Year (''' MDCCCLXXIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1 - Gustav Albin Weißkopf , German-born aviation pioneer (d. 1927 )
- January 4 - Josef Suk , Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935 )
- January 5 - Joseph Erlanger , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965 )
- January 16 - Robert W. Service , American poet (d. 1958 )
- January 20 - Steve Bloomer , English footballer, cricketer and baseball player (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 writer (d. 1929 )
- February 2 - William T. Innes , American writer, ichthyologist, publisher (d. 1969 )
- 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 , Swedish writer (d. 1953 )
- --- Fritz Bennicke Hart , English-born composer (d. 1949 )
- February 15 - Sir Ernest Shackleton , Irish explorer (d. 1922 )
- February 17 - Thomas J. Watson , American computer pioneer (d. 1956 )
- February 23 - Konstantin Päts , Estonian president (d. 1956 )
- February 24 - Honus Wagner , baseball player (d. 1955 )
- March 20 - Börries Von Münchhausen , German poet (d. 1945 )
- March 24 - Harry Houdini , Hungarian-born 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 (d. 1960 )
- April 15 - Johannes Stark , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957 )
- April 19 - Ernst Rudin , Swiss psychiatrist and geneticist (d. 1952 )
- April 25 - Guglielmo Marconi , Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physics (d. 1937 )
- May 3 - François 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 , American aviation pioneer (d. 1951 )
- June 16 - Arthur Meighen , ninth Prime Minister Of Canada (d. 1960 )
- June 19 - Peder Oluf Pedersen , Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941 )
- July 14 - Abbas II , last khedive of Egypt (d. 1944 )
- July 26 - Serge Koussevitzky , Russian conductor (d. 1951 )
- July 27 - Frank Shannon , American actor (d. 1959 )
- July 29 - J. S. Woodsworth , Canadian politician (d. 1942 )
- August 6 - Charles Fort , writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932 )
- August 27 - Carl Bosch , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940 )
- September 13
- --- Henry Fountain Ashurst , American politician (d. 1962 )
- Arnold Schoenberg , Austrian composer (d. 1951 )
- September 21 - Gustav Holst , English composer (d. 1934 )
- October 15 - Prince Alfred Of Edinburgh And Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (d. 1899 )
- October 20 - Charles Ives , American composer (d. 1954 )
- October 26 - Martin Lowry , English chemist (d. 1936 )
- November 15 - August Krogh , Danish zoophysiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1949 )
- November 29 - Egas Moniz , Portuguese physician and neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1955 )
- November 30
- --- Winston Churchill , Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom , recipient of the Nobel Prize In Literature (d. 1965 )
- --- Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian author (d. 1942 )
- December 13 - Josef Lhévinne , Russian pianist (d. 1944 )
- December 17 - William Lyon Mackenzie King , Prime Minister Of Canada (d. 1950 )
- December 22 - Franz Schmidt , Austrian composer (d. 1939 )
- January 8 - Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur De Bourbourg , French writer and historian (b. 1814 )
- January 17 - Chang And Eng Bunker , Siamese Twins and Sideshow performers. (b. 1811 )
- January 19 - August Heinrich Hoffmann Von Fallersleben , German poet (b. 1798 )
- February 3 - William Charles Lunalilo , last monarch of the House of Kamahameha (b. 1835 )
- February 8 - David Friedrich Strauss , German theologian (b. 1808 )
- March 8 - Millard Fillmore , 13th President Of The United States (b. 1800 )
- March 10 - Moritz Von Jacobi , engineer and physicist (b. 1801 )
- March 20 - Hans Christian Lumbye , Danish composer (b. 1810 )
- April 13 - Etō Shinpei , Japanese statesman (executed) (b. 1834 )
- April 20 - Alexander H. Bailey , American politician (b. 1817 )
- June 20 - John Ruggles , American politician (b. 1789 )
- June 21 - Anders Jonas Ångström , Swedish physicist (b. 1814 )
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