List of Famous people who died at 44

Sherron Mills was an American basketball player from Salisbury, Maryland. A 6'9" forward, he played for Snow Hill High School, leading the team to the 1989 Maryland 1-A Boys Basketball State Championship.

Tillmann Uhrmacher was a German electronic DJ, producer, and radio host.

Hitoshi Igarashi was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. He was murdered in the wake of fatwas issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran – who, by the time of Igarashi's murder, had died – calling for the death of the book's author and "those involved in its publication."

Tony D'Amario was a French actor best known for his role as K2 in Banlieue 13.

Brigid Mary Bazlen was an American film, television and stage actress. Although she made only three Hollywood films, The Honeymoon Machine, King of Kings, and How the West Was Won, she is still remembered for the latter two. Bazlen retired from acting while she was in her late 20s (1972), and she died from cancer at the age of 44.

Richard James Biggs II was an American television and stage actor, known for his roles on the television series Days of Our Lives and Babylon 5.

Fathi Shaqaqi was the co-founder and Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine.

Firmanzah was an Indonesian academic.

Vorn Vet born Sok Thuok, was a Cambodian politician who served as deputy prime minister for the economy of Democratic Kampuchea. He was murdered at the S-21 security camp in 1978.

Bror Fredrik "Esbjörn" Svensson was a Swedish jazz pianist and founder of the jazz group Esbjörn Svensson Trio, commonly known as e.s.t.