* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* 1844 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( d. 1900 )

* 1844 – James Henry Greathead, English engineer ( d. 1896 )

* 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist ( d. 1911 )

* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

* 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1924 )

* 1844 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist and politician ( d. 1908 )

b., pp. 716 – 726 ( 1844 ); William Francis Ainsworth, Euphrates Expedition, i. 401-418 ( 1888 ).

* 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet ( d. 1929 )

* 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader ( d. 1929 )

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

Abdur Rahman Khan () ( between 1830 to 1844 – October 1, 1901 ) was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.

* 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist ( b. 1844 )

* 1803 – Flora Tristan, French philosopher ( d. 1844 )

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

* Karl Benz ( 1844 – 1929 ), German engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who built the first patented automobile in 1885

* Jacques Laffitte ( 1767 – 1844 ), banker and politician

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

Count Peter Alexandrovich ( 1761 – 1844 ) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and Turkey, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.

Topelius became a student at the Imperial Alexander University of Finland in 1833, received his master's degree degree in 1840, the Licentiate degree in 1844 and was made a doctor of philosophy in 1847, having defended a dissertation titled De modo matrimonia jungendi apud fennos quondam vigente (" About the custom of marriage among the ancient Finns ").

Thanks to such leaders as Barton W. Stone ( 1772 – 1844 ) and Alexander Campbell ( 1788 – 1866 ), the camp meeting revival became a major mode of church expansion for the Methodists and Baptists.

On the wave of his growing popularity, Toombs won a seat to the United States House of Representatives ( 1844 – 1853 ), and joined his close friend and fellow representative Alexander H. Stephens from Crawfordville, Georgia.

On 1 July 1844, the Hereditary Grand Duke Carl Alexander held a literary soiree at Ettersburg in honor of Andersen.

In 1844, he married Mary Blair, one of Alexander Stewart's daughters.

* William Alexander Hunter ( 1844 – 1898 ), Scottish politician

* Count Alexander Khristoforovich Benkendorf ( 1826 – 1844 )

Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1886, one of nine children born to Alexander ( September 12, 1844 – November 2, 1934 ) and Katherine B. Sloan ( March 8, 1855 – January 1, 1939 ).

The manuscript was first printed and published in 1844, two and a half centuries after it was written, by the Shakespeare Society, edited by Alexander Dyce ; and again in 1911 by the Malone Society, edited by W. W. Greg.

* Stuart married Frances Cornelia Baldwin ( 1815 – 1888 ), and with her had 8 children: Briscoe Baldwin Stuart ( 1837 – 1859 ), Alexander H. H. Stuart Jr. ( 1846 – 1867 ), Archibald Gerard Stuart ( 1858 – 1888 ), Eleanor Augusta Stuart ( 1838 – 1878 ), Frances Peyton Stuart ( born 1842 ), Mary Stuart ( born 1844 ), Susan Baldwin Stuart ( 1848 – 1867 ), and Margaret Briscoe Stuart ( 1855 – 1932 ).

John C. Fremont, one of the lake's first White discoverers in 1844, named it " Lake Bonpland " after Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, a French botanist who had accompanied Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt in his exploration of Mexico, Colombia and the Amazon River .< ref name = rubiconbay >

* Alexander J. Dallas ( U. S. Navy officer ) ( 1791 – 1844 ), U. S. Navy officer ( son of the statesman )

The map was published in 1844 by Morton and Griswold as a pull-out insert in Alexander Clark Bullitt ’ s Rambles in Mammoth Cave in the Year 1844 by a Visiter ( Morton and Griswold, 1845.

* Alexander Mackenzie ( engineer ) ( 1844 – 1921 ), US Army Chief of Engineers

In December 1844 Alexander McKay and his wife arrived to open the first public house, the ' Surveyors ' Arms '.

The various " ministers " serving on the Council, such as the Colonial Secretary ( Andrew Sinclair since 1844 ) and the Colonial Treasurer ( Alexander Shepherd since 1842 ), reported to the Governor.

He was survived by his daughter Mary, who had married Joseph P. Bradley in 1844, a future Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and by his son William Henry Hornblower, a Presbyterian minister whose daughter Emily married Colonel Alexander McWhorter Cumming, a long-serving Mayor of Princeton, New Jersey.

Graham was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the second of nine children born to Alexander ( September 12, 1844 – November 2, 1934 ) and Katherine B. Sloan ( March 8, 1855 – January 1, 1939 ) Graham.

* Alexander ( 1770 — 1844 ) who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia between 1800 and 1832.

Prince Alexander Nikolaievich ( 1773 – 1844 ) was a reactionary minister of education in the government of Alexander I.

William Alexander Hunter ( 8 May 1844 – 21 July 1898 ) was a Scottish jurist and Liberal politician.