July 31, 1944

1944Geraldine Chaplin, American actress and screenwriter^[†]

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an actress whose long career has included multilingual roles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German films.

1944Jonathan Dimbleby, English journalist and author^[†]

Jonathan Dimbleby is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of television presenter David Dimbleby.

1944Sherry Lansing, American film producer^[†]

Sherry Lansing is an American former film studio executive serving as chairwoman of Universal Music Group's board of directors and as a director on the board of Paramount Skydance Corporation. She previously served as chairwoman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, and president of production at 20th Century Fox prior to her retirement. From 1999 to 2022, she was on the University of California Board of Regents.

1944Robert C. Merton, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Robert Cox Merton is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, particularly the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model.

1944David Norris, Irish scholar and politician^[†]

David Patrick Bernard Norris is an Irish scholar, former independent Senator, and civil rights activist. Internationally, Norris is credited with having "managed, almost single-handedly, to overthrow the anti-homosexuality law which brought about the downfall of Oscar Wilde", a feat he achieved in 1988 after a fourteen-year campaign. He has also been credited with being "almost single-handedly responsible for rehabilitating James Joyce in once disapproving Irish eyes".

1944Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (born 1900)^[†]

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator.