1874

1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.

 Births 
 March 29 – Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
 August 10 – Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States (d. 1964)
 September 13 – Arnold Schoenberg
 November 30 – Winston Churchill, sixty-first and sixty-third Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1965)