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Actors Who Died in 1944

  • Feb 4 Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress, dies at 79
  • Feb 7 Lina Cavalieri, Italian dramatic soprano, and silent film actress, killed during WWII Allied bombing near here home in Florence, Italy at 69
  • Mar 11 Irvin S. Cobb, American writer and humorist (Old Judge Priest), dies at 67
  • Mar 18 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director and actor (Black Haired Whore), dies at 79
  • May 16 George Ade, American playwright, writer and humorist (Counsel Widow, Fables in Slang), dies at 78
  • May 30 Jessie Ralph, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (The Good Earth; San Francisco: The Bank Dick), dies at 79
  • Jul 1 Carl Mayer, Austrian-Jewish actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies of cancer at 49
  • Jul 20 Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Aug 22 Raymond Aimos, actor (Golem, Mayerling, La Bandera), dies at 55
  • Sep 13 W. Heath Robinson, English illustrator and cartoonist (Don Quixote), dies at 72
  • Dec 9 Laird Cregar, American actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
  • Dec 13 Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (Joe Palooka; Mexican Spitfire), intentionally overdoses on barbiturate Seconal at 34
  • Dec 22 Harry Langdon, American comedian (The Strong Man; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), dies at 60