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1844
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s - 1840s - 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
Years: 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 - 1844 - 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
Events
Year in topic
Births
- February 17 - Montgomery Ward, department store founder
- February 20 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist
- February 20 - Joshua Slocum, seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
- February 21 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- March 10 - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist (d. 1908)
- March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (d. 1908)
- March 30 - Paul Verlaine, lyric poet (d. 1896)
- May 17 - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
- May 19 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
- May 21 - Henri Rousseau, artist (d. 1910)
- May 22 - Mary Cassatt, artist
- May 23 - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Persian religious leader
- July 11 - King Peter I of Serbia
- July 22 - William Archibald Spooner, British scholar and Anglican priest .
- August 6 - Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, later Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria
- August 22 - George Washington DeLong, American naval officer/ill-fated explorer (d. 1881)
- October 15 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
- October 22 - Louis Riel, Metis leader
- October 22 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
- November 2 - Mehmed V, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
- November 23 - Karl Benz,German automotive pioneer
- December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, later Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Deaths
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