2008
- Uploaded: 29 Jun 2011
- Author: nicoley132
The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1944. Featuring Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, Gary Cooper, Jerome Cowan, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Edmund Goulding, Dennis Morgan, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, etc.
WW II : RARE COLOR FILM : D-DAY : JUNE 5TH 1944
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- Duration: 9:57
- Published: 25 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 04 Jul 2011
- Author: RALPHLAURINO
protectacow.typepad.com 731212mw.la Conversations Prabhupada: ...two classes of men: the communist and the non-communist. Not exactly communist and capitalist, but communist and non-communist. Out of these two, the communists are going to be powerful. This is the world tendency. So if the world becomes full of communists, then the human civilization will be finished. All rogues and rascals, that's all. The American government wants to check this tendency. But they cannot check it if they remain "so-called trust in God." That will not be possible. So according to our proposition... Not only now, it is forever. Two classes of men are there: sura and asura. Surasura. Visnu-bhakto bhaved devah. Deva and sura, the same thing. Asuras tad viparyayah. And the asura, or the demons, godless. So if the Americans remain godless in the name of so-called trust in God, they will not be able to check this communistic movement. They will not be able. Now, if they are serious to check this communistic movement, save the American country as well as the whole world, then they must be very serious to understand what is God and what is trust in God. Otherwise this communistic movement will finish the civilized human society. So you are thoughtful. They must be very serious about it. And this is the only movement, Krsna consciousness, which can make all people actually trust in God and explain what is meant by God. Demons, they... If the communists are demons and the capitalists are also demons <b>...</b>
ARMA 2 Mod (WW2) Invasion 1944 - Landing
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- Duration: 9:37
- Published: 13 Sep 2010
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June 6th, 1944 At 0630 hours the first American soldiers land on the beach dubbed 'Omaha'. German defenses built along the coast as part of the formidable 'Atlantic Wall' try to repel the invaders back into the sea. This video was shot on the multiplayer mission 'I44_COOP_D-Day-1-32' from the original larger mission Invasion, which has now been spread over two missions, D-Day, and D+1 for better performance, playability and to better match the actual events. Part 2 of the mission (posted earlier): www.youtube.com DDay+1 (also posted earlier): www.youtube.com Invasion 1944 is a total conversion for Armed Assault 2. www.invasion1944.info
1944-45 "THUNDERBOLT" Uncensored Complete Version (5 of 5)
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- Duration: 7:12
- Published: 02 Aug 2007
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THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAINS ANY CONTENT FROM CRAZE PRODUCTIONS!!! A new HD version of this complete film is available here: www.youtube.com www.romanoarchives.tk "Thunderbolt" (1947) (Part 5 of 5) Director William Wyler, John Sturges Production Company: Carl Krueger Production Introduced by James Stewart Filmed in 1944 and early 1945 but edited only in 1947, this 45 minutes well preserved and almost forgotten documentary (by the great William Wyler) is about the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter bomber and its use in missions over Italy. In the prologue outstanding shots showing various placements of 1944 late model automatic color movie-cameras on board of the planes. "SUBSCRIBING to this Channel is a MUST for researchers and RARE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE fans!!!" V. Romano This is a clip from the ROMANO-ARCHIVES' new website-"Unknown World War 2 in Color"-"WW2 Europe" section. At: www.webalice.it Visit also: romanoarchives.altervista.org Or: digilander.libero.it Hi-def version of the complete film is available. Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP. --------------- THIS VIDEO DOES NOT CONTAINS ANY CONTENT FROM CRAZE PRODUCTIONS!!! "The material used in the video is in the public domain and the original film is preserved in the Archives of Congress. The video contains a part (on a total of five) of this film. The film and ALL this kind of <b>...</b>
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Adolf Hitler, accompanied by other German officials, grimly inspects bomb damage in a German city in 1944, in this German film captured by the U.S. Army Signal Corps on the western front. Ca. 1944.
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Front of Zimmerit-coated Jagdpanther, Imperial War Museum, London.
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Chief Rabbi of Sighet: Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum. Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalmen Leib) Teitelbaum (1911–1944) was Chief Rabbi of Sighet,
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Aerial view of Hanford B-Reactor site, June 1944. Work began on the first of three 250 MW reactors, known as Reactor B, on 10 October 1943
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The former synagogue in Esztergom According to the 1910 census, 5.1% of the population were Jewish. The 1941 census found 1510 Jews here. The community maintained an elementary school until 1944.
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House of Government in Minsk, with a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the foreground. Minsk was recaptured by Soviet troops on 3 July, 1944, during Operation Bag ration. The city was the center of German resistance to the Soviet advance and saw heavy fighting during the first half of 1944.
photo: AP / Alik Keplicz
A biker drives past a mural dedicated to the 1944 Warsaw Uprising on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the revolt, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 31, 2009.
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Gandhi and Jinnah in Bombay, September 1944. wnhires
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Ingham at U.S. Navy Yard, S.C., Oct. 11, 1944
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North Carolina in heavy seas, December 1944
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A flight of A-20G or H bombers over France, 1944.
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A No. 25 Squadron RNZAF SBD-4 on Espiritu Santo, 1944.
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Supermarine Walrus, seaplane training flight of RNZAF, (circa 1944/1945)
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USS North Carolina during Marshall Islands Campaign, 25 January 1944
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WASPs on flight line at Laredo Army Air Field, Texas, 22 January 1944.
photo: Public Domain / Marion Post Wolcott
A cross roads store, bar, juke joint, and gas station in Melrose, Louisiana, 1944
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Authors remember Ford's courage during fire in WWII
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Civilians shave the head of a young woman as punishment for wartime collaboration, Montélimar, August 29, 1944.
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HMS Tracker (D24)
![Me 262 A-1a in April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, Bavaria as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder)[3] to introduce the 262 into service and train a core of pilots to fly it.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110802194201im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/d3/d6/764fb79d6361baad18a2cff8cb34_grande.jpg "Me 262 A-1a in April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, Bavaria as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder)[3] to introduce the 262 into service and train a core of pilots to fly it.")
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Me 262 A-1a in April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, Bavaria as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder)[3] to introduce the 262 into service and train a core of pilots to fly it.
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Pablo, Picasso, Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Painting, Charcoal, The Channel House, 1944-45, MoMA, New York, (LM1)
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National Theater in Belgrade, mid 19th century Belgrade was bombed by the Allies on April 16, 1944, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
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Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
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Hôtel du Parc
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U.S. Army Pathfinders and USAAF flight crew prior to D-Day, June 1944, in front of a C-47 Skytrain
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Spitfires of 352 (Yugoslav) Squadron RAF (Balkan Air Force) before first mission on 18 August 1944, from Canne airfield, Italy.
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During Operation Market-Garden, the 101st Airborne Division was reinforced with twelve gliders on 18 September 1944.
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World War II - An American officer and a French partisan crouch behind an auto during a street fight in a French city, ca. 1944.
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M3 GMC
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Saratoga after her 1944 refit, wearing camouflage measure 32 design 11A.
![Me 262 A-1a in April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, Bavaria as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder)[3] to introduce the 262 into service and train a core of pilots to fly it.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110802194201im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/d3/d6/764fb79d6361baad18a2cff8cb34_thumb.jpg "Me 262 A-1a in April 1944, Erprobungskommando 262 was formed at Lechfeld just south of Augsburg, Bavaria as a test unit (Jäger Erprobungskommando Thierfelder)[3] to introduce the 262 into service and train a core of pilots to fly it.")
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1944
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Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
January 4 – WWII: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
January 5 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces.
January 11 – US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security in his State of the Union address
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.
* An earthquake hits San Juan, Argentina, killing an estimated 10,000 people in the worst natural disaster in Argentina's history.
January 17 – WWII:
* British forces in Italy cross the Garigliano River.
* Meat rationing ends in Australia.
* 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 U.S. Army 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. Army 45th Infantry Division stands their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months.
January 27 – WWII: The 2-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
January 29 – WWII: The Battle of Cisterna takes place.
January 30 – WWII: United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands.
January 31 – WWII: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
February 1 – WWII: United States troops land in the Marshall Islands.
February 2 – The first issue of Human Events is published.
February 3 – WWII: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
February 7 – WWII: In Anzio, Italian forces launch a counteroffensive.
February 8 – WWII: The British claim Hong Kong, there "Force to be reckoned with..."
February 14 – WWII:
* SHAEF headquarters is established in Britain by General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
* 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: The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; it ends in an American victory on February 22.
February 20 – WWII:
* The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
* The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
February 22 – United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe 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: The Chechens and Ingush are forcibly deported to Central Asia.
February 26 – Shooting begins on the Nazi propaganda film, "The Fuehrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
February 29 – WWII – Battle of Los Negros and Operation Brewer: The Admiralty Islands are invaded by U.S. forces.
March
* WWII: The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south China.
* Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek publishes his book The Road to Serfdom (in London).
March 1 – WWII:
* The USS Tarawa and USS Kearsarge are laid down.
* An anti-fascist strike begins in northern Italy.
March 2
* WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy; 521 choke to death.
* The 16th Academy Awards ceremony is held.
March 3 – WWII: The Order of Nakhimov and the Order of Ushakov are instituted in the USSR.
March 4 – In Ossining, New York, Louis Buchalter, the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing, along with Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, and Louis Capone.
March 6 – WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Narva, Estonia, destroying almost the entire old town.
March 9 – WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
March 10 – WWII: In Britain the Education Act lifts the ban on women teachers marrying.
November 11 – WWII An Allied bombing destroys the frescoes by Andrea Mantegna and other Italian masters in the Renaissance Ovetari Chapel, Church of the Eremitani, Padua, northern Italy
March 12 – WWII: The Political Committee of National Liberation is created in Greece.
March 15
* WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
* WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.
* In Sweden, the law of 1864 that criminalizes homosexuality is abolished.
March 17 – WWII: The Nazis execute almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-fascist Romanians at Rîbniţa.
March 19 – WWII: German forces Operation occupy Hungary.
March 18 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
March 20 – WWII: RAF 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. 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:
* Fosse Ardeatine massacre: 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the Italian Resistance from various groups, in Rome.
* In the Polish village of Markowa, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their 6 children and 8 Jews they were hiding.
April 5 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from Auschwitz-Birkenhau.
April 25 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
April 28 – WWII: 749 American troops are killed in Exercise Tiger at Start Bay, Devon, England.
May – No Exit published by Jean-Paul Sartre.
May 5 – WWII: Mohandas Gandhi is released in India.
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.”
May 12 – WWII: Soviet troops finalize the liberation of the Crimea.
May 18 – WWII:
* Battle of Monte Cassino: The Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20,000 lives.
* The Crimean Tatars are deported by the Soviet Union.
May 24 – WWII: Six LSTs are accidentally destroyed and 163 men killed in Pearl Harbor's West Loch Disaster.
May 30 – Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne, resigns from her rights in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, later reigning Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
May 31 – WWII: Destroyer escort England sinks the 6th Japanese submarine in two weeks. This anti-submarine warfare performance remained unmatched through the twentieth century.
June – German V-2 rockets on test from Peenemünde become the first man-made objects to enter space.
June 1 – WWII: The BBC transmits a coded message (the first line of the poem "Chanson d'automne" by Paul Verlaine) to underground resistance fighters in France, warning that the invasion of Europe is imminent.
June 2 – WWII: The provisional French government is established.
June 4 – WWII:
A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the , marking the first time a U.S. Navy vessel has captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
* Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
June 5 – WWII:
* 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.
* At 10:15 p.m. local time, the BBC transmits the second line of the Paul Verlaine poem to the underground resistance, indicating that the invasion of Europe is about to begin.
* The German navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time.
* US and British paratrooper divisions jump over Normandy, in preparation for D-Day. All including 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions of the United States.
June 6 – WWII – Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord, commonly known as D-Day, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. 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:
The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
* Bayeux is liberated by British troops.
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: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
June 13 – WWII: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England.
June 15 – WWII:
* Battle of Saipan: The United States invades Saipan.
* American forces push back the Germans in St. Lo, capturing the city.
June 17 – Iceland declares full independence from Denmark.
June 19 – A severe storm badly damages the Mulberry harbours on the Normandy coast.
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 25 – WWII: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala (the largest battle ever in the Nordic countries) begins between Finnish and Soviet troops. Finland is able to resist the attack and thus manages to stay as an independent nation.
June 26 – WWII: American troops enter Cherbourg.
June 29 – The Holocaust – The deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps begins.
July 1 – The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference begins at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
July 3 – WWII:
* Soviet troops liberate Minsk.
* Battle of Imphal: Japanese forces call off their advance, ending the battle in a British victory.
July 6
* Hartford circus fire: More than 100 children die in one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States.
* 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 – WWII: Soviet troops begin operations to occupy the Baltic countries.
July 12 – 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 that time, and the first in Technicolor. Olivier both stars and directs, as Kenneth Branagh was to do over forty years later in his successful remake.
July 13 – WWII: Vilnius is occupied by USSR.
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, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.
* The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port Chicago naval base; 320 are killed.
July 18 – WWII: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
July 20 – WWII: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg.
July 21 – WWII:
* Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam (the battle ends August 10).
* The Polish Committee of National Liberation is created.
July 22 – The Bretton Woods Conference ends with various agreements signed.
July 25 – WWII – Operation Spring: One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war results in 1,550 casualties, including 450 killed.
August 1 – WWII: The Warsaw Uprising begins.
August 2 – WWII:
* Turkey ends diplomatic and economic relations with Germany.
* The First Assembly of ASNOM is held in the Prohor Pchinski monastery.
August 4 – 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 and her family.
August 5
* The Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
* WWII: Over 500 Japanese prisoners-of-war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra POW Camp.
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 posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
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. Army 45th Infantry Division participates in its fourth assault landing at St. Maxime, spearheading the drive for the Belfort Gap.
August 18 – WWII: Submarine Rasher sinks Teia Maru, Eishin Maru, Teiyu Maru, and carrier from Japanese convoy HI71 in one of the most effective American "wolfpack" attacks of the war.
August 19 – WWII: An insurrection starts in Paris.
August 20 – WWII:
* American forces successfully defeat Nazi forces at Chambois, closing the Falaise Gap.
* 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused of being "terror fliers" by the Gestapo, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
August 22 – WWII: Tsushima Maru, a Japanese unmarked passenger/cargo ship, is sunk by torpedoes launched by the submarine USS Bowfin off Akuseki-jima, killing 1,484 civilians including 767 schoolchildren.
August 23 – WWII: Ion Antonescu, prime minister of Romania, is arrested and a new government established. Romania exits the war against Soviet Union, joining the Allies.
August 24 – WWII:
* Liberation of Paris: The Allies enter Paris, successfully completing Operation Overlord.
* Japanese attack the USS Harder
August 25 – WWII:
* German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler’s orders to destroy it.
* Maillé massacre: Massacre of 129 civilians (70% women and children) by the Gestapo at Maillé, Indre-et-Loire.
* Hungary decides to continue the war together with Germany.
August 29 – WWII: The Slovak National Uprising against the Axis powers begins.
August 31 – The Mad Gasser of Mattoon resumes his mysterious attacks in Mattoon, Illinois.
September 1 – WWII: In Bulgaria, the Bagrianov government resigns.
September 2
* The Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz, arriving 3 days later.
* ¡Hola! magazine launched in Barcelona.
September 3 – WWII: The Allies liberate Brussels.
September 4 – WWII:
* The British 11th Armored Division liberates the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
* Finland breaks off relations with Germany.
September 5 – WWII: The Soviets declare war on Bulgaria.
September 7 – WWII: The Belgian government in exile returns to Brussels from London.
September 8 – WWII:
* London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
* The French town of Menton is liberated from Germany.
September 9 – WWII: An insurrection breaks out in Sofia.
September 11 – WWII: Northern and Southern France invasion forces link up near Dijon.
September 14 – The Great Atlantic Hurricane makes landfall in the New York City area
September 15 – WWII: The Battle of Peleliu begins.
September 17 – WWII: Operation Market Garden begins.
September 19 – WWII: An armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, ending the Continuation War.
September 20 – WWII: Jüri Uluots, prime minister in capacity of president of Estonia, escapes to Sweden; 2 days later, Tallinn is taken by the Red Army.
September 24 – WWII: The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division takes the strongly defended city of Epinal 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.
September – Start of Dutch famine ("Hongerwinter") in the occupied northern part of the Netherlands.
October 2 – Holocaust: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
October 5 – WWII: Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over Holland.
October 6 – WWII: The Battle of Debrecen starts on the Eastern Front (it lasts until October 29).
October 8 – The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet radio show debuts in the United States.
October 9 – WWII: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin begin a 9-day conference in Moscow to discuss the future of Europe.
October 10 – The Holocaust/Porajmos: 800 Gypsy children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz death camp.
October 12 – WWII: The Allies land in Athens.
October 13 – WWII: Riga, the capital of Latvia, is taken by the Red Army.
October 14 – WWII: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.
October 18 – WWII: The Volkssturm is founded on Hitler's orders.
October 20 – WWII:
* Belgrade is liberated by Yugoslav Partisans and the Red Army.
* American forces land in 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.
* United States and Filipino troops with Filipino guerillas begin the Battle of Leyte.
* American forces land on the beaches in Dulag, Leyte, the Philippines, accompanied by Filipino troops entering the town, and fiercely opposed by the Japanese occupation forces.
* The combined American and Filipino soldiers was liberated in Tacloban, Leyte was fought the Japanese Imperial forces.
October 20 – LNG explosion destroys a square mile (2.6 km²) of Cleveland, Ohio.
October 21 – WWII: Aachen,the first German city to fall, is captured by American troops.
October 23 – WWII: The Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines begins (lasts until October 26).
October 25
* WWII: Medal of Honor winning submarine ace Richard O'Kane becomes a prisoner of war when Tang is sunk in the Formosa Strait.
* Florence Foster Jenkins gives a recital in Carnegie Hall.
* WWII: The Red Army liberates Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to be liberated.
October 30
* The Holocaust: Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank 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 – Mass murderer Marcel Petiot is apprehended in Paris Métro station.
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 – U.S. presidential election, 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins reelection over Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the only U.S. president elected to a fourth term.
November 7 – A passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, due to excessive speed on a declining hill; 16 are killed, 50 injured.
November 10 – WWII: Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood disintegrates from accidental detonation of 3800 tons of cargo in the Seeadler Harbor fleet anchorage at Manus Island. Twenty-two small boats are destroyed, 36 nearby ships damaged, 432 men killed and 371 more injured.
November 22 – William Mackenzie King introduces conscription in Canada (see Conscription Crisis of 1944).
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 120 metres (400 ft) deep and 1,200 metres (0.75 miles) across, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history and the largest on UK soil.
November 29 – WWII: Submarine USS Archer-Fish sinks Japanese aircraft carrier . Shinano is the largest carrier built to this date, and will remain through the twentieth century the largest ship sunk by a submarine.
December 3 – WWII: Fighting breaks out between Communists and royalists in newly liberated Greece, eventually leading to a full-scale Greek Civil War.
December 7 – Chicago Convention signed to create the ICAO.
December 10 – Legendary 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. Conducting 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–December 13 – WWII: British units attempt to take the hilltop town of Tossignano, but are repulsed.
December 13 – Battle of Mindoro: United States, Australian and Philippine Commonwealth troops land in Mindoro Island, the Philippines.
December 14
* The Soviet government changes Turkish place names to Russian in the Crimea.
* US release of the film National Velvet which brings a young Elizabeth Taylor to stardom.
December 15 – A private airplane carrying bandleader 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 Battle of the Bulge.
* General George C. Marshall becomes the first Five-Star General.
December 17 – WWII: German troops carry out the Malmedy massacre.
December 19 – The entire territory of Estonia is taken by the Red Army.
December 20 – WASPs are disbanded.
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.
December 24
* WWII: The Bulge reaches its deepest point at Celles.
WWII: Troopship Leopoldville is sunk in the English Channel by German submarine U-486. The ship was carrying reinforcements to the battle of the bulge and 763 soldiers of the 66th Infantry Division (United States) drown.
* The first complete U.S. production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is presented in San Francisco, choreographed by William Christensen. It will become an annual tradition there, and for the next ten years, the San Francisco Ballet will be the only ballet company in the United States performing the complete work, until George Balanchine premieres his version in New York in 1954.
December 26
* WWII: American troops repulse German forces at Bastogne.
* The original stage version of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams premieres on Broadway.
December 30 – WWII:
* Edward Stettinius Jr. becomes the last United States Secretary of State of the Roosevelt administration, filling the seat left by Cordell Hull.
* King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving his throne vacant.
December 31
* WWII: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
* WWII: Battle of Leyte: Thousands of Japanese Imperial forces are killed in action, in a significant Filipino and Allied military victory.
Olympic Games are suspended due to WWII.
Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren publishes her first book, Pippi Longstocking.
In Sweden, Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing invent a way to package milk in paper and start the company Tetra Pak.
Hans Asperger publishes his paper on Asperger syndrome.
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is established.
Canadian Arctic explorer Henry Larsen becomes the first person to successfully navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions in a schooner. He chronicles the event in his autobiography, The Big Ship. ().
January 1
* Bob Minor, American actor and stunt performer
* Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of the Sudan
January 2 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
January 3 – Chris von Saltza, American swimmer
January 6
* Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* Bonnie Franklin, American actress and television director (One Day at a Time)
January 9
* Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
* Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
January 12 – Joe Frazier, American boxer
January 17 – Françoise Hardy, French singer
January 18 – Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
January 19 – Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer
January 23 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
January 24 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (died 1983)
January 25 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model and actress
January 26 – Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
January 27
* Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
* Mairead Corrigan, Northern Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Nick Mason, English rock drummer (Pink Floyd)
January 28
* John Tavener, British composer
* Susan Howard, American actress
January 29 – Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
January 31
* Ivo Opstelten, Dutch politician
* Connie Booth, American writer and actress
February 2 – Geoffrey Hughes, English actor
February 3
* Dave Davies, British rock musician (The Kinks)
* Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
February 5 – Al Kooper, American rock musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
February 9 – Alice Walker, American writer
February 10 – Vernor Vinge, American writer
February 11 – Michael G. Oxley, American politician
February 12 – Moe Bandy, American country music singer
February 13
* Stockard Channing, American actress
* Jerry Springer, English-born American television host
* Michael Ensign, American actor
February 14
* Carl Bernstein, American journalist
* Alan Parker, English film director, producer, actor and writer
February 16
* Richard Ford, American writer
* Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, President of Cape Verde
February 17 – Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
February 20 – Willem van Hanegem, Dutch football player and coach
February 22
* Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer and writer
* Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
February 23 – Johnny Winter, American rock musician
February 27 – Ken Grimwood, American writer (d. 2003)
February 28 – Sepp Maier, German footballer
February 29 – Dennis Farina, American actor
March 1
* John Breaux, U.S. Senator from Louisiana
* Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter and actor (The Who)
March 2 – Uschi Glas, German actress
March 4
* Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and race car designer (d. 1999)
* Bobby Womack, American singer and songwriter
March 5 – Peter Brandes, Danish artist
March 6
* Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
* Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
March 8 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
March 11 – Don Maclean, English comedian
March 17 – John Sebastian, American singer and songwriter (The Lovin' Spoonful)
March 19
* Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
* Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
March 21 – Hilary Minster, English actor (d. 1999)
March 24 – R. Lee Ermey, U.S. Marine and actor
March 26 – Diana Ross, American singer (The Supremes)
March 27 – Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
March 28
* Rick Barry, American basketball player
* Ken Howard, American actor
March 29 – Denny McLain, American baseball player
April 3 – Tony Orlando, American musician
April 4 – Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
April 5 – Peter T. King, U.S. Representative for New York's 3rd congressional district
April 6
* Felicity Palmer, English soprano
* Judith McConnell, American actress (Santa Barbara)
April 7 – Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany
April 8
* Jimmy Walker, American professional basketball player (d. 2007)
* Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
April 11 – John Milius, American film director, producer and screenwriter
April 13 – Jack Casady, American rock musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
April 15 – Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen leader, first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, an unrecognized breakaway state in the North Caucasus (d. 1996)
April 18 – Charlie Tuna, American disc jockey and game show announcer
April 19 – James Heckman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 22 – Steve Fossett, American aviator, sailor and millionaire adventurer (d. 2007)
April 24 – Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer
April 25 – Len Goodman, British ballroom dancer and television personality
April 26 – Larry H. Miller, American sports owner (Utah Jazz) (d. 2009)
April 27
* Michael Fish, British TV weatherman
* Cuba Gooding, Sr., American singer and actor
April 28 – Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
April 29 – Richard Kline, American actor and television director
April 30 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010)
May 1 – Suresh Kalmadi, Indian politician
May 5 – John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
May 8 – Gary Glitter, English singer
May 9
* Richie Furay, American musician (Poco, Buffalo Springfield)
* Laurence Owen, American figure skater (d. 1961)
May 10 – Jim Abrahams, American film director
May 12 – Sara Kestelman, English actress
May 13 – Armistead Maupin, American author
May 14 – George Lucas, American film director and producer
May 20
* Joe Cocker, English rock singer
* Boudewijn de Groot, Dutch singer
* Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman
May 21 – Mary Robinson, President of Ireland
May 23
* John Newcombe, Australian tennis player
* Avraham Oz, Israeli theater professor, translator, and political activist
May 24 – Patti LaBelle, American singer
May 25 – Frank Oz, English puppeteer and film director
May 27 – Chris Dodd, American politician
May 28
* Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City
* Gladys Knight, American singer
* Patricia Quinn, Northern Irish actress
* Rita MacNeil, Canadian folk singer
May 30 – Meredith MacRae, American actress (d. 2000)
June 1 – Robert Powell, English actor
June 3 – Edith McGuire, American sprinter
June 4 – Michelle Phillips, American singer and actress (The Mamas & the Papas)
June 5
* Tommie Smith, American athlete
* Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
June 6 – Phillip Allen Sharp, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June 8
* Boz Scaggs, American singer and guitarist
* Don Grady, American actor and singer
* Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
June 13 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician and Secretary-General of the United Nations
June 16 – Henri Richelet, French painter
June 17 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and impressionist
June 24
* Jeff Beck, English rock musician
* David Mark Berger, American-born Israeli weightlifter, murdered at the Munich Olympics (d. 1972)
June 29 – Gary Busey, American actor
June 30
* Raymond Moody, American parapsychologist
* Terry Funk, American professional wrestler
July 3 – Michel Polnareff, French singer
July 8 – Jeffrey Tambor, American actor
July 13 – Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor
July 14 – Aad Mansveld, Dutch footballer
July 15 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor
July 17 – Mark Burgess, New Zealand cricket captain
July 21 – Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator from Minnesota (d. 2002)
July 23 – Alex Buzo, of Sydney, Australian playwright and author (d. 2006)
July 31
* Geraldine Chaplin, English-American actress
* Robert C. Merton, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 1 – Yuri Romanenko, Soviet cosmonaut
August 2 – Jim Capaldi, British drummer, singer, and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
August 4
* William Frankfather, American actor (d. 1998)
* Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
* Orhan Gencebay, Turkish musician, composer, singer and actor
August 7 – John Glover, American actor
August 8 – Brooke Bundy, American actress
August 9 – Sam Elliott, American actor
August 11 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
August 12 – Larry Troutman, American musician (d. 1999)
August 13 – Kevin Tighe, American actor
August 15 – Sylvie Vartan, French singer
August 18 – Robert Hitchcock, Australian Sculptor
August 19 – Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
August 20 – Linda Clifford, American R&B; and dance singer
August 21
* Peter Weir, Australian film director
* Kari S. Tikka, Finnish Professor of Finance (d. 2006)
August 23 – Saira Banu, Indian actress
August 25 – Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (d. 1974)
August 26 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
August 31 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999)
September 1 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor
September 2 – Gilles Marchal, French musician
September 3 – Tim Donnelly, American actor (Emergency!)
September 6 – Christian Boltanski, French artist
September 7
* Earl Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
* Bora Milutinovic, Serbian football coach
September 12
* Leonard Peltier, U.S. Presidential candidate
* Barry White, American singer (d. 2003)
September 13
* Carol Barnes, British newsreader (d. 2008)
* Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
* Peter Cetera, American singer
September 16 – Betty Kelley, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
September 17 – Reinhold Messner, Italian mountaineer
September 18 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress
September 19 – Ismet Özel, Turkish poet
September 21 – 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
September 26
* Veronica Carlson, English actress and model
* Anne Robinson, British television host
September 30 – Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
October 4 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
October 6 – Mylon LeFevre, American singer and evangelist
October 9
* John Entwistle, English musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
* Nona Hendryx, singer (Labelle)
* Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1987)
October 15 – David Trimble, Northern Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 15 – Şerif Gören, Turkish film director
October 20 – Clive Hornby, English actor (Emmerdale's Jack Sugden 1980-2008) (d. 2008)
October 24 – Ray Downs, American author and country music musician
October 28 – Dennis Franz, American actor
November 1
* Oscar Temaru, President of French Polynesia
* Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager and commentator
November 6 – Wild Man Fischer, Outsider musician
November 7 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (d. 2006)
November 10
* Silvestre Reyes, American politician
* Askar Akayevich Akayev, former President of Kyrgyzstan
November 11 – Kemal Sunal, Turkish comedian
November 12 – Booker T. Jones, American musician, singer and songwriter (Booker T. & the M.G.'s)
November 12 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster
November 17
* Danny DeVito, American actor, film producer & director
* Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect
* Lorne Michaels, Canadian television and film producer
* Tom Seaver, American baseball player
November 18 – Wolfgang Joop, German artist, fashion designer and art collector
November 21 – Richard Durbin, American politician
November 24 – Ibrahim Gambari, Nigerian scholar and diplomat
November 25 – Ben Stein, American law professor, actor and author
November 30 – George Graham, Scottish football player and manager
December 2
* Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress (That's Incredible!)
* Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)
December 5 – Jeroen Krabbe, Dutch actor and film director
December 6
* Jonathan King, British music producer
* Ron Kenoly, American Christian worship leader
December 7
* Daniel Chorzempa, American organist
* Georges Coste, French Rugby player and coach
December 9 – Ki Longfellow, American novelist
December 11
* Brenda Lee, American singer
* Lynda Day George, American actress
* Teri Garr, American actress and comedienne
December 12 – Kenneth Cranham, Scottish born actor
December 17 – Bernard Hill, English actor
December 19 – Tim Reid, American actor and comedian
December 21
* Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese bureaucrat (d. 2007)
* Michael Tilson Thomas, American conductor
* Bill Atkinson, English footballer
December 22 – Steve Carlton, American baseball player
December 23
* Wesley Clark, U.S. general and NATO Supreme Allied Commander
* Ingar Knudtsen, Norwegian writer
December 24 – Erhard Keller, German speed skater
December 25 – Jairzinho, Brazilian football player
December 26
* Eli Cohen, Israeli spy
* Aleksey Mikhalyov, Russian translator
December 28 – Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
December 31 – Jan Widströmer, Swedish artist
January 1
* Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
* Edwin Lutyens, British architect (b. 1869)
January 5 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, priest and martyr (b. 1898) (executed)
January 6 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
January 7 – Lou Henry Hoover, Wife of President Herbert Hoover (b. 1874)
January 10 – William Emerson Ritter, American biologist (b. 1856)
January 11
* Charles King, American actor (b. 1889)
* Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (b. 1903)
January 20 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
January 31
* Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
* William Allen White, American journalist (b. 1868)
February 1 – Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
February 4 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
February 11 – Carl Meinhof, German linguist (b. 1857)
February 12
* Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American singer and Presidential daughter (b. 1886)
* Kenneth Gandar-Dower, English sportsman, aviator, explorer and author (b. 1908)
February 13 – Edgar Selwyn, American screenwriter (b. 1875)
February 16 – Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (b. 1868)
February 21 – Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
February 29 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish politician (b. 1861)
March 4 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish-American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (b. 1897)
March 5 – Max Jacob, French poet (b. 1876)
March 11 – Irvin S. Cobb, American writer (b. 1876)
March 22 – Pierre Brossolette, journalist and French Resistance fighter (b. 1903)
March 23 – Myron Selznick, American film producer (b. 1898)
March 24 – Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
April 9 – Evgeniya Rudneva, Soviet WWII heroine (b. 1920)
April 17 – J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867)
April 21 – Hans-Valentin Hube, German army general (b. 1890)
April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (b. 1880)
April 28
* Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy during WWII (b. 1874)
* Paul Poiret, French couturier (b. 1879)
April 29
* Billy Bitzer, American cinematographer (b. 1874)
* Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
May 12
* Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
* Q, British writer (b. 1863)
* Harold Lowe, British sailor, Fifth Officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1882)
May 16 – George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
May 20 – Vincent Rose, American musician and band leader (b. 1880)
May 24 – Harold Bell Wright, American writer (b. 1872)
May 25 – Clark Daniel Stearns, 9th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870)
May 30 – Jessie Ralph, American actress (b. 1864)
June – Joseph Campbell, Northern Irish poet and lyricist (b. 1879)
June 27 – Milan Hodža, Slovak politician, champion of regional integration in Europe (b. 1878)
July 1 – Carl Mayer, Austrian screenwriter (b. 1894)
July 6
* Andrée Borrel, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1919)
* Vera Leigh, English WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1903)
* Sonia Olschanezky, German WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1923)
* Diana Rowden, English WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1915)
July 7 – Georges Mandel, French politician and WWII hero (executed) (b. 1885)
July 8 – George B. Seitz, American director (b. 1888)
July 12 – Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American political and business leader (b. 1887)
July 14 – Asmahan a Syrian-born Egyptian singer (b.1918?).
July 18 – Rex Whistler, English artist (b. 1905)
July 20 – Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
July 21 – Claus von Stauffenberg, German military and resistance fighter (b. 1907)
July 25 – Jakob von Uexküll, Baltic German biologist (b. 1864)
July 26 – Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1877)
July 30 – Lee Powell, American actor (b. 1908)
July 31 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900)
August 1 – Manuel L. Quezon, Philippine president (b. 1878)
August 4 – Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet (Warsaw Uprising) (b. 1921)
August 12
* Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., American fighter pilot, oldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy (b. 1915)
* Suzanne Spaak, Belgian WWII heroine (executed)
August 19 – Henry Wood, British conductor (b. 1869)
August 23 – Abdul Mejid II, Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1868)
August 26
* Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (executed) (b. 1909)
* Hans Leesment, Estonian general (b. 1873)
August 27 – Princess Mafalda of Savoy (executed) (b. 1902)
September 6
* Gustave Biéler, Swiss WWII hero (executed) (b. 1904)
* Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Polish Catholic priest, executed during the Warsaw Uprising (b. 1897)
September 9 – Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (executed) (b. 1895)
September 11
* Yolande Beekman, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1911)
* Madeleine Damerment, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1917)
* Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1914)
September 13 – Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872)
September 14
* John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian WWII hero (executed) (b. 1914)
* Frank Pickersgill, Canadian WWII hero (executed) (b. 1915)
* Roméo Sabourin, Canadian WWII hero (executed) (b. 1923)
September 16 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
September 25 – Eugeniusz Lokajski, Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer (Warsaw Uprising) (b. 1909)
September 27 – Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
October 4 – Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
October 8 – Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
October 14 – Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (b. 1891)
October 21 – Alois Kayser, German missionary (b. 1877)
October 22 – Richard Bennett, American actor (b. 1870)
October 23 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
October 24 – Shoji Nishimura, Japanese Vice admiral (b. 1889)
October 26
* HRH The Princess Beatrice, youngest and last living child of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
* William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
November 2 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
November 5 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
November 7 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1921)
November 10 – Wang Jingwei, Nanjing Nationalist regime in northern China (died of pneumonia) (b. 1883)
November 12 – George F. Houston, American actor (b. 1896)
December 2 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
December 4 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (b. 1879)
December 9 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1916)
December 13
* Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born artist (b. 1866)
* Lupe Velez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)
December 15 – Glenn Miller, American band leader (b. 1904)
December 22 – Harry Langdon, American comedian (b. 1884)
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. 1889)
Gerald Haxton, secretary and lover of novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham (b. 1892)
Physics – Isidor Isaac Rabi
Chemistry – Otto Hahn
Medicine – Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
Literature – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross
Events
Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.January
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February
in ruins after being destroyed by Allied bombing, February 1944.]]
March
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April
May
, 1 May 1944.]]
June
.]] heading for shore on 15 June 1944 during the Battle of Saipan.]]
July
to kill Hitler.]]
August
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September
in September 1944.]]
October
afire, east of Luzon, 24 October 1944.]] were founded in October 1944.]] , 20 October 1944.]]
November
December
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Births
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
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April–June
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Nobel Prizes
References
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