* 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.

He was a brother of poet Ernest Myers ( 1844 – 1921 ) and of Dr. Arthur Thomas Myers ( 1851 – 1894 ).

In 1844, desperate for funds to continue the operation of the silver mine on the island, then-Seigneur of Sark Ernest le Pelley had obtained crown permission to mortgage the Fief of Sark for £ 4, 000 to Allaire.

In 1844, desperate for funds to continue the operation of the silver mine on the island, le Pelley's father Ernest le Pelley had obtained crown permission to mortgage the Fief of Sark for £ 4, 000 to John Allaire, a local privateer.

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Alfred Ernest Albert ; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900 ) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and reigned from 1893 to 1900.

* Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer ( 1844 – 1921 )

Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (; 2 January 1784 – 29 January 1844 ), was as Ernest III the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and from 1826, the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Her brother Duke Ernest III of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( 1784 – 1844 ) was the father of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Consort Albert.

Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (; 21 June 1818 – 22 August 1893 ) was the second sovereign duke of the German duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, reigning from 1844 to his death.

# Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1784 – 1844

# Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 1784 – 1844

* Ernest Myers ( 1844 – 1921 ), English poet, classicist, and author

Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

* Maria Hack ( 1777 – 1844 ), English writer

An English translation by Samuel Laing was finally published in 1844, with a second edition in 1889.

* 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet ( b. 1844 )

* 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar ( d. 1930 )

* 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet ( d. 1889 )

James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger ( 13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844 ) was an English lawyer, politician and judge.

* 1844 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario, and composer ( d. 1901 )

* 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English statesman ( d. 1844 )

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

* April 3 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English impresario ( born 1844 )

* June 28 – Edward Carpenter, English poet ( b. 1844 )

* June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet ( b. 1844 )

* April 21 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

* December 13 – James Scarlett Abinger, English judge ( d. 1844 )

* September 6 – John Dalton, English chemist and physicist ( d. 1844 )

These texts were followed by the 1844 work, A General View of Positivism ( published in English in 1865 ).

John Dalton FRS ( 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844 ) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist.

Richard D ' Oyly Carte ( 3 May 1844 – 3 April 1901 ) was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era.

Having left Paris on September 6, 1844, Engels returned to his home in Barmen, Germany, to work on his The Condition of the English Working Class, which was published in late May 1845.