* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1874 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman ( d. 1949 )

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1874 – Otto Steffen, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

* 1814 – Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist ( d. 1874 )

* 1946 – Francis Newton, American golfer ( b. 1874 )

* 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )

* 1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian ( d. 1874 )

* Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1874 – 1899 )

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Alfonso's short reign established the foundations for the final socioeconomic recuperation of Spain after the 1808 – 1874 crisis.

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author ( d. 1941 )

* 1874 – Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic, Croatian writer ( d. 1938 )

In 1899, Ladislas Deutsch ( Laszlo Detre ) ( 1874 – 1939 ) named the hypothetical substances halfway between bacterial constituents and antibodies " substances immunogenes ou antigenes ".

* 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

* 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist ( b. 1874 )

* 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist ( d. 1952 )

* 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States ( d. 1964 )

* 1908: The term " stem cell " was proposed for scientific use by the Russian histologist Alexander Maksimov ( 1874 – 1928 ) at congress of hematologic society in Berlin.

* August 14 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

* William Alexander Smith ( politician ) ( 1828 – 1888 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from North Carolina ( 1873 – 1874 )

The village is named for Alexander B McBride, a settler from Wayne County, New York, who built a sawmill here in 1874.

Scottdale was incorporated as a borough on February 5, 1874 and at that time renamed in honor of Thomas Alexander Scott, who had been president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and served as Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War.

Flatonia opened on April 8, 1874 on land that the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway acquired from William Alexander Faries ( the family name is also spelled Ferris and Farris ).

Samuel Alexander Cockayne ( 1874 – 1953 ), son of Samuel A. J. Cockayne and Hannah Jane ( Alexander ) Cockayne, inherited the farm upon his mother's death in 1917.

Fabergé had four sons: Eugène ( 1874 – 1960 ), Agathon ( 1876 – 1951 ), Alexander ( 1877 – 1952 ) and Nicholas ( 1884 – 1939 ).

On 17 November 1919, Alexander married the non-royal Greek " aristocrat " Aspasia Manos ( 1896 – 1972 ) of the Manos family, the daughter of colonel Petros Manos ( 1871 – 1918 ) and his wife Maria Argyropoulous ( 1874 – 1930 ).

On 23 January 1874, the Duke of Edinburgh married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the second ( and only surviving ) daughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Ludwig II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and Wilhelmine of Baden, at the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.

Additionally, Alexander Graham Bell's family's first home in North America was a farmhouse on Tutela Heights ( named after the First Nations tribe which settled the area, and later absorbed into Brantford ) where Bell invented the electric telephone in July, 1874 — although he built his first working model in Boston — and then developed early improvements to it in 1876.

* Alexander Hunter Murray ( 1818 / 9 – 1874 ), Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and artist

* Maria Alexandrovna, consort of Alexander II of Russia, spent the winter of 1874 in Sanremo and as a gift to the city she donated the palms along the seaside walk of Corso Imperatrice ( Empress Avenue ).

* Prince Alexander of Teck ( 1874 – 1957 ); later Earl of Athlone.

Prince Alexander of Teck was born at Kensington Palace on 14 April 1874, the fourth child and third son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, and Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck.

* Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( 1874 – 1957 )

* Princess Olga Alexandrovna Yurievskaya ( 7 November 1874 – 10 August 1925 ); married Georg Nikolaus, Count of Merenberg, a morganatic son of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau by his wife, Natalia Aleksandrovna, daughter of Alexander Pushkin.

T. Gill, Mount Alexander Diggings, 1874

In 1874, the Liberals agreed not to put candidates against Thomas Burt and Alexander Macdonald, two miners ' leaders who were standing for Parliament.

In 1906 the citizens of the Brantford and Brant County areas formed the Bell Memorial Association to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in July 1874 at his parent's home, Melville House, in Brantford, Ontario.

The Rhind lectures began in 1874 after the death of Alexander Rhind who left the residue of his estate to endow a lectureship in the Society and there have now been over 130 lectures and many have become the published textbook for a generation.