Explore 1844 historical events from 1940–1949.
Roger John Liddle, Baron Liddle is a British political adviser and consultant who is principally known for being Special Adviser on European matters to the former Prime Minister To…
Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle, English politician
Barry "The Fish" Melton is an American guitarist and songwriter who is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of rock bands Country Joe and the Fish and Dinosaurs. He appears o…
Barry Melton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Paul Fraser Rudolph is a Canadian guitarist, bassist, singer, and cyclist. He made his mark in the UK underground music scene, and then as a session musician, before returning to C…
Paul Rudolph, Canadian singer, guitarist, and cyclist
John Hoagland was an American photojournalist and war correspondent for Newsweek from San Diego, California, who was covering the Salvadoran Civil War in El Salvador at the time he…
John Hoagland, American photographer and journalist (died 1984)
Allen Cedric Cowlings is an American former professional football player and actor. He played college football for the USC Trojans before being selected fifth overall in the first …
Al Cowlings, American football player and actor
Tom "Bones" Malone is an American jazz musician, arranger, and producer. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone but he also plays saxophone, trumpet, tuba, flute, …
Tom Malone, American trombonist, composer, and producer
Dale Hey was a Canadian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Buddy "Jack" Roberts. Primarily a tag team wrestler, Roberts is known for his appearances as …
Buddy Roberts, American wrestler (died 2012)
Christopher Allport was an American actor.
Christopher Allport, American actor (died 2008)
Timothy Wright, generally credited as Rev. Timothy Wright or Reverend Timothy Wright on recordings, was an American gospel singer and pastor.
Timothy Wright, American gospel singer, pastor (died 2009)
George Stanley Clinton Jr. is an American composer, songwriter, arranger, and session musician.
George S
Gregg Alan Rolie is an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter. Rolie served as lead singer of the bands Santana and Journey – both of which he co-founded. He also helmed rock …
Gregg Rolie, American rock singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Paul Young was a British singer and songwriter. He achieved success in the bands Sad Café and Mike + the Mechanics.
Paul Young, English singer-songwriter (died 2000)
Bernard René Giraudeau was a French sailor, actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.
Bernard Giraudeau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)
Linda Lou Chavez is an American author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column…
Linda Chavez, American journalist and author
Ivonne Coll Mendoza is a Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Miss Puerto Rico 1967 and competed in the Miss Universe 1967 pageant but did not place…
Ivonne Coll, Puerto Rican-American model and actress, Miss Puerto Rico 1967
Linda Thorson is a Canadian actress known for playing Tara King in The Avengers (1968–69).
Linda Thorson, Canadian actress
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disr…
Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Saul is most widely known for his writings on the nature of individualism, citizenship and t…
John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
Dolores Brooks, also known as Sakinah Muhammad or La La Brooks, is an American singer and actress. She is best known as the third lead singer of the girl group The Crystals and the…
Dolores "LaLa" Brooks, American pop singer
Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he lived u…
Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (born 1900)
Jozef Gašpar Tiso was a Slovak politician, dictator and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, fr…
Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (born 1887)
Christian X was King of Denmark from 1912 until his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, holding the title as a result of the personal union between Denmark a…
Christian X of Denmark (born 1870)
Meir Feinstein was an Irgun member in Mandatory Palestine, during the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Feinstein, who was sentenced to death by the British authorities, is…
Meir Feinstein (born 1929, disputed) with Moshe Barazani (born c
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded t…
Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1873)