Famous People Who Died in 1974

Deaths 1 - 200 of 350

Jan 21 Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Comm (1953-58), dies at 78
Jan 22 Leon Lontoc, Filipino-American character actor (The Ugly American; Burke's Law - "Henry"), and restaurateur, dies at 64
Jan 26 Siegfried von Vegesack, German writer, dies at 85
Jan 26 Wiktor Labunski, Polish-American composer, dies at 78
Jan 27 Georgios Grivas, Cypriot leader and patriot (fought guerilla war for independence against British), dies at 75
Jan 27 Paula Ludwig, Austrian German poet, dies at 74
Jan 30 Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (left-arm bowler 1909-12), dies at 87
Jan 31 Glenn Morris, American Olympic track and field champion (Olympic gold, 1936) and actor (Tarzan's Revenge; Hold That Co-ed), dies of congestive heart failure at 61
Jan 31 Harry Baum, actor (Crime & Punishment), dies at 58
Jan 31 Paul Haesaerts, Belgian architect and painter (Flandre), dies at 72
Jan 31 Roger Pryor, American actor (Lady by Choice, Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown), dies at 72

Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

Jan 31 Polish born Jewish-American film producer (The Best Years of Our Lives) and movie magnate, dies of natural causes at 91

Feb 1 Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle at 22
Feb 2 Jean Absil, Belgian organist and composer (Benedictions; Peau d'Ane), dies at 80
Feb 4 Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (Bose–Einstein statistics), dies at 80
Feb 7 Arline Judge, American actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent), dies at 61
Feb 8 Fern Andra [Vernal Andrews], American actress who worked in German silent cinema, dies at 80
Feb 8 Franz Weyergans, Belgian writer and translator (Les Gens Heureux), dies at 61
Feb 8 Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (supernova, dark matter), dies at 75
Feb 9 Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60
Feb 11 Anna Q Nilsson, Swedish actress (Shenandoah; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Toll Gate; Sorrell & Son), dies at 85
Feb 14 Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricket batsman (10 Tests, 2 x 100s; Wellington CA, Leicestershire CCC, Warwickshire CCC), dies at 70
Feb 15 Kurt Magnus Atterberg, Swedish composer, dies at 86
Feb 16 John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
Feb 20 David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer, dies at 85

Tim Horton (1930-1974)

Feb 21 Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant chain, dies in a car crash at 44

Feb 22 Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
Feb 23 Dave Brown, Australian rugby league centre (9 Tests, 19 games NSW; Eastern Suburbs, Warrington; RL "Immortal") and coach (Eastern Suburbs), dies from cancer at 60
Feb 23 Florence Rice, American actress (Fast Company, Double Wedding, Riding on Air), dies from lung cancer at 67
Feb 23 Harry Ruby [Harry Rubenstein], American composer and screenwriter, dies at 79
Feb 25 Julian Dash, American swing jazz tenor saxophonist, and composer ("Tuxedo Junction"), dies at 67
Feb 28 Bobby Bloom, American singer-songwriter ("Montego Bay"), dies in a self-inflicting gun cleaning incident at 28
Feb 28 Mees Toxopeus, Dutch rescue-vessel captain, dies at 89
Mar 1 Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (Moanin'), dies of cirrhosis, at 38
Mar 1 Jos de Haes, Flemish philologist & poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
Mar 1 Larry Doyle, American baseball second baseman (NL MVP 1912, NL batting champion 1915; NY Giants), dies of tuberculosis at 87
Mar 2 Salvador Puig Antich, Spanish anarchist (b. 1948)
Mar 3 Barbara Ruick, American actress (Carousel; Fearless Fagan), and singer (Jerry Colonna Show), dies of an aneurysm at 43
Mar 3 Frank Wilcox, American actor (Beverly Hillbillies), dies from a heart attack at 66
Mar 4 Adolph Gottlieb, American painter, dies at 71
Mar 4 Mihail Andricu, Romanian pianist, composer, violinist, and music professor (Bucharest Conservatory, 1926-59), dies at 79
Mar 5 Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (Good Morning World), dies of lung cancer at 67
Mar 5 Sol Hurok, American theatrical impresario, dies at 85
Mar 7 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
Mar 8 Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
Mar 8 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch singer considered one of the 'Great Three' of Dutch cabaret (My Fair Lady), dies from a heart attack at 56
Mar 9 Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
Mar 10 June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48
Mar 10 Quinto Maganini, American composer (The Argonauts), dies at 76
Mar 12 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
Mar 12 George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b. 1904)
Mar 13 Howard St John, American actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies from a heart attack at 68
Mar 13 Janos Prohaska, Hungarian actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 54
Mar 14 Alex Pompez, American Baseball HOF executive (owner NgL Cuban Stars [East] 1923-28; NY Cubans 1935-51), dies at 83
Mar 16 Daniel Frank Gerber, American manufacturer of baby food, dies at 75
Mar 17 Louis Kahn, Estonian-born American architect (Salk Institute), dies at 73
Mar 17 [Robert] Carroll Nye, American actor (Gone With The Wind), dies at 72
Mar 18 David C Imboden, actor (King of Kings), dies at 87
Mar 19 Anne Klein, American fashion designer (Anne Klein II), dies at 50
Mar 19 Edward Platt, American actor (Get Smart - "The Chief'; North By Northwest), dies of a heart attack at 58
Mar 19 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist politician (daughter of Otto Ville Kuusinen), dies at 70
Mar 20 Chet Huntley, American newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
Mar 20 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, African American advocate in Virginia, dies at 83
Mar 21 Candy Darling [James Slattery], American transgender actress (Flesh, Women in Revolt), dies at 29
Mar 22 Peter Revson, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1971 runner-up; 2 x F1 GP wins), dies in testing accident for South African GP at 35
Mar 24 Doris Deane [Dibble], American silent film actress (Stupid, But Brave), dies at 74
Mar 24 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
Mar 25 Otto Waldis, Austrian actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
Mar 26 Edward Condon, American nuclear physicist (pioneer in quantum mechanics, involved in Manhattan Project), dies at 72
Mar 28 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (That's Alright), dies of a heart attack at 68
Mar 28 Dino Ciani, Italian pianist, dies in a car accident at 32
Mar 28 Dorothy Fields, American singer (The Way You Look Tonight), dies at 68
Mar 28 Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
Mar 29 Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (The Lady Without Camelias, Two Anonymous Letters), dies of periarthritis at 57
Mar 29 Seton I. Miller, Hollywood screenwriter (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul), dies at 71
Mar 30 Lodewijk Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79
Mar 31 Andrea Checci, actress (2 Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at 57
Apr 1 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, dies at 86
Apr 2 Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84

Georges Pompidou (1911-1974)

Apr 2 French President (1969-74) and Prime Minister (1962-68), dies in Paris at 62

Apr 5 A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (Group of Seven), dies at 91
Apr 5 William Hudson, actor (I Led 3 Lives), dies at 49

Hudson Fysh (1895-1974)

Apr 6 Australian aviator, businessman and co-founder of QANTAS, dies at 79

Apr 6 Ronald Russell, British journalist, author and Conservative politician, dies at 69
Apr 6 Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (Hilversum Town Hall; Beehive Rotterdam), dies at 89
Apr 8 James Charles McGuigan, Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto, dies at 79
Apr 10 Patricia Collinge, dies at 81
Apr 10 Roger Bastide, French sociologist study of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean religions, dies at 76
Apr 11 Charles Curtis "Curt" Conway, American actor (Raw Deal; The Twilight Zone), dies of a heart attack at 60
Apr 12 Carl Jaffe, German actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement), dies at 72
Apr 13 Stanley Smith, American actor and singer (King of Jazz; Soup to Nuts; Good News), dies at 71
Apr 14 Al Morgan, American jazz double-bassist (Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Louis Jordan), dies at 65
Apr 15 Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter ("Malinconia d'amore"), dies at 68
Apr 17 Frank McGee, American news anchor (NBC Evening News), dies of cancer at 52
Apr 17 Herbert Elwell, American composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75
Apr 17 Vinnie Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat), dies of a drug overdose
Apr 18 Betty Compson, American actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
Apr 18 John Henry Lewis, American boxer (World Light-Heavyweight champion, 1935-38), dies of emphysema and Parkinson's at 59
Apr 18 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright, filmmaker (Topaze; The Baker's Wife), and novelist, dies at 79
Apr 20 Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan), dies
Apr 20 Richard Huelsenbeck, German Dada writer, dies at 81
Apr 21 Charles "Chic" Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
Apr 22 Tjalie Robinson [Jan Boon], Dutch East Indies writer & journalist (Tong Tong), dies at 63
Apr 23 Cy Williams, American baseball outfielder (4 x NL HR leader; Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 86
Apr 24 (William) "Bud" Abbott, American comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies of cancer at 78
Apr 25 Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (My Golden Road from Samarkand), dies at 69
Apr 25 Pamela Courson, American artist and long-term companion of Jim Morrison, dies of a heroin overdose at 27
Apr 28 Paul Page, American actor (Girl From Havana, Moth), dies at 70

Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974)

Apr 30 American actress (Endora in Bewitched), dies of uterine cancer at 73

May 4 Geraldo [Gerald Walcan Bright], British "sweet music" dance band leader (Gaucho Tango Orchestra), dies of a heart attack at 69
May 4 Israel Citkowitz, Polish-American composer (The Lambs), and pedagogue, dies at 65
May 4 John Wengraf, Austrian actor (12 to the Moon, Pride & Passion), dies at 77
May 7 Hans van Werveke, Belgian historian (Diocese Terwaan), dies at 76
May 8 Graham Bond, British R&B musician, dies jumping under a train at 36
May 9 Lyubomir Pipkov, Bulgarian pianist, composer, music educator, and (with his father) Antarctic glacier namesake, dies at 69
May 10 Hal Mohr [Harold Leon Mohr], American Cinematographer and husband of Evelyn Venable (Captain Blood), dies at 74

Denny Shute (1904-1974)

May 13 American golfer (British Open 1933, PGA C'ship 1936-37), dies at 69

May 13 Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican politician, 2nd Director-General of the UNESCO (1948-52), dies at 72
May 15 Guy Simonds, Canadian army, youngest General officer, dies at 71
May 17 Charles Braswell, American actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
May 17 Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and archaeologist, dies at 75
May 18 Dan Topping, American baseball team owner (NY Yankees), dies at 61
May 23 Kathleen Cannell, American fashion and dance writer, dies at 82
May 24 Edward "Duke" Ellington, American bandleader, composer and pianist ("Take the A Train"; "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"), dies of cancer at 75
May 25 Donald Crisp, British actor and director (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana), dies at 91
May 26 Kitty Gordon, English entertainer, dies at 96
May 26 Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (b. 1941)
May 31 Adelle Davis, American nutritionist and author (Let's Stay Healthy), dies of cancer at 70
Jun 2 Arnold Lunn, British skier (created the modern Alpine slalom race), dies at 86
Jun 2 Elliott Sullivan, American actor (The Persuaders!, Fury Below, Sergeant), dies from a heart attack at 66
Jun 2 Eric Marx, South African cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 3 wickets; 240 on FC debut for Transvaal), dies at 78
Jun 2 Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver, dies at 25
Jun 6 Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
Jun 7 Émilie Charmy, French avant-garde artist, dies at 96

Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974)

Jun 9 Guatemalan novelist (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), journalist and poet, dies at 74

Jun 9 Phillips Tead, American character actor (The Front Page; Lightnin'; Fighting Blade; The Adventures of Superman - "Professor Pepperwinkle), dies at 80
Jun 10 Henry, English Prince and Duke of Gloucester (son of King George V, Governor General of Australia 1945-47), dies at 74
Jun 11 Eurico Gaspar Dutra, President of Brazil (b. 1883)
Jun 11 Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
Jun 14 Knud Jeppesen, Danish organist, composer, educator (Royal Danish Academy, 1920-47; Aarhus University, 1946-57), and musicologist (La frottola), dies at 81
Jun 16 Mauritz Hugo, Swedish actor (Atomic Blonde, Death Valley Gunfighter), dies from heart disease at 65
Jun 17 Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
Jun 17 Rabbe Enckell, Finnish author and poet (Lutad about Brunnen), dies at 71
Jun 17 Yadavendra Singh [Yuvraj of Patiala,], Indian 9th and last ruling Maharaja of Patiala and cricketer (Test for India), dies at 61

Georgy Zhukov (1896-1974)

Jun 18 Russian deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Army during WWII (Battles of Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin) and Minister of Defense, dies at 77

Jun 18 Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (The Man Who Counted), dies at 79
Jun 20 Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player, dies at 62

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

Jun 22 French composer (Maximilien), dies at 81

Jun 25 Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
Jun 27 Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter, dies at 80
Jun 28 Frank Sutton, American actor (Marty, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.), dies of a heart attack at 50
Jun 30 Alberta King, American mother of Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in church at 69
Jun 30 Vannevar Bush, American engineer (developed 1st electronic analogue computer) and science administrator, dies at 84

Juan Perón (1895-1974)

Jul 1 Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of a heart attack at 78

Jul 1 Kick Smit, Dutch soccer striker and manager (29 caps; HFC Haarlem), dies at 62
Jul 3 John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (God Without Thunder), dies at 86
Jul 4 Francis Bull, Norwegian writer (Norsk literature historian), dies at 86
Jul 4 Mohammed SA al-Hoesseini, Mufti of Jerusalem/pres Com Palestine, dies
Jul 6 Carlos Isamitt, Chilean composer, dies at 87
Jul 8 Morris "Moose" Charlap, American Broadway composer (Peter Pan; Kelly), dies at 45

Earl Warren (1891-1974)

Jul 9 Governor of California and 14th US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1953-69), dies at 83

Jul 9 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer, dies at 90
Jul 9 Sonia Gaskell, Russian-Dutch choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70
Jul 9 Ted Bowley, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1929-30), dies
Jul 11 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish poet, novelist, and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1951), dies at 83
Jul 13 Patrick Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948 - nuclear reaction), dies at 76
Jul 14 Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, dies at 83
Jul 14 Henri Smajda, Tunisian French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
Jul 15 Christine Chubbuck, American TV news reporter, commits suicide live on TV at 29
Jul 17 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, American Baseball HOF pitcher (MLB All-Star 1934–37; World Series & NL MVP 1934 St Louis Cardinals), dies of a heart attack at 63
Jul 19 Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer forward (2 caps Hungary; Ferencváros, NY Giants, NY Americans) and coach (United States [men] 1953-56), dies at 69
Jul 19 Joe Flynn, American character actor (McHale's Navy - "Capt. Binghamton; The Love Bug; The Rescuers), dies of a heart attack while swimming in his pool at 49
Jul 20 Allen Jenkins, American actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit), dies at 74
Jul 21 Willem F. K. Hussem, Dutch painter and poet (Steltlopen on Sea), dies at 74
Jul 22 Edna Lewis Thomas, American actress (A Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88
Jul 22 Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68
Jul 22 Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73
Jul 23 Mary Forbes, actress (Nun-Les Miserables, Ivy), dies at 90
Jul 24 Chris Chubbock, newscaster, shoots self on air
Jul 24 Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84

James Chadwick (1891-1974)

Jul 24 British physicist (Nobel Prize, 1935; discovered neutron), dies at 82

Jul 26 Arthur K Watson, US businessman (IBM), dies at 55
Jul 27 Lightnin' Slim [Otis Hicks], American Louisiana blues electric guitarist, singer, and songwriter ("Nothing But The Devil"; "Bad Luck And Trouble"), dies of stomach cancer at 61
Jul 28 Jack Ellis, Australian cricketer (Victorian WK, Ashes tourist 1926), dies

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