* The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874 – 1968

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

* 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 )

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

Flemish ( green ) and French ( red / brown ) as spoken in the arrondissement of Dunkirk in France, in 1874 and 1972

Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers ( 23 August 1803 Antwerp – 6 December 1874 Paris ) is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish.

André Henri Constant van Hasselt ( ; 5 January 1806 – 1 December 1874 ) was a Flemish poet.

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

John Moultrie ( 1799 – 1874 ) was an English clergyman, known as a poet and hymn-writer.

Woodsworth College, named after politician and clergyman James Shaver Woodsworth ( 1874 – 1942 ), is a college within the University of Toronto.

Charles Amyand Harris ( 1813 – 1874 ), third son of the second Earl, was a clergyman and served as Bishop of Gibraltar from 1868 to 1873.

* John Moultrie ( poet ) ( 30 December 1799-26 December 1874 ), English clergyman, poet, and hymn writer

At 42, Selous settled in Worplesdon, England, and married 20 year old Marie Catherine Gladys Maddy ( born 1874 ), daughter of a clergyman Canon Henry William Maddy, and had two sons, Frederick Hatherley Bruce Selous ( 1898 – 1918 ) and Harold Sherborn Selous.

Sidney Faithorn Green ( 1841 – 1916 ) was a British clergyman who, during the Ritualist controversies in the Church of England, was imprisoned for 20 months for liturgical practice contrary to the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874.

* 1874 – Vincent Scotto, French composer ( d. 1952 )

* 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and developed Marconi's law, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics ( d. 1937 )

Image: Berthe Morisot Caça de borboleta. jpg | Chasing Butterflies, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris 1874

The original acts and debates of the council, as prepared by its general secretary, Bishop Angelo Massarelli, in six large folio volumes, are deposited in the Vatican Library and remained there unpublished for more than 300 years and were brought to light, though only in part, by Augustin Theiner, priest of the oratory ( d. 1874 ), in Acta genuina sancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini nunc primum integre edita ( 2 vols., Leipzig, 1874 ).

* 1795 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Ernst Moro, Austrian physician ( d. 1951 )

* 1874 – Lucien Démanet, French gymnast ( d. 1979 )

* 1874 – Joseph Olivier, French rugby player ( d. 1901 )

* 1874 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer ( d. 1939 )