Editing 1844 (section)

=== January–March ===
[[File:Minna_Canth.jpg|thumb|right|100px|[[Minna Canth]]]]
[[File:Mayor PA Collins.png|thumb|right|100px|[[Patrick Collins (mayor)|Patrick Collins]]]]
[[File:John Boyle O'Reilly cph.3a38519.jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[John Boyle O'Reilly]]]]
* [[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 1]] – [[Dirk Van Raalte|Dirk van Raalte]], American [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] soldier and politician (d. [[1910]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Pablo de Sarasate]], Spanish violinist (d. [[1908]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Umberto I]], King of Italy (d. [[1900]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]], Russian composer (d. [[1908]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Minna Canth]], Finnish writer and social activist (d. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite web|last1=Maijala|first1=Minna|title=Minna Canth (1844–1897)|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/sukupuolentutkimus/klassikkogalleria/canth/|website=Klassikkogalleria|publisher=Kristiina Institute, [[University of Helsinki]]|access-date=8 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Adolf Engler]], German botanist (d. [[1930]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Paul Verlaine]], French poet (d. [[1896]])