List of Famous people who died in 1944

Felix Nussbaum was a German-Jewish surrealist painter. Nussbaum’s work gives a rare glimpse into the essence of one person among the victims of the Holocaust.

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy. Giraudoux's dominant theme is the relationship between man and woman—or in some cases, between man and some unattainable ideal.

Georges Biscot was a French film actor. He starred in some 28 films between 1916 and his death in 1944.

Giovanni Gentile was an Italian neo-Hegelian idealist philosopher, educator, and fascist politician. The self-styled "philosopher of Fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for Italian Fascism, and ghostwrote part of The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) with Benito Mussolini. He was involved in the resurgence of Hegelian idealism in Italian philosophy and also devised his own system of thought, which he called "actual idealism" or "actualism", which has been described as "the subjective extreme of the idealist tradition".

Harold "Wennie" Wenstrom was an American cinematographer known for his frequent collaborations with actress Alla Nazimova during the silent era.