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* [[13 November]] – [[Andrew Harper]], biblical scholar and teacher (born in the [[United Kingdom]]) (d. [[1936]])

* [[13 November]] – [[Andrew Harper]], biblical scholar and teacher (born in the [[United Kingdom]]) (d. [[1936]])

* [[21 November]] – [[Ada Cambridge]], writer and poet (born in the [[United Kingdom]]) (d. [[1926]])

* [[21 November]] – [[Ada Cambridge]], writer and poet (born in the [[United Kingdom]]) (d. [[1926]])

* 14 December – [[Maggie Oliver (actor)|Maggie Oliver]], actor and comedian (d. [[1892]])

* [[5 December]] – [[Charles Mackellar|Sir Charles Mackellar]], New South Wales politician and surgeon (d. [[1926]])

* [[5 December]] – [[Charles Mackellar|Sir Charles Mackellar]], New South Wales politician and surgeon (d. [[1926]])

* Unknown – [[William Sawers]], New South Wales politician (born in the [[United Kingdom]]) (d. [[1916]])

* Unknown – [[William Sawers]], New South Wales politician (born in the [[United Kingdom]]) (d. [[1916]])

The following lists events that happened during 1844 in Australia.

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla [Barngarla] Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer’s Gulf, is compiled by Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann, a Lutheran missionary in South Australia.
• Letters on the Culture of the Vine, Fermentation, and the Management of the Cellar is published by botanist and vigneron, Sir William Macarthur.
• The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List is first published by Charles Kemp and John Fairfax.
• Hawkesbury Courier newspaper commenced publication in Windsor, New South Wales by Geoffrey Amos Eagar.
• A painting of the Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen’s Land is completed by painter, John Skinner Prout.
• Louisa Anne Meredith publishes her book, Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, an account of her first 11 years in Australia.

• 3 January – Michael Rush, champion rower (born Ireland) (d. 1922)
• 24 January – Alexander Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908)
• 31 January – James McColl, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
• 7 February – Joseph Brown, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
• 8 February – John McGarvie Smith, metallurgist, bacteriologist and benefactor (d. 1918)
• 26 February – Thomas Glassey, 1st Queensland Opposition Leader (born in Ireland) (d. 1936)
• 16 March – Thomas Blackburn, priest and entomologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1912)
• 28 March – Emma Howson, opera singer and actress (d. 1928)
• 17 March – Sir Henry Briggs, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
• 6 April
• 9 May – Thomas Macdonald-Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906)
• 11 May – Watkin Wynne, journalist, councillor and newspaper owner (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921)
• 16 May – Sir John Madden, 4th Chief Justice of Victoria (born in Ireland) (d. 1918)
• 28 June – John Boyle O’Reilly, Irish poet, journalist and escapee convict (born in Ireland) (d. 1890)
• 21 August – Carl Feilberg, journalist, newspaper editor and human rights activist (born in Denmark) (d. 1887)
• 26 August – J. C. Williamson, actor (born in the United States) (d. 1913)
• 27 August – Rosina Palmer (née Carandini), opera singer (d.1932)
• 30 August – William Tietkens, explorer and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
• 2 September – James Macfarlane, Tasmanian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914)
• 10 September – Abel Hoadley, businessman and confectioner (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918)
• 26 September – Charles Strong, preacher and minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1942)
• 29 September – Edward Pulsford, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
• 14 October – Sir John See, 14th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1907)
• 15 October – John Gavan Duffy, Victorian politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1917)
• 21 October – Joseph William Sutton, engineer, shipbuilder, inventor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914)
• 22 October – Margaret Forrest, botanical collector (born France’) (d. 1929)
• 13 November – Andrew Harper, biblical scholar and teacher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1936)
• 21 November – Ada Cambridge, writer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
• 14 December – Maggie Oliver, actor and comedian (d. 1892)
• 5 December – Sir Charles Mackellar, New South Wales politician and surgeon (d. 1926)
• Unknown – William Sawers, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1916)
• Unknown – William McMinn, surveyor and architect, (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1884)
• Unknown – Mary Jane Cain, community leader and Gomeroi woman (d. 1929)
• Unknown – Alfred James Daplyn, painter (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)

• 13 February – John Knatchbull, murderer, is publicly executed in Sydney (born in the United Kingdom) (b.1789)
• 30 April – George Jones, bushranger is publicly executed in Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1815)
• 19 May – Conrad Theodore Knowles, actor and theatre manager (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1810)
• 29 June – Sir John Jamison, New South Wales politician, physician and pastoralist (born in Ireland) (b. 1776)
• 8 July – John Terry, miller and farmer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1771)
• 14 September – Prosper de Mestre, businessman and merchant (born in France) (b. 1789)
• 27 September – Sir James Dowling, 2nd Chief Justice of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)
• 22 October – John Charles Darke, explorer, died after being speared (born in the United Kingdom) (b.1806)
• Undated – Anna Josepha King, settler and First Lady of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1765)