People Born in the 1870s

Discover ancestors and historical figures in our database of 6,286 people with archival photographs and biographical details.

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6,286 people found

Bedřich Schejbal

1874–2000 fencer Prague

Bert Williams

1874–1922 actor, blackface minstrel performer, comedian, film actor, film director, lyricist, screenwriter, singer, stage actor Nassau

Bronisław Olszewski

1874–1959 painter Lviv

Carl Pfann

1874–1928 film actor, opera singer, stage actor Vienna

Charles Barette

1874–1947 association football referee City of Brussels

David Moylan

1874–1942 judge

Dmitry Gulia

1874–1960 poet, writer Varcha

Edith Rettig

1874–1941 Söderhamn parish

Einar Wikström

1874–1956 writer Söderhamn

Emanuele Pugliese

1874–1967 soldier Vercelli

Ethel Ayres Purdie

1874–1923 chartered accountant, director, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights activist Islington

Eugène Osty

1874–1938 physician, physiologist Paris

Fernando de Almeida Loureiro e Vasconcelos

1874–1944 writer Chaves

Flora Rose

1874–1959 nutritionist, scientist

François Jollivet-Castelot

1874–1937 alchemist, occultist Douai

Frederick Sumner McKay

1874–1959 dentist Lawrence

Fredrik Esmarch

1874–1946 industrialist Saint Petersburg

Fridrih Pops

1874–1948 lawyer Belgrade

Gaston Polak

1874–1970 linguist, mining engineer

George Richards

1874–1944 association football coach, association football player Wales

Giorgi Kvinitadze

1874–1970 military officer, military personnel Dagestan Oblast

Halstead Dorey

1874–1946 military officer St. Louis

Harold Heartt Foley

1874–1923 painter New York City

Heghine Melik-Haykazyan

1874–1968 pedagogue, writer Shusha

Henry Lockney

1874–1944 judge, politician Muskego

Inessa Armand

1874–1920 communist, editor, feminist, politician, revolutionary Paris

Isaías de Noronha

1874–1963 military personnel, politician Rio de Janeiro

James Cornell

1874–1946 politician, trade unionist Merrijig

Jan Feith

1874–1944 aristocrat, draftsperson, filmmaker, illustrator, journalist, writer Amsterdam

Jean-Marie Chabert

1874–1933 Catholic priest, missionary Saint-Étienne-des-Oullières

Jeanne Darlays

1874–1958 opera singer Soyers

John Gilday

1874–1937 politician Ballarat

John Lord O'Brian

1874–1973 lawyer Buffalo

John William Glenister

1874–1937 publisher New York City

Joseph Erlanger

1874–1965 neurologist, neuroscientist, physician, physiologist, university teacher San Francisco

Katharina Jensen

1874–1945 Kiel

Lou Henry Hoover

1874–1944 geologist, politician, president Waterloo

Mabel Robinson

1874–1962 children's writer, writer

Maeda Masahachi

1874–1965 businessperson, politician

Marguerite Long

1874–1966 music professor, pianist Nîmes

Maria Vérone

1874–1938 jurist, lawyer, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights activist 2nd arrondissement of Paris

Marion (Bill) Edwards

1874–1956 Murchison

Marko Cheremshyna

1874–1927 lawyer, writer Kobaki

Mary Garden

1874–1967 film actor, opera singer Aberdeen

Maurice Alet

1874–1967 cabinetmaker Villefranche-de-Rouergue

Mena Barreto

1874–1933 military personnel, politician Porto Alegre

Minnie Rebecca Everett

1874–1956 ballet dancer

Nathan Spielvogel

1874–1956 historian, teacher, writer Ballarat

Nikolai Semashko

1874–1949 physician, statesperson Livenskaya

Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky

1874–1943 film screenwriter, journalist, novelist, prose writer, writer Saint Petersburg