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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

  • Thomas Midgley
    Nov. 2 Thomas Midgley

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

  • Alexis Carrel
    Nov. 5 Alexis Carrel

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

  • Segundo "Boy" Ecury
    Nov. 6 Segundo "Boy" Ecury

    Aruba -- wwii resistance fighter, executed at 22

  • Hannah Szenes
    Nov. 7 Hannah Szenes

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

  • Richard Sorge
    Nov. 7 Richard Sorge

    Azerbaijani-german journalist and spy (b. 1895)

  • Richard Sorge & Ozaki
    Nov. 7 Richard Sorge & Ozaki

    Tokyo: spies hanged

  • Miklós Radnóti
    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.

  • Frank Marshall
    Nov. 9 Frank Marshall

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

  • Claude Rodier
    Nov. 10 Claude Rodier

    Physicist (b.1903)

  • Munir Ertegun
    Nov. 11 Munir Ertegun

    Turkish diplomat (b. 1883)

  • Otto Blumenthal
    Nov. 12 Otto Blumenthal

    German mathematician (d. 1944).

  • Roy Agnew
    Nov. 12 Roy Agnew

    Australian composer and pianist (d. 1944).

  • Edgar Stillman Kelley
    Nov. 12 Edgar Stillman Kelley

    Us composer (gulliver) dies at 87

  • George D Birkhoff
    Nov. 12 George D Birkhoff

    Us mathematician (aesthetic measure), is dead at 60

  • Carl Flesch
    Nov. 14 Carl Flesch

    Hungarian violinist and educator (b. 1873)

  • Trafford Leigh-Mallory
    Nov. 14 Trafford Leigh-Mallory

    English air marshal (b. 1892)

  • Maria Jacobini
    Nov. 20 Maria Jacobini

    Italian actress (b. 1892)

  • Sekio Nishina
    Nov. 20 Sekio Nishina

    Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine)

  • Arthur Eddington
    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.

  • Arthur Stanley Eddington
    Nov. 22 Arthur Stanley Eddington

    English astrophysicist (born in 1882)

  • Kenesaw Mountain Landis
    Nov. 25 Kenesaw Mountain Landis

    American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)

  • Leonid Mandelstam
    Nov. 27 Leonid Mandelstam

    Russian physicist and academic (b. 1879)

  • Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam
    Nov. 27 Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam

    Russian physicist (born 1879)

  • Bijnen
    Nov. 28 Bijnen

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

  • Paul Masson
    Nov. 30 Paul Masson

    French cyclist (d. 1944)