Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). | [edit] Events of 1874 [edit] January–March [edit] April–June [edit] July–September [edit] October–December [edit] Undated [edit] Births [edit] January–June - January 1 – Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
- January 4 – Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
- January 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
- January 16 – Robert W. Service, American poet (d. 1958)
- January 20 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer, cricketer and baseball player (d. 1938)
- January 21 – Frederick Madison Smith, American religious leader and author (d. 1946)
- January 25 – William Somerset Maugham, English author (d. 1965)
- January 29 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
- February 1 – Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (d. 1929)
- February 2 – William T. Innes, American writer, ichthyologist, publisher (d. 1969)
- February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts (d. 1946)
- February 9 – Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925)
- February 11
- February 15 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922)
- February 17 – Thomas J. Watson, American computer pioneer (d. 1956)
- February 20 – Mary Garden, American opera soprano of Scots descent (some sources state her birth year as 1877) (d. 1967)
- February 23 – Konstantin Päts, Estonian president (d. 1956)
- February 24 – Honus Wagner, baseball player (d. 1955)
- March 20 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
- March 24 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
- March 26 – Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
- March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
- April 8 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (d. 1960)
- April 15 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
- April 19 – Ernst Rudin, Swiss psychiatrist and geneticist (d. 1952)
- April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
- May 3 – François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
- May 9 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
- May 14 – Polaire, French actress and singer (d. 1939)
- May 19 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
- May 29 – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author (d. 1936)
- June 11 – Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer (d. 1951)
- June 16 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
- June 19 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)
[edit] July–December - July 14 – Abbas II, last khedive of Egypt (d. 1944)
- July 26 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
- July 27 – Frank Shannon, American actor (d. 1959)
- July 29 – J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
- August 6 – Charles Fort, Dutch-American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
- August 10 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
- August 27 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
- September 13
- September 21 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
- October 8 – Nance O'Neil, stage & film actress, friend of Lizzie Borden (d. 1965)
- October 13 – József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (d. 1948)
- October 15 – Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d. 1899)
- October 20 – Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- October 26 – Martin Lowry, English chemist (d. 1936)
- November 9 – The New York Zoo hoax, a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo
- November 15 – August Krogh, Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1949)
- November 29 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1955)
- November 30
- December 13 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944)
- December 17 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
- December 22 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - January 8 – Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
- January 17 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins and sideshow performers (b. 1811)
- January 19 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
- February 3 – William Charles Lunalilo, last monarch of the House of Kamehameha (b. 1835)
- February 8 – David Friedrich Strauss, German theologian (b. 1808)
- February 24 – John Bachman, American Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist, (b. 1790)
- March 8 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
- March 10 – Moritz von Jacobi, German engineer and physicist (b. 1801)
- March 20 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
- April 13 – Etō Shinpei, Japanese statesman (executed) (b. 1834)
- April 20 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
- June 20 – John Ruggles, American politician (b. 1789)
- June 21 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1814)
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