Explore 1844 historical events from 1940–1949.
David Kazhdan, born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan, is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow. In 2012, he re…
David Kazhdan, Russian-Israeli mathematician and academic
Robert Joseph Vila is an American home improvement television show host known for This Old House (1979–1989), Bob Vila's Home Again (1990–2005), and Bob Vila (2005–2007).
Bob Vila, American television host
André Watts was an American classical pianist. Over the six decades of his career, Watts performed as soloist with every major American orchestra and most of the world's finest orc…
André Watts, American pianist and educator (died 2023)
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 4…
Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States
Arthur Chevrolet was an American racing driver and automobile manufacturer.
Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American racing driver and engineer (born 1884)
Juan Bautista Sacasa was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the former's cousin twice …
Juan Bautista Sacasa, Nicaraguan medical doctor, politician and 20th President of Nicaragua (born 1874)
Mae Busch was an Australian-born actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedi…
Mae Busch, Australian actress (born 1891)
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, was an English economist whose writings are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoot…
John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (born 1883)
James Larkin White was a cowboy, guano miner, cave explorer, and park ranger for the National Park Service. He is best remembered as the discoverer, early promoter and explorer of …
James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (born 1882)
Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now ca…
Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (born 1870)
William Joseph Denny was an Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902…
Bill Denny, Australian journalist, lawyer, politician, and decorated soldier (born 1872)
Olayinka Herbert Samuel Heelas Badmus Macaulay was a Nigerian nationalist, politician, surveyor, engineer, architect, journalist, and musician. Macaulay is considered by many as fo…
Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (born 1864)
Seán McCaughey was an Irish militant and Republican activist. He was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) leader in the 1930s and 1940s and hunger striker.
Seán McCaughey, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1915)
Zara "Zadie" DuPont (1869–1946) was an American suffragist, serving as the first Vice President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association.
Zara DuPont, American suffragist (born 1869)
Bruno Emil Tesch was a German chemist and entrepreneur. Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt, he invented the insecticide Zyklon B. He was the owner of Tesch & Stabenow, …
Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (born 1890)
Newton Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921). He is one of only four novelists t…
Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (born 1869)
Jacob Christian Hansen-Ellehammer was a Danish inventor and aviation pioneer. He obtained a total of 59 Danish patents and worked with many different things, including amusement ma…
Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer (born 1871)
Carter Glass was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both houses of Congress and served as the United Sta…
Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (born 1858)
Martin Gottfried Weiss, alternatively spelled Weiß, but best known as The Demon of Dachau was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 at the time of his arrest. He …
Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (born 1905)
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignatio…
Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician (born 1875)
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into…
Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Louis Alexander Slotin was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his B…
Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist (born 1910)
Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. Havin…
Ion Antonescu, Romanian marshal and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Romania (born 1882)
John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1…
Jack Johnson, American boxer (born 1878)