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

* 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

John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ) was mathematician inventor of the octant, the precursor to the sextant.

Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey ( 1704 – 1749 ), a glazier in Philadelphia.

Thomas Mifflin was born January 10, 1744 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of John Mifflin and Elizabeth Bagnall.

* August 29 – John Anstis, English herald ( d. 1744 )

* April 16 – John Hadley, English inventor ( d. 1744 )

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.

On her death in 1744, the property passed to her grandson, John Spencer, and subsequently to the first Earl Spencer.

* John Theophilus Desaguliers ( 1683 – 1744 ), philosopher

The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.

The year 1744 is the first record of John Hart ’ s “ logg ”, near where Alexandria is located now.

The day-long event recognizes the early days of the small borough, when, in 1744, a licensed Indian trader named John Hart used a large hollowed-out log to feed and salt his horses while he conducted his trading.

* John Simpson born 1744 died February 3, 1809. was a lieutenant in the Continental Army and in the fall fall of 1776 fought along side Washington in the battle of Trenton and Princeton

In 1744, John Shires established Boston as a spa town when he discovered magnesian, limestone and sulphur springs.

His Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole ( 1775 ) were written in consequence of the northern voyage of discovery undertaken by Captain Constantine John Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave ( 1744 – 1792 ).

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book from 1744 by John Newbery was the earliest illustrated storybook marketed as pleasure reading in English.

John was the son of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret ( 1667 – 1695 ), by his marriage with Grace Granville ( 3 September 1654-18 October 1744 ), daughter of Sir John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath ( 29 August 1628-August 1701 ).

He was the eldest son of John Henry ( d. 1766 ), a merchant whose father, Alexander Henry ( d. 1744 ), had emigrated to British North America from the West of England to seek his fortune.