1944 in France
See also: 1943 in France, other events of 1944, 1945 in France.
Events from the year 1944 in France.
Events
Births
January to June
July to December
Full date unknown
Deaths
- 31 January - Jean Giraudoux, novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright (b.1882).
- 4 February - Yvette Guilbert, singer and actress (b.1865).
- 5 March - Max Jacob, poet, painter, writer, and critic (b.1876).
- 22 March - Pierre Brossolette, journalist and Resistance fighter (b.1903).
- 30 April - Paul Poiret, fashion designer (b.1879).
- 20 May - Fraser Barron, New Zealand bomber pilot at Le Mans (b. 1921 in Dunedin)
- 6 July - Andrée Borrel, French World War II heroine (executed) (b.1919).
- 6 July - Sonia Olschanezky, German-born French Jewish World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1923)
- 7 July - Georges Mandel, politician and Resistance leader (executed) (b.1885).
- 31 July - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and writer (b.1900).
- 9 September - Robert Benoist, motor racing driver and war hero (executed) (b.1895).
- 11 September - Yolande Beekman, World War II heroine (executed) (b.1911).
- 13 September - Madeleine Damerment, World War II heroine (executed) (b.1917).
- 1 November - Lucien Cayeux, sedimentary petrographer (b.1864).
- 5 November - Alexis Carrel, surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.1873).
- 30 December - Romain Rolland, writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b.1866).
Full date unknown
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