Birthdays In History 1874

1874 Frank Knox American publisher and politician 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)

1874 Gustave Whitehead German-American pilot and engineer (d. 1927)

1874 Josef Suk Czech violinist and composer (d. 1935)

1874 Fred Niblo American actor director and producer (d. 1948)

1874 Laura Adams Armer American author and photographer (d. 1963)

1874 Robert W. Service English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)

1874 Hitachiyama Taniemon Japanese sumo wrestler the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)

1874 Steve Bloomer English footballer and coach (d. 1938)

1874 René-Louis Baire French mathematician (d. 1932)

1874 Edward Harkness American philanthropist (d. 1940)

1874 Jay Hughes American baseball player and coach (d. 1924)

1874 W. Somerset Maugham British playwright novelist and short story writer (d. 1965)

1874 John D. Rockefeller Jr. American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)

1874 Gertrude Stein American novelist poet playwright (d. 1946)

1874 Amy Lowell American poet critic and educator (d. 1925)

1874 Elsa Beskow Swedish author and illustrator (d. 1953)

1874 Mary Garden Scottish-American soprano and actress (d. 1967)

1874 Bill Klem American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)

1874 Konstantin Päts Estonian lawyer and politician 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956)

1874 Henry Travers English-American actor (d. 1965)

1874 Edmund Eysler Austrian composer (d. 1949)

1874 Ellery Harding Clark American jumper coach and lawyer (d. 1949)

1874 Anton Philips Dutch businessman co-founded Philips Electronics (d. 1951)

1874 Harold L. Ickes American journalist and politician United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1952)

1874 Frédéric François-Marsal French prime minister (d. 1958)

1874 Nikolai Berdyaev Russian-French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948)

1874 Börries von Münchhausen German poet and activist (d. 1945)

1874 Alfred Tysoe English runner (d. 1901)

1874 Grantley Goulding English hurdler (d. 1947)

1874 J. C. Leyendecker German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1951)

1874 Selim Sırrı Tarcan Turkish educator and politician (d. 1957)

1874 Lou Henry Hoover American philanthropist and geologist 33rd First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)

1874 Charles Lightoller English 2nd officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1952)

1874 Josiah McCracken American hammer thrower shot putter and football player (d. 1962)

1874 Nicolae Rădescu Romanian general and politician Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)

1874 Benjamín G. Hill Mexican revolutionary general governor of Sonora (d. 1920)

1874 Henri Marteau French violinist and composer (d. 1934)

1874 Ernest Barnes English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)

1874 Prince Karl of Bavaria (d. 1927)

1874 Emmanuel Célestin Suhard French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (d. 1949)

1874 Manuel María Ponce Brousset President of Peru (d. 1966)

1874 Frederick Carl Frieseke German-American painter (d. 1939)

1874 Manuel Díaz Cuban fencer (d. 1929)

1874 Stanisław Taczak Polish general (d. 1960)

1874 William B. Bankhead American lawyer and politician 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1940)

1874 Jōtarō Watanabe Japanese general (d. 1936)

1874 Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić Croatian author and poet (d. 1938)

1874 Ernst Rüdin Swiss psychiatrist geneticist and eugenicist (d. 1952)

1874 Vincent Scotto French composer and actor (d. 1952)

1874 Wu Peifu Chinese warlord politician and marshal of the Beiyang Army (d. 1939)

1874 Ernest Webb English-Canadian race walker (d. 1937)

1874 Karl Kraus Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)

1874 Sidney Toler American actor and director (d. 1947)

1874 Cyriel Verschaeve Flemish priest and author (d. 1949)

1874 Romaine Brooks American-French painter and illustrator (d. 1970)

1874 Paul Van Asbroeck Belgian target shooter (d. 1959)

1874 François Coty French businessman and publisher founded Coty Inc. (d. 1934)

1874 Vagn Walfrid Ekman Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954)

1874 Thomas Bavin New Zealand-Australian politician 24th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1941)

1874 Clemens von Pirquet Austrian pediatrician and immunologist (d. 1929)

1874 George Sheldon American diver (d. 1907)

1874 Gilbert Jessop English cricketer and soldier (d. 1955)

1874 Daniel François Malan South African clergyman and politician 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)

1874 Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1878)

1874 G. K. Chesterton English essayist poet and playwright (d. 1936)

1874 Ernest Duchesne French physician (d. 1912)

1874 Launceston Elliot Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (d. 1930)

1874 Peder Oluf Pedersen Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)

1874 Jacob Linzbach Estonian linguist (d. 1953)

1874 Walter Friedrich Otto German philologist and scholar (d. 1958)

1874 Rose O'Neill American cartoonist illustrator artist and writer (d. 1944)

1874 Jean Collas French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1928)

1874 John McPhee Australian journalist and politician 27th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1952)

1874 Erwin Bumke German lawyer and jurist (d. 1945)

1874 Sergey Konenkov Russian sculptor (d. 1971)

1874 Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)

1874 Crawford Vaughan Australian politician 27th Premier of South Australia (d. 1947)

1874 Oswald Chambers Scottish minister and author (d. 1917)

1874 Serge Koussevitzky Russian-American bassist composer and conductor (d. 1951)

1874 Ernst Cassirer Polish-American philosopher and academic (d. 1945)

1874 J. S. Woodsworth Canadian minister and politician (d. 1942)

1874 Wesley Clair Mitchell American economist and academic (d. 1948)

1874 Horace Rawlins English golfer (d. 1935)

1874 Charles Fort American author (d. 1932)

1874 Albert Stanley 1st Baron Ashfield English businessman and politician President of the Board of Trade (d. 1948)

1874 Reynaldo Hahn Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)

1874 Antanas Smetona Lithuanian jurist and politician President of Lithuania (d. 1944)

1874 Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1953)

1874 Max Scheler German philosopher and author (d. 1928)

1874 Zona Gale American novelist short story writer and playwright (d. 1938)

1874 Carl Bosch German chemist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)

1874 Nap Lajoie American baseball player and manager (d. 1959)

1874 Mamie Dillard African American educator clubwoman and suffragist (d. 1954)

1874 Henry F. Ashurst American lawyer and politician (d. 1962)

1874 Walter Murdoch Australian author and academic (d. 1970)

1874 Gustav Holst English composer and educator (d. 1934)

1874 Lewis Hine American photographer and activist (d. 1940)

1874 John Ellis English executioner (d. 1932)

1874 Frank G. Allen American merchant and politician 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)

1874 Nicholas Roerich Russian archaeologist and painter (d. 1947)

1874 Jimmy Burke American baseball player and manager (d. 1942)

1874 József Klekl Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (d. 1948)

1874 Alfred Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1899)

1874 Tan Kah Kee Chinese businessman community leader communist and philanthropist (d. 1961)

1874 Charles Kilpatrick American runner and educator (d. 1921)

1874 Emma Gramatica Italian actress (d. 1965)

1874 Victor Sonnemans Belgian water polo player (d. 1962)

1874 Huang Xing Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1916)

1874 Martin Lowry English chemist and academic (d. 1936)

1874 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller American philanthropist founded the Museum of Modern Art (d. 1948)

1874 Charles Despiau French sculptor (d. 1946)

1874 Albert Francis Blakeslee American botanist and academic (d. 1954)

1874 Idabelle Smith Firestone American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)

1874 Dimitrios Golemis Greek runner (d. 1941)

1874 Alexander Kolchak Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1920)

1874 Clarence Day American author and poet (d. 1935)

1874 James Michael Curley American lawyer politician 53rd Governor of Massachusetts and criminal (d. 1958)

1874 Charles William Miller Brazilian footballer and referee (d. 1953)

1874 Joe Gans American boxer (d. 1910)

1874 Charles A. Beard American historian author and educator co-founded The New School (d. 1948)

1874 Francis Dodd Welsh-English painter and academic (d. 1949)

1874 Egas Moniz Portuguese physician and neurologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1874 Ernst Moro Austrian physician and pediatrician (d. 1951)

1874 Josef Lhévinne Russian pianist and educator (d. 1944)

1874 William Lyon Mackenzie King Canadian economist and politician tenth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)

1874 Franz Schmidt Austrian cellist pianist and composer (d. 1939)

1874 Lina Cavalieri Italian soprano and actress (d. 1944)

1874 Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Bangladeshi theologian and academic (d. 1965)

1874 Julius Meier American businessman and politician 20th Governor of Oregon (d. 1937)

1874 Alex Smith Scottish golfer (d. 1930)

1874 Hugo von Hofmannsthal Austrian author poet and playwright (d. 1929)

1874 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Indian religious leader founded the Gaudiya Math (d. 1937)

1874 Luigi Einaudi Italian economist and politician 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)

1874 Yury Nikolaevich Voronov Russian botanist (d. 1931)

1874 George Harrison Shull American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954)

1874 Johannes Stark German physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)

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