Famous People Born in 1844

Feb 22 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, Polish composer, born in Krakow (d. 1890)
Mar 2 Herman Schaepman 'the Doctor', Dutch poet, Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and politician, born in Tubbergen, Netherlands (d. 1903)
Mar 4 Josip Jurčič, Slovene writer (10th Brother), born in Muljava, Austrian Empire (d. 1881)
Mar 7 Anthony Comstock, American anti-vice crusader/philatelist, born in New Canaan, Connecticut (d. 1915)
Mar 10 Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (Spanish Dancer), born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 1908)
Mar 14 Umberto I of Italy, King of Italy (1878-1900), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1900)
Mar 18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (Scheherazade), born in Tikhvin (d. 1908) (OS 6 Mar)
Mar 19 Minna Canth, Finnish playwright (The Pastor's Family) and social activist, born in Tampere, Finland (d. 1897)
Mar 23 Eugène Gigout, French organist (St Augustin de Paris, 1863-1925), and composer (10 pièces pour orgue), born in Nancy, France (d. 1925)
Mar 27 Adolphus Washington Greely, American Arctic explorer and recipient of the Medal of Honor, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts (d. 1935)
Mar 30 Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet (Sagesse; Clair de lune; Hombres), born in Metz, France (d. 1896)
Mar 31 Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books), born in Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland (d. 1912)
Apr 16 Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault], French writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921), born in Paris (d. 1924)
Apr 19 Sir Alexander Ogston, British surgeon (discovered Staphylococcus), educator, and military doctor, born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1929)
Apr 21 Ted Barratt, English cricket spin bowler (10-43 in tour match vs Australia 1878; MCC, Surrey CCC), born in Stockton-on-Tees, England (d. 1891)
Apr 22 Lewis Powell, American Confederate soldier who was part of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and who attempted to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, born in Randolph, Alabama (d. 1865)

Elijah McCoy (1844-1929)

May 2 Canadian-American inventor of African descent, notable for his 57 US patents (lubrication of steam engines), born in Colchester, Ontario

May 3 Édouard Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist, born in Paris (d. 1917)
May 3 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English opera impresario (Gilbert & Sullivan operas), born in London (d. 1901)
May 3 Thomas Kelly, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 35; Victoria CA), born in County Waterford, Ireland (d. 1893)
May 8 Hermann Gradener, German composer, born in Kiel, Germany (d. 1929)
May 9 (Maria) Catharina Beersmans, Belgian stage actress (Medea; The Empty Cradle; The Bad Shepherds), born in Turnhout, Belgium (d. 1899)
May 17 Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (analysis of the structure and dating of the Pentateuch), born in Hamelin, Hanover, Germany (d. 1918)
May 21 Henri Rousseau, French post-impressionist painter (The Dream, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope), born in Laval, France (d. 1910)
May 22 Mary Cassatt, American impressionist painter (Woman Bathing), born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
May 23 `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
May 28 Léon Vasseur, French composer, born in Bapaume, France (d. 1917)
May 30 Louis Varney, French composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1908)
Jun 1 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1916)
Jun 1 John J. Toffey, American Civil War hero (d. 1911)
Jun 3 Detlev von Liliencron, German writer (Rides of the Adjutant and Other Poems), born in Kiel, Holstein (d. 1909)
Jun 3 Emile Paladilhe, French composer, born in Montpellier, France (d. 1926)
Jun 3 Garret Hobart, American politician (R) 24th US Vice President (1897-99), born in Long Branch, New Jersey (d. 1899)
Jun 6 Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (Travellers in Auvergne), born in Taganrog, Russia (d. 1905)
Jun 10 Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter of peasant families (Laren School), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1914)
Jun 10 Carl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1913)
Jun 14 Édouard Naville, Swiss Egyptologist (Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1926)
Jun 21 Ernest F. Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway) (d. 1909)
Jul 1 Verney Lovett Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), born in Radipole, Dorset, England (d. 1894)
Jul 8 Mary Johnson Lincoln, American cooking teacher and author (Boston Cooking School), born in n South Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 1921)
Jul 11 Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), born in Belgrade, Ottoman Tributary Principality of Serbia (d. 1921)
Jul 22 William Archibald Spooner, English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms), born in London, England (d. 1930)

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Jul 25 American artist (The Gross Clinic), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jul 28 Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (Windhover), born in Stratford, London (d. 1889)
Jul 31 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist and archaeologist, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1935)
Aug 6 Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, born in Windsor Castle, Windsor, England (d. 1900)
Aug 7 Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and petrologist, born in Paris (d. 1911)

Menelik II (1844-1913)

Aug 17 Emperor of Ethiopia (1889-1913) and Negus/King of Shewa (1866–89), born in Angolalla, Ethiopia

Aug 22 George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer whose disastrous expedition provided evidence to support the theory of trans-Arctic oceanic drift, born in NYC, New York (d. 1881)
Aug 29 Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure), born in Hove, Sussex, England (d. 1929)
Aug 30 Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1904)
Sep 10 Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (Violet Crumble), born in East Sussex, England (d. 1918)
Sep 11 George Martin, English composer and organist, born in Lambourn, Berkshire (d. 1916)
Sep 20 William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer, born in Leeds, England (d. 1893)
Sep 28 Robert Stout, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1884-87), born in Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland (d. 1930)
Oct 3 Patrick Manson, Scottish physician and parasitologist (Father of tropical medicine), born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (d. 1922)
Oct 5 Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State, born in Swellendam, Cape Colony (d. 1934)

Henry John Heinz (1844-1919)

Oct 11 German-American entrepreneur who founded prepared-foods company (H.J. Heinz Company-57 varieties), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Oct 12 George W. Cable, American writer (Northampton Years), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1925)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Oct 15 German philosopher and philologist (Beyond Good and Evil), born in Röcken, Saxony, Prussia

Oct 17 Miguel Nieto, Spanish composer, born in Reus, Spain (d. 1915)
Oct 18 Émile Mathieu, Belgian composer, born in Lille, France (d. 1932)
Oct 18 Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist known for leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, born in Kent, Indiana (d. 1930)

Louis Riel (1844-1885)

Oct 22 Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies, born in Red River Colony, Rupert's Land, British North America

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)

Oct 22 French actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth), born in Paris, France

Oct 23 Robert Bridges, English poet (Testament of beauty) and British Poet Laureate (1913-30), born in Walmer, Kent (d. 1930)
Oct 24 Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1910)
Oct 27 Klas Arnoldson, Swedish politician and pacifist (Nobel Peace 1908), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1916)
Oct 29 Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild, Austrian banker and member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria, born in Vienna, Austrian Empire (d. 1911)
Nov 2 Mehmed V, 35th Ottoman Sultan (1909-18), born in Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1918)
Nov 10 Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian, born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1932)
Nov 12 Octave Fouqué, French pianist and composer, born in Pau (d. 1883)

Karl Benz (1844-1929)

Nov 25 German inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz), born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg

Dec 1 Alexandra, Danish princess, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1925)
Dec 1 Alfred Cellier, British conductor (Glibert and Sullivan) and composer (Dorothy), born in South Hackney, London (d. 1891)
Dec 4 Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus, born in Rottweil, Württemberg (d. 1914)
Dec 5 Frederick Bridge, English organist and composer, born in Oldbury, Worcestershire (d. 1924)
Dec 18 Lujo Brentano, German economist and social refermer, born in Aschaffenburg, Germany (d. 1931)
Dec 22 Izydor Lotto, Polish violinist & composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1927)

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