Explore 1844 historical events from 1940–1949.
Irving Fisher was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though h…
Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (born 1867)
Dorothea "Theodora" Binz was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was known as one of the most brutal, ruthless and sadi…
Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (born 1920)
Byron Joseph LaForest was a Canadian professional baseball player who appeared in 52 games in the major leagues, primarily as a third baseman, for the Boston Red Sox during the lat…
Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (born 1917)
Harry Gordon Selfridge, Sr. was an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. The early years of his leadership led to his becoming one of th…
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-English businessman, founded Selfridges (born 1858)
Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and revolutionary. He was known as "Young Nazrul" and "Kishore Bidrohi Kobi", for his rebellious stance and opposition against the British R…
Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (born 1926)
George William Forbes was a New Zealand politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of New Zealand from 28 May 1930 to 6 December 1935. He was the last leader of the remnant o…
George Forbes, New Zealand farmer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1869)
Harold Homer Chase, nicknamed "Prince Hal", was an American professional baseball first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball, widely viewed as the best fielder at his posit…
Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (born 1883)
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. H…
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
Kalle Juhonpoika Hakala was a Finnish newspaper editor, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic P…
Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician (born 1880)
Zhang Lingfu was a high-ranking general of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. He successfully fought against the Communists and the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1947, his unit …
Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a Hungarian–German experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 for his work on cathode rays. This work led to his exp…
Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Georgios Siantos was a Greek politician and prominent figure of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) who served as acting general secretary of the party, and as a leader of the Nati…
Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (born 1890)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet (born 1878)
Edward Joseph Konetchy, nicknamed "Big Ed" and "the Candy Kid", was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball for a number of teams, primarily in the National League, from…
Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (born 1885)
August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of war crimes at Mauthausen-…
August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (born 1907)
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy who became the patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. After their naturalisation as US citizens, the famil…
Georg von Trapp, Austrian captain (born 1880)
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Gretton won two gold medals in the 1900 Olympic Games. He served as a Member of Parliament (…
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (born 1867)
Nils Olaf Chrisander was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth century.
Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish-American actor and director (born 1884)
James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardia…
James Agate, English author and critic (born 1877)
Alexander Bethune, merchant, was the 12th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1907 to 1908. He had previously served seven years as alderman.
Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (born 1852)
Shigematsu Sakaibara was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Japanese garrison commander on Wake Island during World War II, and a convicted war criminal. He was respons…
Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (born 1898)
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lan…
Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (born 1906)
Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier and statesman.
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the So
Salvatore Giuliano was a Sicilian brigand, who rose to prominence in the disorder that followed the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. In September of that year, Giuliano became an…
Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Si