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

* 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.

* 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message " What hath God wrought " ( a biblical quotation, Numbers 23: 23 ) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.

The telegram sent by Samuel Morse | Samuel F. B. Morse from the Capitol in Washington to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in 1844: " What hath God wrought "

; 1844: Birth of The Prince Alfred

* July 31 – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria ( b. 1844 )

******* HRH The Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1844 – 1900 )

* Frederick Styles Agate, ( 1803 – 1844 ), resident of Sparta, brother of Alfred Agate, noted portraitist and painter

* Prince Alfred ( 1844 – 1900 ), 1st Duke of Edinburgh ( 1866 – 1900 ).

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( Alfred Ernest Albert ; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900 ) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and reigned from 1893 to 1900.

Alfred was christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Howley, at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on 6 September 1844.

* Alfred Russel Wallace described events occurring in the Baltic in 1844: " During the disturbances at the Cemetery of Ahrensburg in the island of Oesel, where coffins were overturned in locked vaults, and the case was investigated by an official commission, the horses of country people visiting the cemetery were often so alarmed and excited that they became covered with sweat and foam.

The next creation of a title of Kent, was not that of Duke or Marquess, but rather that of Earl, with the creation of Prince Alfred ( 1844 – 1900 ), the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, as Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster, and of Kent in 1866.

He later returned to writing however, enthused by the success of Alfred Lord Tennyson ; and in 1844 he published a small volume of Poems, which was original but uneven.

* Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ( 1844 – 1900 )

The popular definition of this word was first given by Alfred V. Espinas ( 1844 – 1922 ), the French philosopher and sociologist and the forerunner of the modern Polish school of the science of efficient action.

In 1839, Tupper published A Modern Pyramid to commemorate a Septuagint of Worthies, being sonnets and essays on seventy famous men and women ; in 1841 An Author's Mind containing skeletons of thirty unpublished books ; in 1844, The Crock of Gold, The Twins, and Heart tales illustrative of social vices, and which passed through numerous editions ; in 1847, Probabilities, an Aid to Faith, giving a new view of Christian evidences ; A Thousand Lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, Lyrics, Ballads for the Times, Things to Come, A Dirge for Wellington, Church Ballads, White Slavery Ballads, American Ballads, Rifle Ballads, King Alfred, a patriotic play ; King Alfred's poems, translated from Anglo-Saxon into corresponding English metres.

Sir Alfred Edward East ( December 15, 1844 – September 28, 1913 ) was an English painter.

* Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh ( 1844 – 1900 )

On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties ; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection is the title of a joint presentation of two scientific papers to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858 ; On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type by Alfred Russel Wallace and an Extract from an unpublished Work on Species from Charles Darwin's Essay of 1844, together with an Abstract of a Letter from Darwin to Asa Gray.

* In 1881 Alfred Seale Haslam ( 1844 – 1927 ) of England equipped the liner Orient with Haslam refrigeration compressors.

* Henry Charles Prinsep ( 1844 – 1922 ), manager of family estates in Western Australia, civil servant, Chief Protector of Aborigines, artist, son of Charles Robert Prinsep, and brother of ' May ' Prinsep ( who married Hallam Tennyson, elder son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson ), born in Calcutta, died in Busselton, Western Australia, home of his wife Josephine Bussell's family

Alfred graduated from West Point in 1844 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U. S. Dragoons ( heavy cavalry ), stationed first at Fort Atkinson, Iowa.

He was writing up his theory in 1858 when he received an essay from Alfred Russel Wallace who was in Borneo, describing Wallace's own theory of natural selection, prompting immediate joint publication of extracts from Darwin's 1844 essay together with Wallace's paper as On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties ; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection in a presentation to the Linnaean Society on 1 July 1858.

* Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh & Saxe-Coburg_Gotha ( 1844 – 1900, GB ), invested 5 / 7 / 1864