* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968

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

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

* 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 )

In 1874, Gilbert wrote a short libretto on commission from producer – conductor Carl Rosa, whose wife would have played the leading role, but her death in childbirth cancelled the project.

This area was named for German doctor Carl Wernicke, who discovered it in 1874 in the course of his research into aphasias ( loss of ability to speak ).

Neoclassical economics is frequently dated from William Stanley Jevons's Theory of Political Economy ( 1871 ), Carl Menger's Principles of Economics ( 1871 ), and Léon Walras's Elements of Pure Economics ( 1874 – 1877 ).

* April 26 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1874 )

James Clerk Maxwell and Elihu Thomson ( through the British Association for the Advancement of Science-BAAS ) introduced the Centimetre gram second system of units ( cgs ) in 1874, in order to derive electric and magnetic metric units, following the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1832.

However, the print runs of these rather expensive albums did not come close to that produced in 1909 by the German publisher Karl Robert Langewiesche ( 1874 – 1931 ): His choice of watercolours, drawings and text by Carl Larsson, titled Das Haus in der Sonne ( The House in the Sun ), immediately became one of the German publishing industry's best-sellers of the year-40, 000 copies sold in three months, and more than 40 print runs have been produced up to 2001.

* Carl G. Fisher, ( January 12, 1874 – July 15, 1939 ) Entrepreneur involved with starting the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and developing Miami Beach.

In the summer of 1874 Carl Fredrik Hill travelled to the village of Barbizon south of Paris, a Mecca for artists worldwide.

Carl Bosch ( 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940 ) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel laureate in chemistry.

Jevons ' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna ( 1871 ) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland ( 1874 ), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought.

Carl G. Fisher | Carl Graham Fisher ( 1874 – 1938 ) of Indiana, an American vehicle parts and highway entrepreneur, co-founder and first President of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

His father Carl Mathias Rott ( real name Roth, born 1807, married 1862 ) was a famous comic actor in Vienna who was crippled in 1874 by a stage accident, and died two years later.

They are named after Dorothy Reed Mendenhall ( 1874 – 1964 ) and Carl Sternberg ( 1872 – 1935 ), who provided the first definitive microscopic descriptions of Hodgkin's disease.

The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).

Schichau gained an associate when his daughter married around 1873 Carl H. Ziese ( 1848-1917 ) the constructor in 1874 of the first Compound engine to be integrated in a German gunship.

Wernicke's area is named after Carl Wernicke, a German neurologist and psychiatrist who, in 1874, hypothesized a link between the left posterior section of the superior temporal gyrus and the reflexive mimicking of words and their syllables that associated the sensory and motor images of spoken words.

Before Koplik, the German internist Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt ( 1833-1902 ) in 1874, the Danish physician N. Flindt in 1879, and the Russian Nil Filatov ( 1847-1902 ) in 1895, had observed equivalent phenomena.

The Treatise on Chemistry, written in collaboration with Carl Schorlemmer ( 1834 – 1892 ), who was appointed his private assistant at Manchester in 1859, official assistant in the laboratory in 1861, and professor of organic chemistry in 1874, was long regarded as a standard work.

In Germany, Carl Hagenbeck, a merchant in wild animals and future entrepreneur of many European zoos, decided in 1874 to exhibit Samoan and Sami people as " purely natural " populations.

This work was followed by Carl Thiersch, and in 1874 salicylic acid was synthesised, the active ingredient in Aspirin.

* Carl Schlechter ( 1874 – 1918 ), Austrian chess master

Thus, he had to turn to Physiology, and he came back to von Brücke's laboratory in Vienna after studying for a year with Carl Ludwig ( 1816 – 1895 ), another famous physiologist at the University of Leipzig, Germany, obtaining his doctoral degree in Medicine in 1874.

U. S. Senator from Missouri Carl Schurz quoted extensively from one of Price's treatises during his Senate speech of January 14, 1874.