* 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 – 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 )

Charles Melville Scammon's 1874 illustration of a gray whale

* 1811 – Charles Sumner, American politician ( d. 1874 )

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Charles Mason Remey ( May 15, 1874 – February 4, 1974 ) was a prominent and controversial American Bahá ' í who was appointed in 1951 a Hand of the Cause, and president of the International Bahá ' í Council.

Born in Burlington, Iowa, on May 15, 1874, Mason was the eldest son of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey and Mary Josephine Mason Remey, the daughter of Charles Mason, the first Chief Justice of Iowa.

* 1874 – Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer ( d. 1953 )

Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard ; HMS Challenger during the 1870s ; the USS Tuscarora ( 1873 – 76 ); and the German Gazelle ( 1874 – 76 ).

The other major contributors were John Rogers Herbert, finishing in 1864 but having had some commissions cancelled, Charles West Cope who worked until 1869, Edward Matthew Ward until 1874, Edward Armitage, George Frederic Watts, John Callcott Horsley, John Tenniel and Daniel Maclise.

* 1814 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer, archaeologist, and historian ( d. 1874 )

* April 22 – Charles B. Middleton, American actor ( b. 1874 )

** Charles Fort, American researcher of the unusual ( b. 1874 )

* September 8 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian ( d. 1874 )

* January 6 – Charles Sumner, American senator and civil rights activitist ( d. 1874 )

Charles Hoy Fort ( August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932 ) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena.

Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch ancestry.

The Hunting of the Snark ( An Agony in 8 Fits ) is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) in 1874, when he was 42 years old.

In 1874, Carte leased the Opera Comique, a small theatre off The Strand, where he presented a Brussels company in the British premiere of the operetta Giroflé-Giroflà by Charles Lecocq, followed by The Broken Branch, an English adaptation of Gaston Serpette's La branche cassée.

Often used for fly fishing the fly reel or fly casting reel has traditionally been rather simple in terms of mechanical construction, little has changed from the design patented by Charles F. Orvis in 1874.

It was discovered in 1874 by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau.

In 1874, at age 24, Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land, replacing Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake, who had died of malaria.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Charles Ernest Beulé ( 1826 – 1874 ), archeologist

In 1867, Rogers joined Pratt in forming Charles Pratt and Company, which was purchased by Standard Oil in 1874.

Charles W. Fairbanks was admitted to the bar in 1874 and went onto become a United States Vice President.