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1774 births

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Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic landscape painter (1774–1840)

Jean-Baptiste Biot

French scientist (1774-1862)

English romantic poet (1774–1843)

Daniel D. Tompkins

American politician; sixth vice president of the United States (1774–1825)

Matthew Flinders

English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)

Francis Beaufort

Irish hydrographer and naval officer (1774-1857)

Auguste de Marmont

French General, nobleman and Marshal of France (1774-1852)

Meriwether Lewis

American explorer (1774-1809)

Scottish physician, painter and theologian (1774–1842)

Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti

Italian cardinal and hyperpolyglot

Christian Leopold von Buch

German geologist (1774-1853)

André Marie Constant Duméril

French zoologist

Gaspare Spontini

Italian composer and conductor

Anne Catherine Emmerich

German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist (1774-1824)

Elizabeth Ann Seton

first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1774-1821)

British astronomer

Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall

Austrian explorer, translator, diplomat, orientalist (1774-1856)

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands

queen consort of the Netherlands from 1815 to 1837 (1774–1837)

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

British and Hanoverian Royal (1774-1850), Duke of Cambridge from 1786

Johnny Appleseed

American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

French painter (1774–1833)

British chemist who formulated the law on the solubility of gases into liquids

Jean Marc Gaspard Itard

French physician (1774-1838)

Lord William Bentinck

First Governor General of India, British soldier and statesman (1774-1839)

Marie-Denise Villers

French painter (1774-1821)

Luis Eduardo Pérez

president of Uruguay (1774-1841)

Edward Charles Howard

British chemist (1774-1816)

German mathematician

British scientist; (1774-1854)

Johann Jakob Bernhardi

German physician and botanist (1774–1850)

Salomon Mayer von Rothschild

Austrian banker and businessman (1774-1855)

French violinist and composer (1774 – 1830)

Václav Tomášek

Czech music educator and composer

British artist and sculptor

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse

Danish composer

Mexican revolutionary rebel soldier

Mykhailo Levytsky

Metropolitan of Lviv (1774–1858)

Grigory Langsdorff

Russian-German naturalist and explorer (1774-1852)

Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

Frederick Traugott Pursh

German-American botanist (1774-1820)

Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Homburg

Consort of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Anne Jean Marie René Savary

French general (1774-1833)

Juan José Viamonte

Argentine general

Friedrich Koenig

German printer (1774-1833)

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

German chemist and mineralogist (1774-1856)

Princess Maria Antonia of Parma

Claudine Thévenet

Karl Dietrich Eberhard König

German naturalist (1774-1851)

Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg

German historian

Georg von Cancrin

Economist, politician (1774-1845)

Magdalene of Canossa

Italian Religious Sister and foundress

Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps

French botanist (1774-1849)

Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov

Russian military commander and statesman (1774-1817)

Venezuelan general

Italian architect and builder (1776-1854)

Littleton Waller Tazewell

American politician (1774-1860)

Cécile Renault

French royalist

Johann Gottfried Gruber

German literary critic

Gustav von Rauch

Prussian general (1774-1841)