page_title: 1774
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1774 / Births
caption_attribution_description: English: Colonel (later Major-General) William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839), an employee of the British East India Company, and the first Resident of colonial Singapore (6 February 1819 – 1 May 1823). Nederlands: Schilderij van kolonel William Farquhar, de eerste Britse resident van Singapore tussen 1819 en 1823.
context_page_description: 1774 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1774th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 774th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1774, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: February 11
  Hans Järta, Swedish political activist, administrator (d. 1847)
  Maxim Gauci, Maltese lithographer (d. 1854)
  February 24 – Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)
  February 26 – William Farquhar, first British Resident and Commandant of colonial Singapore (d. 1839)
  March 9 – Mayhew Folger, American whaler, captain of Topaz, rediscovered Pitcairn Islands in 1808 (d. 1828)
  March 16 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814)
  April 21  – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer and mathematician (d.1862)
  April 24  – Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, French physician (d. 1838)
  April 28 – Francis Baily, English astronomer (d. 1844)
  May 27 – Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer (d. 1857)
  June 21 – Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President of the United States (d. 1825)
  July 20 – Auguste de Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
  August 12 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
  August 18 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer, soldier and public administrator (d. 1809)
  August 28 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, co-founder of Mount St. Mary's University in the United States, founder of the Sisters of Charity (d. 1821)
  September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
  September 8 – Anne Catherine Emmerich, German Augustinian Canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (d. 1824)
  September 19 – Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal, linguist (d. 1849)
  September 26 – Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), American nurseryman and Swedenborgian missionary, plants apple tree nurseries in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois (d. 1847)
  December 2 – François-André Baudin, French admiral (d. 1842)
  December 12 – William Henry, English chemist (d. 1836)
  date unknown – Sergey Glinka, Russian author, brother of Fyodor Glinka (d. 1847)
caption: William Farquhar
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