Discover what happened on 15 January 1944 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- Shitagau Noguchi (Japanese Entrepreneur (1873–1944))
- Georg Köhl (German footballer (1910-1944))
- Zinaida Portnova (Soviet partisan (1926–1944))
- Otto Eichrodt (German painter and author (1867-1944))
- Silvio Benigno Crespi (Italian entrepreneur, inventor and politician (1868–1944))
- Armand Praviel (French journalist and poet (1875-1944))
- Oluf Steen (Norwegian speed skater)
- Boris Arshintsev
- Yulian Maryanovych Bronytskyi (Ukrainian soldier (1909–1944))
- Aleksandr Volkov
- Grigory Grigoryev
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- Aron Christoffer Gunnarsson
- Håkon Five (Norwegian politician (1880-1944))
- James Bissett Pratt (American philosopher (1875–1944))
- Patrick Lynch (trade unionist and politician, Senator for Western Australia (1867–1944))
- Robert John Kirby (American prison warden (1889–1944))
- Walter Schlichter (American baseball executive (1866–1944))
- Makis Athanasiou (Greek journalist, writer and publisher)
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- Sergey Rudakov (Russian writer and poet (1909-1944))
- James Brooks (Texas Ranger)
- H. Kempton Dyson (British architect)
- Johannes Aavik (Estonian police officer (1888-1944))
- Hugo Siim (Estonian military personnel)
- Nikolay Makukha (Soviet soldier)
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- Raishirō Kuriyama
- Kim Yeong-mok (Korean independence activist (1870 – 1944))
- Ryu Chun-heum (Independence activist (1879 – 1944))
- Antonín Grohmann
- Eugène Chaumin
- Valentine Thomson (French writer, philanthropist and women’s rights activist)
- Claud Neville-Grenville ((1858-1944))
- Clement Arthur Linton ((died 1944))
- Roger Fettiplace Lawrence ((1919-1944))
- Delfín Jerez (Spanish actor)
- Rudolf Piffl
- Moritz Bartsch (German writer and professor)
- Ulrich Koch
- František Kuthan
- Petr Grau
- Herminia Rodríguez Fernández (Cuban politician)
- Klara Becker (holocaust victim, b. 1879-09-17)
- Regine Berger (holocaust victim, b. 1878-02-12)
- Arthur Desenberg (Holocaust victim (born 1879))
- Julie Cohn (holocaust victim, b. 1869-09-25)
- Heinrich Harth (Holocaust victim (born 1866))
- Hugo Kantůrek (Holocaust victim (born 1874))
- Josef Reich (holocaust victim, b. 1870-03-06)
- Salomon Schapira (Holocaust victim (born 1879))
- Hedwig Winter (holocaust victim, b. 1897-07-09)
- Gisela Tullmannová (Holocaust victim (born 1874))
- Mariana Stommová (Holocaust victim (born 1887))
- Mario Cobianchi
- Mikolaj Ferenc (Polish Righteous Among the Nations)
- Ronald Hewat (South African cricketer and South African Army soldier)
- Hermann Anthes (German pastor, 1868–1944)
- Johannes Gualbert Buck
- Léon Bonte
- Jozef Engelborghs
- Maria Van Malcot
- Jack Hargreaves (British motorcycle speedway rider (1912 – 1944))
- Gustav Doppler (Swiss architect)