* 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 )

* 1949 – François Brandt, Dutch rower ( b. 1874 )

* 1787 – François Guizot, French statesman ( d. 1874 )

** François Coty, French perfume manufacturer ( b. 1874 )

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (; 1787 – 1874 )

French historians of the first half of the 19th century like the politician and man of letters François Guizot ( 1787 – 1874 ), historian François Mignet ( published Histoire de la Révolution française in 1824 ), and famous philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville ( L ’ Ancien Régime et la Révolution, 1856 ) established and wrote in this tradition.

François Coty ( born Joseph Marie François Spoturno ; 3 May 1874, Ajaccio, France – 25 July 1934, Louveciennes ) was a French perfume manufacturer, newspaper publisher, and founder of the fascist league Solidarité Française.

Joseph Marie François Spoturno was born on 3 May 1874 in Ajaccio, Corsica.

* De la proprieté et de ses formes primitives ( 1874 ), dedicated to the memory of John Stuart Mill and François Huet.

He then trained under a number of distinguised Paris physicians including René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec ( 1781 – 1826 ), Baron Guillaume Dupuytren ( 1777 – 1835 ), François Magendie ( 1783 – 1855 ), and Léon-Jean-Baptiste Cruveilhier ( 1791 – 1874 ).

* COTY, François ( 1874 – 1934 ) Solidarité Française leader.

An understanding of the economy as consisting of linked sectors goes back to the French economist François Quesnay, but was developed in full generality by Léon Walras in 1874.

An understanding of the economy as consisting of linked sectors goes back to the French economist François Quesnay, but was developed in full generality by Léon Walras in 1874.

Daniel François Malan, former Prime Minister responsible for laying the groundwork for Apartheid ( 1874 – 1959 )

He wrote two librettos for operas by Edmond Membrée ( 1820-1892 ), François Villon ( 1857 ) and L ' Esclave ( 1874 ).

* Daniel François Malan ( 22 May 1874 – 7 February 1959 ), D. F.

François Désiré Roulin ( August 1796 – 5 June 1874 ) was a French naturalist, physician and illustrator born in Rennes.

* François Velde, in thread " Keepers of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1874 – 1907 ", newsgroup alt. talk. royalty, 26 April 2005

* Jean-Baptiste François Anne Thomas Landriot ( 1867 – 1874 )

* François Coty ( 1874 – 1934 ), perfume maker and founder of Solidarité Française and Coty, Inc.