March 4, 1944

1944Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (died 1999)^[†]

Harvey Ernest Postlethwaite was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of a heart attack in Spain while supervising the testing of the aborted Honda F1 project.

1944Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American physicist and academic^[†]

Anthony Ichiro Sanda is a Japanese-American particle physicist. Along with Ikaros Bigi, he was awarded the 2004 Sakurai Prize for his work on CP violation and B meson decays.

1944Len Walker, English footballer and manager^[†]

Leonard Walker is an English former football player and manager. He was the manager of Aldershot from July 1981 until November 1984, and then June 1985 until 11 April 1991.

1944Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)^[†]

Robert Dwayne Womack was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, blues, doo-wop, gospel, funk, and soul.

1944Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (born 1855)^[†]

Frances Barrier Williams was an American educator, civil rights, and women's rights activist, and the first black woman to gain membership to the Chicago Woman's Club. She became well known for her efforts to have black people officially represented on the Board of Control of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. She was also a musician, a portraitist and studied foreign languages.

1944Louis Buchalter, American mob boss (born 1897)^[†]

Louis Buchalter, known as Louis Lepke or Lepke Buchalter, was a Jewish-American organized crime figure and head of the Mafia hit squad Murder, Inc., during the 1930s. Buchalter was one of the premier labor union racketeers in New York City during that era.

1944Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (born 1896)^[†]

Louis Capone was a New York organized crime figure who became a supervisor for Murder, Inc. Louis Capone had no known relation to Al Capone, the boss of the Chicago Outfit. Capone was convicted of murder in 1941, and sentenced to death. He was electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison on March 4, 1944.

1944René Lefebvre, French businessman (born 1879)^[†]

René Charles Joseph Marie Lefebvre was a French factory-owner from Tourcoing, who died in the German concentration camp in Sonnenburg, in the Province of Brandenburg, where he had been imprisoned by the German Gestapo because of his work for the French Resistance and British Intelligence. René Lefebvre was the father of French Roman Catholic archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the international Traditionalist Catholic organisation Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (FSSPX).