List of Famous people who died in 1944
Günther Korten
Günther Korten was a German Colonel General and Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe in World War II. He died from injuries suffered in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in July 1944.
Paul-Émile Janson
Paul-Émile Janson was a francophone Belgian liberal politician and Prime Minister (1937–1938). During the German occupation, he was arrested as a political prisoner and died in a German concentration camp in 1944.
Hans Bernd von Haeften
Hans Bernd von Haeften was a German jurist during the Nazi era. A member of the German Resistance against Adolf Hitler, he was arrested and executed in the aftermath of the failed 20 July plot.
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel was a French journalist, politician, and French Resistance leader.
Münir Ertegün
Mehmet Munir Ertegun was a Turkish legal counsel in international law to the "Sublime Porte" of the late Ottoman Empire and a diplomat of the Republic of Turkey during its early years. Ertegun married Emine Hayrünnisa Rüstem in 1917 and the couple had three children, two of whom were Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, the brothers who founded Atlantic Records and became iconic figures in the American music industry.
Wilhelm Falley
Wilhelm Falley was the first German general to be killed during the Normandy Landings in France. He was commander of the 91st Infantry Division.
Marshall Brooks
Marshall Brooks was a nineteenth-century sportsman who was the British Amateur High Jump champion in 1874 and 1876, world record holder for the High Jump on three occasions, as well as a rugby union international who represented England in 1874.
Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss
Mary Elizabeth Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss was a British peeress.
Pierre Brossolette
Pierre Brossolette was a French journalist, a leading left-wing politician, and a major hero of the French Resistance.
Heinrich von Lehndorff-Steinort
Heinrich Ahasverus Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort was an East Prussian junker and aristocrat who became a member of the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.