Famous People Born In 1874
Discover the most famous people born in 1874. The list includes people like Lucy Maud Montgomery, Winston Churchill, Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, Robert Frost and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include poets, novelists, political leaders and composers born in 1874. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Winston Churchill30th November, British
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Herbert Hoover10th August, American
31st U.S. President
Harry Houdini24th March, Hungarian
Illusionist
Robert Frost26th March, American
Poet
Gertrude Stein3rd February, American
American novelist
Guglielmo Marconi25th April, Italian
Inventor
Lucy Maud Montgomery30th November, Canadian
Author
John D. Rockefeller Jr.29th January, American
Philanthropist & Businessman
Arnold Schoenberg13th September, Austrian
Composer
Howard Carter9th May, British
Archaeologist
Charles Ives20th October, American
Composer
Chaim Weizmann27th November, British
Former President of Israel
Edward Thorndike31st August, American
Psychologist
Robert W. Service16th January, Canadian, French, British
Poet & Writer
Carl Bosch27th August, German
Chemist & Engineer
Henry Travers5th March, British
Actor
Antanas Smetona10th August, Lithuanian
Former President of Lithuania
Johannes Stark15th April, German
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
August Krogh15th November, Danish
Zoophysiologist
Sir Ernest Shackleton15th February, British
Antarctic explorer
William Maugham25th January, British
Novelist & Playwright
Joseph Erlanger5th January, American
Physiologist
Joaquín Torres García28th July, Uruguayan
Artist
Einar Jónsson11th May, Icelander
Icelandic sculptor
Gilbert K. Chesterton29th May, British
Writer
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21st September, British
Composer
William Lyon Mackenzie King17th December, Canadian
Politician
Gustav Holst21st September, British
Composer
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.29th January, American
Business Person
Honus Wagner24th February, German, American
Baseballer
Nicholas Roerich9th October, Russian
Philosopher, Painter, Choreographer, Writer,
Thomas J. Watson17th February, American
Entrepreneur
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Lewis Hine26th September, American
Sociologist, Photographer, Artist
J. C. Leyendecker23rd March, American
Illustrator, Painter, Artist
Talaat Pasha10th April, Turkish
politician
Bert Williams12th November, American
Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor
Nap Lajoie5th September, American
Baseball player
Oswald Chambers24th July, British
Author, Theologian
Ernst Cassirer28th July, Polish, Swedish
Philosopher, University teacher
Charles A. Beard27th November, American
Historian of the modern age, Historian, University
Max Scheler22nd August, German
Philosopher, Anthropologist, University teacher,
James Michael Curley20th November, American
Politician
Vsevolod Meyerhold28th January, Russian
actor, theatre director, playwright
Gustave Whitehead1st January, German, American
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Frank Knox1st January, American
Politician
Arthur Meighen16th June, Canadian
Politician, Lawyer, Diplomat
Hugo von Hofmannsthal1st February, Austrian
Novelist, Librettist, Poet, Playwright, Writer,
Amy Lowell9th February, American
Poet, Writer, Socialite
Owen D. Young27th October, American
Industrialist
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven12th July, German
Sculptor, Writer, Painter, Model, Poet, Artist
Romaine Brooks1st May, Italian, American
Painter, Sculptor
Abbas II of Egypt14th July, Egyptian
Khedive
Reynaldo Hahn9th August, French, Venezuelan
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer, Music critic,
Daniel François Malan22nd May, South African
Minister, Politician
Wu Peifu22nd April, Chinese
Warlord
Stephen Samuel Wise17th March, Hungarian, American
Rabbi
Reginald Johnston21st May, Scottish
Politician, Diplomat, Teacher
Polaire14th May, French
Actor, Singer, Stage actor
Joe Gans25th November, American
Boxer
Luigi Einaudi24th March, Italian
President
Auguste Perret12th February, French
architect
Konstantin Päts23rd February, Estonian
Politician
Huang Xing24th October, Chinese
Revolutionary
Eugen Fischer5th July, German
Anthropologist, Physician, Racial hygienist,
Henri Guisan21st October, Swiss
Officer
Serge Koussevitzky26th July
Composer, Conductor, Musician
Lina Cavalieri25th December
Singer, Actor, Opera singer
Shahaji II26th June, Indian
Joaquín Torres-García28th July, Spanish, Uruguayan
Artist
Bill Klem22nd February, American
Baseball umpire
Aleksandr Kolchak16th October, Russian
Explorer
Mary Garden20th February, American
Singer, Opera singer, Actor
Josep Maria Sert21st December, Spanish
Muralist
Alice Duer Miller28th July, American
Poet, Author, Screenwriter, Writer
Egas Moniz29th November, Portuguese
William Somerset Maugham25th January, British
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr.1st October, American
Officer
Bernhard Hoetger4th May, German
Painter, Sculptor, Architect
Karl Kraus28th April, Austrian, Czech
writer, poet, journalist, essayist
Lou Hoover30th November
U.S. First Lady, Philanthropist
Robert Service16th January, British
Writer, Poet, Novelist
Apirana Ngata3rd July, New Zealander
E.L. Thorndike30th November
Academic, Psychologist
Thornton W. Burgess14th January, American
American children’s author and naturalist
Harold LeClair Ickes15th March, American
Politician
Rose O'Neill25th June, American
Cartoonist