1944 in China

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Events in the year 1944 in China.

Incumbents

• President: Chiang Kai-shek
• Premier: Chiang Kai-shek
• Vice Premier: Kung Hsiang-hsi

Events

• April 17 – May 25 — Battle of Central Henan
• May – August — Battle of Changsha (1944)
• June 22 – August 8 — Defense of Hengyang
• August 16 – November 24 — Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou

Births

January

• January 13 — Lau Dan, Hong Kong actor
• January 16 — Xu Genbao, football manager and international football player

February

• February 1 — Li Changchun, member of the 16th & 17th Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• February 19 — Chen Zude, professional Go player (d. 2012)
• February 29 — Karl Maka, Hong Kong film producer, director, actor and presenter

March

• Sun Jiazheng, politician

April

• April 16 — Deng Pufang, politician and son of Deng Xiaoping
• April 29 — Liu Chuanzhi, entrepreneur

May

• May 20 — Qi Wusheng, football coach and former international player

June

• June 2 — Gua Ah-leh, Taiwanese actress and singer

July

• July 24 — Joe Cheung, Hong Kong director, producer, scriptwriter and actor
• Liu Zemin, politician (d. 2017)

October

• October 1 — Dai Xianglong, 10th Governor of the People's Bank of China
• October 7 — Donald Tsang, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• October 25 — Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies
• October 28 — Ma Junren, track coach
• Hui Liangyu, former Vice Premier of China ^[1]
• Huang Qingyi, politician
• Zhang Wenyue, 12th Secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Legqog, 6th Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region
• Chu Bo, 10th Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

November

• November 10 — Li Guyi, singer and dancer
• November 18 — Wang Enduo, biochemist and molecular biologist
• Xu Guangchun, 13th Secretary of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 2022)
• Ismail Tiliwaldi, 9th Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

December

• December 10 — Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of the State Food and Drug Administration (d. 2007)
• December 21 — Wang Lequan, 8th Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Zheng Chengsi, intellectual property expert (d. 2006)

Deaths

• March 8 — Xu Zonghan, hero of the Xinhai Revolution (b. 1876)
• May 20 — Eugene Chen, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (b. 1878)
• May 21 — Li Jiayu, nationalist general (b. 1892)
• June 11 — Teng Yu-hsien, Taiwanese Hakka musician (b. 1906)
• July 24 — Zou Taofen, journalist, media entrepreneur and political activist (b. 1895)
• September 5 — Zhang Side, communist soldier and guard of Mao Zedong (b. 1915)
• September 11 — Peng Xuefeng, New Fourth Army general officer (b. 1907)
• November 10 — Wang Jingwei, 24th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1883)
• December 26 — Zhu Shenghao, translator (b. 1912)

Unknown dates

• Men Bingyue, general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1890)
• Lin Zongsu, suffragist and writer (b. 1878)

References

1. "Heads of State of the PRC | CECC". www.cecc.gov. 2003-12-31. Retrieved 2025-11-11.