List of Famous people who died in 1944

Lev Shcherba was a Russian linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.

Martin Wilhelm Kutta was a German mathematician.

Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term meiosis in 1905.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 to September 1940.

Sir John Lumsden KBE was an Irish physician. He was famous for his role as Chief Medical Officer of Guinness Brewery, during which time he founded both St James's Gate F.C. and the St John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland. During the Easter Rising of 1916, he was noted for treating anyone who was wounded, regardless of which side they fought for.

Captain John Buxton Pelham, 8th Earl of Chichester, styled The Honourable John Pelham until 1926, was a British diplomat.

Mathieu Hubertus Josephus Schoenmaekers was a mathematician and theosophist who formulated the plastic and philosophical principles of the De Stijl movement.