Famous People Who Died In 1974
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1974. This list includes people like Virginia Apgar, Oskar Schindler, Cass Elliot, Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Zhukov and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include poets, political leaders, novelists and physicists who died in 1974. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, India & Germany and many more countries.
Oskar Schindler28 April 1908, German
Cass Elliot19 September 1941, British, American
Singer
Charles Lindbergh04 February 1902, American
Aviator, Inventor & Author
Duke Ellington29 April 1899, American
Composer, Pianist and Bandleader
Georgy Zhukov01 December 1896, Russian
Military Commander
Juan Perón08 October 1895, Argentinian
President of Argentina
Buford Pusser12 December 1937, American
Sheriff
Agnes Moorehead06 December 1900, American
Actress
Pamela Courson22 December 1946, American
Jim Morrison’s Partner
Christine Chubbuck24 August 1944, American
TV Reporter
Jack Benny14 February 1894, American
Comedian, Vaudevillian
Walter Brennan25 July 1894, American
Actor
Frank Sutton23 October 1923, American
Actor
Lyudmila Pavlichenko12 July 1916, Russian
Sniper
Earl Warren19 March 1891, American
Satyendra Nath Bose01 January 1894, Indian
Louis Kahn20 February 1901, American
Architect
Rudolf Dassler26 March 1898, German
Entrepreneur
V. K. Krishna Menon03 May 1896, Indian
Indian Politician
Anne Sexton09 November 1928, American
Poet
Georges Pompidou05 July 1911, French
Former Prime Minister & President of France
Walter Lippmann23 September 1889, American
First to introduce the concept of Cold War
Samuel Goldwyn17 August 1879, American
Film Producer
James Chadwick20 October 1891, British
Discoverer of Neutron
U Thant22 January 1909, Burmese
3rd Secretary General of the U.N.
H. L. Hunt17 February 1889, American
Businessman
Imre Lakatos09 November 1922, Hungarian
Philosopher
H. E. Bates16 May 1905, British
Short Story Writer
Virginia Apgar07 June 1909, American
Physician and Anesthesiologist
Ralph Capone12 January 1894, Italian, American
Al Capone's Brother
Begum Akhtar07 October 1914, Indian
Singer
Anatole Litvak21 May 1902, French, Ukrainian, American, Russian
Director, Screenwriter, Producer
Cyril Connolly10 September 1903, British
Literary Critic & Writer
Claudia Lars20 December 1899, Salvadoran
Poet
Patrick Blackett18 November 1897, British
Physicist
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Betty Compson19 March 1897, American
Actress
Earl W. Sutherland Jr.19 November 1915, American
Biochemist and Pharmacologist
Oscar Acosta08 April 1935, American
Attorney, Author
Miguel Ãngel Asturias19 October 1899, Guamanian
Poet
Nick Drake19 June 1948, Burmese
Singer-songwriter, Songwriter, Guitarist, Composer
James J. Braddock07 June 1905, American
Boxer
Ed Sullivan28 September 1901, American
Television presenter, Screenwriter, Journalist
Julius Evola19 May 1898, Italian
Poet, Racial theorist, Writer, Painter,
Karen Silkwood1946 AD
Tim Horton12 January 1930, Canadian
Ice hockey player
Bud Abbott02 October 1895, American
television actor, film actor, film producer, stage
Vannevar Bush11 March 1890, American
Scientist, Engineer, Politician, University
Bill Finger08 February 1914, American
Comics artist, Screenwriter
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar23 September 1908, Indian
Writer, Poet, Politician, Journalist, Literary
Creighton Abrams15 September 1914, American
Officer
Baldur von Schirach09 May 1907, German
Politician, Screenwriter
Vittorio De Sica07 July 1901, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film
Dizzy Dean16 January 1910, American
American baseball player
Dizzy Dean16 January 1910, American
Famous Baseball Players
Peng Dehuai24 October 1898
Politician, Military personnel
Hilda Gadea21 March 1921, Peruvian
economist, politician, writer
David Alfaro Siqueiros29 December 1896, Mexican
Painter, University teacher, Military personnel
Otto Strasser10 September 1897, German
Journalist, Politician, Writer
Anne Klein03 August 1923, American
Fashion designer
A. J. Cronin19 July 1896, Swiss
Novelist
Erich Kästner1899 AD, German
Author
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Chet Huntley10 December 1911, American
News presenter, Television presenter, Journalist
Peter Revson27 February 1939, American
Formula One driver, Motorcycle racer, Racecar
David Oistrakh30 September 1908, Dutch
Violinist
Marcel Pagnol28 February 1895, French
Theatre director, Film director, Writer,
Fritz Zwicky14 February 1898, Swiss, American
Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher
Helmuth Koinigg03 November 1948, Austrian
Formula One driver, Engineer, Sportsperson
Stefano Magaddino10 October 1891, American
Funeral director
Jacob Bronowski18 January 1908, British
Mathematician, Poet, Non-fiction writer
Graham Bond28 October 1937, British
Saxophonist
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar18 July 1919, Indian
Poet, Composer, Philosopher, Philanthropist,
Amy Vanderbilt22 July 1908, American
Wolf Messing10 September 1899, Polish, Russian
hypnotist, mentalist
Arthur Crudup24 August 1905, American
musician, singer, guitarist, composer
Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu23 March 1893, Indian
Olga Baclanova19 August 1900, Russian
actor
Tony Costa02 August 1944, American
Serial killer
Titanic Thompson31 October 1892, American
Hustling, poker playergolfer, pool player
A. Y. Jackson03 October 1882, Canadian
Painter
Johanna Langefeld05 March 1900, German
Torturer
Rosario Castellanos25 May 1925, Mexican
Poet, Diplomat, Writer, Screenwriter, University
Jacob L. Moreno18 May 1889, Austrian, Romanian, American
Psychiatrist
Pär Lagerkvist23 May 1891, Swedish
Writer, Poet, Playwright, Essayist, Screenwriter
Zalman Shazar24 November 1889, Israeli
politician, journalist, writer,poet
Ayub Khan14 May 1907, Pakistani
Former President of Pakistan
Aklilu Habte-Wold12 March 1912, Ethiopian
Politician
Mama Cass1941 AD
Singer
Leon Shamroy16 July 1901, American
Cinematographer
Eurico Gaspar Dutra18 May 1883, Brazilian
Military leader
Abraham Robinson06 October 1918, American
Mathematician, Engineer, University teacher
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.19 November 1915, American
American pharmacologist
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett18 November 1897, British
Politician, Physicist, Scientist
Frank Martin15 September 1890, Swiss
composer, conductor, university teacher, pianist
Ghantasala04 December 1922, Indian
songwriter, composer, singer
Edmund Charles Blunden01 November 1896, British