List of Famous people who died in 1944

Gleb Yevgeniyevich Kotelnikov, was the Russian-Soviet inventor of the knapsack parachute, and braking parachute.

Satokata Takahashi, born Naka Nakane was also known as Satokata Takahishi, Satokata Takahashiin, Taka Ashe, and his first name was sometimes rendered as Satakata. Takahashi was a retired major of the Imperial Japanese Army and member of the Black Dragon Society. According to FBI reports he was the instigator behind the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, working through Ashima Takis.

Benjamin Meek Miller was an American Democratic politician who served as the 39th Governor of Alabama from 1931 to 1935. The Scottsboro Boys affair notably took place during his gubernatorial tenure.

Erich Knauf was a German journalist, writer, and songwriter. He was executed for making jokes about the Nazi regime.

Lady Beatrix Stanley , was a British aristocrat, horticulturalist, and botanical artist who drew plants native to Chennai, and consequently has multiple flower strains named after her, most notably an iris and snowdrop, such as Galanthus ‘Lady Beatrix Stanley’, a double snowdrop, which was named after her in 1981.