Famous people born in 1874

The best-known people born in 1874, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
November 30 · d. 1965
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
August 10 · d. 1964
Photo: Underwood & Underwood, Public domain
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
April 25 · d. 1937
Photo: Pach Brothers, Public domain
Robert Frost
American poet (1874–1963)
March 26 · d. 1963
Photo: Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain
G. K. Chesterton
English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)
May 29 · d. 1936
Photo: Ernest Herbert Mills, Public domain
William Somerset Maugham
English playwright and author (1874–1965)
January 25 · d. 1965
Photo: Carl Van Vechten (1880 - 1964), Public domain
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
March 24 · d. 1926
Photo: LaPine Studios, Public domain
Howard Carter
British egyptologist (1874–1939)
May 9 · d. 1939
Photo: Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer, Public domain
Johannes Stark
German physicist (1874-1957)
April 15 · d. 1957
Photo: A. B. Lagrelius & Westphal, Stockholm, Public domain
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
September 13 · d. 1951
Photo: Man Ray, CC BY-SA 2.0
Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
February 3 · d. 1946
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain
Ernest Shackleton
Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer (1874–1922)
February 15 · d. 1922
Photo: Nadar, Public domain
Alexander Kolchak
Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)
November 16 · d. 1920
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Nikolai Berdyaev
Russian philosopher (1874–1948)
March 18 · d. 1948
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Karl Kraus
Austrian playwright and publicist (1874–1936)
April 28 · d. 1936
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
August 27 · d. 1940
Photo: Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)
February 1 · d. 1929
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
October 9 · d. 1947
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Max Scheler
German philosopher (1874-1928)
August 22 · d. 1928
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
November 27 · d. 1952
Photo: Hugo Mendelson, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian writer (1874–1942)
November 30 · d. 1942
August Krogh
Danish physiologist (1874–1949)
November 15 · d. 1949
Photo: Bain News Service, Public domain
Edward Thorndike
American psychologist
August 31 · d. 1949
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Luigi Einaudi
(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
March 24 · d. 1961
Gustav Holst
British composer (1874–1934)
September 21 · d. 1934
Photo: Herbert Lambert, Public domain
Joseph Erlanger
American doctor (1874-1965)
January 5 · d. 1965
Photo: The Nobel Foundation, Public domain
Konstantin Päts
Estonian politician (1874–1956)
February 22 · d. 1956
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese politian and neurosurgeon (1874-1955)
November 29 · d. 1955
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Antanas Smetona
first President of Lithuania from 4 April 1919 until 19 June 1920 (1874-1944)
August 10 · d. 1944
Lou Henry Hoover
First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
March 29 · d. 1944
Photo: Underwood & Underwood, Public domain

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Month by month

January

January 4 · Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (1874-1935)
January 6 · Fred Niblo, American film director (1874–1948)
January 20 · Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (1874-1938)
January 21 · René-Louis Baire, French mathematician (1874–1932)
January 22 · Leonard Eugene Dickson, American mathematician (1874–1954)
January 29 · John D. Rockefeller Jr., American financier and philanthropist (1874–1960)

February

February 9 · Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (1874–1940)
February 9 · Amy Lawrence Lowell, US writer (1874-1925)
February 11 · Elsa Beskow, Swedish artist (1874-1953)
February 12 · Auguste Perret, French architect (1874–1954)
February 17 · Thomas John Watson, Sr., USA IBM executive and art collector (1874-1956)
February 20 · Mary Garden, Scottish opera singer (1874-1967)

March

March 2 · Carl Schlechter, Austro-Hungarian chess player
March 5 · Henry Travers, British-American actor
March 13 · Ellery Harding Clark, American track and field athlete (1874–1949)
March 21 · Alfred Tysoe, British athlete (1874-1901)
March 25 · Sunjong of the Korean Empire, The 2nd emperor of the Korean Empire. (1874–1926)
March 30 · Charles Lightoller, British sailor (1874–1952)

April

April 8 · Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer (1874–1929)
April 12 · William Foulke, English footballer (1874-1916)
April 14 · Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, British Army general (1874-1957)
April 18 · Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian writer (1874–1938)
April 22 · Ellen Glasgow, Novelist, short story writer (1873–1945)
April 24 · Penelope Delta, Greek children's writer (1874–1941)

May

May 1 · Romaine Brooks, American artist (1874-1970)
May 4 · Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish political theorist, journalist, and literary critic (1874–1936)
May 8 · Inessa Armand, French communist politician, editor
May 18 · Madeleine Pelletier, French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874-1939)
May 22 · Daniel François Malan, South African Prime Minister (1874-1959)
May 26 · Henri Farman, French pilot, aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer

June

June 9 · Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (1874–1930)
June 11 · José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish novelist, essayist and literary critic (1873–1967)
June 13 · Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine poet
June 16 · Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (1874-1960)
June 18 · George Tupou II, King of Tonga (1874-1918)
June 22 · Viggo Jensen, Danish sportsman (1874–1930)

July

July 3 · Johan Gunnar Andersson, Swedish archeologist and geologist (1874–1960)
July 7 · Władysław Grabski, Polish economist, politician and academic (1874–1938)
July 14 · Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt (1874-1944) (r. 1892-1914)
July 14 · André-Louis Debierne, French chemist (1874-1949)
July 26 · Serge Koussevitzky, Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist (1874–1951)
July 30 · Billy Meredith, Welsh footballer (1874–1958)

August

August 4 · Charles-Louis Philippe, French writer (1874–1909)
August 6 · Charles Fort, American writer (1874–1932)
August 9 · Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan-French composer (1874-1947)
August 29 · Manuel Machado, Spanish poet (1874-1947)
August 30 · Emilie Louise Flöge, Austrian designer and model (1874–1952)
August 31 · Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Soviet politician (1874-1934)

September

September 3 · Carl Størmer, Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician (1874-1957)
September 4 · Prince Jean d’Orléans, Head of the House of Orléans (1874-1940)
September 16 · Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist and social reform activist (1874–1922)
September 18 · Oskari Mantere, Finnish politician (1874-1942)
September 23 · Francis Lane, athletics competitor (1874-1927)
September 26 · Lewis Hine, American sociologist and photographer (1874–1940)

October

October 8 · István Bethlen, Hungarian politician (1874–1946)
October 16 · Otto Mueller, German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement (1874–1930)
October 20 · Charles Ives, American modernist composer (1874–1954)
October 21 · Henri Guisan, Swiss general (1874-1960)
October 26 · Martin Lowry, English chemist (1874–1936)
October 27 · Owen D. Young, American businessman, lawyer, diplomat (1874–1962)

November

November 13 · Marguerite Long, French musician
November 14 · Johann Schober, Austrian chancellor and politician (1874-1932)
November 15 · Dimitrios Golemis, Greek poet and athletics competitor (1874-1941)
November 18 · Krste Misirkov, Philologist, collector, ethnologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer
November 23 · Theodore Lyman, American physicist (1874–1954)
November 27 · Charles A. Beard, American historian (1874-1948)

December

December 11 · Paul Wegener, German actor and film director (1874-1948)
December 17 · William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874–1950)
December 20 · Mary Ann Bevan, Side show performer, nurse (1874–1933)
December 21 · Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua (1874-1946)
December 22 · Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer, cellist and pianist (1874-1939)
December 29 · François Brandt, Dutch rower (1874-1949)

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