List of Famous people who died in 1944

Commander Harold Godfrey Lowe RD, RNR was the fifth officer of the RMS Titanic.

Bella Rosenfeld Chagall was a Jewish Belarusian writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings including Bella au col blanc in 1917, and appears posthumously in Bouquet près de la fenêtre, painted in 1959-1960.

Jędrzej Edward Moraczewski was a Polish socialist politician who, loyal to Józef Piłsudski and viewed as acceptable by both left- and right-wing Polish political factions, served as the second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic between November 1918 and January 1919. He had previously served as Minister of Communications. Subsequently, from 1925 to 1929, he served as Minister of Public Labour.

Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

Emma Margarete "Gretchen" Dessoff was a German choral conductor, singer, and voice teacher.

Hermann Struck was a German Jewish artist known for his etchings.

Annie Jessie Fortescue Harrison, also known as Annie, Lady Hill and Lady Arthur Hill, was an English composer of songs and piano pieces.