Editing 1974 (section)

===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]])