1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1940s  1950s  1960s  – 1970s –  1980s  1990s  2000s
Years: 1971 1972 197319741975 1976 1977

Events change

Date unknown change

Births change

Deaths change

January change

February change

 
Satyendra Nath Bose

March change

April change

 
Georges Pompidou
 
Ayub Khan
 
Franz Jonas
 
Agnes Moorehead

May change

 
Duke Ellington

June change

 
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
 
Georgy Zhukov

July change

 
Juan Perón
 
Earl Warren
 
James Chadwick
 
Cass Elliot
 
Erich Kästner

August change

 
Charles Lindbergh

September change

 
Walter Brennan

October change

 
Zalman Shazar
 
Oskar Schindler
 
Ed Sullivan
 
Everaldo

November change

 
Vittorio De Sica
 
U Thant

December change

Nobel Prizes change