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| Decades: | 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s |
| Years: | 1944 1945 1946 - 1947 - 1948 1949 1950 |
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[change] Events
- April 15 - Jackie Robinson, an African-American, plays first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers major-league baseball team, ending the sport's unofficial rule against blacks playing.
- August 14 - Pakistan is granted freedom from Britain
- August 15 - India gains independence from Britian.
[change] Births
- January 8 - David Bowie
- March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager
- March 25 - Elton John
- April 8 - Steve Howe
- June 5 - Kevin Schon, American actor
- August 16 - Carol Moseley Barun
- October 26 - Hillary Clinton
- December 8 - Gregg Allman
[change] Deaths
- Emil J. Brach, American candy manufacturer (b. 1859)
- January 25 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
- March 11 - Victor Lustig, Austrian-born con artist (b. 1890)
- March 18 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
- March 19 - Prudence Heward, Canadian painter (b. 1896)
- March 20 - Victor Goldschmidt, Swiss geochemist (b. 1888)
- March 30 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (b. 1863)
- April 1 - King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
- April 7 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
- April 20 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
- April 24 - Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
- May 8 - Harry Gordon Selfridge, American department store magnate (b. 1858)
- May 16 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1861)
- May 17 - George William Forbes, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- May 20 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- May 24 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
- July 19 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
- July 30 - Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1860)
- October 4 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
- November 25 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French writer (b. 1876)
- December 1 - Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875)
- December 1 - G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877)
- December 7 - Tristan Bernard, French writer and lawyer (b. 1866)
- December 7 - Nicholas M. Butler, American president of Columbia University, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- December 17 - J. N. Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879)
[change] Films Released
- Hue and Cry
[change] New Books
- The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh
- Bright November - Kingsley Amis' first collection of poems
- Country Place - Ann Lane Petty
- Creatures of Circumstance - W. Somerset Maugham
- The Cold War - Walter Lippmann
- Dark Carnival - Ray Bradbury's first book.
- Dialectic of Enlightenment - Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
- Eyes of a Blue Dog - Gabriel García Márquez
- Froth on the Daydream - Boris Vian
- God Is For White Folks - Thomas Will
- Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown
- Great Northern? - Arthur Ransome
- A High Wind Rising - Elsie Singmaster
- I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
- Les Jeux Inconnus - François Boyer
- Knock On Any Door - Willard Motley
- Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool - George Orwell
- Masquerade, a Historical Novel - Oscar Micheaux
- Miss Hickory - Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
- The Moneyman - Thomas B. Costain
- Paris Was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost & Found Generation - Samuel Putnam
- The Path to the Nest of Spiders - Italo Calvino
- The Pearl - John Steinbeck
- The Plague (La Peste) - Albert Camus
- Prince of Foxes - Samuel Shellabarger
- Rocket Ship Galileo - Robert A. Heinlein
- Saggy Baggy Elephant - Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson
- Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
- Tales of the South Pacific - James A. Michener
- Tarzan and the Foreign Legion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tea with Mrs Goodman - Philip Toynbee
- Theatre - W. Somerset Maugham
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- Who Has Seen the Wind? - W.O. Mitchell
