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. Fulgencio Batista

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   Cuban army officer and politician who became a central power in Cuba after the 1933 Sergeants’ Revolt, served as president from 1940 to 1944,…

2. George H. W. Bush

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   George Herbert Walker Bush was an American naval aviator, oil executive, congressman, diplomat, director of central intelligence, vice president, and…

3. George Orwell

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   George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…

4. Gough Whitlam

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   Edward Gough Whitlam was an Australian lawyer, Royal Australian Air Force navigator, Labor politician and the 21st prime minister of Australia.…

5. Harry S. Truman

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   Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.…

6. Henry Ford

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   American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company. Ford grew up in rural Michigan, worked in Detroit engineering and machine shops, developed…

7. Hideki Yukawa

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   Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting mesons.…

8. Howard Florey

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   Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…

9. Idi Amin

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   Ugandan army officer and dictator who was president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. This chronology records documented physical presences from his birth…

10. Italo Calvino

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    Italian novelist, short-story writer, editor, journalist, and member of Oulipo. Born in Cuba, raised chiefly in Sanremo, and active across Italy,…

11. Jack Brabham

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    Australian racing driver, engineer, team owner and three-time Formula One World Champion. Brabham began in Australian speedcar racing, worked as a…

12. Jean-Bédel Bokassa

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    Central African military officer and politician who seized power in the Central African Republic in 1966, served as president, and proclaimed himself…

13. John Atta Mills

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    John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian legal scholar and politician who served as vice president of Ghana from 1997 to 2001 and president from 7…

14. John Eccles

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    Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher John Carew Eccles (1903–1997) was a Nobel laureate noted for research on synaptic transmission.…

15. John F. Kennedy

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…

16. John Maynard Keynes

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    English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…

17. Jorge Rafael Videla

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    Argentine Army officer and de facto president of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. His dictatorship, the National Reorganization Process, conducted…

18. Kwame Nkrumah

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    Ghanaian nationalist leader, Pan-Africanist, and political theorist who led the Gold Coast to independence as Ghana in 1957.…

19. Léopold Sédar Senghor

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    Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…

20. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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    Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…

21. Macfarlane Burnet

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    Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…

22. Marguerite Duras

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    French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…

23. Marilyn Monroe

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    American actress and model born Norma Jeane Mortenson. This chronology maps verified places where Monroe lived, worked, traveled, performed, filmed,…

24. Marlene Dietrich

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    German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…

Moments

1. 1944 Birth at Yalkharoy Dzhokhar Dudayev
2. 1944 Second Salle Pleyel concert Édith Piaf
3. 1944 Writing leave in Swansea Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. 1944 Manhattan Project work at Columbia Chien-Shiung Wu
5. 1944 Picasso reading at Michel Leiris's home Claude Simon
6. 1944 Trained in Miami John F. Kennedy
7. 1944 USO visit at Naval Air Station Kodiak Olivia de Havilland
8. 1944 RAAF operations from Merauke Gough Whitlam
9. 1944 Competes in Dublin oratorical contest Martin Luther King Jr.
10. 1944 Birth in Đông Hội Nguyễn Phú Trọng
11. 1944 PETA company-command training Suharto
12. 1944 Return to Groupe II/33 at Alghero Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
13. 1944 RAAF enlistment and posting Jack Brabham
14. 1944 Treated at Chelsea Naval Hospital John F. Kennedy
15. 1944 Arrival at RAF Northolt Charles de Gaulle
16. 1944 First return to liberated France at Bayeux Charles de Gaulle
17. 1944 Visit with 101st Airborne troops before D-Day Dwight D. Eisenhower
18. 1944 Off Omaha Beach during Normandy landings Ernest Hemingway
19. 1944 Lecture at Osaka Senior High School Hideki Yukawa
20. 1944 Bretton Woods negotiations John Maynard Keynes
21. 1944 Visits integrated Hartford Martin Luther King Jr.
22. 1944 Works on Simsbury tobacco farm Martin Luther King Jr.
23. 1944 Views Normandy beachheads Winston Churchill
24. 1944 Dixie Mission meetings in Yan'an Zhou Enlai
25. 1944 Survives July 20 bomb at Wolf’s Lair Adolf Hitler
26. 1944 Final departure from Borgo Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
27. 1944 Militia activity at Rambouillet Ernest Hemingway
28. 1944 Confers with MacArthur and Nimitz in Hawaii Franklin Delano Roosevelt
29. 1944 Visit to his mother after vice-presidential nomination Harry S. Truman
30. 1944 Birth in Tarkwa John Atta Mills
31. 1944 Visit to rue des Saussaies Marguerite Duras
32. 1944 Arrest and interrogation at Zentralstelle Anne Frank
33. 1944 Imprisonment in Westerbork punishment barracks Anne Frank
34. 1944 Anti-Fascist meeting in Bago Aung San
35. 1944 Liberation of Paris Charles de Gaulle
36. 1944 Liberation of Paris Ernest Hemingway
37. 1944 Australian penicillin advisory visit Howard Florey
38. 1944 Operation Dragoon landing Jean-Bédel Bokassa
39. 1944 Hiding during Black Sunday Pope John Paul II
40. 1944 Residence at Kraków Archbishop's residence Pope John Paul II
41. 1944 Birth in Bombay Rajiv Gandhi
42. 1944 At British Embassy in Rome Winston Churchill
43. 1944 Arrival and imprisonment at Auschwitz-Birkenau Anne Frank
44. 1944 Arrival at Project Y Enrico Fermi
45. 1944 B Reactor fuel loading Enrico Fermi
46. 1944 Attends Second Quebec Conference Franklin Delano Roosevelt
47. 1944 Home at Canonbury Square George Orwell
48. 1944 Washington Lend-Lease negotiations John Maynard Keynes
49. 1944 Begins Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr.
50. 1944 Jinnah–Gandhi talks at his Bombay residence Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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