Historical figures in 1944

The atlas holds 74 people and 120 moments here, in 1944. The most recorded lives are Ernest Hemingway, Anne Frank and Winston Churchill. Among them Political Leaders, Writers and Military Leaders.

Notable people

  1. Adolf Hitler

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    1 moment here

    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), became German…

  2. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Soviet and Russian novelist, essayist, historian, dissident, and Nobel laureate whose writings on Soviet political repression and the Gulag made him…

  3. Alexander Prokhorov

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    1 moment here

    Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet and Russian physicist whose work in quantum electronics helped lead to the maser and…

  4. Allan MacLeod Cormack

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    South African-born American physicist and academic whose mathematical work helped establish computed tomography.…

  5. Anne Frank

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    5 moments here

    Anne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist whose writing from hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam became The Diary of a Young Girl.…

  6. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    2 moments here

    French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) pioneered airmail flying in Europe, Africa, and South America, wrote works including…

  7. Aretha Franklin

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    American singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil-rights activist known as the “Queen of Soul.” Her documented movements span childhood relocations…

  8. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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    1 moment here

    Indian statesman, poet, journalist and Bharatiya Janata Party leader who served as India’s prime minister in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004.…

  9. Aung San

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Burmese independence leader, political organizer, and military commander. Aung San helped found the Burma Independence Army, led the anti-Japanese…

  10. Benito Mussolini

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…

  11. Bertrand Russell

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…

  12. B. R. Ambedkar

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, politician, principal architect of India’s Constitution, and a leading…

  13. Charles de Gaulle

    in 1944

    4 moments here

    French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…

  14. Chien-Shiung Wu

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Chinese-American experimental physicist whose career moved from Jiangsu and eastern China to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,…

  15. Claude Simon

    in 1944

    2 moments here

    French novelist, painter, photographer, viticulturist, Resistance participant, and 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.…

  16. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    1 moment here

    Dwight D. Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and the 34th president of the United…

  17. Dzhokhar Dudayev

    in 1944

    2 moments here

    Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was a Soviet Air Force major general and the first president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.…

  18. Édith Piaf

    in 1944

    3 moments here

    French singer and lyricist Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Édith Piaf, rose from street performance in Paris to international prominence in chanson…

  19. Enrico Fermi

    in 1944

    2 moments here

    Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…

  20. Ernest Hemingway

    in 1944

    6 moments here

    American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Hemingway’s documented movements ranged from Illinois and Michigan to Italy in World War I,…

  21. Eva Perón

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    María Eva Duarte de Perón, known as Eva or Evita Perón, was an Argentine actress, political leader, social-welfare organizer, and First Lady of…

  22. Federico Fellini

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Italian film director and screenwriter whose career developed from caricature and comic writing in Rimini and Rome into internationally influential…

  23. Ferdinand Marcos

    in 1944

    1 moment here

    Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1965 until his overthrow…

  24. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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    4 moments here

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…

Moments

  1. 1944 Red Army battery in Poland Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  2. 1944 Postgraduate work after demobilization Alexander Prokhorov
  3. 1944 B.Sc. at the University of Cape Town Allan MacLeod Cormack
  4. 1944 Family move to Buffalo Aretha Franklin
  5. 1944 Arya Kumar Sabha leadership Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  6. 1944 Return to Trinity College Bertrand Russell
  7. 1944 Scheduled Caste Federation meeting B. R. Ambedkar
  8. 1944 Childhood exile in Kazakhstan Dzhokhar Dudayev
  9. 1944 Performance at Moulin Rouge Édith Piaf
  10. 1944 Hürtgen Forest fighting Ernest Hemingway
  11. 1944 London arrival as war correspondent Ernest Hemingway
  12. 1944 Meeting Juan Perón at earthquake-benefit gala Eva Perón
  13. 1944 Funny Face Shop Federico Fellini
  14. 1944 Departure for Miami Fulgencio Batista
  15. 1944 Service aboard USS San Jacinto George H. W. Bush
  16. 1944 No. 13 Squadron portrait at Cooktown Gough Whitlam
  17. 1944 Anglo-American mission to Moscow Howard Florey
  18. 1944 Moved to Mawale Parish Idi Amin
  19. 1944 Garibaldi Brigades in the Maritime Alps Italo Calvino
  20. 1944 Arrival in Dunedin John Eccles
  21. 1944 Arrived back in San Francisco John F. Kennedy
  22. 1944 Pan-African conference in New York Kwame Nkrumah
  23. 1944 Chair at École nationale de la France d'outre-mer Léopold Sédar Senghor
  24. 1944 Dunham Lectures at Harvard Macfarlane Burnet
  25. 1944 Visit to Fort Bragg Macfarlane Burnet
  26. 1944 Worked on the Radioplane assembly line Marilyn Monroe
  27. 1944 USO performance in France Marlene Dietrich
  28. 1944 USO tour in Germany Marlene Dietrich
  29. 1944 With Jean Gabin in New York Marlene Dietrich
  30. 1944 Broadway debut Marlon Brando
  31. 1944 Summer-stock work in Sayville Marlon Brando
  32. 1944 Manhattan Project work at Berkeley Maurice Wilkins
  33. 1944 San Francisco streetcar conductor Maya Angelou
  34. 1944 Mathari Boarding School studies Mwai Kibaki
  35. 1944 Helps found the ANC Youth League Nelson Mandela
  36. 1944 Flight to Saigon Ngô Đình Diệm
  37. 1944 Summer among Navajo communities in Arizona P. L. Travers
  38. 1944 Summer among Navajo communities in New Mexico P. L. Travers
  39. 1944 Reich Labour Service near the Hungarian border Pope Benedict XVI
  40. 1944 All India Radio employment Ram Narayan
  41. 1944 Move to Mumbai after completing training Ravi Shankar
  42. 1944 Alameda Naval Air Station duty Richard Nixon
  43. 1944 SCAT forward detachment at Nissan Island Richard Nixon
  44. 1944 War Loan duty in New York Ronald Reagan
  45. 1944 Indian Science Congress presidency in New Delhi Satyendra Nath Bose
  46. 1944 PETA recruit training in Jakarta Suharto
  47. 1944 PETA recruit training in Madiun Suharto
  48. 1944 PETA recruit training in Surakarta Suharto
  49. 1944 Enrollment at King Fuad I University Yasser Arafat
  50. 1944 Move to Paris during the Resistance Claude Simon

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