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| * [[February 22]] - [[Jonathan Demme]], American film director, producer and writer (d. [[2017]]) | * [[February 22]] - [[Jonathan Demme]], American film director, producer and writer (d. [[2017]]) | ||
| + | * [[February 27]] - [[Roger Scruton]], English philosopher and writer (d. [[2020]]) | ||
| *[[March 4]] - [[Glen Baxter]], English artist | *[[March 4]] - [[Glen Baxter]], English artist | ||
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| *[[Lloyd Barnes]] (1944 - ) | *[[Lloyd Barnes]] (1944 - ) | ||
| *[[Michael Nyman]] (1944 - ) | *[[Michael Nyman]] (1944 - ) | ||
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But it really gets bad, --"'Round Midnight" (1944) by Thelonious Monk |
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1944 was the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
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Art and culture
- End of WWII
- D-Day is June 6, 1944
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Literature
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Non fiction
- The Hollywood Hallucination by Parker Tyler
- Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno
- The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
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Fiction
- The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson
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Visual art
- The Eye of Silence by Max Ernst
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Film
- The Curse of the Cat People by Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch
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Music
- 'Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk
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Births
- February 22 - Jonathan Demme, American film director, producer and writer (d. 2017)
- February 27 - Roger Scruton, English philosopher and writer (d. 2020)
- March 4 - Glen Baxter, English artist
- Lloyd Barnes (1944 - )
- Michael Nyman (1944 - )
- Luc Deleu (1944 - )
- Jean-François Bizot (1944 – 2007)
- Barry Lederer (1944 – 2008)
- Patti Labelle (1944 - )
- David Mancuso (1944 - 2016)
- Odd Nerdrum (1944 - )
- Kathy Acker (1944 - 1997)
- Salvatore Samperi (1944 - 2009)
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Deaths
- January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- April 30 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (b. 1879)
- December 2 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet, editor and art theorist, founder of the Futurist movement (b. 1876)
- December 10 - Paul Otlet, founding father of documentation science (b. 1868)
- December 23 - Charles Dana Gibson, American graphic artist ("Gibson Girl") (b. 1867)
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