About the day » Sunday October 18, 1874Calender converter

• van der Meijden, Brakel, Gelderland, Nederland († 1874)
• Aaltje Tuinema, Siddeburen (Slochteren) († 1956)
• Albert Grootoonk, Coevorden,Drenthe,Niederlande,Weijerswold († 1874)
• Anna Weller († 1951)
• Adrianus de Vor, Lexmond († 1956)
• Adrianus Ransijn, Heiloo, Nederland († 1954)
• Alphonse Leon Maurice graaf van Hogendorp, Breda,Gemeente Breda,North Brabant,Netherlands († 1945)
• Aafje van Schagen, Heerhugowaard (Noord-Holland) († 1890)
• Abraham CHARITÉ, 's-Gravenhage (Z-H) († 1945)
• Alphonsus Morcus, Hontenisse (Z) († 1949)

• Barbara Hubertina Gielen (16), Schinveld
• Baukje Rinses Triemstra (84), Driesum, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aukjen Alles Dijkstra (83), Jorwerd, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Geertruida Smit (1), Zwolle
• Anna Maria Navis (57), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alexander Clark (30), Muswellbrook, NSW., Aust
• Bernardina Jansen (67), Herkulo (Zwollerkerspel)
• Abraham van der Eijk (44), Kralingen
• Charles Gustave Arthur Hippolyte Vande Walle (0), Berchem-Oudenaarde, België
• Cornelis Nicolaas Jäger (1), Utrecht

• 1865 » Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author († 1957)
• 1868 » Ernst Didring, Swedish author († 1931)
• 1870 » D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar († 1966)
• 1872 » Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet and author († 1936)
• 1873 » Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian lawyer and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy († 1951)
• 1875 » Len Braund, English cricketer, coach, and umpire († 1955)
• 1878 » James Truslow Adams, American historian and author († 1949)
• 1880 » Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-Russian general, journalist, and theorist († 1940)
• 1881 » Max Gerson, German-born American physician († 1959)
• 1882 » Lucien Petit-Breton, French cyclist († 1917)

• 1865 » Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
• 1871 » Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
• 1876 » Francis Preston Blair, American journalist (b. 1791)
• 1886 » Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician and botanist (b. 1796)
• 1889 » Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808)
• 1892 » William W. Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
• 1893 » Charles Gounod, French composer and educator (b. 1818)
• 1908 » Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (b. 1840)
• 1911 » Alfred Binet, French psychologist and author (b. 1857)
• 1921 » Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Klaas
15. Wilhelmus
16. Leendert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Antje
15. Elizabeth
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• March 15 » France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
• July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
• July 8 » The Mounties begin their March West.
• July 14 » The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
• October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
• November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.

The temperature on October 18, 1874 was about 13.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.