Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1944

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud fue un político finlandés y el tercer presidente de la República de Finlandia (1931-1937).

Mihai Robu was a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Iaşi. Born in Săbăoani, Neamţ County, He entered the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași in 1894, being ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907. For several years, starting before his priestly ordination, he was in charge of the Iaşi seminarians. During World War I, when the seminary was closed, he was a parish priest at Văleni, Faraoani and Bacău. In 1920, he returned to teach when the seminary reopened, and was named secretary to Bishop Alexandru Cisar. In 1922, he was named parish priest at Horlești and chaplain at an Iaşi monastery. In 1925, he was consecrated Bishop of Iaşi by Cisar. Among his activities were the building of numerous churches, special attention to the seminary and the opening of a new one at Luizi-Călugăra, support for the Catholic press and many visits to parishes in the diocese. In March 1944, due to the approach of the Eastern Front, he closed the seminary and withdrew with the students to Beiuș. Meeting with repression from the German and Hungarian armies, he went to the mountains at Finiș in mid-September. He caught double pneumonia and soon died. Buried in Beiuş, his remains were moved to the old Roman Catholic cathedral in Iaşi in 1964.

Wilhelm Leuschner fue un sindicalista y político socialdemócrata. Un oponente temprano del Nazismo, organizó la resistencia soterrada en el movimiento de los trabajadores. Como resultado de su implicación en el intento de asesinato de Hitler en 1944 Leuscher fue ejecutado.

Hugo Max Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg, conocido como Graf von Lerchenfeld-Köfering por poco tiempo, fue un político conservador y primer ministro de Baviera desde 1921 hasta 1922. Perteneció al Partido Popular Bávaro, un partido conservador separatista en Baviera formado después de la primera guerra mundial.

Christa Winsloe fue una novelista, dramaturga y escultora germano-húngara. Su obra de teatro Gestern und heute inspiró la película Mädchen in Uniform considerada la primera de temática lésbica de la historia.

Sir Charles Alban Young, 9th Baronet was a British diplomat.

Käthe Niederkirchner was a German Communist resistance activist whose life ended, after she was shot by Nazi paramilitaries, on the night of 27/28 September 1944 at Ravensbrück concentration camp.