Famous People Who Died in 1974 (Part 2)

Deaths 201 - 353 of 353

• Jul 26 Arthur K. Watson, American businessman (IBM), and US Ambassador to France (1970-72), dies from injuries suffered in a fall at 55 [1]
• 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 Truman Bradley, American TV host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69

• Jul 29 Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
• Jul 30 Lev Knipper, Russian-Soviet composer (Poem of the Komsomol Fighter; Tales of a Plaster God), and secret agent, dies at 75
• Aug 1 Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
• Aug 2 W. Douglas Hawkes, British auto racer and designer, dies at 80
• Aug 3 Almira Sessions, American character actress (Oklahoma Annie), dies at 85
• Aug 6 Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist ("The Happy Blues"), dies of bone cancer at 49
• Aug 7 Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (Balún Canán), dies in an electrical accident at 49
• Aug 7 Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 72
• Aug 8 Baldur von Schirach, German writer, Nazi official and convicted war criminal (Head of Hitler Youth 1931-40), dies at 67
• Aug 9 Bill Chase, American jazz-rock trumpet player and bandleader (Chase), dies in a plane crash at 39
• Aug 10 Ivor Dean, British stage and screen actor (Treasure Island; The Saint - "Inspector Teal"), dies at 56
• Aug 10 Pedro Regas, Greek stage actor (Only Angels Have Wings, Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour), dies at 77
• Aug 11 Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan composer, dies at 86
• Aug 13 (Harold) "Tina" Brooks, American hard-bop jazz saxophonist, and composer ("True Blue"), dies of liver failure at 42
• Aug 13 Hugo Yarnold, English cricketer (Umpire in 3 Tests for England), dies at 57
• Aug 13 Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies at 76
• Aug 14 Raymond Budd, South African trade unionist
• Aug 15 Edmund Cobb, American silent and sound screen actor, specializing in western film (A Final Reckoning; Motorcycle Gang; Comanche Territory), dies of a heart attack at 82
• Aug 15 Yuk Young-So, wife of South Korean president Park Chung-Hee, murdered in an assassination attempt on her husband at 48
• Aug 16 Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies
• Aug 17 Aldo Palazzeschi [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi), dies at 89
• Aug 17 Edgar Dearing, American actor (Pollyanna, Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy), dies at 81
• Aug 19 Rodger Davies, United States ambassador to Cyprus, murdered at 53 by Greek Cypriot gunmen during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia
• Aug 20 Ilona Massey [Hajmássy], Hungarian-American film, stage, and radio actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), dies of cancer at 64
• Aug 21 Buford Pusser, American sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, dies in a single vehicle car crash at 36
• Aug 22 Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born British mathematician and science writer best known as the presenter of the BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, dies of a heart attack at 66
• Aug 23 Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and writer (Psychosynthesis,), dies at 86
• Aug 24 Alexander de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer (b. 1894)
• Aug 25 Gus Viseur, Belgian-French jazz button accordionist, dies at 59

• Aug 30 Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87
• Aug 31 Gianna Manzini, Italian writer (Ritratto in piedi), dies at 78
• Aug 31 Norman Kirk, New Zealand politician (Prime Minister of New Zealand 1971-74), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 51
• Aug 31 William Pershing Benedict, American World War II fighter pilot in both the RCAF and U.S. Army Air Forces, killed in a plane crash while firefighting in California at 56
• Sep 3 Harry Partch, American composer (Revelations in the Courthouse Park; Delusion Of The Fury), and instrument inventor, dies at 73 [1]
• Sep 4 Creighton W. Abrams, US general and army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59
• Sep 4 Lewi Pethrus, Swedish Pentecostal minister and politician, dies at 90
• Sep 4 Marcel Achard, French playwright (La forges the Paris), dies at 75
• Sep 6 Olga Baclanova, Russian-American actress (Freaks, Docks of NY), dies at 75
• Sep 6 Otto Kruger, American actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday
• Sep 8 Robert Cox, American comic actor, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
• Sep 9 Soltan Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer and People's Artist of the USSR, dies at 55
• Sep 11 Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member, arrested by Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate and afterwards disappeared at 22
• Sep 14 Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95
• Sep 14 Vera Vague [Barbara Jo Allen], American actress (Sleeping Beauty, Follow the Leader), dies at 66
• Sep 14 Warren Hull, American actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies from heart failure at 71
• Sep 17 André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and cartoonist, dies at 90
• Sep 18 Edna Best, English actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74
• Sep 19 Eve March, American actress (Adam's Rib, Danny Boy), dies at 63
• Sep 20 Carlyle Blackwell Jr, American actor (The Pilgrim Lady, The Triumph of the Rat), dies at 71
• Sep 20 Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88

• Sep 21 Walter Brennan, American actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), dies at 80
• Sep 23 Cliff Arquette, American comedian (Charlie Weaver), dies at 68
• Sep 23 Gerhard Nebel, German writer, dies at 70
• Sep 23 Robbie Mcintosh, Scottish drummer (Average White Band), overdoses at 24

• Sep 25 William Sloane, American publisher and writer (Edge of Running Water), dies at 68
• Sep 27 Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A(b. 1907)
• Sep 28 Raymond Largay, American actor (April in Paris, Variety Girl), dies at 88
• Sep 30 Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
• Oct 1 Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist who rediscovered the site of an ancient port city on the island of Thera, in the southern Aegean Sea, dies at 72
• Oct 2 Ina Seidel, German poet and novelist, dies at 89
• Oct 4 Anne Sexton, American poet (Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
• Oct 6 Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian Formula One driver killed in a race accident at Watkins Glen, New York at 25
• Oct 6 V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian nationalist, Minister of Defense (1957-62), dies at 78
• Oct 8 Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64

• Oct 10 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German writer, dies at 73
• Oct 12 Hendrik Diels, Flemish conductor, dies at 73
• Oct 12 Joseph Frederick Wagner, American composer, conductor (Boston Civic Symphony, 1925 to 44), and teacher, dies at 74

• Oct 13 Josef Krips, Austrian conductor (London Symphony, 1950-54; Buffalo Philharmonic, 1954-63; San Francisco Symphony, 1964-70), dies of lung cancer at 72
• Oct 13 Sam Rice, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1924; AL stolen base leader 1920; Washington Senators 1915-33), dies from cancer at 84
• Oct 16 Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar [Iyer], Indian Carnatic music singer, dies at 78
• Oct 17 René de Rooy, Surinamese and Antillean poet (Juancho Picaflor), dies of a heart attack at 57
• Oct 24 David Oistrakh, Soviet violinist considered one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century (Moscow Conservatory), dies at 66
• Oct 27 Rudolf Dassler, German entrepreneur (founder sportswear company Puma), dies at 76
• Oct 29 Victor E. van Vriesland, Dutch poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82
• Nov 1 Ralf Harolde, American actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off), dies at 75
• Nov 4 Bert Patenaude, American soccer forward (4 caps; scorer of first hat-trick in World Cup history, 1930), dies at 65
• Nov 4 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter and son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62
• Nov 5 Stafford Repp, American actor (Playhouse 90, Batman, Plunder Road), dies of a heart attack at 56
• Nov 7 Eric Linklater, British novelist and poet (Blue Swallows), dies at 75
• Nov 7 Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican-American character actor (Salón México, The Fugitive, Littlest Outlaw), dies of cancer at 54
• Nov 7 Sandra Rivett, English nanny to John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, allegedly bludgeoned to death by Mr Lucan at 29 before he mysteriously disappeared
• Nov 8 Ivory Joe Hunter "The Baron of the Boogie", American R&B singer, piano player, and songwriter ("Since I Met You Baby"), dies of lung cancer at 60
• Nov 9 Egon Wellesz, Austrian-British composer (Alkestis; The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo), teacher, and musicologist (Byzantine), dies at 89
• Nov 11 Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and composer (Doloras), dies at 90
• Nov 11 Jane Ace, American comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
• Nov 12 Charles Quinlivan, American actor (Seven Guns to Mesa, Mr. Garlund), dies of a heart attack at 50
• Nov 13 Karen Silkwood, American nuclear lab technician and labor union activist killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances at 28
• Nov 13 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Bicycle Thieves, Sciuscià), dies at 73
• Nov 14 Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail), dies from a cardiac condition at 70
• Nov 15 James Morrison, American actor (Wine of Youth, Little Detectives), dies on his birthday at 86
• Nov 16 Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91
• Nov 17 Clive Brook, British actor and director (List of Adrian Messenger, On Approval), dies at 87
• Nov 19 George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
• Nov 19 Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (Harriet the Spy), dies at 46
• Nov 21 Frank Martin, Swiss composer (In Terra Fax), dies at 84
• Nov 23 Cornelius Ryan, Irish war reporter and historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54
• Nov 23 Páll Ísólfsson, Icelandic organist and composer, dies at 81
• Nov 25 Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (Pink Moon), dies of a drug overdose at 26
• Nov 25 Rosemary Lane, American actress (An Angel from Texas, 4 Mothers, Harvest Melody), dies from diabetes and pulmonary obstruction at 61

• Nov 26 Cyril Connolly, English intellectual (b. September 10, 1903)
• Nov 27 Louis B Russell Jr, American longest living heart transplant, dies at 49
• Nov 29 Haroldson L. Hunt, US multi-millionaire, dies at 85

• Nov 29 Ouida Bergere, American scriptwriter (Peter Ibbetson), dies at 88
• Nov 30 Bert Gordon [Barney Gorodetsky], American comedian, dies at 79
• Dec 1 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/American author (Angry Angel), dies at 83
• Dec 1 Stephen Gill Spottswood, American African Methodist Episcopal Zion bishop, and civil rights leader (NAACP Chairman, 1961-74), dies at 77
• Dec 2 Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor, dies at 77
• Dec 4 Lee Kinsolving, American actor (Explosive Generation), dies of an illness at 36
• Dec 4 Sophie-Carmen "Sonia" Eckhardt-Gramatté, Russian-Canadian pianist and composer, dies at 75
• Dec 5 Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1909-11, 19), dies at 87
• Dec 5 Henry Wadsworth, American actor (The Thin Man, Applause, Fast & Loose), dies at 77
• Dec 5 Pietro Germi, Italian actor, writer and director (Divorce Italian Style, The Facts of Murder), dies from hepatitis at 60
• Dec 6 Nikolay Kuznetsov, Russian naval commander (Admiral of the Fleet during World War II), dies at 70
• Dec 8 Hugues Panassié, French jazz critic, record producer, and impresario (Hot Club de France), dies at 62
• Dec 9 George Carew, cricketer (4 Tests for WI between 1935 & 1949), dies
• Dec 9 Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Portuguese composer, dies at 64
• Dec 10 Paul Richards, American actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies of cancer at 50
• Dec 11 Reed Hadley, American actor (Zorro's Fighting Legion, Racket Squad, Shock, Grand Canyon), dies from a heart attack at 63
• Dec 13 John G. Bennett, British scientist and author, dies at 77
• Dec 13 Rufus "Rufe" Davis, American actor (Cocoanut Grove, Trail Blazers, Gangs of Sonora), dies at 66
• Dec 13 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer and translator, dies at 85

• Dec 15 Anatole Litvak, Russian-born American film director, writer and producer (Mayerling, Anastasia, The Snake Pit), dies at 72
• Dec 15 Erich Walter Sternberg, German-Israeli composer (co-founder of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), dies at 83
• Dec 16 Helen Hicks, American golfer (Western Open 1937, Titleholders Championship 1940), dies of throat cancer at 63
• Dec 16 Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet, dies at 90
• Dec 18 Harry Hooper, American Baseball HOF right fielder (World Series 1912, 15, 16, 18 Boston Red Sox), dies at 87
• Dec 20 André Jolivet, French composer (Jeune France, Mana), dies at 69
• Dec 21 James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
• Dec 21 Richard Long, American actor (Prof-Nanny and the Professor), dies at 47
• Dec 22 Fosco Giachetti, Italian actor (Wastrel, We the Living), dies at 74
• Dec 25 Harry Ray, American film make-up artist, costume designer and actor (Avanti!), dies at 65
• Dec 26 Farid al-Atrash [El-Atrache], Syrian composer, musician, virtuoso oud player, and actor (Akher kedba), dies of heart disease at 59

• Dec 26 Knudåge Riisager, Danish composer (director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music 1956-67), dies at 77
• Dec 26 Robert Levine Sanders, American composer, and organist, dies at 68
• Dec 27 Amy Vanderbilt, American authority on etiquette ("Complete Book of Etiquette"; "Complete Cook Book"), dies of multiple fractures of the skull at 66
• Dec 27 Bob Custer [Raymond Glenn], American silent and sound screen actor (The Fighting Hombre; The Law of the Wild), dies of a heart attack at 76
• Dec 28 Paul Dixon, Ohio talk show host (Paul Dixon Show), dies at 56
• Dec 31 Donalee Tabern, American scientist and inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, dies at 74 [1]

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