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Months in Year 1844: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 94 of 94

Jan 4th - Thomas H Rollinson, composer
Jan 7th - Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary
Jan 14th - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer
Jan 16th - Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)
Jan 20th - Johan Peter Selmer, composer
Jan 25th - Frederick E Kitziger, composer
Jan 30th - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17)
Feb 1st - Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen)
Feb 1st - Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
Feb 2nd - Leander Schlegel, composer
Feb 17th - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)
Feb 18th - Willem Maris, Dutch painter (Hague School)
Feb 20th - Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)
Feb 20th - Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
Feb 21st - Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
Feb 22nd - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
Mar 2nd - Hermanus J A M Schaepman, clergyman/Dutch politician
Mar 4th - Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
Mar 6th - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)
Mar 7th - Anthony Comstock, New Canaan Ct, anti-vice crusader/philatelist
Mar 10th - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dancing)
Mar 14th - King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900)
Mar 15th - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
Mar 18th - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
Mar 19th - Minna Canth, Finland, playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist
Mar 23rd - Eugene Gigout, composer
Mar 27th - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
Mar 30th - Paul M Verlaine, France, lyric poet (Sagesse Bonbeur)
Mar 31st - Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
Apr 6th - Joseph Ludwig, composer
Apr 16th - Anatole France, writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921)
Apr 22nd - Lewis Thornton Powell, would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
May 2nd - Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
May 3rd - Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
May 3rd - Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
May 8th - Hermann Gradener, composer
May 9th - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Bad Herders)
May 17th - Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918)
May 20th - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
May 22nd - Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
May 23rd - `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
May 28th - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
May 30th - Louis Varney, composer
Jun 1st - Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916
Jun 1st - John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
Jun 3rd - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet
Jun 3rd - Emile Paladilhe, composer
Jun 3rd - Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
Jun 6th - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (d. 1905)
Jun 10th - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school)
Jun 10th - Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
Jun 14th - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
Jun 21st - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)
Jul 1st - Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)
Jul 8th - Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator (Boston Cooking School)
Jul 11th - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia
Jul 22nd - William Archibald Spooner, London, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms)
Jul 25th - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
Jul 28th - Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover)
Jul 31st - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
Aug 6th - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
Aug 7th - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
Aug 17th - Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913)
Aug 29th - Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
Aug 30th - Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
Sep 10th - Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918)
Sep 11th - George Clement Martin, composer
Sep 20th - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (d. 1893)
Sep 28th - Michael Hertz, composer
Sep 28th - Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, NZ prime minister (1884-87)
Oct 3rd - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
Oct 5th - Francis William Reitz, State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
Founder of Heinz Henry John Heinz (Oct 11th) Oct 11th - Henry John Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57 varieties), (d. 1919)
Oct 12th - George W Cable, American writer (Northampton Years)
Oct 15th - Friedrich Nietzsche, Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil), (d. 1900)
Oct 17th - Miguel Nieto, composer
Oct 18th - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer
Oct 23rd - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis
Oct 23rd - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche)
Oct 24th - Karl Lueger, anti semitic mayor of Vienna
Oct 27th - Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
Oct 29th - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker
Oct 30th - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
Nov 3rd - Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
Nov 10th - John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
Nov 10th - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (d. 1932)
Nov 12th - Octave Fouque, composer
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Oct 15th) Nov 25th - Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor)
Dec 1st - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
Dec 1st - Alfred Cellier, composer
Dec 4th - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)
Dec 5th - John Frederick Bridge, composer
Dec 18th - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist
Dec 22nd - Izydor Lotto, composer

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