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1874 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). Events January - April May - August September - December Unknown date Births January to June - January 1 - Gustav Albin Weikopf , also known as Gustave Albin Whitehead, German-American aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
- January 4 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
- January 16 - Robert W. Service, American poet (d. 1958)
- January 20 - Steve Bloomer, footballer, prolific striker for Derby, Middlesbrough and England (d. 1938)
- January 21 - Frederick Madison Smith, American religious leader and author (d. 1946)
- January 25 - William Somerset Maugham, English author (d. 1965)
- January 29 - John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
- February 1 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian lyricist, dramatist, narrator, and essayist (d. 1929)
- February 3 - Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts (d. 1946)
- February 9 - Amy Lowell, American poet (d. 1925)
- February 11 - Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book/fairy tales author (d. 1953)
- February 11 - Fritz Bennicke Hart, English-born Australian composer (d. 1949)
- February 15 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (d. 1922)
- February 17 - Thomas J. Watson, American computer pioneer, first president of IBM (d. 1956)
- February 24 - Honus Wagner, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1955)
- March 20 - Brries von Mnchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
- March 24 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician (d. 1926)
- March 26 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
- March 29 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
- April 8 - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (1918-1919) against the Germans (d.1960)
- April 25 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, "the father of radio", recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1909 (d. 1937)
- May 3 - Franois Coty, French perfume manufacturer (d. 1934)
- May 9 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)
- May 14 - Polaire - French actress and singer (d. 1939)
- May 19 - Gilbert Jessop; English cricketer (d. 1955).
- May 29 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author (d. 1936)
- June 11 - Lyman Gilmore, Choctaw Native American airplane pioneer (d. 1951)
- June 16 - Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960)
July to December - July 14 - Abbas II, last khedive of Egypt (d. 1944)
- July 26 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (d. 1951)
- September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (d. 1951)
- September 21 - Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
- October 20 - Charles Ives, American musician, composer (d. 1954)
- October 26 - Martin Lowry, English physical chemist (d. 1936)
- October 30 - Bin Ueda, Japanese writer
- November 30 - Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and author (d. 1965)
- November 30 - Lucy Maude Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
- December 13 - Josef Lhvinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944)
- December 15 - Shoken Kamitsukasa, Japanese writer
- December 17- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister (d. 1950)
- December 22 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
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