* 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 – 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.

Sidney Rigdon, while he was apostate from the church, wrote a letter in backlash to the Messenger and Advocate in 1844 condemning the church's Quorum of the Twelve and their alleged connection to polygamy:

By the time of his death on June 27, 1844 more than 50 persons had been admitted into the Anointed Quorum, the name by which this group called themselves.

After Smith's death in June 1844, members of the Anointed Quorum continued to meet under the direction of Brigham Young, even admitting additional persons to the group.

As a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, he was assigned to England as a missionary ( 1839 ), to England as president of the church's European Mission ( 1844 ), and finally to the eastern United States ( 1848 ).

Young restored Lyman as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on August 12, 1844.

Anthon Henrik Lund ( 15 May 1844 – 2 March 1921 ) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) and a prominent Utah leader.

After Hyrum was murdered in 1844, Mary Smith chose to follow the direction of Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

* Sections 135 – 136 — During the administration of the Twelve ( 1844 – 1847 )

After Smith's assassination in 1844, M ' Lellin first accepted the succession claims of Sidney Rigdon and was appointed one of the Twelve Apostles in Rigdon's organization on April 8, 1845.

Ettlinger became one of the strongest opponents of the early Reform Judaism movement, and headed the protest of the one hundred and seventy-three rabbis against the Brunswick Conference of 1844.

A group that called itself " The Mighty Five ", headed by Balakirev ( 1837 – 1910 ) and including Rimsky-Korsakov ( 1844 – 1908 ), Mussorgsky ( 1839 – 81 ), Borodin ( 1833 – 87 ) and César Cui ( 1835 – 1918 ), proclaimed its purpose to compose and popularize Russian national traditions in classical music.

Ralph Randolph Gurley ( 1797 – 1872 ), who headed the Society until 1844.

In 1844 Anderson was frequently mentioned as a candidate for president of the republic, but eventually he became the candidate for vice president, on a ticket headed by Anson Jones.

* Alexander ( 1770 — 1844 ) who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia between 1800 and 1832.

Alexander () ( 1770-c. 1844 ) was a Georgian prince ( batonishvili ) of the Bagrationi family who headed several insurrections against the Russian rule in Georgia between 1800 and 1832.

In 1844 Slomšek moved to Sankt Andrä and headed the school of the Diocese of Lavant.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).

In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).

Another shape note tunebook named The Sacred Harp ( 1844 ) by Georgia residents Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J.

The encoding of text by bits was also used in Morse code ( 1844 ) and early digital communications machines such as teletypes and stock ticker machines ( 1870 ).

However, the limitations of the 1844 Act only affected banks in England and Wales, and today three commercial banks in Scotland and four in Northern Ireland continue to issue their own sterling banknotes, regulated by the Bank of England.

They returned in 1844 to stay at Blair Castle, and in 1847 when they rented Ardverikie by Loch Laggan.

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.

The Spring Garden home, where the author lived in 1843 – 1844, is today preserved by the National Park Service as the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site.

This was proved by Gabriel Lamé in 1844, and marks the beginning of computational complexity theory.

His own " exhauston of toil and study had been completed by great anxiety and grief ", and by " about the January of 1844, I was thoroughly shattered ".

On 20 February 1844, in accordance with his mother's will, he changed his surname from ' Bulwer ' to ' Bulwer-Lytton ' and assumed the arms of Lytton by royal licence.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

His announcement of Sirius's " dark companion " in 1844 was the first correct claim of a previously unobserved companion by positional measurement, and eventually led to the discovery of Sirius B.

Transcendental numbers were first constructed by Joseph Liouville in 1844.

In 1844, Jews constituted the largest population group in Jerusalem and by 1890 an absolute majority in the city, but as a whole the Jewish population made up far less than 10 % of the country.

The county's boundaries were fixed by the Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844 which eliminated exclaves.

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

A description of housing of the mill workers in England in 1844 was given by Friedrich Engels, a co-founder of Marxism.

A vivid description of living standards of the mill workers in England in 1844 was given by Friedrich Engels.

Detail view of the portrait of Adams in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | U. S. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C., painted by George Caleb Bingham ; this copy c. 1850 from an original of 1844