What Happened In July 1844 In History

Historical Events for July, 1844

• 3rd » The last pair of Great Auks is killed.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1844

• 22nd » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
• 25th » Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor, and photographer (d. 1916)
• 26th » Stefan Drzewiecki, Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
• 28th » Gerard Manley Hopkins, English priest and poet (d. 1889)

Famous Deaths for July 1844

• 7th » Lewis Powell (conspirator) e.g Lewis Payne (b. 1844)
• 11th » Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian philosopher and poet (b. 1800)
• 15th » Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
• 27th » John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (b. 1776)
• 28th » Joseph Bonaparte, French brother of Napoleon (b. 1768)
• 29th » Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1791)

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