List of Famous people who died in 1944

Colonel Sir Victor Audley Falconer Mackenzie, 3rd Baronet was a British Army officer, baronet and courtier.

Wynne F. Clouse was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

Willard Gustav Bowsky was an American animator best known for his work at Fleischer Studios in New York City and Miami, Florida, where he worked on cartoons featuring Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, and Superman, in addition to two feature-length animated films.

José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, 6th Marquess of Montealegre de Aulestia and 5th of Casa-Dávila was a Peruvian historian, writer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru, Minister of Justice and Mayor of Lima.

Robert Samuel Curry, known as Bob Curry, was a wrestler of the early twentieth century. He was born in New York City, New York.

Prince Alois Schönburg-Hartenstein, was a military officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and as a Prince of Schönburg-Hartenstein, a member of the Austrian nobility. He briefly served from March to July 1934 as the minister of defense in the First Austrian Republic.

Merna Kennedy was an American actress of the late silent era and the transitional period into talkies.

Louis Bamberger was the leading citizen of Newark, New Jersey, from the early 1900s until his death in 1944. He is noted for co-founding the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He was a businessman and philanthropist and at his death all flags in Newark were flown at half-staff for three days, and his large department store closed for a day.