About the day » Tuesday March 24, 1874Calender converter

• Anna Thiewes, Gasselternijveen (Gasselte) († 1938)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Paulissen, Brommelen, Geulle, Limburg, Netherlands († 1951)
• Adolf Wallach, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 1942)
• Achille Julienne Moussel, Coudres (Eure, Haute-Normandie, Frankrijk) († 1919)
• Adriana van der Meer, Maassluis († 1932)
• Abel Nienhuis, Eenrum, Groningen, Nederland († 1955)
• Albert Augustus Thomas († 1875)
• Abel NIENHUIS, Eenrum Groningen Netherlands († 1955)
• Aaltje Geerts Otter, Tjalleberd, Aengwirden († 1956)
• Andries Kerssen (Kersten) (Kersen), Eerbeek (Brummen) († 1875)

• Anna Koolen (80), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Rowaan (4), Breukelen-Nijenrode
• Antje Roowaan (4), Breukelen-Nijenrode
• Adriana Bijl (0), Vlaardingen
• Achille Gustave BLANCHET (0), La Chapelle d'Armentières, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• Anna Hubertdina Zeelen (3), Montfort, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Stolle (78), Rotterdam
• (71), Elspeet
• Abraham de Ruijter (0), Den Burg
• Arend Smit (0), Schut (Hoogeveen)

• 1869 » Émile Fabre, French author and playwright († 1955)
• 1871 » Alec Hurley, English music hall singer († 1913)
• 1874 » Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor († 1926)
• 1874 » Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic († 1961)
• 1875 » William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player († 1953)
• 1879 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer († 1953)
• 1882 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)

• 1838 » Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
• 1869 » Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 » Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)

• 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.
• May 9 » The first horsebus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
• May 16 » A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
• July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
• July 8 » The Mounties begin their March West.
• July 23 » Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
• October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.

The temperature on March 24, 1874 was about 15.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%.