1944

The year 1944 (MCMXLIV) predates the launch of the Transformers brand by forty years.

For further information, see: Transformers timeline

Fiction

IDW Transformers movie comics

• During World War II, the Nazis capture and reverse-engineer Jetfire, using Transformer technology to build advanced weapons. Upon catching wind of this, Sector Seven sends a strike team led by William Simmons to put a stop to the experiments. Though everyone on the team except Simmons is killed in action, the mission is a success and Jetfire is freed. Weapon

2005 IDW continuity

• While in France, Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles encounter Centurion and the Maximal Shockwave battling it out. Centurion wins, and Garrison Kreiger persuades Savage to help the alien find the wreckage of his ship. They track the vessel to Brasnya, but Sgt. Savage disappears in an ensuing fight against IRON Troopers. Strange Visitors

Non-Fiction

Births

• Unknown — Achim Schülke, Orlando Mezzabotta

January

• January 2 — Jeong-kyung Kim

February

• February 13 — Imre Szélyes
• February 18 — Joscha Fischer-Antze
• February 19 — Donald F. Glut

March

• March 5 — Nobuyuki Okude
• March 11 — Lutz Mackensy

May

• May 2 — On Yeong-sam
• May 9 — Frédéric Cerdal
• May 13 — Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
• May 25 — Juan Antonio Arroyo

June

• June 4 — Patrick Préjean

July

• July 18 — Yves Corbeil

August

• August 2 — Helmut Gauß
• August 14 — Yoshihiro Moritō
• August 18 — Bodo Wolf, Volker Lechtenbrink

September

• September 30 — Susan K. Williams

October

• October 3 — Diego Reggente
• October 8 — Renzo Stacchi
• October 15 — Haim Saban
• October 18 — Ulf-Jürgen Wagner
• October 26 — Keisuke Yamakawa

November

• November 4 — Linda Gary

December

• December 3 — José Carlos Guerra
• December 21 — Paulo Flores
• December 28 — Júlio Chaves
• December 31 — Neil Ross