List of Famous people who died in 1944

Saint-Just Péquart

First Name Saint-Just
Last Name Péquart
Born on March 15, 1881
Died on September 11, 1944 (aged 63)
Born in France, Grand Est
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Karl Leimer

First Name Karl
Last Name Leimer
Born on June 22, 1858
Died on July 19, 1944 (aged 86)
Born in Germany, Hesse, Wiesbaden

Karl Leimer was a German music teacher and pianist.

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Aleksandr Kotelnikov

Александр Петрович Котельников
First Name Aleksandr
Died on March 6, 1944

Aleksandr Petrovich Kotelnikov was a Russian mathematician specializing in geometry and kinematics.

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Jens Jessen

First Name Jens
Last Name Jessen
Born on December 11, 1895
Died on November 30, 1944 (aged 48)
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Kustaa Pihlajamäki

First Name Kustaa
Born on April 7, 1902
Died on February 10, 1944 (aged 41)
Height 169 cm | 5'7

Kustaa Kustaanpoika Pihlajamäki was a Finnish wrestler. He competed in freestyle wrestling at the 1924, 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won two gold and one silver medal. Between 1930 and 1943 he won nine European and 28 national titles in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling.

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Rudolf Risch

First Name Rudolf
Last Name Risch
Born on January 20, 1908
Died on August 22, 1944 (aged 36)
Born in Germany

Rudolf Risch was a German racing cyclist. He finished in last place in the 1932 Tour de France.

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Joseph Dalman

First Name Joseph
Last Name Dalman
Born on October 31, 1882
Died on June 20, 1944 (aged 61)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Joseph Dalman (1882–1944) was a German screenwriter.

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Joseph Hammels

First Name Joseph
Last Name Hammels
Born on January 26, 1868
Died on January 3, 1944 (aged 75)
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Joseph L. Bristow

First Name Joseph
Last Name Bristow
Born on July 22, 1861
Died on July 14, 1944 (aged 82)

Joseph Little Bristow was a Republican politician from the American state of Kansas. Elected in 1908, Bristow served a single term in the United States Senate where he gained recognition for his support of a number of political causes of the Progressive era. Following his electoral defeat in the election of November 1914, Bristow spent the rest of his life as a farmer in the state of Virginia.

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Sissel Aas

First Name Sissel
Born on June 24, 1899
Died on February 28, 1944 (aged 44)
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