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Inigo Campioni
1878–1944
military officer, politician, resistance fighter
Official cause
gunshot wound
Theodore Willard Case
1888–1944
physicist, inventor, film director
Official cause
pneumonia
Edel Quinn
1907–1944
missionary
Official cause
tuberculosis
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1863–1944
poet, writer, university teacher
Official cause
traffic collision
Jacques Bingen
1908–1944
engineer
Official cause
cyanide poisoning
Helmut Rosenbaum
1913–1944
submariner, soldier, Marineoffizier
Official cause
aircraft crash
Olga Bancic
1912–1944
trade unionist, resistance fighter, laborer
Official cause
decapitation
Arne Laudal
1892–1944
military personnel
Official cause
gunshot wound
Robert Rendel
1884–1944
actor, film actor
Official cause
disease
Mark Smith
1887–1944
actor
Official cause
liver cirrhosis
Georg Groscurth
1904–1944
physician, internist, resistance fighter
Official cause
decapitation; execution; hanging to death
Billy Bitzer
1872–1944
cinematographer, film director, screenwriter
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Frank Knox
1874–1944
politician, journalist, newspaper proprietor
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Kang Gyeong-ae
1907–1944
poet, writer, autobiographer
Official cause
disease
George Herriman
1880–1944
cartoonist, comics artist, illustrator
Official cause
liver cirrhosis
Kilian Kirchhoff
1892–1944
Catholic priest, translator, dissident
Official cause
decapitation
Anna Mac Clarke
1919–1944
military personnel
Official cause
gangrene
L. John Nuttall
1887–1944
teacher
Official cause
myocardial infarction
Andrzej Garbuliński
1891–1944
farmer
Official cause
execution
Ray Hallor
1900–1944
actor
Official cause
traffic collision
Nikolai Vatutin
1901–1944
military officer
Official cause
sepsis
Erna Eifler
1908–1944
spy, resistance fighter, stenotypist
Official cause
gunshot wound
Elvira Eisenschneider
1924–1944
army scout, resistance fighter
Official cause
gunshot wound
J. R. E. Lee
1864–1944
Official cause
pneumonia