List of Famous people who died in 1944

Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg was a German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler.

Hannes Stelzer was an Austrian film actor. Stelzer was a leading actor in German cinema during the Nazi era.

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi was a multilingual music writer and critic who promoted musicians such as Franz Liszt and Modest Mussorgsky.

Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was a Belgian author, entrepreneur, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation". Otlet created the Universal Decimal Classification, which would later become a faceted classification. Otlet was responsible for the development of an early information retrieval tool, the "Repertoire Bibliographique Universel" (RBU) which utilized 3x5 inch index cards, used commonly in library catalogs around the world. Otlet wrote numerous essays on how to collect and organize the world's knowledge, culminating in two books, the Traité de Documentation (1934) and Monde: Essai d'universalisme (1935).

Dénes Kőnig was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage who worked in and wrote the first textbook on the field of graph theory.

Levi Yitzchak Schneerson (1878–1944) was a Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi in Yekatrinoslav, Ukraine. He was the father of the seventh and Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.