Events in the year 1944 in China.

Incumbents

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

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* Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi

Events

*April 17 – May 25 -

Battle of Central Henan Operation Ichi-Go ( ja, 一号作戦, Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit=Operation Number One) was a campaign of a series of major battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from Apr ...

*May – August - Battle of Changsha (1944) *June 22 – August 8 - Defense of Hengyang *August 16 – November 24 - Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou

Births

*July -

Liu Zemin Liu Zemin (; July 1944 – 27 February 2017) was a Chinese politician. He was born in Lin County, Shanxi Lin County or Linxian () is a county in the west of Shanxi province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west. It is under the administr ...

*August -

He Baowen He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...

*October - Huang Qingyi *October - Zhang Wenyue *December - Zheng Chengsi *December 21 -

Zheng Xiaoyu Zheng Xiaoyu (; December 10, 1944July 10, 2007) was the director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2005. He was sentenced to death for corruption and allowing possibly tainted products in Ma ...

Deaths

Men Bingyue Men Bingyue (; 1890–1944) was a general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. As commander of the 7th Cavalry Division he participated in the Suiyuan Campaign in 1936, defeating the Japanese backed Inner ...

Lin Zongsu Lin Zongsu (; 1878–1944) was a Chinese suffragist and writer. She founded the first women's suffrage organization in China and was one of China's most noted political feminist activists in the Qing- early Republican period. She also became one ...

*March 5 - Benjamin Ralph Kimlau *May 21 - Li Jiayu *December 26 - Zhu Shenghao, translator {{Asia topic, 1945 in