* 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 – 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 )

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

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

* Serge Koussevitzky ( 1874 – 1951 ) Virtuoso, composer, conductor

* 1874 – Fritz Hart, English-born composer ( d. 1949 )

* 1954 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter ( b. 1874 )

* 1810 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer ( d. 1874 )

* 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer ( d. 1934 )

* 1874 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter ( d. 1951 )

* July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer ( b. 1874 )

* July 9 – Fritz Hart, English-born composer ( b. 1874 )

* February 11 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer ( b. 1874 )

* February 10 – Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist and composer ( d. 1874 )

* May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer ( d. 1874 )

* May 29 – Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist ( b. 1874 )

* May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer ( The Planets ) ( b. 1874 )

The composer created two versions — the Original Version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the Revised Version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg.

This dispute originated in a disagreement over the production of his Giovanna d ' Arco in 1845 ; however the composer later conducted his Requiem there on 25 May 1874 and he announced in 1886 that La Scala would host the premiere of his penultimate opera Otello.

* Henri Marteau ( 1874 – 1934 ), violinist and composer

* Serge Koussevitzky ( 1874 – 1951 ) Conductor, composer

(; 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951 ) was an Austrian composer and painter, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School.

* Arnold Schoenberg ( 1874 – 1951 ), Austrian-American composer

Pictures at an Exhibition (, Kartinki s vystavki – Vospominaniye o Viktore Gartmane, " Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann ") is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

Abe Holzmann ( 19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939 ) was a German / American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!

Má vlast ( traditionally translated as " My Country ", though more strictly meaning " homeland ") is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.