1974

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1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

February 7 – Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
February 17 – Michele Catain, an American crew member and real estate agent, marries David Thomas Durboraw, an American businessman, in Los Angeles, California.
March 3 – a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashes outside Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board; the cause of the crash was a design flaw in the plane's rear cargo door.
February 22 – Bangladesh is recognized by Pakistan
April 25 – Portuguese Revolution or the Carnation Revolution. – A half-century of fascist rule was ended.
May 18 – India tests nuclear weapons.
July 15 – Christine Chubbock, a TV host in Sarasota, Florida commits suicide during the taping of her show live on air.
August 8 – United States President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (Watergate scandal).
October 30 – Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight boxing championship in a bout billed as "The Rumble in the Jungle".
December 8 – Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
December 19 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle.
December 24-25 – Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.

Date unknown

The Ellice Islands decide to split from the Gilbert Islands in a referendum.

Births

January 2 – Michèle George, Belgian para-equestrian
January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
January 21 – Linda Rosing, Swedish model
January 28 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
January 30 – Christian Bale, Welsh actor
February 4 – Lee Pearson, English para-equestrian
February 8 – Seth Green, American actor
February 8 – Kimbo Slice American mixed martial artist
February 13 – Robbie Williams, English singer
February 15 – Omarosa Manigault Newman, American television personality
February 22 – Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
March 6 – Anthony Carelli, American wrestler
March 13 – Linda Bengtzing, Swedish singer
March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish lead-singer of the music group The Corrs
May 23 – Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! champion
June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
June 19 – Rossella Erra, Italian TV personality
July 28 – Justin Lee Collins, English television presenter
August 17 – Tomomi Kahala, Japanese singer
August 25 – Mario Jeckle, German computer scientist (d. 2004)
September 6 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
September 14 – Nas, American rapper
October 5 – Alex Walkinshaw, English actor
October 28 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
October 29 – Eugen Dan Drăgoi, Romanian drummer (Dr. Feelgood Band), poet, publicist, musicologist, conductor, composer
November 2 – Nelly, American rapper
November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer and guitarist
December 3 – Albena Denkova, Bulgarian ice dancer
December 6 – Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist
December 10 – Meg White, American singer and drummer (The White Stripes)
December 13 – Sara Cox, English television presenter

Deaths

January

January 2 – Tex Ritter, American country musician (b. 1905)
January 6 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
January 31 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-American movie producer (b. 1879)
January 31 – Glenn Morris, American track and field athlete (b. 1912)

February

Satyendra Nath Bose

February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and polymath from Bengal (b. 1894)

March

March 27 – Eduardo Santos Montejo, President of Colombia (b. 1888)

April

April 2 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
April 19 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
April 24 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (b. 1899)
April 24 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

May

Duke Ellington

May 7 – Fred Kelly, American hurdler (b. 1891)
May 24 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (b. 1899)

June

Eurico Gaspar Dutra

Georgy Zhukov

June 4 – Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (b. 1895)
June 11 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general during World War II (b. 1896)

July

July 1 – Juan Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
July 9 – Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
July 24 – James Chadwick, English physicist (b. 1891)
July 29 – Cass Elliot, American singer and actress (b. 1941)
July 29 – Erich Kästner, German children's writer (b. 1899)

August

Charles Lindbergh

August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (b. 1902)

September

Walter Brennan

September 21 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)

October

October 5 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1899)
October 9 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
October 13 – Ed Sullivan, American television personality (b. 1901)
October 28 – Everaldo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)

November

Vittorio De Sica

U Thant

November 13 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
November 17 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland (b. 1905)
November 25 – U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)

December

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
Chemistry – Paul J Flory
Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E Palade
Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Peace – Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

1974 Media

Indian actor Hrithik Roshan at the launch of Rado's new collection in 2016
ColognePride 2019-Sonntag-Hauptbühne-2111-Melanie C. ft. Sink the Pink
Kevin Durand and Richard Sammel speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for "The Strain", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.*Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Actor Ed Helms at the premiere of "Obvious Child" at the ArcLight Hollywood theater on June 5, 2014
Emily Haines of Metric at the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest, July 10 2010
Actor Christian Bale at the Berlinale 2019
Olivia Colman
Seth Green at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con.
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

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