* 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 )

* 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.

* Henri ( 1844 – 1883 )

* 1844 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general ( b. 1773 )

* September 2 – Henri Rousseau, French painter ( b. 1844 )

* Henri, Count of Chambord ( Henri V ) ( 1844 – 1883 )

* Henri de Brouckère ( 1840 – 1844 )

* Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand ( 1773 – 1844 ), army general during the First French Empire who accompanied Napoleon to Elba and then St Helena.

Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, who brought several dozen European families to the area from Alsace and adjoining Baden to populate his land grant along the Medina River 20 miles west of San Antonio.

* 1844 – 1846: Henri de Brouckère ( Liberal )

* October 14 – Henri Berger, composer and royal bandmaster of Hawaii ( b. 1844 )

A journey to Italy opened his mind to fresh ideas, and on his return to Paris in 1844 he announced his intention of becoming a painter, and went to study first under Eugène Delacroix, Henri Scheffer, and then under Thomas Couture.

With the death of his grandfather in 1836, and of his uncle in 1844, Henri became the genealogically senior claimant to the French throne.

It was first described by Paul Gervais and Alcide d ' Orbigny in 1844 ( the species epithet blainvillei commemorates the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville ).

* 1844 in art-Birth of Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Henri Rousseau, J. M. W. Turner paints Rain, Steam and Speed

* Henri Berger ( 1844 – 1929 ), Hawaii musician

The situation was complicated before 1844 by debate as to who the legitimate king was: Charles X and his son Louis-Antoine the Dauphin had both abdicated during the 1830 Revolution in favor of Charles's young grandson, Henri comte de Chambord.

He became successively inspector of the academy of Paris ( 1840 ), professor of the museum on the retirement of his father ( 1841 ), inspector-general of the university ( 1844 ), a member of the royal council for public instruction ( 1845 ), and on the death of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, professor of zoology at the faculty of sciences ( 1850 ).

" Les chevaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jerusalem rétablissant la religion en Arménie " (" The knights of Saint-John of Jerusalem reestablish the religion in Armenia "), 1844 painting by Henri Delaborde ( painter ) | Henri Delaborde.

* Henri Rousseau ( 1844 – 1910 ) the artist known as " Le Douanier "

* Henri Rousseau ( 1844 – 1910 ), known as le Douanier, painter ( birthplace )

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau () ( May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910 ) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.

Henri Rousseau was born in Laval, France in 1844 in the Loire Valley into the family of a tinsmith ; he was forced to work there as a young boy.

The distinction was probably first suggested by Henri Weil in 1844.

Henry or Henri Berger ( August 4, 1844, Berlin – October 14, 1929, Honolulu ) was a Prussian Kapellmeister composer and royal bandmaster of the

It has been edited by von der Hagen ( 1844 ), L. Ettmüller ( 1858 ) and A. E. Berger ( 1888 ); there is a modern German translation by K. Simrock ( 1845 ).