* 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 )

* January 18 – Konstantin Päts, President of Estonia ( b. 1874 )

* Konstantin Velichkov, Minister of Education of Bulgaria and writer ( 1874 graduate )

Konstantin Päts VR I / 1 and III / 1 ( 23 February 1874 – 18 January 1956 ) was the most influential politician of interwar Estonia.

Konstantin Päts was born on 23 February 1874 in Tahkuranna Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire.

File: Konstantin Apollonowitsch Sawizkij 001. jpg | Repairing the Railroad by Konstantin Savitsky ( 1874 )

* 1957 – 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, brother of Queen Mary ( b. 1874 )

Two years after she proposed to him and in the face of parental disapproval, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton ( 1874 – 1964 ), third daughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, and Edith Villiers, married Lutyens on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

It is the birthplace of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim ( 1840 – 1916 ) and Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet ( December 23, 1874 – July 7, 1943 ).

* John Trollope, 1st Baron Kesteven ( 1800 – 1874 ) English.

* Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare ( 9 August 1873 – 21 February 1874 )

* Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( 1874 – 1957 )

Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG, PC, JP ( 13 October 1825 – 22 December 1899 ), styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845 and Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869 and known as The Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.

The relationship between Grosvenor and Gladstone later improved and in Gladstone's resignation honours in 1874, Grosvenor was created the 1st Duke of Westminster.

John Lawrence Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven, GCMG, DSO, PC, JP, DL ( 27 April 1874 – 20 August 1941 ), known as Sir John Baird, Bt, between 1920 and 1925 and as The Lord Stonehaven between 1925 and 1928, was a British Conservative politician, who served as a Member of Parliament, government minister, and was later the eighth Governor-General of Australia.

* John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven ( 1874 – 1941 ), eighth Governor-General of Australia

* January 16 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, 16th Governor General of Canada ( b. 1874 )

The region was named after John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1874 and 1880 to 1882.

John Somerset Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton GCB, PC FRS ( 20 February 1799 – 9 April 1880 ), known as Sir John Pakington, Bt from 1846 to 1874, was a British Conservative politician.

It was created in 1874 for the Conservative politician Sir John Pakington, 1st Baronet.

* Lord Harry Duncan McGowan, 1st Baron McGowan ( 1874 – 1961 )

It was created in 1874 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Sir James Moncreiff, 1st Baronet.

* Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford ( 1874 – 1962 )

* Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot ( May 3, 1874 – January 7, 1968 )

It was created in 1874 for the Conservative politician and former Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baronet.

Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee PC ( 19 November 1838 – 9 January 1906 ) was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage.

* Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde ( 1802 – 1874 )

* Lieutenant General Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet ( 1830 – 1897 ), British General, MP for Sunderland 1874 – 1881 and Durham South East 1885 – 1892 and 1895 – 1897 ( son of Sir Henry Havelock )

* In 1874 an alley in Vienna's 1st district was renamed " Stadiongasse " in honour of Phillip von Stadion.

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly PC, QC ( 20 January 1802 – 23 December 1874 ), known as Sir John Romilly between 1848 and 1866, was an English Whig politician and judge.