Famous People Who Died in 1944

• de Saint Exupéry, Antoine

  Author of The Little Prince

• Hoover, Lou Henry

  United States president Herbert Hoover's wife

• Kandinsky, Wassily

  Russian-born founder of Abstract art

• Kennedy, Joseph Jr.

  The older brother of president John Kennedy

• Lim Bo Seng

  Patriotic WWII hero of Singapore

• McPherson, Aimee Semple

  The popular 1920s preacher who disappeared

• Miller, Glenn

  Wartime big band leader

• Mondrian, Piet

  Dutch abstract artist with the colored rectangles

• Munch, Edvard

   The Norwegian who painted 1893's The Scream

• Rommel, Erwin

  "The Desert Fox" of World War II

• Stauffenberg, Claus von

  The German colonel who almost killed Hitler

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