* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )

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

* 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

* Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) German.

* December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher and writer ( b. 1744 )

Zedler also published new works such as the trade lexicon Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer Der Kaufmannschafft ( 1741 – 1743, 4 volumes and 1 supplement volume ), stock exchange laws Corpus Juris Cambialis ( Johann Gottlieb Siegels, 1742, 2 volumes ) and the Historical-Political-Geographical Atlas of the whole world ( 1744 – 1749, 13 volumes ), published under the name of the Leipzig bookseller, Johann Samuel Heinsius the Elder.

Condillac was not a naive sensationalist but put forward an expressionist theory of linguistic creation that anticipates the prime features of later thoughts about language by German theorist Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ).

* 11 clarinet concertos ( at least one jointly composed with Johann Joseph Beer ( 1744 – 1811 )

* Johann III Bernoulli ( 1744 – 1807 ; also known as Jean ) Astronomer, geographer, and mathematician.

* Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the two volumes of The Well-Tempered Clavier ( 1722, 1744 ).

Though Blumenbach left no overt indications of sources for his theory of biological revolution, his ideas harmonize with those of Bonnet and especially with those of his contemporary Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ), and it was Herder whose ideas were influenced by Blumenbach.

* William Berczy or Johann Albrecht Ulrich Moll ( 1744 – 1813 ), Canadian pioneer and painter

Thinkers such as Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 1762 – 1814 ) had written on the concept and importance of world history and nationalism, and Hegel's philosophy continues this trend, while breaking away from an emphasis on nationalism and striving rather to grasp the full sweep of human cultural and intellectual history as a manifestation of spirit.

Balthasar Neumann, architect of the court of the Bishop of Würzburg, was the principal architect of the Residenz, which was commissioned by the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn and his brother Friedrich Carl von Schönborn in 1720, and completed in 1744.

* Johann Christian von Hofenfels ( 1744 – 1787 ), minister, statesmann and diplomat

* Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ), author, Lutheran theologian, and eminent enlightenment philosopher

* Johann Samuel König, professor for mathematics and philosophy, 1744 – 1749

Sandpit, by Johann Christian Brand, 1744.

Johann Heinrich Schulze or Schultz ( 12 May 1687 – 10 October 1744 ) was a German professor and polymath from Colbitz in the Duchy of Magdeburg.

* Johann Heinrich Schulze ( 1687 – 1744 ), German academic, inventor of a primitive photogram

Johann Andreas Naumann ( 1744 – 1826 ) was a German farmer and an amateur naturalist.