What Happened In January 1874 In History

Famous Birthdays on January in 1874

• 1st » Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
• 1st » Gustave Whitehead, German-American engineer (d. 1927)
• 3rd » Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
• 4th » Josef Suk (composer) e.g Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
• 5th » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 6th » Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1948)
• 12th » Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (d. 1963)
• 12th » James Juvenal, American rower (d. 1942)
• 13th » Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1958)
• 16th » Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
• 19th » Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Makuuchi Yokozuna called Yokozuna (d. 1922)
• 22nd » Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
• 22nd » Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
• 25th » W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (d. 1965)
• 29th » John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)

Famous Deaths for January 1874

• 4th » Thomas Gregson, English-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
• 8th » Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)
• 17th » Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai conjoined twins (b. 1811)
• 19th » August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)

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