Celebrity Deaths in 1974

123 notable figures died in 1974. Listed below in order of date of death.

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  Heihachiro Fukuda

  1892 – 1974 · Artists and Architects
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  Shigeru Nanbara

  1889 – 1974
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  Alma Taylor

  1895 – 1974 · Actresses Jan 1
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  Bobbie Dorree

  1905 – 1974 · Actresses Jan 1
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  Edmund Blunden

  1896 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
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  Errett Lobban Cord

  1894 – 1974 Jan 1
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  Gino Cervi

  1901 – 1974 · Actors Jan 1
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  H. E. Bates

  1905 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jan 1
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  Jessie Mae McIntyre Stovall McIntosh

  1909 – 1974 · Business Magnates Jan 1
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  Peter William Appleton

  1904 – 1974 · Sports Figures Jan 1
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  William Fawcett

  1894 – 1974 · Actors Jan 1
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  Wolfgang Anheisser

  1929 – 1974 · Entertainers Jan 1
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  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  1896 – 1974 · Artists and Architects Jan 6
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  Anna Quirentia Nilsson

  1888 – 1974 · Actresses Feb 2
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  Antonio Casal

  1910 – 1974 · Actors Feb 2
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  Fern Andra

  1893 – 1974 · Actresses Feb 2
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  Satyendra Nath Bose

  1894 – 1974 · Politicians Feb 4
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  Arline Judge

  1912 – 1974 · Actresses, Theater Actor Feb 7
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  Anna Q. Nilsson

  1888 – 1974 · Actresses, Model Feb 11
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  Florence Rice

  1907 – 1974 · Actresses Feb 23
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  Barbara Ruick

  1930 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 3
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  Billy De Wolfe

  1907 – 1974 · Actors Mar 3
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  Eduardo Cansino, Jr

  1919 – 1974 · Actors Mar 3
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  Françoise Rosay

  1891 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 3
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  Judith Riedel Rawlins

  1936 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 3
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  Louis Kahn

  1901 – 1974 · Artists and Architects, Business Magnates Mar 3
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  Nathan Handwerker

  1892 – 1974 Mar 3
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  Robert Lee Brokenburr

  1886 – 1974 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Mar 3
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  Vernon Cansino

  1922 – 1974 · Actors Mar 3
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  Chet Huntley

  1911 – 1974 · Entertainers Mar 20
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  Candy Darling

  1944 – 1974 · Actresses Mar 21
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  Peter Revson

  1939 – 1974 · Race Car Driver Mar 22
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  Georges Pompidou

  1911 – 1974 · Politicians Apr 2
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  A.Y. Jackson

  1882 – 1974 · Business Magnates Apr 4
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  Agnes Moorehead

  1900 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
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  Douglass Dumbrille

  1889 – 1974 · Actors Apr 4
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  Harold Vincent “Hal” Boyle

  1911 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Apr 4
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  María Fernanda Ladrón de Guevara

  1897 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
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  Patricia Collinge Collinge

  1892 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
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  Patricia Collinge Collinge

  1892 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 4
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  Bobby Buntrock

  1952 – 1974 · Actors Apr 7
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  Moose Charlap

  1928 – 1974 · Musicians and Composers Apr 8
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  Patricia Collinge

  1892 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 10
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  Betty Compson

  1897 – 1974 · Actresses Apr 18
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  Marcel Pagnol

  1895 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Apr 18
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  Ayub Khan

  1907 – 1974 · Politicians Apr 19
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  Bud Abbott

  1895 – 1974 · Actors Apr 24
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  Ben Bard

  1893 – 1974 · Actors May 5
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  Francis J. O’Malley

  1909 – 1974 May 5
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  Stewart Alsop

  1914 – 1974 · Authors and Writers May 5
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  Duke Ellington

  1899 – 1974 · Musicians and Composers May 24
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  Donald Crisp

  1882 – 1974 · Actors, Director, Film Director, Producer May 25
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  Brenda Carol Ball

  1951 – 1974 · Victims of crime and disaster Jun 6
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  Katharine Cornell

  1893 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
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  Katharine Cornell

  1893 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
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  Miguel Angel Asturias

  1899 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jun 6
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  Russell Harvey Ash

  1910 – 1974 · Actors Jun 6
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  Susana Brunetti

  1941 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 6
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  Pamela Owen Britton

  1923 – 1974 · Actresses Jun 17
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  Georgy Zhukov

  1896 – 1974 · Politicians Jun 18
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  Juan Perón

  1895 – 1974 · Politicians Jul 1
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  Francis Blanche

  1921 – 1974 · Actors Jul 6
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  Chet Brandenburg

  1897 – 1974 · Actors Jul 7
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  Edna Thomas

  1885 – 1974 · Actresses Jul 7
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  Julián Centeya

  1910 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Jul 7
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  Sonia Holm

  1922 – 1974 · Actresses Jul 7
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  Truman Bradley

  1905 – 1974 · Actors Jul 7
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  Vernon Bigelow Stouffer

  1901 – 1974 · Business Magnates Jul 7
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  Patrick Blackett

  1897 – 1974 · Politicians Jul 13
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  Christine Chubbuck

  1944 – 1974 · American journalist Jul 15
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  Allen Jenkins

  1900 – 1974 · Actors Jul 20
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  Erich Kästner

  1899 – 1974 · Celebrities, Musicians Jul 29
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  Dr. Virginia Apgar

  1909 – 1974 · Authors and Writers, Scientists and Inventors, Social Reformers, Suffragists Aug 7
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  Almira Sessions

  1888 – 1974 · Actresses Aug 8
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  Buford Hayse Pusser

  1937 – 1974 · Crime Fighters and Lawyers Aug 8
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  Clay L. Shaw

  1913 – 1974 · Business Magnates Aug 8
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  Edgar Dearing

  1893 – 1974 · Actors Aug 8
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  Edmund Fessenden Cobb

  1892 – 1974 · Actors Aug 8
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  Grant Hyde Code, Sr

  1896 – 1974 · Actors Aug 8
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  Ilona Massey

  1910 – 1974 · Actresses Aug 8
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  Rosario Castellanos

  1925 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Aug 8
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  Charles Lindbergh

  1902 – 1974 · Military Figures Aug 26
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  Creighton Williams Abrams

  1914 – 1974 · Military Figures Sep 4
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  Otto Kruger

  1885 – 1974 · Actors Sep 6
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  Patricia Cutts

  1926 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 6
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  Barbara Jo “Vera Vague” Allen

  1906 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 9
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  Cliff “Charlie Weaver” Arquette

  1905 – 1974 · Actors Sep 9
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  Dorothy Stone

  1905 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 9
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  Robert Cox

  1896 – 1974 · Actors Sep 9
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  Barbara Jo Allen

  1906 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 14
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  Forrest Allen

  1885 – 1974 · Athletes, Basketball Sep 16
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  Forrest Clare “Phog” Allen

  1885 – 1974 · Athletes, Sports Figures Sep 16
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  Edna Best

  1900 – 1974 · Actresses Sep 18
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  Gail Cobb

  1950 – 1974 · Victims of crime and disaster Sep 20
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  Walter Brennan

  1894 – 1974 · Actors Sep 21
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  Ebe Stignani

  1903 – 1974 · Singer, Theater Actor Oct 6
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  Harry Carney

  1910 – 1974 · Musicians and Composers Oct 8
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  Oskar Schindler

  1908 – 1974 · Business Magnates Oct 9
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  Hazel Neilson Terry

  1923 – 1974 · Actresses Oct 10
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  Madalynne Field

  1907 – 1974 · Actresses Oct 10
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  Otto Binder

  1911 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Oct 13
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  Rudolf Dassler

  1898 – 1974 · Business Magnates Oct 27
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  Chubby Johnson

  1903 – 1974 · Actors Oct 31
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  Stafford Repp

  1918 – 1974 · Actors Nov 5
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  Bert “The Mad Russian” Gordon

  1895 – 1974 · Actors Nov 11
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  Cyril Connolly

  1903 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Nov 11
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  Haroldson Lafayette “H.L.” Hunt, Jr

  1889 – 1974 Nov 11
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  Hunter Guthrie

  1901 – 1974 Nov 11
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  Jane Ace

  1897 – 1974 · Actresses Nov 11
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  Rodolfo Acosta

  1920 – 1974 · Actors Nov 11
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  Rosemary Lane

  1913 – 1974 · Actresses Nov 11
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  Vittorio De Sica

  1901 – 1974 · Actors, Director, Film Director Nov 13
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  Johnny Mack Brown

  1904 – 1974 · Actors Nov 14
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  Clive Brook

  1887 – 1974 · Actors Nov 17
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  Cornelius Ryan

  1920 – 1974 · Actors Nov 23
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  U Thant

  1909 – 1974 · Politicians Nov 25
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  James J Braddock

  1905 – 1974 · Boxers Nov 29
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  Bob Custer

  1898 – 1974 · Actors Dec 12
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  Dr Verner Winslow Crane

  1889 – 1974 · Authors and Writers Dec 12
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  Floyd Byron Criswell

  1899 – 1974 · Actors Dec 12
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  Ralph M. Parsons

  1896 – 1974 · Business Magnates Dec 12
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  Rufe Davis

  1908 – 1974 · Actors Dec 12
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  Jack Benny

  1894 – 1974 · Actors, Comedian, Entertainers, Musicians and Composers Dec 26