Editing 1944 (section)

===January===
[[File:Kaj Munk.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kaj Munk]]]]
[[File:Andrey Toshev.png|thumb|100px|[[Andrey Toshev]]]]
[[File:Musinga.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yuhi V Musinga]]]]
[[File:Portrett av Edvard Munch (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Edvard Munch]]]]
[[File:Mère Teresa Michel.png|thumb|100px|Blessed [[Teresa Grillo Michel]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Edwin Lutyens|Sir Edwin Lutyens]], British architect (b. [[1869]])
** [[Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)|Charles Turner]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Franz Reichleitner]], Austrian SS officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 4]] 
** [[Kaj Munk]], Danish playwright, [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] [[pastor]] and martyr (b. [[1898]])
** [[Jean Tatlock]], American psychiatrist (b. [[1914]])
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Ida Tarbell]], American journalist and [[muckraker]] (b. [[1857]])
* [[January 7]] &ndash; [[Lou Henry Hoover]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[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]]
** Italian leaders of the [[Grand Council of Fascism]] executed following the [[Verona Trial]]
*** [[Emilio De Bono]], general (b. [[1866]])
*** [[Galeazzo Ciano]], aristocrat and diplomat (b. [[1903]])
*** [[Giovanni Marinelli]], politician (b. [[1879]])
** [[Charles King (musical actor)|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]] &ndash; King [[Yuhi V of Rwanda]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Mehmet Emin Yurdakul]], Turkish writer (b. [[1869]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Léon Brunschvicg]], French philosopher (b. [[1869]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[James McKeen Cattell]], American psychologist (b. [[1860]])
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Yoshimi Nishida]], Japanese general (b. [[1892]])
* [[January 23]] &ndash; [[Edvard Munch]], Norwegian painter (b. [[1863]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Teresa Grillo Michel]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] nun and blessed (b. [[1855]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[William Allen White]], American journalist (b. [[1868]])
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Jean Giraudoux]], French writer (b. [[1882]])