List of Famous people who died in 1944

Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill, American cartographer and architect, was the inventor of the octahedral "Butterfly Map". An early proponent of the San Francisco Civic Center, he also designed hotels, factories and mausoleums like the Columbarium of San Francisco.

Mariya Vasilyevna Oktyabrskaya was a Soviet tank driver, mechanic and Hero of the Soviet Union who fought on the Eastern Front against Nazi Germany during World War II.

William James Sidis was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills. He is notable for his 1920 book The Animate and the Inanimate, in which he speculates about the origin of life in the context of thermodynamics.

Lou Hoover was the wife of President Herbert Hoover and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

Joseph Müller was a German Catholic priest and critic of the Nazi regime. He was tried by the "People's Court" and executed at Brandenburg-Görden Prison.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a chemist and photographer of the Russian Empire. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.

Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray CIE, FNI, FRASB, FIAS, FCS was an eminent Bengali chemist, educationist, historian, industrialist and philanthropist. He established the first modern Indian research school in chemistry and is regarded as the father of chemical science in India.

Lupe Vélez was a Mexican actress, dancer and singer during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood films.

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was a US Navy lieutenant who was killed in action during World War II while serving as a land-based patrol bomber pilot. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross and was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1969) and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890–1995).

Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenplay writer who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), the last five being films directed by F. W. Murnau.