page_title: 1944
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Births / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Loftus at The Amaz!ng Meeting 9, Las Vegas, NV, July 2011.
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: October 2 – Vernor Vinge, American science fiction writer
  October 4
  Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
  Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
  October 5 – Arnhim Eustace, Vincentian politician and 3rd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  October 6
  Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, pioneering female Thai Buddhist monk, previously academic
  Mylon LeFevre, American singer and evangelist
  October 8 – Dale Dye, American actor, technical advisor, radio personality and writer
  October 9
  John Entwistle, English rock bass guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Who) (d. 2002)
  Nona Hendryx, American R&B singer (Labelle)
  Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (d. 1987)
  October 12 – Augustine Paul, Malaysian federal court judge (d. 2010)
  October 15
  Mac Collins, American politician (d. 2018)
  Şerif Gören, Turkish film director
  David Trimble, Northern Irish Unionist political leader; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1998
  October 16 – Elizabeth Loftus, American cognitive psychologist and memory specialist
  October 20 – Clive Hornby, English actor (d. 2008)
  October 21 – Jean-Pierre Sauvage, French scientist; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
  October 25
  Jon Anderson, English rock singer-songwriter and musician
  Ron Coote, Australian rugby league player
  Kati Kovács, Hungarian jazz, pop and rock musician
  Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician (d. 2013)
  October 27 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Russian actor (d. 2018)
  October 28
  Dennis Franz, American actor
  Ian Marter, English actor and writer (d. 1986)
  Marián Labuda, Slovak actor (d. 2018)
  October 30 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (d. 2015)
  October 31 – Hal Wick, American politician (d. 2018)
caption: Elizabeth Loftus
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