page_title: 1944
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jimmy Page bei der Echo-Verleihung 2013English: Jimmy Page at the Echo music award 2013
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: January 1
  Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir, 7th President of Sudan
  Abdul Hamid, 16th President of Bangladesh
  Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (d. 1999)
  Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
  Bob Minor, American actor, stunt performer
  January 2 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
  January 3 – Chris von Saltza, American swimmer
  January 6
  Bonnie Franklin, American actress, singer, dancer and television director (d. 2013)
  Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  January 7 – Mike Hebert, American volleyball coach (d. 2019)
  January 8 – Terry Brooks, American writer
  January 9
  Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, author, and lecturer (d. 2014)
  Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
  Jimmy Page, English rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
  January 10
  Rory Byrne, South African engineer and car designer
  William Sanderson, American actor
  Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2016)
  January 12
  Joe Frazier, African-American boxer (d. 2011)
  Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovak-born German chess Grandmaster
  Carlos Villagrán, Mexican actor and comedian
  Klaus Wedemeier, German politician
  January 17
  Jan Guillou, Swedish author
  Françoise Hardy, French singer
  January 18
  Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
  Alexander Van der Bellen, 12th President of Austria
  January 19 – Shelley Fabares, American actress, singer
  January 20 – Isao Okano, Japanese judoka
  January 23
  Sergei Belov, Soviet basketball player (d. 2013)
  Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, writer, and environmentalist (d. 2019)
  January 24
  David Gerrold, American screenwriter and novelist
  Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
  January 25
  Sally Beauman, English writer (d. 2016)
  Evan Chandler, American screenwriter, dentist (suicide 2009)
  January 26
  Angela Davis, African-American political activist, academic, and author
  Jerry Sandusky, American child molester, Penn State coach
  January 27
  Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
  Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  Nick Mason, English rock drummer
  January 28
  Susan Howard, American actress
  Rosalía Mera, Spanish fashion retailer (Zara) (d. 2013)
  John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
  January 29 – Susana Giménez, Argentinian television presenter
  January 31 – Connie Booth, American writer, actress
caption: Jimmy Page
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