List of Famous people who born in 1944

Reinhard Günzel is a former German general. He joined the Bundeswehr in 1963. He commanded the parachute battalion in Merzig, a hunting regiment in Trier and the Jägerbrigade in Frankenberg. He also studied history and philosophy in Tübingen. He was the commander of the Kommando Spezialkräfte from November 2000 until November 2003. After sending a letter supporting Martin Hohmann, a former member of the Bundestag, and the speech that Hohmann had made that compared "the actions of Jews in the 1917 Russian revolution with those of the Nazis", Günzel was fired from his position as General by Defence Minister Peter Struck. General Günzel is the author of the “Secret Warriors”, a book in which according to an article in the New York Times "he placed the KSK in the tradition of a notorious special forces unit under the Nazis that committed numerous war crimes, including massacres of Jews. He has been a popular speaker at far-right events".

Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper. His second career has been in academia. Appointed Senior Fellow of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies in 2007, he is also the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution and a courtesy professor of political science at Stanford University. Since 1999, he has been an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003.

Arturo Puig is an Argentine theatre, television and motion picture actor. He has worked in the 1990s success Grande, pá!!!

Angelika Waller is a German actress. She appeared in more than fifty films since 1962. Her first leading role was in the 1965 film The Rabbit Is Me, a film which was banned in East Germany and released only in 1989.

Jair Ventura Filho, better known as Jairzinho, is a Brazilian former footballer. A quick, skillful, and powerful right winger, known for his finishing ability and eye for goal, he was a key member and top scorer of the legendary Brazilian national team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He is nicknamed as The Hurricane for scoring limitless goals. A versatile forward, he was also capable of playing in a variety of other attacking positions, as a main striker, second striker, or even as an attacking midfielder.

Zhanna Vladimirovna Bichevskaya is a prominent Soviet and Russian singer and folk musician.

Zulma Aurora Faiad is an Argentinian vedette and actress.

Luciano Caldas Bivar is a Brazilian politician and businessman who was the PSL candidate for the 2006 Brazilian presidential election. His political platform included projects such as the end of income tax in favour of a unique tax on products and services, and also building military barracks in Brazilian favelas. He received 0.06% of the total vote in the first round and did not progress to the second round.

Pierre Dulaine is a dance instructor and dancer. He invented the Dulaine method of teaching dance. He also founded Dancing Classrooms, a social and emotional development program for 5th grade children that uses ballroom dancing as a vehicle to change the lives of the children and their families.