Sergey Nikitin

Russian musician and physicist.

Born March 8th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Moscow.

Lucio Russo

Italian historian and scientist.

Born November 22nd, 1944 in Venice. ^[ref]

Died July 12th, 2025 at 80 years old in Bologna. ^[ref]

Peter J. Bowler

Irish historian of biology (1944-).

Born October 8th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Leicester.

Mino Reitano

Italian singer, songwriter, actor (1944-2009).

Born December 7th, 1944 in Fiumara.

Died January 27th, 2009 at 64 years old in Agrate Brianza (colorectal cancer). ^[ref]

Bernd Meinunger

German songwriter (1944–2025).

Born September 30th, 1944 in Meiningen.

Died October 17th, 2025 at 81 years old in Grünwald. ^[ref]

José Eulogio Gárate

Footballer (born 1944).

Born September 20th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Sarandí.

Frei Betto

Brazilian dominican friar, writer and activist.

Born August 25th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Belo Horizonte.

Tommy Wright

English footballer (1944-2026).

Born October 21st, 1944 in Liverpool.

Died January 20th, 2026 at 81 years old ^[ref]

Orlando Smith

British virgin islands politician (born 1944).

Born August 28th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Tortola.

Dick Lowry

American director and film producer.

Born October 15th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Oklahoma. ^[ref]

Edward Joseph Adams

Apostolic nuncio.

Born August 24th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Philadelphia.

Rowena Morrill

American artist (1944–2021).

Born September 14th, 1944 in Mississippi.

Died February 11th, 2021 at 76 years old ^[ref]

Boris Klyuyev

Soviet and russian actor (1944-2020).

Born July 13th, 1944 in Moscow.

Died September 1st, 2020 at 76 years old in Moscow (lung cancer). ^[ref]

Monta Mino

Japanese television presenter.

Born August 22nd, 1944 in Setagaya.

Died March 1st, 2025 at 80 years old in Tokyo. ^[ref]

Anders Petersen

Swedish photographer (born 1944).

Born May 3rd, 1944 (age 82 years) in Solna.

Derrick de Kerckhove

Canadian scholar of language and society (born 1944).

Born May 30th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Wanze.

Joy Fleming

German singer.

Born November 15th, 1944 in Rockenhausen.

Died September 27th, 2017 at 72 years old in Sinsheim. ^[ref]

Sergei Solovyov

Soviet and russian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor (1944—2021).

Born August 25th, 1944 in Kem.

Died December 13th, 2021 at 77 years old in Moscow. ^[ref]

Michael Aschbacher

American mathematician.

Born April 8th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Little Rock.

Zhanna Bichevskaya

Soviet and russian singer and folk musician.

Born June 17th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Moscow.

Lucian Boia

Romanian historian.

Born February 2nd, 1944 (age 82 years) in Bucharest.

Alzhan Zharmukhamedov

Kazakh basketball player (1944–2022).

Born October 2nd, 1944 in Bostanliq District.

Died December 3rd, 2022 at 78 years old in Moscow. ^[ref]

Ismail Serageldin

Egyptian academic.

Born May 9th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Giza.

Helmut Dietl

German film director (1944–2015).

Born June 22nd, 1944 in Bad Wiessee.

Died March 30th, 2015 at 70 years old in Munich (lung cancer).

Antoine

French singer.

Born June 4th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Toamasina.