* 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.

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

* 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 )

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In 1874 Karl Ferdinand Braun observed conduction and rectification in metallic sulphides, and Arthur Schuster found that a copper oxide layer on wires has rectification properties that ceases when the wires are cleaned.

* August 5 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada ( b. 1874 )

** The case of the Tichborne Claimant is decided against the claimant Arthur Orton ( who, as a result, is convicted of perjury in 1874 ).

Between 1870 and 1874 Arthur matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Arthur graduated from Oxford at 24 in 1874, but his career had come near to foundering during the final examinations on a special topic, modern history.

B. Peck ; 1870 – 1871, M. Robinson ; 1872 – 1873, S. M. Lester ; 1874, J. H. Bonesteel ; 1875, John H. Alsin ; 1876, David Horton ; 1878 – 1880, Milo Robinson ; 1881, Arthur M. Peck ; 1882, Andrew J.

1868, Lewis Robins ; 1869, Washington Snyder ; 1870 – 1871, Sylvester M. Lester ; 1872 – 1873, George F. Rogers ; 1874 – 1875, Alvin H. Cipperly ; 1876 – 1880, Arthur M. Peck ; 1881 – 1885, James C. Cotton ; 1886 – 1888, Sanford B. Horton ; 1889 – 1895, Frank Pettit ; 1896 -, John B. Martin.

** 1932 – September 1937 Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope ( 1874 – 1947 )

Arthur Sullivan composed incidental music for use in Act V of an 1874 production at the Gaiety Theatre, London, which was also used in the 1889 Haymarket Theatre production.

Set up by the entrepreneur Arthur Lasenby Liberty, who took out a loan for £ 2000 in 1874 and purchased 218a Regent Street.

In 1874 or 1875, John Sifton won contracts for preliminary construction work on the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) and moved the family to Winnipeg, where Arthur completed high school at Wesley College.

This was helped by the popular novels For the Term of His Natural Life ( 1874 ) by Marcus Clarke and The Broad Arrow ( 1859 ) by Caroline Leakey, which concerned themselves about convicts in Port Arthur.

* August 5 – Arthur Meighen, politician and 9th Prime Minister of Canada ( b. 1874 )

It was eventually renamed The Perth Gazette and was published by Arthur Shenton, until 26 June 1874, when it was bought by a syndicate who renamed it The Western Australian Times and increased production to two editions a week.

* Arthur Wills Blundell Trumbull Sandys Roden Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire ( 1844 – 1874 )

* Bernard Arthur William Patrick Hastings Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard ( 1874 – 1948 )

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC and Bar ( 4 April 1874 – 22 June 1953 ) was an English double recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Arthur Sauvé, PC ( October 1, 1874 – February 6, 1944 ) was born in Saint-Hermas ( today part of Mirabel, Quebec ).

* Most appearances: 9, Arthur Kinnaird ( Wanderers ) ( 1872 – 73, 1874 – 75, 1875 – 76, 1876 – 77, 1877 – 78 ) & ( Old Etonians ) ( 1878 – 79, 1880 – 81, 1881 – 82, 1882 – 83 )

* Arthur Wellesley Peel 1873 – 1874

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a. k. a. Arthur Schomburg ( January 24, 1874 – June 8, 1938 ), was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States who researched and raised awareness of the great contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Americans have made to society.

He was baptised in the Lower Bow Room of Buckingham Palace 27 November 1874 by Archibald Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury and his godparents were the Queen of the United Kingdom, the Emperor of Russia ( Alfred's maternal grandfather Alexander II, whose son Tsesarevich Alexander stood proxy for him ), the German Emperor ( for whom Alfred's paternal uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn stood proxy ), the German Crown Princess ( Alfred's paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein stood proxy ), the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( his paternal grand-uncle, for whom Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein stood proxy ), and the Prince of Wales ( his paternal uncle ).

Arthur Brown, Jr. ( 1874 – 1957 ) was a prominent American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks.