page_title: 1944
section_title: November
hierarchical_section_title: 1944 / Deaths / November
caption_attribution_description: English: Metropolitan Andrey, Rome, 1921
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: November 1
  Ismael Pérez Pazmiño, Ecuadoran writer (b. 1876)
  Andrey Sheptytsky, Soviet Eastern Catholic archbishop and venerable (b. 1865)
  November 2
  Karol Irzykowski, Polish writer (b. 1873)
  Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
  November 4 – Sir John Dill, Field Marshal of the British Army (b. 1881)
  November 5 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
  November 7
  Max Bergmann, German biochemist (b. 1886)
  Hannah Szenes, Hungarian World War II heroine (b. 1921)
  November 8 – Jane Grey, American actress (b. 1883)
  November 10
  Wang Jingwei, Chinese statesman, President of the Nanjing-based and Japanese-supported collaborationist Government of the Republic of China (b. 1883)
  Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat and resistance member (b. 1875)
  November 12 – George F. Houston, American actor (b. 1896)
  November 13
  Carl Lampert, Austrian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1894)
  Friedrich Lorenz, German Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1897)
  November 14
  Walter Cramer, German resistance member (b. 1886)
  Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (b. 1892)
  Bernhard Letterhaus, German trade unionist and resistance member (b. 1894)
  Ferdinand von Lüninck, German politician and resistance member (b. 1888)
  November 16 – Maria Rodziewiczówna, Polish writer (b. 1863)
  November 19 – Ignacio Bolívar, Spanish naturalist and entomologist (b. 1850)
  November 22
  Joseph Caillaux, French politician, 57th Prime Minister of France (b. 1863)
  Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, physicist and mathematician (b. 1882)
  Johan Pitka, Estonian entrepreneur, sea captain, and admiral (b. 1872)
  November 25 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis, 1st commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1866)
  November 26 – Florence Foster Jenkins, American socialite and singer (b. 1868)
  November 30 – Lilo Gloeden, German resistance member (b. 1903)
caption: Andrey Sheptytsky
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