page_title: 1944
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Public domain navy file photo of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. from JFK Presidential Library &amp; Museum www.jfklibrary.org
context_page_description: 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
context_section_description: August 1
  Jean Prévost, French writer and journalist, member of the Maquis (b. 1901)
  Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino statesman, soldier and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
  August 2 – Kakuji Kakuta, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
  August 4 – Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish poet (b. 1921)
  August 5 – Jędrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1870)
  August 7 – Jadwiga Falkowska, Polish teacher and activist (b. 1889)
  August 8
  Robert Bernardis, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1908)
  Albrecht von Hagen, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1904)
  Paul von Hase, German general and resistance leader (executed) (b. 1885)
  Erich Hoepner, German colonel-general and resistance leader (executed) (b. 1886)
  Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish journalist and novelist (b. 1885)
  Hellmuth Stieff, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1901)
  Michael Wittmann, German tank commander (killed in action) (b. 1914)
  Erwin von Witzleben, German Field Marshal and resistance leader (executed) (b. 1881)
  Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1904)
  August 9 – Felix Nussbaum, German painter (b. 1904)
  August 10
  Alfred Kranzfelder, German resistance fighter (b. 1908)
  Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, German resistance fighter (b. 1902)
  Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Nazi opponent and lawyer (b. 1905)
  Hans Albrecht, Hereditary Prince of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1917)
  August 11
  Francesco Federico Falco, Italian doctor (b. 1866)
  Hideyoshi Obata, Japanese general (b. 1890)
  August 12
  Jose Garvida Flores, Filipino writer, poet and playwright (b. 1900)
  Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American fighter pilot, oldest son of Joseph P. Kennedy (b. 1915)
  Suzanne Spaak, Belgian World War II heroine (b. 1905)
  August 15
  Egbert Hayessen, German resistance fighter (b. 1913)
  Hans Bernd von Haeften, German resistance fighter (b. 1905)
  Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff, German police chief and resistance fighter (b. 1896)
  August 17
  Franciszek Brodniewicz, Polish actor (b. 1892)
  Eugénio de Castro, Portuguese poet and writer (b. 1869)
  August 18
  Eugeniusz Horbaczewski, Polish pilot (b. 1917)
  Ernst Thälmann, German Communist leader (executed) (b. 1886)
  August 19
  Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (suicide) (b. 1882)
  Henry Wood, British conductor (b. 1869)
  August 21
  Friedrich Gustav Jaeger, German resistance fighter (b. 1895)
  Maciej Kalenkiewicz, Polish engineer and military officer (b. 1906)
  Marian Lalewicz, Polish architect (b. 1876)
  August 23
  Aleksander Augustynowicz, Polish painter (b. 1865)
  Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1868)
  Otto Kiep, German resistance fighter (b. 1886)
  Nikolai Roslavets, Soviet composer (b. 1880)
  August 24 – Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia, Italian aviator (b. 1915)
  August 25 – Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, Italian pilot (b. 1917)
  August 26
  Hans Georg Klamroth, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1898)
  Hans Leesment, Estonian general (b. 1873)
  Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1906)
  Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat and resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1909)
  August 27
  Carlo Fecia di Cossato, Italian navy officer (b. 1908)
  Princess Mafalda of Savoy (b. 1902)
  August 28
  Teresa Bracco, Italian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (killed in battle) (b. 1924)
  Rudolf Breitscheid, German politician (b. 1874)
  Bronislaw Kaminski, Polish army officer (b. 1899)
  August 30
  Moissaye Boguslawski, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
  Eberhard Finckh, German resistance fighter (b. 1899)
  Hans Otfried von Linstow, German resistance fighter (b. 1899)
  Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, German general and resistance leader (b. 1886)
caption: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
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