Editing 1844 (section)

=== January–June ===
* [[January 25]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon]], French marshal (b. [[1765]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[Charles Nodier]], French writer (b. [[1780]])
** [[William Gadsby|Wiliam Gadsby]], English [[Strict Baptist]] leader (b. [[1773]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]] (b. [[1784]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough]] (b. [[1758]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1757]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Nicholas Biddle (banker)|Nicholas Biddle]], president of the Second Bank of the United States (b. [[1786]])
* [[March]] – [[Carlota (rebel leader)|Carlota]], Cuban slave rebel leader 
* [[March 6]] – [[Gabriel Duvall]], American politician and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (b. [[1752]])
* [[March 8]] – King [[Charles XIV John of Sweden]], Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, French Napoleonic general (b. [[1763]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Claude Pierre Pajol]], French military leader (b. [[1772]])
* [[April 3]] – [[Edward Bigge]], English cleric, 1st [[Archdeacon of Lindisfarne]] (b. [[1807]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Mamiya Rinzō]], Japanese explorer of [[Sakhalin]] (b. [[1775]])
* [[April 17]] – [[James Scarlett Abinger]], English judge (b. [[1769]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Richard McCarty (U.S. politician)|Richard McCarty]], American politician (b. [[1780]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Thomas Charles Hope]], Scottish chemist, discoverer of strontium (b. [[1766]])
* [[June 15]] – [[Thomas Campbell (poet)|Thomas Campbell]], Scottish poet (b. [[1777]])
* [[June 27]]
** [[Hyrum Smith]], American [[Latter Day Saint]] leader (b. [[1800]])
** [[Joseph Smith]], American founder of the [[Latter Day Saint movement]] (b. [[1805]])