1944
- October 4 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
- October 8 - Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
- October 14 - Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (b. 1891)
- October 21 - Alois Kayser, German missionary (b. 1877)
- October 23 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
- October 24 - Shoji Nishimura, Japanese Vice admiral (b. 1889)
- October 26
- HRH The Princess Beatrice, youngest and last living child of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
- William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1881)
- November 2 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
- November 5 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
- November 7 - Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921)
- December 2 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (b. 1874)
- December 4 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (b. 1879)
- December 13 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born artist (b. 1866)
- December 30 - Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
- December 31 - Vicente Lim, Filipino general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (b. 1889)
- date unknown - Gerald Haxton secretary and lover of the famous novelist and playwright W. Somerset Maugham (b. 1892)
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Nobel prizes
- Physics - Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Chemistry - Otto Hahn
- Medicine - Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
- Literature - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
- Peace - International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Ship events
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Notes
- ^ "Year by Year 1944" -- History Channel International
- ^ "Year by Year 1944" -- History Channel International
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