Famous people and celebrities who died in November 1944

This page is dedicated to commemorating the celebrities and famous people who passed away in November 1944. This month marked the loss of influential and beloved figures whose contributions spanned various fields and touched many lives. Explore our detailed list to remember and celebrate their enduring legacies and the remarkable impact they had on the world

• Nov. 2 Thomas Midgley

  Jr., american inventor and chemist (born 1889).

• Nov. 5 Alexis Carrel

  MED - French surgeon and biologist, nobel prize laureate (b. 1873)

• Nov. 6 Segundo "Boy" Ecury

  Aruba -- wwii resistance fighter, executed at 22

• Nov. 7 Hannah Szenes

  Jewish woman, born 1921, who parachuted into yugoslavia during world war ii in order to save the jews of hungary.

• Nov. 7 Richard Sorge

  Azerbaijani-german journalist and spy (b. 1895)

• Nov. 7 Richard Sorge & Ozaki

  Tokyo: spies hanged

• Nov. 9 Miklós Radnóti

  A renowned Hungarian poet and translator who wrote profound and haunting poetry during the Holocaust, documenting the human suffering and tragedy of World War II. His works are considered significant testimonies of the Jewish experience during Nazi persecution.

• Nov. 9 Frank Marshall

  Renowned American chess grandmaster, theoretician, and one of the strongest chess players in the early 20th century United States.

• Nov. 10 Claude Rodier

  Physicist (b.1903)

• Nov. 11 Munir Ertegun

  Turkish diplomat (b. 1883)

• Nov. 12 Otto Blumenthal

  German mathematician (d. 1944).

• Nov. 12 Roy Agnew

  Australian composer and pianist (d. 1944).

• Nov. 12 Edgar Stillman Kelley

  Us composer (gulliver) dies at 87

• Nov. 12 George D Birkhoff

  Us mathematician (aesthetic measure), is dead at 60

• Nov. 14 Carl Flesch

  Hungarian violinist and educator (b. 1873)

• Nov. 14 Trafford Leigh-Mallory

  English air marshal (b. 1892)

• Nov. 15 Maarten Reuchlin

  Resistance fighter, executed

• Nov. 20 Maria Jacobini

  Italian actress (b. 1892)

• Nov. 20 Sekio Nishina

  Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine)

• Nov. 22 Arthur Eddington

  Arthur Eddington was a British astrophysicist who is best known for his work on the theory of relativity and his observations that confirmed Einstein's predictions.

• Nov. 22 Arthur Stanley Eddington

  English astrophysicist (born in 1882)

• Nov. 25 Kenesaw Mountain Landis

  American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)

• Nov. 27 Leonid Mandelstam

  Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)

• Nov. 27 Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam

  Russian physicist (born 1879)

• Nov. 28 Bijnen

  Dutch opposition leader (lkp), shot to death in apeldoorn

• Nov. 30 Paul Masson

  French cyclist (d. 1944)