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Fred Fisher
1910–1944
military personnel, association football player
Official cause
pneumonia
Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven
1899–1944
military personnel, military officer, resistance fighter
Official cause
hanging to death
Lola Maverick Lloyd
1875–1944
suffragist
Official cause
cancer
Durga Malla
1913–1944
military personnel
Official cause
hanging to death
O'Neill Spencer
1909–1944
jazz musician, singer, drummer
Official cause
tuberculosis
Ludwig von Salm-Hoogstraeten
1885–1944
tennis player, actor
Official cause
falling
Max Nettlau
1865–1944
linguist, historian, biographer
Official cause
stomach cancer
Werner von Haeften
1908–1944
jurist, military personnel, resistance fighter
Official cause
gunshot wound
Maurice Loebenberg
1916–1944
French resistance fighter, commercial
Official cause
torture
Ludwig Beck
1880–1944
writer, military personnel, resistance fighter
Official cause
gunshot wound
Will Marion Cook
1869–1944
composer, violinist, conductor
Official cause
pancreatic cancer; heart disease
Tarsykiya Matskiv
1919–1944
nun
Official cause
gunshot wound
Wim Anderiesen
1903–1944
association football player
Official cause
pneumonia
Billie D. Harris
1922–1944
aircraft pilot
Official cause
gunshot wound
Harold Alan Dinehart
1889–1944
actor, screenwriter, playwright
Official cause
myocardial infarction
William James Sidis
1898–1944
mathematician, anthropologist, historian
Official cause
cerebral hemorrhage
Angela Brecelj
1916–1944
shop assistant
Official cause
homicide by firearm
Marica Brecelj
1914–1944
shop assistant
Official cause
homicide by firearm
Robert Abshagen
1911–1944
sailor, resistance fighter, anti-Nazi fighter
Official cause
decapitation
Yoshitsugu Saitō
1890–1944
military personnel
Official cause
seppuku
Marianne Cohn
1922–1944
resistance fighter
Official cause
gunshot wound
Georges Mandel
1885–1944
politician, journalist, art collector
Official cause
execution
Ben L. Salomon
1914–1944
dentist, military personnel, surgeon
Official cause
gunshot wound; stab wound
Emil Thoroddsen
1898–1944
composer, playwright, translator
Official cause
pneumonia