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Events from the year 1844 in France .
7 January – St. Bernadette Soubirous , (died 1879 )
21 February – Charles-Marie Widor , organist and composer (died 1937 )
26 February – Étienne Aymonier , linguist, explorer and archaeologist (died 1929 )
30 March – Paul Verlaine , poet (died 1896 )
16 April – Anatole France , author, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 (died 1924 )
3 May – Édouard Drumont , journalist and writer (died 1917 )
21 May – Henri Rousseau , painter (died 1910 )
3 August – Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy , archaeologist (died 1920 )
22 October – Sarah Bernhardt , actress (died 1923 )
23 October – Edouard Branly , inventor and physicist (died 1940 )
8 December – Charles-Émile Reynaud , science teacher, responsible for the first animated films (died 1918 )
1 January – Gustave Maximilien Juste de Croÿ-Solre , Cardinal , Archbishop of Rouen (born 1773 )
25 January – Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon , Marshal of France (born 1765 )
27 January – Charles Nodier , author (born 1780 )
8 March – Charles XIV John of Sweden , King of Sweden and Norway , Marshal of France (born 1763 )
26 May – Jacques Laffitte , banker and politician (born 1767 )
3 June – Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême , the last Dauphin of France (born 1775 )
28 July – Joseph Bonaparte , elder brother of Napoleon I , who made him King of Naples and Sicily and later King of Spain (born 1768 )
14 November – Flora Tristan , socialist writer and activist (born 1803 )[ 1]
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