page_title: 1944
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: Kaj Munk, a Danish pastor (Vedersø Parish) murdered by the Gestapo in January 1944.
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
  Edwin Lutyens, British architect (b. 1869)
  Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
  January 3 – Franz Reichleitner, Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
  January 4 – Kaj Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor and martyr (b. 1898)
  January 6 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist and muckraker (b. 1857)
  January 7 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (b. 1874)
  January 9 – Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (b. 1874)
  January 10
  William Emerson Ritter, American biologist (b. 1856)
  Andrey Toshev, Bulgarian scientist and diplomat, 26th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1867)
  January 11
  Notable Italian Fascist leaders executed in the Verona Trial
  Emilio De Bono, General, former member of the Grand Council of Fascism (b. 1866)
  Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari, aristocrat and diplomat, former member of the Grand Council of Fascism (b. 1903)
  Giovanni Marinelli, former member of the Grand Council of Fascism (b. 1879)
  Charles King, American actor (b. 1889)
  Edgard Potier, Belgian spy (suicide) (b. 1903)
  January 12
  Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung, Thai Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1895)
  Juliette Atkinson, American tennis champion (b. 1873)
  January 13 – King Yuhi V of Rwanda (b. 1883)
  January 14 – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer (b. 1869)
  January 18 – Léon Brunschvicg, French philosopher (b. 1869)
  January 20 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
  January 21 – Yoshimi Nishida, Japanese general (b. 1892)
  January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
  January 25 – Teresa Grillo Michel, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1855)
  January 29 – William Allen White, American journalist (b. 1868)
  January 31
  Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
  Árpád Weisz, Hungarian footballer (b. 1896)
caption: Kaj Munk
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