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1944
Events in the year 1944 in China.
Incumbents
President: Chiang Kai-shek
Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi
Events
April 17 – May 25 — Battle of Central Henan
May – August — Battle of Changsha (1944)
June 22 – August 8 — Defense of Hengyang
August 16 – November 24 — Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
Births
January
January 13 — Lau Dan, Hong Kong actor
January 16 — Xu Genbao, football manager and international football player
February
February 1 — Li Changchun, member of the 16th & 17th Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
February 19 — Chen Zude, professional Go player (d. 2012)
February 29 — Karl Maka, Hong Kong film producer, director, actor and presenter
March
Sun Jiazheng, politician
April
April 16 — Deng Pufang, politician and son of Deng Xiaoping
April 29 — Liu Chuanzhi, entrepreneur
May
May 20 — Qi Wusheng, football coach and former international player
June
June 2 — Gua Ah-leh, Taiwanese actress and singer
July
July 24 — Joe Cheung, Hong Kong director, producer, scriptwriter and actor
Liu Zemin, politician (d. 2017)
October
October 1 — Dai Xianglong, 10th Governor of the People's Bank of China
October 7 — Donald Tsang, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
October 25 — Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies
October 28 — Ma Junren, track coach
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Huang Qingyi, politician
Zhang Wenyue, 12th Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Legqog, 6th Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region
Chu Bo, 10th Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
November
November 10 — Li Guyi, singer and dancer
November 18 — Wang Enduo, biochemist and molecular biologist
Xu Guangchun, 13th Secretary of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2022)
Ismail Tiliwaldi, 9th Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
December
December 10 — Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of the State Food and Drug Administration (d. 2007)
December 21 — Wang Lequan, 8th Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Zheng Chengsi, intellectual property expert (d. 2006)
Deaths
March 8 — Xu Zonghan, hero of the Xinhai Revolution (b. 1876)
May 20 — Eugene Chen, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (b. 1878)
May 21 — Li Jiayu, nationalist general (b. 1892)
June 11 — Teng Yu-hsien, Taiwanese Hakka musician (b. 1906)
July 24 — Zou Taofen, journalist, media entrepreneur and political activist (b. 1895)
September 5 — Zhang Side, communist soldier and guard of Mao Zedong (b. 1915)
September 11 — Peng Xuefeng, New Fourth Army general officer (b. 1907)
November 10 — Wang Jingwei, 24th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1883)
December 26 — Zhu Shenghao, translator (b. 1912)
Unknown dates
Men Bingyue, general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1890)
Lin Zongsu, suffragist and writer (b. 1878)
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