List of Famous people who died in 1944

Diana Hope Rowden served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. Rowden was a member of SOE's Acrobat circuit in occupied France where she operated as a courier until she was arrested by the Gestapo. She was subsequently executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

Aron Lvovich Sheinman (Russian: Арон Львович Шейнман was a Bolshevik Revolutionary, born in Suwałki.

Edgar Selwyn was a prominent figure in American theatre and film in the first half of the 20th century. An actor, playwright, director and producer on Broadway, he founded a theatrical production company with his brother, Archibald Selwyn, and owned a number of Selwyn Theatres in the United States. He transferred his talents from the stage to motion pictures, and directed a film for which Helen Hayes received the Academy Award for Best Actress. Selwyn co-founded Goldwyn Pictures in 1916.

Edouard Trebaol was an American actor.

Carl Flesch was a Hungarian violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium Scale System is a staple of violin pedagogy.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.

Louis Alphonse Gassion is mostly known as the father of the legendary singer-songwriter and actress Édith Piaf, who was known as France's national chanteuse and was internationally famous. He was a singer and street performer of acrobat's, who had a background in theatre.

Felix William Bernard was an American conductor, pianist and a composer of popular music. His writing credits include the popular songs "Winter Wonderland" and "Dardanella".

Elizabeth Wharton "Bessie" Drexel Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baroness Decies, was an American author and Manhattan socialite.

Pietro Chesi was an Italian cyclist.