page_title: 1874
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1874 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., finacier and philanthropist
context_page_description: 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1874th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 874th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 19th century, and the 5th year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1874, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1 – Gustav Albin Weißkopf, German-born aviation pioneer (d. 1927)
  January 4 – Josef Suk, Czech composer, violinist (d. 1935)
  January 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
  January 10 – Ștefan Burileanu, Romanian general, engineer, inventor, and academic (d. 1951)
  January 12 – Marta Anna Wiecka, Polish Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (d. 1904)
  January 13 – Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral, politician (d. 1958)
  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, author (d. 1946)
  January 25 – William Somerset Maugham, English author (d. 1965)
  January 28
  Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1940)
  Gheorghe Mironescu, two-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1949)
  January 29 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
caption: John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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