* 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 )

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

Both companies became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874.

Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.

* 1961 – John F. O ' Ryan, American major general ( b. 1874 )

* John Brown ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1874 – 1950 ), English cricketer

* John Carter Brown ( 1797 – 1874 ), book collector

* John Randall Walker ( 1874 – 1942 ), U. S. Representative from Georgia

* John Walker ( footballer ) ( 1874 – 1940 ), Scottish international footballer

Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, an 1874 painting by John William Waterhouse

* 1789 – John Ruggles, American politician ( d. 1874 )

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.

John Camden Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang Dictionary in 1874 as a " term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident.

Thomas John Watson, Sr. ( February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956 ) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines ( IBM ), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.

* May 11 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist ( b. 1874 )

* December 25 – John Phillips, British geologist ( d. 1874 )

* John Abbott ( Newfoundland politician ) ( 1874 – 1930 ), Newfoundland politician

* John Sinker ( 1874 – 1936 ), MA, an eminent Anglican priest and author in the 20th century

* John George MacCarthy, Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1874 – 1880

Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, by John William Waterhouse, 1874.

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

* John Henry Anderson ( 1814 – 1874 ), Scottish conjurer

It was not until 1874 where the firm of Amédée Bollée and sons made a reasonably well-tuned carillon for the John the Baptist Cathedral in Perpignan, France.