Famous people born in 1844
Belle Boyd
Isabella Maria Boyd renowned as Belle Boyd was one of the most notorious Confederate spies during the ‘American Civil War’
Anatole France
Anatole France was a Nobel Prize winning writer and critic of French origin
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Eakins was an American realist painter, counted amongst the most important artists in American art history
Garret Hobart
Garret Hobart served as the 24th Vice President of the United States, under President William McKinley
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann was a famous Austrian physicist who is the eponym for the Boltzmann Constant in physics
Bernadette Soubirous
Saint Bernadette was a Christian Saint who had Marian apparitions of a small young lady who identified herself as the Immaculate Conception
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt was an American artist famous for her paintings depicting the intimate bond between mothers and children
Muhammad Ahmad
Muhammad Ahmad was a Sudanese religious leader, who claimed to be deliverer of evil, the ‘Mahdi’, and led a successful ‘jihad’ movement
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scottish literary critic best known for collecting fairy tales