Editing 1774 (section)

=== August ===
* [[August 1]]
** [[John Adam (silversmith)|John Adam]], silversmith (d. [[1848]])
** [[Jérôme Demers]], Québécois priest and teacher of philosophy (d. [[1853]])
** [[Friedrich Guimpel]], German illustrator, engraver and botanical artist (d. [[1839]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Ole Clausen Mørch]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1829]])
* [[August 5]]
** [[Karl Wilhelm Bardou]], German portraitist (d. [[1842]])
** [[John C. Devereux]], American politician (d. [[1848]])
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Asa Wells]], pioneer farmer and surveyor from Pompey (d. [[1859]])
* [[August 7]]
** [[François Benjamin Levrault]], French politician (d. [[1855]])
** [[William Morgan (anti-Mason)|William Morgan]], resident of Batavia, New York (d. [[1826]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[George Frederick Beltz]], British genealogist (d. [[1841]])
** [[Solomon Van Rensselaer]], American politician and soldier (d. [[1852]])
* [[August 11]]
** [[Eugène François d'Arnauld]], French public official (d. [[1854]])
** [[Joseph Franque]], French painter (d. [[1833]])
** [[Manuel de Sarratea]], Argentine politician (d. [[1849]])
** [[François Tassé]], Canadian politician (d. [[1832]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie]], historian from France (d. [[1857]])
** [[Hannah Kilham]], Methodist missionary (d. [[1832]])
** [[Stephen Peter Rigaud]], English mathematical historian and astronomer (d. [[1839]])
** [[Robert Southey]], English romantic poet (d. [[1843]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[Hipólito da Costa]], Brazilian journalist and diplomat (d. [[1823]])
** [[John Wilson (painter, born 1774)|John Wilson]], Scottish landscape and marine painter (d. [[1855]])
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[François-Joseph-Marie Fayolle]], French musicologist, man of letters and mathematician (d. [[1852]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[George E. Blake]], American music publisher (d. [[1871]])
** [[Stephan von Breuning (librettist)|Stephan von Breuning]], German librettist and author (d. [[1827]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Gaspard Laurent Bayle]], French physician (d. [[1816]])
** [[Meriwether Lewis]], American explorer, soldier and public administrator (d. [[1809]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Denis-Benjamin Viger]], Lower Canadian politician (d. [[1861]])
* [[August 20]]
** [[Ludvig Frederik Brock]], Norwegian military officer (d. [[1853]])
** [[Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara]], Governor of Tamaulipas (d. [[1841]])
* [[August 22]]
** [[François Aregnaudeau]], French privateer captain (d. [[1812]])
** [[Bartholomäus Herder]], German publisher (d. [[1839]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Pierre David de Colbert-Chabanais]], French general (d. [[1853]])
** [[Jacob Crocheron]], American politician (d. [[1849]])
** [[Mary Moody Emerson]], American writer (d. [[1863]])
** [[William Plunkett Maclay]], American politician (d. [[1842]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn]], German physician (d. [[1848]])
* [[August 25]] &ndash; [[Samuel William Manthey]], Norwegian politician (d. [[1815]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet]], English banker, politician (d. [[1840]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Ann Seton]], co-founder of [[Mount St. Mary's University]] in the United States, founder of the [[Sisters of Charity]] (d. [[1821]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Henri Van Assche]], painter (d. [[1841]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Charles Turner (engraver)|Charles Turner]], English engraver (d. [[1857]])