* 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.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while being held on charges of treason.

* Sections 1 – 134, 137 — From the presidency of Joseph Smith, Jr. ( 1828 – 1844 )

* Sections 1 – 113 ( includes 108A ) — From the presidency of Joseph Smith, Jr. ( 1828 – 1844 )

Hyrum himself was killed in 1844 along with Joseph, resulting in a Succession crisis that broke the Latter Day Saint movement into several smaller denominations.

Transcendental numbers were first constructed by Joseph Liouville in 1844.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

* 1768 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples ( d. 1844 )

Joseph Smith ( 1805 – 1844 ) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which gave rise to Mormonism.

On June 27, 1844, Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

For instance, Joseph Smith was referred to as " the modern Mahomet " by the New York Herald, shortly after his murder in June 1844.

It has continuously existed since the succession crisis of 1844 that split the Latter Day Saint movement after the death of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Palm House ( 1844 – 1848 ) was the result of cooperation between architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner, and continues upon the glass house design principles developed by John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton.

Darwin began correspondence about his theorising with the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker in January 1844, and by July had rounded out his " sketch " into a 230-page " Essay ", to be expanded with his research results and published if he died prematurely.

Joseph Liouville first proved the existence of transcendental numbers in 1844, and in 1851 gave the first decimal examples such as the Liouville constant

* January 7 – Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain ( d. 1844 )

Oscar I ( born Joseph François Oscar Bernadotte ; 4 July 1799 – 8 July 1859 ) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death.

This period included a panoply of international ‘ great demographers ’ like Adolphe Quételet ( 1796 – 1874 ), William Farr ( 1807 – 1883 ), Louis-Adolphe Bertillon ( 1821 – 1883 ) and his son Jacques ( 1851 – 1922 ), Joseph Körösi ( 1844 – 1906 ), Anders Nicolas Kaier ( 1838 – 1919 ), Richard Böckh ( 1824 – 1907 ), Émile Durkheim ( 1858-1917 ), Wilhelm Lexis ( 1837 – 1914 ) and Luigi Bodio ( 1840 – 1920 ) contributed to the development of demography and to the toolkit of methods and techniques of demographic analysis.

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

Following persecution and mob action in Missouri, Illinois, and other states, and the martyrdom of their prophet Joseph Smith in 1844, Mormon leader Brigham Young was chosen by the leaders of the Latter Day Saints ( LDS ) church to lead the LDS settlers west.

* Rayback Joseph G., " The Presidential Ambitions of John C. Calhoun, 1844 – 1848 ," Journal of Southern History, XIV ( Aug., 1948 ), 331 – 56.

After the deaths of both Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821, and of his eldest brother Joseph in 1844, Louis was seen by the Bonapartists as the rightful Emperor of the French, although Louis took little action himself to advance the claim.

In 1844, his uncle Joseph died, making him the heir apparent to the Bonaparte claim.