page_title: 1944
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: bł. o. Michał Czartoryski OP (właść. Jan Franciszek Czartoryski)
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: September 1 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter (b. 1906)
  September 2 – Maria Vetulani de Nisau, Polish soldier (b. 1898)
  September 3 - Friedrich Alpers, German Nazi politician and general (b. 1901)
  September 4
  Erich Fellgiebel, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1886)
  Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort, German resistance fighter (b. 1909)
  Fritz Thiele, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1894)
  September 5 – Gustave Biéler, Swiss WWII hero (b. 1904)
  September 6 – Jan Franciszek Czartoryski, Polish Dominican friar, martyr and blessed (b. 1897)
  September 7 – Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Cuban composer (b. 1897)
  September 8
  Georg Hansen, German resistance fighter (b. 1904)
  Ulrich von Hassell,  German diplomat and resistance fighter (b. 1881)
  Paul Lejeune-Jung, German resistance fighter (b. 1882)
  Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, German resistance fighter (b. 1902)
  Günther Smend, German resistance fighter (b. 1912)
  Josef Wirmer, German resistance fighter (b. 1901)
  September 9 – Robert Benoist, French race car driver and war hero (b. 1895)
  September 11 – Joseph Müller, German Roman Catholic priest and Servant of God (executed) (b. 1894)
  September 12 – Robert Fiske, American actor (b. 1889)
  September 13
  Grigore Bălan, Romanian general (died of wounds) (b. 1896)
  Yolande Beekman, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1911)
  Madeleine Damerment, French WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1917)
  Noor Inayat Khan, Indian WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1914)
  Eliane Plewman, British WWII heroine (executed) (b. 1917)
  W. Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (b. 1872)
  September 14
  Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1882)
  John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1914)
  Michael Graf von Matuschka, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1888)
  Frank Pickersgill, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1915)
  Roméo Sabourin, Canadian WWII hero (b. 1923)
  Nikolaus von Üxküll-Gyllenband, German resistance fighter (executed) (b. 1877)
  Hermann Josef Wehrle, German Catholic priest and resistance member (executed) (b. 1899)
  September 16 – Gustav Bauer, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
  September 18
  Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch policeman, politician and businessman, 25th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1869)
  Anton Saefkow, German communist (executed) (b. 1903)
  September 22 – Fritz Lindemann, German army officer (died of wounds) (b. 1894)
  September 23 – Matylda Palfyova, Czechoslovakian artistic gymnast (b. 1912)
  September 25
  Walter Breisky, Austrian civil servant, acting Chancellor of Austria (b. 1871)
  Eugeniusz Lokajski, Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer (b. 1909)
  Leo Chiozza Money, Italian-British economist and politician (b. 1870)
  September 27 – Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
  September 27 – David Dougal Williams FRSA Cheshire-born artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Dundee (b. 1888)
  September 28 – Josef Bürckel, German Nazi gauleiter (b. 1895)
  September 29
  Otto Herfurth, German general and resistance fighter (b. 1893)
  Wilhelm Leuschner German politician and resistance fighter (b. 1890)
  Joachim Meichssner, German resistance fighter (b. 1906)
  Joachim Sadrozinski, German resistance fighter (b. 1907)
caption: Blessed Jan Franciszek Czartoryski
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