page_title: 1844
section_title: January–March
hierarchical_section_title: 1844 / Births / January–March
caption_attribution_description: English: Mayors of Boston: An Illustrated Epitome of who the Mayors Have Been and What they Have Done, Boston, MA: State Street Trust Company, 1914,
context_page_description: 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1844th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 844th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1840s decade. As of the start of 1844, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 7 – Bernadette Soubirous, French visionary from Lourdes (d. 1879)
  January 9 – Julián Gayarre, Spanish opera singer (d. 1890)
  January 11 – Franz Schrader, French mountaineer, geographer, cartographer, and landscape painter (d. 1924)
  February 14 – Robert Themptander, 4th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1897)
  February 20
  Joshua Slocum, Canadian-born American seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
  Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (d. 1906)
  February 21 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist, composer (d. 1937)
  February 26 – Horace Harmon Lurton, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1914)
  February 28 – French Ensor Chadwick, American admiral (d. 1919)
  March 10 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
  March 18 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
  March 25 – Adolf Engler, German botanist (d. 1930)
  March 30 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896)
caption: Patrick Collins
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