page_title: 1944
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Leon Kozłowski
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: May 5 – Bertha Benz, German automotive pioneer, wife and business partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz (b. 1849)
  May 7 – William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and naval historian (b. 1860)
  May 8 – Albert Leo Stevens, pioneering American balloonist (b. 1877)
  May 11 – Leon Kozłowski, Polish archaeologist and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1892)
  May 12
  Max Brand, American author (b. 1892)
  Harold Lowe, British sailor, 5th officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1882)
  Arthur Quiller-Couch, British writer (b. 1863)
  Edel Quinn, Irish Roman Catholic laywoman, missionary and venerable (b. 1907)
  May 15 – Patriarch Sergius I (b. 1867)
  May 16 – George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
  May 17 – Milena Jesenská, Czechoslovakian journalist, writer, editor and translator (b. 1896)
  May 20
  Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (b. 1921)
  Eugenio Colorni, Italian philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
  Vincent Rose, American musician and band leader (b. 1880)
  May 21
  Edmund Mortimer, American actor and director (b. 1874)
  Li Jiayu, Chinese general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1892)
  May 23 – Thomas Curtis, American Olympic athlete (b. 1873)
  May 24
  Inigo Campioni, Italian admiral (executed) (b. 1878)
  Matsuji Ijuin, Japanese admiral (b. 1893)
  Luigi Mascherpa, Italian admiral (b. 1893)
  Harold Bell Wright, American writer (b. 1872)
  May 25 – Clark Daniel Stearns, 9th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1870)
  May 30
  Patriarch Mesrob I Naroyan of Constantinople (b. 1875)
  Jessie Ralph, American actress (b. 1864)
caption: Leon Kozłowski
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