Editing 1974 (section)

===October===
[[File:Portrait of Zalman Shazar.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Zalman Shazar]]]]
[[File:Ed Sullivan.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Ed Sullivan]]]]
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* [[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>