* 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.

* 1780 – Richard McCarty, American politician ( d. 1844 )

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

* Richard Butler ( author ) ( 1844 – 1928 ), British dramatist

The Palm House was built by architect Decimus Burton and iron-maker Richard Turner between 1844 and 1848, and was the first large-scale structural use of wrought iron.

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.

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

* February 19 – Richard McCarty, American politician ( d. 1844 )

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.

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.

* Hector Berlioz ( 1844 ), revised in 1905 by Richard Strauss: Grand traité d ’ instrumentation et d ’ orchestration modernes ( Treatise on Instrumentation ).

Richard Dybeck wrote the original lyrics in 1844.

The original lyrics were written by Richard Dybeck in 1844, to the melody of a variant of the ballad Kärestans död.

* Richard Watson Gilder ( 1844 – 1909 ), poet, author and editor of The Century Magazine.

* Richard M. Atwater ( 1844 – 1922 ), chemist and glassmaker, who served as mayor of Sea Isle City from 1913-1917.

By 1843 Richard Hoe developed the rotary press, and in 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first public telegraph message.

The parish was detached from St Mary Bishophill in 1844 and for a time linked to the parish at Askham Richard.

* April 3 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, producer of Gilbert & Sullivan ( b. 1844 )

The College's main building, the Richard Hoggart Building, was originally designed as a school ( opened in 1844 ) by the architect John Shaw, Jr ( 1803 – 1870 ).

* March 16 – Richard Corney Grain, entertainer and songwriter ( born 1844 ) ( influenza )

* 1844 Richard Cherry

His son, Richard Schumacher ( 1827 – 1902 ), was his assistant from 1844 to 1850 at the conservatory at Altona.

He received his episcopal consecration on March 10, 1844 — his 34th birthday — from Bishop John Hughes, with Bishops Benedict Fenwick ( who had baptized him as a child ) and Richard Vincent Whelan serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

* Richard Mackenzie Bacon ( 1775 – 1844 ), English Whig journalist and musician

It features pediment sculptures by Richard Westmacott ( the younger ), and was opened by Queen Victoria on 28 October 1844, though trading did not commence until 1 January 1845.