Famous Birthdays for Year 1874

Months in Year 1874: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 179

Jan 1st - Hugo Leichtentritt, composer
Jan 1st - Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927)
Jan 1st - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
Jan 4th - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)
Jan 4th - Sven Fleuron, writer
Jan 5th - Joseph Erlanger, San Francisco, California, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
Jan 6th - Fred Niblo, U.S. film actor, director, producer (d. 1948)
Jan 13th - Jozef E van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechlin
Jan 14th - Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit)
Jan 16th - Robert Service, England, Canadian poet (Cremation of Sam McGee)
Jan 22nd - Wincenty Witoz, Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926)
Jan 22nd - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
Jan 24th - Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Alfonso), Puerto Rico, archivist of African American history and culture
Jan 25th - Hewlett Johnson, [Red Dean of Canterbury], English bishop
Jan 25th - [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
Jan 29th - John David Rockefeller Jr, Cleveland Ohio, philanthropist
Jan 29th - Robert Lach, composer
Feb 1st - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
Feb 3rd - Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue)
Physiologist Joseph Erlanger (Jan 5th) Feb 3rd - Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
Feb 6th - Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
Feb 9th - Amy Lowell, US poet/critic (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed)
Feb 9th - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor (Houligan)
Feb 11th - Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author
Feb 11th - Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer
Feb 13th - Hendrik Spiekman, Dutch politician (social-democratic)
Feb 15th - Emilis Melngailis, composer
Feb 15th - Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
Feb 16th - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935)
Feb 17th - Thomas J Watson, US, representative/founder (IBM)
Feb 20th - Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
Feb 22nd - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
Feb 23rd - Konstantin Päts, Estonian PM (1921-23, 1932-33), dictator (1933-40)
Feb 24th - Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
Feb 26th - Carl Vogler, composer
Feb 28th - Soledad Jiminez, Santander Spain, actor (Phantom ofthe Range)
Mar 1st - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
Mar 5th - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
Mar 5th - Henry Travers, England, actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra)
Mar 9th - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
Mar 12th - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
Mar 14th - Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
Mar 14th - Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)
Mar 15th - Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
Mar 15th - Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
Mar 17th - Kincsem, horse that never lost a race
Mar 17th - Stephen Samuel Wise, US, pres of Zionist Org of America
Mar 18th - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
Mar 19th - Arthur Hoyt, Georgetown CO, actor (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along)
Mar 20th - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945)
Mar 22nd - Ellen Glasgow, novelist
Magician & Escape Artist Harry Houdini (Mar 24th) Mar 24th - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist
Mar 24th - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
Mar 26th - Gerald du Maurier, London Engld, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
Mar 26th - Oskar Nedbal, composer
Mar 26th - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
Apr 3rd - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
Apr 8th - Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
Apr 9th - Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
Apr 14th - Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada)
Apr 15th - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)
Apr 15th - George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
Apr 18th - Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941)
Apr 19th - Firmin Baes, Flemish painter
Apr 19th - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
Apr 24th - John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
Apr 24th - Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
Apr 25th - Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909)
Apr 26th - J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v Australia 1902)
Apr 28th - Karl Kraus, writer
Apr 28th - Sidney Toler, Warrensburg MO, actor (Madame X, Meeting at Midnight)
Apr 30th - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer
May 3rd - Francois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
May 3rd - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
May 10th - Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (d. 1941)
May 12th - Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian physician (Reaction of Pirquet)
May 13th - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
May 19th - Gilbert Laird Jessop, cricketer (The Croucher)
May 20th - Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry
May 22nd - Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
May 22nd - Francesco Paolo Neglia, composer
May 26th - Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
May 27th - Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870]
May 27th - Richard von Schaukal, Austria poet/writer (Eros Thanatos)
May 28th - G K Chesterton, writer
May 29th - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold)
Jun 5th - Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees - won 41 in 1904)
Jun 7th - Theodor Streicher, composer
Jun 11th - Richard Stohr, composer
Jun 12th - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
Jun 13th - Leopoldo Lugones, Argentina, writer
Jun 14th - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
Jun 16th - Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
Jun 17th - Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
Jun 19th - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
Jun 26th - Albert Relf, cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14)
Jun 26th - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer
Jun 28th - Oley Speaks, composer
Jun 29th - Georg Gohler, composer
Jul 1st - Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
Jul 3rd - Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
Jul 5th - Gerhard von Keussler, composer
Nazi Physician Eugen Fischer (Jul 5th) Jul 5th - Eugen Fischer, Bade Germany, Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), (d. 1967)
Jul 7th - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
Jul 10th - Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test capt (NSW batsman 1899-1919, Aust)
Jul 10th - Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
Jul 14th - 'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
Jul 14th - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
Jul 24th - Oswald Chambers, Scottish minister and writer (d. 1917)
Jul 26th - Serge Koussevitzky, Vishny-Volotchok, Russia conductor (Boston Symp)
Jul 28th - Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man)
Jul 29th - August Stramm, writer
Jul 29th - James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
Aug 3rd - Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra)
Aug 6th - Charles Fort, American writer and researcher (d. 1932)
Aug 10th - Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933), (d. 1964)
Aug 10th - James (Tod) Sloan, jockey, created monkey crouch riding style
31st US President Herbert Hoover (Aug 10th) Aug 10th - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
Aug 15th - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
Aug 16th - Arthur Meighen, Canada, PM of Canada (1920, 21, 26)
Aug 21st - Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27)
Aug 22nd - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer
Aug 22nd - Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte)
Aug 26th - Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)
Aug 27th - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
Aug 29th - Walter Field
Sep 1st - Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer
Sep 1st - Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)
Sep 4th - Johanna M "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach
Sep 5th - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (d. 1959)
Sep 11th - Heinrich Kaspar Schmid, composer
Sep 13th - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Vienna Austria, composer (2nd Quartet). Died 1951.
Sep 13th - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (d. 1962)
Sep 17th - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US, comic (Uncle Tom Without the Cabin)
Sep 18th - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten)
Sep 21st - Gustav Theodore Holst, Cheltenham, England, composer (Planets)
Oct 6th - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
Oct 8th - Nance O'Neil, Oakland CA, actor (Cimarron)
Oct 9th - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
Oct 12th - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (d. 1942)
Oct 14th - Margarete Susman, writer
Oct 15th - Otallo Morales, composer
Oct 15th - Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (d. 1899)
Oct 20th - Charles Edward Ives, Danbury Ct, composer (Holiday Quick Step)
Oct 20th - Viscount Palmerston, (Whig) British PM (1855-65)
Oct 21st - Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist
Oct 26th - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
Nov 4th - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
Nov 7th - Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96)
Zoophysiologist and Nobel Laureate August Krogh (Nov 15th) Nov 15th - August Krogh [Schack], Denmark, zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel-1920), (d. 1949)