* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

* 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer ( d. 1803 )

* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )

Anders Celsius ( 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

* 1679 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer ( d. 1744 )

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 )

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814 ) was an American statesman and diplomat.

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

* 1671 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, French composer ( d. 1744 )

* 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker ( d. 1812 )

* 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.

* 1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon ( d. 1795 )

* 1744 – John Jeffries, Physician, Surgeon, Balloonist ( d. 1819 )

The word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under the then-governor Elbridge Gerry ( pronounced ; 1744 – 1814 ).

Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the Sturm und Drang movement of proto-Romanticism.

# 1744 – 1746 Benjamin Pitt

* 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

* 1795 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist ( b. 1744 )

* 1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English noble ( d. 1744 )

* 1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author ( d. 1806 )

* John Brown of Pittsfield ( 1744 – 1780 ), American Revolutionary War officer

* John Walker ( Virginia politician ) ( 1744 – 1809 ), U. S. Senator, public official, and soldier

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

* December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( b. 1744 )

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck ( 1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829 ), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

It is named after the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 ), who incorporated the action of soft inheritance into his evolutionary theories.

* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 ), French naturalist

The Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 — 1829 ) published his theory of evolution in Philosophie Zoologique in 1809.

Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 ) had earlier proposed a list of descriptive terms in French — but the success of Howard's system was due to his use of universal Latin, as well as to his emphasis on the mutability of clouds.

* December 28-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( born 1744 ), naturalist.

From 1743 to 1744, Rousseau had an honorable but ill-paying post as a secretary to the Comte de Montaigue, the French ambassador to Venice.

The process of Innocent's beatification was introduced in 1741 by Benedict XIV and continued by Clement XI and Clement XII ; but French influence and the accusation of Jansenism caused it to be suspended in 1744.

** Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1744 )

* August 2 – Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, a French inventor of the hot-air balloon and a balloonist ( b. 1744 )

* December 5 – Madame Anne Brillon, French confidant of Benjamin Franklin ( b. 1744 )

* June 1 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon ( b. 1744 )

* April 20 – Battle of Villafranca ( 1744 ): A joint French and Spanish force defeats Britain and Sardinia.

* December 4 – André Campra, French composer ( d. 1744 )

* October 5 – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France ( d. 1744 )

In 1744 Anguillans invaded the French half of the neighbouring island of Saint Martin, holding it until the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 1748 ).

She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

From 1744 till the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 1748 ) the French and Spaniards were again in possession.

One of these is the Sanssouci Palace ( French: " without cares ", by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, 1744 ), famed for its formal gardens and Rococo interiors.

In February 1744, a French fleet of twenty sail of the line entered the English Channel under Jacques Aymar, comte de Roquefeuil, before the British force under Admiral John Norris was ready to oppose him.

Although Louis's recovery earned him the ' well-beloved ' epithet from a public relieved by his survival, the events at Metz ( August 1744 ) appear to have left profound scars on his psyche as well as on French political life.

His father managed to obtain the renewed support of the French government in 1744 ; and Charles Edward travelled to France with the sole purpose of commanding a French army, which he would lead in an invasion of England.

André Campra ( Aix-en-Provence, ( baptized ) 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744 in Versailles ) was a French composer and conductor.