Editing 1974 (section)

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Tex Ritter 1966.JPG|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Tex Ritter]]]]
[[File:Glenn Morris and Leni Riefenstahl 1936.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Glenn Morris]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Tex Ritter]], American actor and country musician (b. [[1905]])
* [[January 3]] – [[Gino Cervi]], Italian actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]], Mexican painter and muralist (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/artist/david-alfaro-siqueiros |title=David Alfaro Siqueiros |date=19 October 2020 |publisher=[[A&E Television Networks, LLC]] |website=[[Biography.com]] |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
** [[Margit Slachta]], Hungarian politician (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rev.hu/sulinet45/szerviz/kislex/biograf/schlachta_m.htm |title=Slachta Margit |website=www.rev.hu |accessdate=December 18, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] – [[Princess Patricia of Connaught]] (b. [[1886]])
* [[January 18]] – [[Bill Finger]], American comic strip and book writer (b. [[1914]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Lewis Strauss]], American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer (b. [[1896]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Oskar Herman]], Croatian Jewish painter (b. [[1886]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[Georgios Grivas]], Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. [[1898]])
** [[Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg]], German general (b. [[1886]])
* [[January 29]] – [[H. E. Bates]], English writer and author (b. [[1905]])
* [[January 31]]
** [[Samuel Goldwyn]], Polish-born American film studio executive (b. [[1879]])
** [[Glenn Morris]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1912]])

===February===
[[File:SatyenBose1925.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Satyendra Nath Bose]]]]
* [[February 4]] 
** [[Satyendra Nath Bose]], Indian mathematician and physicist (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Satyendranath Bose, 80, Dies; Physicist Influenced Einstein |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/satyendranath-bose-80-dies-physicist-influenced-einstein-a-paper.html |date=6 February 1974 |at=Page 40, columns 3-4 |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref>
** [[Stuart Buchanan]], American actor (d. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/stuart-buchanan/ Stuart Buchanan]</ref>
* [[February 8]] – [[Fritz Zwicky]], Swiss physicist and astronomer (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fritz-Zwicky Fritz Zwicky Swiss scientist]</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[Anna Q. Nilsson]], Swedish-born American silent film star (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish Star In Many Early Films, Dies at 85 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/13/archives/anna-q-nilsson-swedish-star-in-many-early-films-dies-at-85-started.html |date=13 February 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 4–5 |access-date=24 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 15]]
** [[Kurt Atterberg]], Swedish composer (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.historiadelasinfonia.es/historia-2/siglo-xx/atterberg/ |title=Atterbert |website=Historia de La Sinfonia |language=es |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>
** [[George W. Snedecor]], American mathematician and statistician (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Snedecor/ |last1=O'Connor |first1=J J |author1-link=John J. O'Connor (mathematician) |last2=Robertson |first2=E F |author2-link=Edmund F. Robertson |title=George Waddel Snedecor (1881 - 1974) - Biography |work=[[MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive|MacTutor History of Mathematics]] |date=November 2010 |publisher=School of Mathematics and Statistics, [[University of St Andrews]], Scotland |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] – [[Manuel A. Odría]], 79th President of Peru (b. [[1896]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/manuel-apolinario-odria-amoretti Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti]</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Tim Horton]], Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of the [[Tim Hortons]] restaurant chain (b. [[1930]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Commito |first1=Mike |first2=Lorraine |last2=Snyder |title=Tim Horton |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |date=16 October 2015 |publisher=[[Historica Canada]] |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tim-horton |access-date=19 July 2023}} This source gives Horton's date of death as both February 17 and February 21; the latter is correct.</ref>
* [[February 23]] 
** [[Harry Ruby]], American musician, composer and writer (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.songhall.org/profile/Harry_Ruby |title=Harry Ruby |website=[[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>
** [[George Van Biesbroeck]], American-born Belgian astronomer (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite journal |title=George A. Van Biesbroeck |journal=[[Physics Today]] |date=July 1974 |volume=27 |issue=7 |page=59 |issn=1945-0699 |doi=10.1063/1.3128713 |bibcode=1974PhT....27g..59. |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Robert A. Stemmle]], German screenwriter and film director (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/robert-a-stemmle_7b58be5cf9db48709a0c88022b13f0a7 |title=Robert A. Stemmle |website=[[filmportal.de]] |language=de |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>

===March===
[[File:Eduardo Santos Montejo 1.jpg|thumbnail|110px|right|[[Eduardo Santos Montejo]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Bobby Timmons]], American jazz pianist and composer (b. [[1935]])
* [[March 3]]
** [[Barbara Ruick]], American actress and singer (b. [[1930|1932]])
** [[Frank Wilcox]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 4]] – [[Adolph Gottlieb]], American abstract expressionist painter (b. [[1903]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Billy De Wolfe]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Ernest Becker]], American anthropologist and writer (b. [[1924]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Martha Wentworth]], American actress (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Louis Kahn]], Russian-born American architect (b. [[1901]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Edward Platt]], American actor known as "[[Get Smart|The Chief]]" on NBC/CBS's ''[[Get Smart]]'' (b. [[1916]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Chet Huntley]], American television reporter (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Candy Darling]], American actress (b. [[1944]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Peter Revson]], American race car driver (b. [[1939]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Eduardo Santos Montejo]], Colombian publisher and politician, 15th [[President of Colombia]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Dorothy Fields]], American librettist and lyricist (b. [[1904]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Andrea Checchi]], Italian actor (''[[Two Women|La ciociara]]'') (b. [[1916]])

===April===
[[File:Muhammed Ayub Khan.JPG|110px|thumb|[[Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)|Ayub Khan]]]]
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[[File:Studio publicity Agnes Moorehead.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Agnes Moorehead]]]]
* [[April 2]]
** [[Georges Pompidou]], 100th [[Prime Minister of France]] and 19th [[President of France]], [[Co-Prince of Andorra]] (b. [[1911]]) 
** [[Douglass Dumbrille]], Canadian actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[April 5]] – [[A. Y. Jackson]], Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Willem Marinus Dudok]], Dutch modernist architect (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 8]] – [[K. A. C. Creswell]], English architectural historian (b. [[1879]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Patricia Collinge]], Irish-born American actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Howard Pease]], American adventure novelist (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21632282.Howard_Pease Howard Pease]</ref>
* [[April 18]]
** [[Betty Compson]], American actress (b. [[1897]])
** [[Marcel Pagnol]], French novelist (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Ayub Khan (general)|Ayub Khan]], Pakistani general and politician, 2nd [[President of Pakistan]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Peter Lee Lawrence]], German actor (b. [[1944]])
* [[April 24]]
** [[Bud Abbott]], American comedian (b. [[1895]])
** [[Franz Jonas]], Austrian political figure, 7th [[President of Austria]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 30]] – [[Agnes Moorehead]], American actress (b. [[1900]])

===May===
[[File:Duke Ellington - publicity.JPG|110px|thumb|[[Duke Ellington]]]]
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* [[May 7]] – [[Fred Kelly (athlete)|Fred Kelly]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1891]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/09/archives/fred-kelly-aviation-pioneer-and-olympic-medal-winner.html |title=Fred Kelly Aviation Pioneer And Olympic Medal Winner |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UPI |date=9 May 1974 |at=Page 46, column 1 |access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 10]] – [[Takeshi Sakamoto]], Japanese actor (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Shochiku Ninety Year History |publisher=[[Shochiku]] |year=1985 |page=243}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] – [[Jaime Torres Bodet]], Mexican public servant, 2nd Director-General of the [[UNESCO]] (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/14/archives/dr-jaime-torres-bodet-72-exdirector-of-unesco-dies-dynamic.html |title=Dr. Jaime Torres Bodet, 72, Ex-Director of UNESCO, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=14 May 1974 |at=Page 40, columns 1–2 |access-date=30 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] – [[Jacob L. Moreno]], Romanian-American psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Jacob L. Moreno, Psychiatrist, 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/16/archives/jacob-l-moreno-psychiatrist-82-pioneer-of-the-psychodrama-technique.html |last=Weisman |first=Steven R. |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=16 May 1974 |at=Page 44, column 4 |access-date=21 September 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[Guy Simonds]], Canadian [[Lieutenant-General]], commander of the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] in [[World War II]] (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/17/archives/gen-guy-simonds-dies-at-71-canadian-field-commander-a-tactical.html |title=Gen. Guy Simonds Dies at 71; Canadian Field Commander |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=May 17, 1974 |at=Page 42, columns 2-3 |access-date=4 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 18]] – [[Harry Ricardo|Sir Harry Ricardo]], English mechanical engineer (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Allal al-Fassi]], Moroccan politician, poet, writer and scholar (b. [[1910]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Jean Daniélou]], French Catholic cardinal, theologian and academic (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Cardinal Danielou Dies; Theologian |newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]] |location=[[Hartford, Connecticut]] |date=21 May 1974 |page=6}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] – [[Lily Kronberger]], Hungarian figure skater (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_j1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 |last=Siegman |first=Joseph |title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |edition=Fifth |location=[[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]] |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |year=2020 |isbn=9781496222121 |page=118 |access-date=5 October 2023 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] – [[Duke Ellington]], American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=John S. |author-link=John S. Wilson (music critic) |title=Duke Ellington, a Master of Music, Dies at 75 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/25/archives/duke-elling-ton-a-mas-ter-of-music-dies-a-t-75-duke-ellington-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 May 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 4-7; page 61, columns 1–5 |access-date=11 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – [[Donald Crisp]], English-American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Donald Crisp, 93, '41 Oscar Winner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/27/archives/donald-crisp-93-41-oscar-winner-honored-for-role-in-how-green-was.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=27 May 1974 |at=Page 20, columns 5–6 |access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref>

===June===
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[[File:GASPARDUTRA.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Eurico Gaspar Dutra]]]]
[[File:Zhukov-LIFE-1944-1945 cropped.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Georgy Zhukov]]]]
* [[June 3]] – [[Rashid Nezhmetdinov]], Soviet chess player (b. [[1912]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Mamerto Urriolagoitía]], 43rd [[President of Bolivia]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[June 9]] 
** [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], Guatemalan writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1899]])
** [[Katharine Cornell]], German-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer (b. [[1893]])
** [[Carlo Pisacane (actor)|Carlo Pisacane]], Italian actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[June 10]] – [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]], 11th [[Governor-General of Australia]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[June 11]] 
** [[Eurico Gaspar Dutra]], Brazilian marshal and 16th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1883]])
** [[Julius Evola]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1898]])
* [[June 12]] – [[André Marie]], French Radical politician, 65th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Knud Jeppesen]], Danish [[musicologist]], composer, and songwriter (b. [[1892]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Amalie Sara Colquhoun]], Australian painter (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.daao.org.au/bio/amalie-sara-colquhoun/ Amalie Sara Colquhoun b. 20 March 1894]</ref>
* [[June 17]] – [[Pamela Britton]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Georgy Zhukov]], Soviet Army marshal and [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Darius Milhaud]], French composer (b. [[1892]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Cornelius Lanczos]], Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. [[1893]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Ernest Gruening]], American journalist, [[Governor]] of [[Alaska Territory]] from [[1939]] to [[1953]], and [[United States Senator]] from [[1959]] to [[1969]] (b. [[1887]]) 
* [[June 28]]
** [[Vannevar Bush]], American engineer, inventor and science administrator (b. [[1890]])
** [[Frank Sutton]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
* [[June 29]] – [[José Maria Ferreira de Castro]], Portuguese writer and journalist (b. [[1898]])
* [[June 30]] – [[Alberta Williams King]], American civil rights organizer (b. [[1904]])

===July===
[[File:Juan_Domingo_Perón.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Juan Perón]]]]
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[[File:James Chadwick.jpg|110px|thumb|Sir [[James Chadwick]]]]
[[File:Mama Cass in 1973.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Cass Elliot]]]]
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* [[July 1]] – [[Juan Perón]], Argentine army general and politician, 2-time [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Georgette Heyer]], British writer (b. [[1902]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Leon Shamroy]], American cinematographer (b. [[1901]])
* [[July 8]] 
** [[Margaret Furse]], British costume designer (b. [[1911]])
** Deborah Gail Stone, Disneyland Employee (b. [[1956]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Earl Warren]], American jurist and politician, [[Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[July 11]] – [[Pär Lagerkvist]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1891]])
* [[July 13]]
** [[Patrick Blackett]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1897]])
** [[Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Carl Spaatz]], [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force general]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Christine Chubbuck]], American TV personality (b. [[1944]])
* [[July 17]]
** [[Dizzy Dean]], American baseball player ([[St. Louis Cardinals]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1910]])
** [[Edith Alice Macia]], Arizona pioneer, postmaster, and undercover FBI agent (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Joe Flynn (US actor)|Joe Flynn]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Wayne Morse]], American lawyer, politician, and [[United States Senator]] from [[Oregon]] (1945–1969) (b. [[1900]])
* [[July 24]]
** [[Olimpia Ajakaiye]], Polish interior designer, actress and television presenter
** Sir [[James Chadwick]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1891]])
* [[July 29]]
** [[Cass Elliot]], American vocalist (b. [[1941]])
** [[Erich Kästner]], German author (b. [[1899]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Lev Knipper]], Soviet composer (b. [[1898]])

===August===
[[File:Col Charles Lindbergh, original, hec.21329.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Charles Lindbergh]]]]
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* [[August 3]] – [[Edna Murphy]], American actress (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb146927330 |title=Notice de personne "Murphy, Edna (1899-1974)" |trans-title=Person notice "Murphy, Edna (1899-1974)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=19 September 2017 |access-date=26 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 7]] – [[Rosario Castellanos]], Mexican poet and author (b. [[1925]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Echevarría |first=Roberto González |author-link=Roberto González Echevarría |title=Rosario Castellanos |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=3 August 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rosario-Castellanos |access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref> 
* [[August 8]] – [[Baldur von Schirach]], Nazi German [[Hitler Youth]] leader (b. [[1907]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Robert McG. Jr. |author-link=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/09/archives/baldur-von-schirach-67-dies-head-of-hitler-youth-193340-a-favorite.html |title=Baldur von Schirach, 67, Dies; Head of Hitler Youth 1933–40 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=9 August 1974 |at=Page 36, columns 4–5 |access-date=27 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 11]] – [[Jan Tschichold]], German typographer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book |last=McLean |first=Ruari |author-link=Ruari McLean |title=Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography |publisher=[[Princeton Architectural Press]] |isbn=9781568980843 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbr5BIlysOMC&q=jan+tschichold |location=New York, NY |year=1997 |pages=7–15 |access-date=28 October 2023 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] – [[Ida McNeil]], American broadcaster and designer of the [[flag of South Dakota]] (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Pioneer Broadcaster Dies In Rapid City |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/argus-leader-obituary-for-ida-mcneil-ag/99076549/ |access-date=March 8, 2024 |work=[[Sioux Falls Argus Leader|Sioux Falls Argus-Leader]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=August 15, 1974 |location=Rapid City |page=17 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
* [[August 15]] – [[Edmund Cobb]], American actor (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Katchmer |first=George A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses |year=2009 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9781476609058 |page=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnGeCQAAQBAJ&q=%22Edmund+Cobb%22+actor&pg=PA65 |access-date=31 October 2023 |via=Google Books |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 17]] – [[Aldo Palazzeschi]], Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/18/archives/aldo-palazzeschi-is-dead-at-89-wrote-psychological-closeups.html |title=Aldo Palazzeschi Is Dead at 89; Wrote Psychological Close-Ups |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 August 1974 |at=Page 43, columns 1–2 |access-date=31 October 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Jacob Bronowski]], Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite news |last=McElheny |first=Victor K. |author-link=Victor McElheny |title=Jacob Bronowski Is Dead at 66; Leading Popularizer of Science |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 August 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/23/archives/jacob-bronowski-is-dead-at-66-leading-popularizer-of-science-filmed.html |at=Page 32, columns 2-3 |access-date=3 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] – [[Roberto Assagioli]], Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert Assagioli, Psychiatrist, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 August 1974 |at=Page 28, column 3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/24/archives/robert-assagioli-psychiatrist-dead.html |access-date=3 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] – [[Alexander P. de Seversky]], Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Byrne |first=Robert |title=Alexander P. De Seversky Dies at 80; Early Strategic Air Power Proponent |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/26/archives/alexander-p-de-seversky-dies-at-80-early-strategic-air-power.html |date=26 August 1974 |at=Page 32, columns 1–4 |access-date=4 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 26]] – [[Charles Lindbergh]], American aviator (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Lindbergh Dies of Cancer in Hawaii at the Age of 72 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=27 August 1974 |at=Page 69, columns 1–3 |access-date=5 November 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/27/archives/lindbergh-dies-of-cancer-in-hawaii-at-the-age-of-72-lindbergh-dies.html}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] – [[Otto Strasser]], Nazi German politician (b. [[1897]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |title=Otto Strasser, 76, Theoretician Who Broke With Hitler, Is Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=28 August 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/28/archives/otto-strasser-76-theqretician-who-broke-with-hitler-is-dead.html |at=Page 34, columns 4–5 |access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] 
** [[Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani]], [[Emir of Qatar]] (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.diwan.gov.qa/english/qatar/AliBinAbdullah.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621055443/http://www.diwan.gov.qa/english/qatar/AliBinAbdullah.htm |title=Shaikh Ali Bin Abdullah Al Thani |archive-date=21 June 2012 |language=en |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref>
** [[Norman Kirk]], New Zealand politician, 29th [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. [[1923]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Prime Minister Kirk of New Zealand Dies at 51 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 September 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 5-7 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/01/archives/prime-minister-kirk-of-new-zealand-dies-at-51-prime-minister-kirk.html |access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref>

===September===
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[[File:Walter brennan real mccoys 1958.JPG|110px|thumb|[[Walter Brennan]]]]
[[File:Gral._Prats.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Carlos Prats]]]]
* [[September 3]] – [[Harry Partch]], American composer (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Henahan |first=Donal |author-link=Donal Henahan |title=Harry Partch, 73, A Composer, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 September 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/06/archives/harry-partch-73-a-composer-dead-avantgardist-selftaught-made-own.html |at=Page 36, columns 4–5 |access-date=14 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 4]]
** [[Creighton Abrams]], American general (b. [[1914]])<ref>{{cite news |date=4 September 1974 |last=Krebs |first=Albin |title=Army Chief Abrams Dies at 59, Directed U.S. Forces in Vietnam |at=Page 1, columns 7-8 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/04/archives/army-chief-abrams-dies-at-59-directed-us-forces-in-vietnam-tough.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=12 November 2023}}</ref>
** [[Marcel Achard]], French playwright and scriptwriter (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Marcel Achard, Dramatist, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 September 1974 |at=Page 40, columns 5–6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/05/archives/marcel-achard-dramatist-dies-member-of-french-academy-wrote-i-know.html |access-date=13 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 6]]
** [[Olga Baclanova]], Soviet stage and screen actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. [[1893]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Olga Baclanova Is Dead at 74; Starred in Films and On Stage |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 September 1974 |at=Page 48, columns 1–2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/11/archives/olga-baclanova-is-dead-at-74-starred-in-films-and-on-stage.html |access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref>
** [[Otto Kruger]], American actor (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Otto Kruger, Suave Star Of Stage and Screen, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/07/archives/otto-kruger-suave-star-of-stage-and-screen-dead-once-a-matinee-idol.html |date=7 September 1974 |at=Page 30, columns 1–3 |access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 7]] – [[Juan Antonio Ipiña]], Spanish football manager (b. [[1912]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.athletic-club.net/web/main.asp?a=1&b=2&c=1&d=0&jokalaria=20&idi=2 |title=Juan Antonio Ipiña |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007171630/http://www.athletic-club.net/web/main.asp?a=1&b=2&c=1&d=0&jokalaria=20&idi=2 |archive-date=7 October 2012 |publisher=[[Athletic Bilbao|Athletic Club]] |language=en |access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 10]] – [[Melchior Wańkowicz]], Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Melchior Wankowicz, Writer, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/11/archives/melchior-wankowicz-writer-dies-accused-of-slander.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=11 September 1974 |at=Page 27, columns 3-5 |access-date=15 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] – [[Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia]] (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Prince Nikita Romanoff, Russian Pretender, Dead |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/24/archives/prince-nikita-romanoff-russian-pretender-dead.html |date=24 September 1974 |at=Page 53, columns 7-8 |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] – [[Phog Allen]], American basketball and baseball player (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Phog Allen, Basketball Coach Of Kansas Jayhawks, Dies at 88 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/17/archives/phog-allen-basketball-coach-of-kansas-jayhawks-dies-at-88.html |date=17 September 1974 |at=Page 38, columns 2-3 |access-date=21 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 18]] – [[Edna Best]], British actress (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Edna Best, Actress, Dies at 74; Starred on Stage and in Films |newspaper=The New York Times |date=19 September 1974 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/19/archives/edna-best-actress-dies-at-74-starred-on-stage-and-in-films.html |at=Page 46, columns 1–2 |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[José Mojica]], Mexican Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (b. [[1896]])<ref>[http://escritores.cinemexicano.unam.mx/biografias/M/mojica_jose_fray_jose_de_guadalupe/biografia.html Mojica, José Fray José de Guadalupe] {{in lang|es}}</ref>
* [[September 21]] 
** [[Walter Brennan]], American actor (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/22/archives/actor-walter-brennan-dead-winner-of-3-academy-awards-financial.html |title=Actor Walter Brennan Dead; Winner of 3 Academy Awards |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=22 September 1974 |at=Page 57, columns 1–2 |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref>
** [[Jacqueline Susann]], American writer and actress (b. [[1918]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnston |first=Laurie |title=Jacqueline Susann Dead at 53; Novelist Wrote 'Valley of Dolls' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/23/archives/jacqueline-susann-dead-at-53-novelist-wrote-valley-of-dolls-book.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 September 1974 |at=Page 38, columns 4–5 |access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] – [[Winfried Otto Schumann]], German physicist (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{cite dictionary |last1=Fuchs |first1=Margot |last2=Haerendel |first2=Gerhard |author2-link=Gerhard Haerendel |title=Schumann, Winfried |dictionary=[[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] |volume=23 |year=2007 |pages=753–754 |edition=Online-Version |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd117303615.html#ndbcontent |language=de |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – [[Cliff Arquette]], American comedian who created the character ''[[Charley Weaver]]'' (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |title=Cliff Arquette, 68, Comic Actor, Charley Weaver of TV, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/24/archives/cliff-arquette-68-comic-actor-charley-weaver-of-tv-is-dead.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=24 September 1974 |at=Page 44, columns 1–2 |access-date=24 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] – [[Jean Gale]], American [[vaudeville]] performer (b. [[1912]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jean-gale-67576 |title=Jean Gale - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 28]] – [[Arnold Fanck]], German film director (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Arnold Fanck |website=[[filmportal.de]] |language=de |access-date=25 November 2023 |url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/arnold-fanck_7b6bac083afb40e1b6309f99a6384638}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] – [[Carlos Prats]], Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. [[1915]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Former Chilean General Killed By Bomb Blast in Buenos Aires |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/01/archives/former-chilean-general-killed-by-bomb-blast-in-buenos-aires.html |date=1 October 1974 |at=Page 14, columns 1–2 |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>

===October===
[[File:Portrait of Zalman Shazar.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Zalman Shazar]]]]
[[File:Ed Sullivan.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ed Sullivan]]]]
<!--[[File:Elie Lescot portrait.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Elie Lescot]]]]-->
* [[October 2]] – [[Vasily Shukshin]], Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and director (b. [[1929]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Vasily Shukshin, 45, Dead; Film Director and Writer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/04/archives/vasily-shukshin-45-dead-film-director-and-writer.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=4 October 1974 |at=Page 42, column 1 |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 4]]
** [[Robert Lee Moore]], American mathematician (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Dr. Robert Moore, 91, Dies; U. of Texas Mathematician |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/07/archives/dr-robert-moore-91-dies-u-of-texas-mathematician.html |agency=UPI |date=7 October 1974 |at=Page 38, column 2 |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>
** [[Anne Sexton]], American poet and writer (b. [[1928]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Anne Sexton Dies; Pulitzer Poet, 45 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/06/archives/wnne-sexton-dies-pulitzer-poet-45-bad-case-of-melancholy.html |date=6 October 1974 |at=Page 65, columns 3-4 |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 5]] – [[Zalman Shazar]], 3rd [[President of Israel]] (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Brilliant |first=Moshe |title=Zalman Shazar Is Dead at 84; President of Israel for 10 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/06/archives/zalman-shazer-is-dead-at-84-president-of-israel-for-10-years-served.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 October 1974 |at=Page 65, columns 1–2 |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[V. K. Krishna Menon]], Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite news |title=V.K. Krishna Menon, India Defense Minister, U.N. Aide, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/06/archives/vk-krishna-menon-india-defense-minister-un-aide-dies-a-year-of.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=6 October 1974 |at=Page 64, columns 4–8 |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – [[Harry Carney]], American jazz saxophonist (b. [[1910]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Harry Carney Dead Here at 64; Was Saxophonist With Ellington |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/10/archives/harry-carney-dead-here-at-64-was-saxophonist-with-ellington.html |date=10 October 1974 |at=Page 50, columns 1–2 |access-date=30 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] – [[Oskar Schindler]], German businessman and humanitarian (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Oskar Schindler, Saved 1,200 Jews |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/13/archives/oskar-schindler-saved-1200-jews-outwitted-the-gestapo.html |agency=UPI |date=13 October 1974 |at=Page 81, column 1 |access-date=30 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 13]] 
** [[Josef Krips]], Austrian conductor and violinist (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/14/archives/josef-krips-the-conductor-dies-of-cancer-in-geneva-make-musicians.html Josef Krips, the Conductor, Dies of Cancer in Geneva]</ref>
** [[Ed Sullivan]], American television host (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Ed Sullivan Is Dead at 73; Charmed Millions on TV |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/14/archives/ed-sullivan-is-dead-at-73-charmed-millions-on-tv-a-broadway-fixture.html |date=14 October 1974 |at=Page 36, columns 1–3 |access-date=30 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 14]] – [[Sattar Bahlulzade]], [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] landscape painter (b. [[1909]])<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.visions.az/en/news/10/36706b63/ |last=Samad |first=Mohbaddin |title=Sattar Bahlulzade: A Highly Individual Artist |magazine=Visions of Azerbaijan |department=Art |date=January–February 2010 |language=en |access-date=2 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – [[Vlasta Dekanova]], Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (b. [[1909]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Vlasta Děkanová |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/29118 |access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 17]] – [[Tomotaka Tasaka]], Japanese film director (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Anders Lange]], Norwegian politician (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Anders Langes saga |year=1993 |location=[[Oslo]] |publisher=[[Samlaget]] |isbn=82-521-4092-0 |last1=Rygnestad |first1=Arild |last2=Kvanmo |first2=Hanna |author2-link=Hanna Kvanmo |pages=258–259}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – [[Élie Lescot]], 29th [[President of Haiti]], leader in [[World War II]] (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Elie Lescot Dies; Leader in Haiti |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/23/archives/elie-lescot-dies-leader-in-haiti-dictatorial-president-was-ousted.html |date=23 October 1974 |at=Page 48, column 1 |access-date=3 December 2023 |quote=PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 22 (AP) — Elie Lescot, President of Haiti from May 15, 1941, to Jan. 11, 1946, died today at La Boule, Haiti.}} This source gives Lescot's day of death as October 22.</ref>
* [[October 23]] – [[Melchior Lengyel]], Hungarian writer, dramatist and film screenwriter (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Lengyel Dies at 95 in Budapest; 'Czarina' Among His Hit Plays |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/27/archives/lengyel-dies-at-95-in-budapest-czarina-among-his-hit-plays.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=27 October 1974 |at=Page 65, column 4 |access-date=4 December 2023 |quote=PARIS, Oct. 26 — Melchior Lengyel, the Hungarian playwright, died yesterday in Budapest at the age of 95.}} This source gives Lengyel's day of death as October 25.</ref>
* [[October 24]] – [[David Oistrakh]], Ukrainian violinist (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{cite news |last=Henahan |first=Donal |author-link=Donal Henahan |title=David Oistrakh, Violinist, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/25/archives/david-oistrakh-violinist-dies.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 October 1974 |at=Page 1, columns 2-4 |access-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] – [[Paul Frankeur]], French actor (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139868144 |title=Notice de personne "Frankeur, Paul (1905-1974)" |trans-title=Person notice "Frankeur, Paul (1905-1974)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=13 December 2021 |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 30]] – [[Begum Akhtar]], Indian singer (b. [[1914]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Begum Akhtar (1914-1974) |website=NRCW, Government of India |url=http://nrcw.nic.in/shared/sublinkimages/209.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410014918/http://nrcw.nic.in/shared/sublinkimages/209.htm |archive-date=10 April 2009 |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 31]] – [[Mikheil Chiaureli]], Soviet [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] filmmaker (b. [[1894]])<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14701747r |title=Notice de personne "Čiaureli, Mihail (1894-1974)" |trans-title=Person notice "Čiaureli, Mihail (1894-1974)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=28 August 2018 |access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>

===November===
[[File:S Kragujevic, Vittorio De Sica, 1959.JPG|thumb|110px|[[Vittorio De Sica]]]]
[[File:Robert II, Duke of Parma.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma]]]]
[[File:U Thant (1963).jpg|thumb|110px|[[U Thant]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Ralf Harolde]], American actor (b. [[1899]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Stafford Repp]], American actor (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 7]]
** [[Rodolfo Acosta]], Mexican-born American actor (b. [[1920]])
** [[Eric Linklater]], British author (b. [[1899]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Ivory Joe Hunter]], American rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Egon Wellesz]], British composer, teacher and musicologist (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 13]] 
** [[Vittorio De Sica]], Italian actor and film director (b. [[1901]])
** [[Karen Silkwood]], American chemical technician and labor union activist (b. [[1946]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Johnny Mack Brown]], American football star and actor (b. [[1904]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Walther Meissner]], German technical physicist (b. [[1882]])
* [[November 17]] 
** [[Erskine Hamilton Childers]], Irish politician, 4th [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1905]])
** [[Clive Brook]], English actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Gösta Lilliehöök (1884–1974)|Gösta Lilliehöök]], Swedish pentathlete and [[1912 Olympic Games]] champion (b. [[1884]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Alessandro Momo]], Italian actor (b. [[1956]]) 
* [[November 21]] – [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]], Swiss composer (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 23]]
** [[Cornelius Ryan]], Irish-born American writer (b. [[1920]])
** [[Massacre of the Sixty]] in Ethiopia of government and military officials.
*** [[Abiye Abebe]], politician and army officer (b. [[1918]])
*** [[Aklilu Habte-Wold]], politician and 6th [[Prime Minister of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1912]])
*** [[Aman Andom]], army officer and 1st [[List of Presidents of Ethiopia|President of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1924]])
*** [[Asrate Medhin Kassa]], aristocrat and army officer (b. 1922)
*** [[Endelkachew Makonnen]], politician and 4th [[Prime Minister of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1927]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Nick Drake]], British musician (b. [[1948]])
** [[U Thant]], Burmese diplomat and 3rd [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] (b. [[1909]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Konstantin Melnikov]], Soviet architect (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 29]]
** [[James J. Braddock]], American boxer (b. [[1905]])
** [[Peng Dehuai]], Chinese military leader (b. [[1898]])

===December===
[[File:Saint Maravillas de Jesús - Catedral de la Almudena.JPG|110px|thumb|Saint [[María de las Maravillas de Jesús]]]]
[[File:Nanny and the Professor Richard Long 1970.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]]]]
[[File:Jack Benny - 1964.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Jack Benny]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Anita Brenner]], Mexican anthropologist, historian and author (b. [[1905]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Hans Leibelt]], German film actor (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 5]] 
** [[Pietro Germi]], Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. [[1914]])
** [[Zaharia Stancu]], Romanian prose writer (b. [[1902]])
** [[Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman]], American tennis player (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov]], Russian admiral (b. [[1904]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Ludwig Weber]], Austrian bass (b. [[1899]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Paul Richards (actor)|Paul Richards]], American actor, ''[[Beneath the Planet of the Apes]]'' (b. [[1924]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Maravillas de Jesús]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] professed member of the [[Discalced Carmelites]] and saint (b. [[1891]])
** [[Reed Hadley]], American actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[December 13]] – [[John G. Bennett]], British mathematician (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Walter Lippmann]], American writer and journalist (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Anatole Litvak]], Ukrainian-born film director (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Kostas Varnalis]], Greek poet (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Bing Slamet]], Indonesian singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Harry Hooper]], American baseball player ([[Boston Red Sox]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[December 20]] – [[André Jolivet]], French composer (b. [[1905]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]], American actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[December 26]]
** [[Jack Benny]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
** [[Frank Hussey]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1905]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Vladimir Fock]], Soviet physicist (b. [[1898]])
** [[Ned Maddrell]], last surviving [[first language|native speaker]] of the [[Manx language]] (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892)|Robert Ellis]], American actor (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Robert Pache]], Swiss footballer (b. [[1897]])