Famous people born in 1774

Best known

1. 
   Caspar David Friedrich

   German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

   September 5 · d. 1840

   Photo: Caspar David Friedrich, Public domain
2. 
   Jean-Baptiste Biot

   French scientist (1774-1862)

   April 21 · d. 1862

   Photo: Auguste Lemoine (?), Public domain
3. 
   Robert Southey

   English romantic poet (1774–1843)

   August 12 · d. 1843

   Photo: John James Masquerier, Public domain
4. 
   Daniel D. Tompkins

   American politician; sixth vice president of the United States (1774–1825)

   June 21 · d. 1825

   Photo: Attributed to John Wesley Jarvis (1780–1840), Public domain
5. 
   Matthew Flinders

   English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)

   March 16 · d. 1814

   Photo: Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, Public domain
6. Auguste de Marmont

   French General, nobleman and Marshal of France (1774-1852)

   July 20 · d. 1852

7. Meriwether Lewis

   American explorer (1774-1809)

   August 18 · d. 1809

8. Charles Bell

   Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774–1842)

   November 12 · d. 1842

9. Pierre Sanfourche-Laporte

   French lawyer

   March 24 · d. 1856

10. Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti

    Italian cardinal and hyperpolyglot

    September 19 · d. 1849

11. André Marie Constant Duméril

    French zoologist

    January 1 · d. 1860

12. Elizabeth Ann Seton

    first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)

    August 28 · d. 1821

13. Gaspare Spontini

    Italian composer and conductor

    November 14 · d. 1851

14. Anne Catherine Emmerich

    German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)

    September 8 · d. 1824

15. Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands

    queen consort of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1837 (1774–1837)

    November 18 · d. 1837

16. Francis Baily

    British astronomer

    April 28 · d. 1844

17. Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall

    Austrian explorer, translator, diplomat, orientalist (1774-1856)

    June 9 · d. 1856

18. Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

    British and Hanoverian Royal (1774-1850), Duke of Cambridge from 1786

    February 24 · d. 1850

19. Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

    French painter (1774–1833)

    March 13 · d. 1833

20. Johnny Appleseed

    American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)

    September 26 · d. 1845

21. William Henry

    British chemist who formulated the law on the solubility of gases into liquids

    December 12 · d. 1836

22. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

    French physician (1774-1838)

    April 24 · d. 1838

23. Lord William Bentinck

    First Governor General of India, British soldier and statesman (1774-1839)

    September 14 · d. 1839

24. Mihály Csokonai Vitéz

    Hungarian poet (1773–1805)

    December 17 · d. 1805

25. Luis Eduardo Pérez

    president of Uruguay (1774-1841)

    October 12 · d. 1841

26. Constance Mayer

    French painter

    March 9 · d. 1821

27. Edward Charles Howard

    British chemist (1774-1816)

    May 28 · d. 1816

28. Robert Jameson

    British scientist; (1774-1854)

    July 11 · d. 1854

29. Karl Mollweide

    German mathematician

    February 3 · d. 1825

30. Salomon Mayer von Rothschild

    Austrian banker and businessman (1774-1855)

    September 9 · d. 1855

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