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

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

* 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 selected as one of six presidential electors for the 1844 presidential election and campaigned effectively throughout Mississippi for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk

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

* Notes on James Mill, 1844

Further proofs were given by Laplace ( 1810, 1812 ), Gauss ( 1823 ), James Ivory ( 1825, 1826 ), Hagen ( 1837 ), Friedrich Bessel ( 1838 ), W. F. Donkin ( 1844, 1856 ), and Morgan Crofton ( 1870 ).

By 1844, the Whigs began their recovery by nominating Henry Clay, who lost to Democrat James K. Polk in a closely contested race, with Polk's policy of western expansion ( particularly the annexation of Texas ) and free trade triumphing over Clay's protectionism and caution over the Texas question.

* October 21 – James Henry Greathead, British engineer and inventor ( b. 1844 )

* December 4 – U. S. presidential election, 1844: James K. Polk defeats Henry Clay.

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

In the United States presidential election of 1844, Democrat James K. Polk defeated Whig Henry Clay in a close contest that turned on foreign policy, with Polk favoring the annexation of Texas and Clay opposed.

In 1844, Clay was nominated by the Whigs against James K. Polk, the Democratic candidate.

The phrase ' Clapham Sect ' was a later invention by James Stephen in an article of 1844 which celebrated and romanticized the work of these reformers.

The first seismometer, an instrument capable of keeping a continuous record of seismic activity, was built by James Forbes in 1844.

The victory of James K. Polk ( Democrat ) over Henry Clay ( Whig ) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the southern Whigs by surprise.

Democrat James K. Polk was elected President in 1844 over Whig Party ( United States ) Henry Clay, a high tariff advocate.

Dallas was elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1844 with James K. Polk and served from March 4, 1845 to March 4, 1849.

Presidential candidate James K. Polk used this popular outcry to his advantage, and the Democrats called for the annexation of " All Oregon " in the 1844 U. S. Presidential election.

Other churches include St. Peter's Church by Lewis Vulliamy ( 1841 ), St James the Less by Lewis Vulliamy ( 1842 ), St James the Great by Edward Blore ( 1843 ), and St Bartholomew by William Railton ( 1844 ).

Polk County is Arkansas's 48th county, formed on November 30, 1844, and named for James Polk, President of the United States.

James Miller of Irish descent, came overland to California in 1844 with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party and in April 1845 arrived in San Rafael.

By 1844 it had been renamed to Rensselaer after James Van Rensselaer, a merchant from Utica, New York, who came to the area after his business failed in the Panic of 1837.

On March 15, 1844, the first White Township municipal election was held, in which James Hood and William Ewing were elected supervisors, in addition to other township offices.

* James Pollock ( September 11, 1810-April 19, 1890 )-Congressman ( 1844 – 1849 ); Governor of Pennsylvania ( 1855 – 1858 ); Director of the Philadelphia Mint ( 1861 – 1866 and 1869 – 1873 ); buried in Milton Cemetery.

Dwight had eight sons: Timothy Dwight ( 1778 – 1844 ), a New Haven merchant and philanthropist ; Benjamin Woolsey Dwight ( 1780 – 1850 ), a New York physician ; educator and theologian ; twins James Dwight ( 1784 – 1863 ) and John Dwight ( 1784 – 1803 ); Sereno Edwards Dwight ( 1786 – 1850 ); clergyman William Theodore Dwight ( 1795 – 1865 ); Henry Edwin Dwight ( 1797 – 1832 ); and one who died young.