List of Famous people who died in 1944

John Cator, JP, DL was Conservative MP for Huntingdon.

Julie Wolfthorn was a German painter. Born as Julie Wolf(f) to a middle-class Jewish family, she later styled herself as Julie Wolfthorn after her city of birth Thorn (Toruń).

Felka Platek was a Polish artist.

Benoît Benoni-Auran was a Provençal master painter.

William Edward "Bud" Jamison was an American film actor. He appeared in 450 films between 1915 and 1944, notably appearing in many shorts with The Three Stooges as a foil.

Clarence Charles William Henry Richard Bennett was an American actor who became a stage and silent screen actor over the early decades of the 20th century. He was the father of actresses Constance Bennett, Barbara Bennett and Joan Bennett with actress Adrienne Morrison, his second wife.

William Gillies Whittaker was an English composer, pedagogue, conductor, musicologist, Bach scholar, publisher and writer. He spent his life promoting music. The University of Durham, where he once studied and taught, called him one of "Britain's most influential musicians during the first half of the twentieth century". An autodidact, he was a prodigious creator of Gebrauchsmusik.

Helen Magill White was an American academic and instructor. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in the United States.