Curated category
1874 births
- Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was born on the 13th of September 1874 in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. His father Samuel worked as a shoe-shopkeeper and moved from…
- Edward ThorndikeEdward Lee Thorndike was born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. His father Edward R Thorndike served as a Methodist minister in Lowell, Massachusetts.
- Ernest ShackletonErnest Shackleton was born on the 15th of February 1874 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland. His father Henry Shackleton had tried to join the British Army…
- Charles A. BeardCharles Austin Beard was born on the 27th of November 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana. He grew up working on a family farm in the Corn Belt region.
- Nicholas RoerichOn the 9th of October 1874, Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerich was born in Saint Petersburg to a well-to-do Baltic German father and a Russian mother.
- Alice Clark (historian)Alice Clark entered the world on the 1st of August 1874 into a family known for making boots and shoes. Her father William Stephens Clark ran C. and J.
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long…
- Leopoldo LugonesLeopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello entered the world on the 13th of June 1874 in Villa de María del Río Seco. This city sat within Córdoba Province, a region…
- Chaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann was born on the 27th of November 1874 in the village of Motal. This location now lies within Belarus but belonged to the Russian Empire…