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In the year 1944

1,502 Notable birthdays

Tony La Russa

American baseball player and manager.

Born October 4th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Tampa.

Wesley Clark

United states army general and 2004 democratic party presidential candidate.

Born December 23rd, 1944 (age 81 years) in Chicago.

Bernard Cornwell

British writer.

Born February 23rd, 1944 (age 82 years) in London.

Roger Rees

Welsh actor (1944–2015).

Born May 5th, 1944 in Aberystwyth.

Died July 10th, 2015 at 71 years old in New York City (stomach cancer).

Tony Orlando

American singer.

Born April 3rd, 1944 (age 82 years) in New York City.

Kevin Tighe

American actor.

Born August 13th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Los Angeles.

Robert Powell

British actor.

Born June 1st, 1944 (age 81 years) in Salford.

Amol Palekar

Indian actor.

Born November 24th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Mumbai.

G. W. Bailey

Actor.

Born August 27th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Port Arthur.

S. Robson Walton

American billionaire and heir.

Born October 27th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Tulsa.

Kary Mullis

American biochemist, nobel prize winner, aids denialist, climate change denialist (1944–2019).

Born December 28th, 1944 in Lenoir. [ref]

Died August 7th, 2019 at 74 years old in Newport Beach (pneumonia). [ref]

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of ghana from 2017 to 2025.

Born March 29th, 1944 (age 82 years) in Accra. [ref]

Earnie Shavers

American boxer.

Born August 31st, 1944 in Garland, Alabama.

Died September 1st, 2022 at 78 years old [ref]

Conrad Black

Canadian-born british newspaper publisher (born 1944).

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

Don Grady

Actor, composer, musician (1944-2012).

Born June 8th, 1944 in San Diego.

Died June 27th, 2012 at 68 years old in Thousand Oaks (cancer). [ref]

Bill Ayers

Professor and activist.

Born December 26th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Glen Ellyn.

John Glover

American actor.

Born August 7th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Kingston. [ref]

Roger Scruton

English conservative philosopher and writer (1944–2020).

Born February 27th, 1944 in Buslingthorpe. [ref]

Died January 12th, 2020 at 75 years old in Brinkworth (cancer). [ref]

Bonnie Franklin

American actress (1944–2013).

Born January 6th, 1944 in Santa Monica.

Died March 1st, 2013 at 69 years old in Los Angeles (pancreatic cancer). [ref]

Michael Lang

American concert promoter and record producer (1944-2022).

Born December 11th, 1944 in Brooklyn.

Died January 8th, 2022 at 77 years old in New York City (non-Hodgkin lymphoma). [ref]

John Sebastian

American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1944).

Born March 17th, 1944 (age 82 years) in New York City.

Marvin Hamlisch

American composer and conductor (1944-2012).

Born June 2nd, 1944 in Manhattan. [ref]

Died August 7th, 2012 at 68 years old in Los Angeles (respiratory failure). [ref]

Joey Heatherton

American actress, singer.

Born September 14th, 1944 (age 81 years) in Rockville Centre.

John Milius

American screenwriter and director.

Born April 11th, 1944 (age 82 years) in St. Louis.

John Densmore

American drummer.

Born December 1st, 1944 (age 81 years) in Los Angeles.

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