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September 13, 1944

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Notable Births

1944Carol Barnes, English journalist (died 2008)[โ€ ]

Carol Lesley Barnes was a British television newsreader and broadcaster. She worked for ITN from 1975 to 2004.

Jacqueline Bisset

1944Jacqueline Bisset, English actress and producer[โ€ ]

Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset is a British actress. She began her film career in 1965 and first came to prominence in 1968 with roles in The Detective, Bullitt, and The Sweet Ride, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. In the 1970s, she starred in Airport (1970), The Mephisto Waltz (1971), Day for Night (1973), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Le Magnifique (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), St. Ives (1976), The Deep (1977), The Greek Tycoon (1978) and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress โ€“ Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Peter Cetera

1944Peter Cetera, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer[โ€ ]

Peter Paul Cetera Jr. is an American retired musician best known for being a frontman, vocalist, and bassist for the American rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985. His career as a recording artist encompasses 17 studio albums with Chicago and eight solo studio albums. As a lead singer/vocal artist he has had four number one songs on the Billboard Hot 100, two during his tenure with Chicago and two during his solo career. Of those four songs he wrote or co-wrote three.

1944Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer (died 2016)[โ€ ]

Bernard "Midget" Farrelly was the first world surfing champion.

Notable Deaths

W. Heath Robinson

1944W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (born 1872)[โ€ ]

William Heath Robinson was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist who drew whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.

Historical Events

1944World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.[โ€ ]

The Battle of Meligalas took place during the Axis occupation of Greece in Meligalas in southwestern Greece on 13โ€“15 September 1944. Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) defeated a Security Battalion garrison loyal to the collaborationist government.