1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday in 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 |
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s |
| Years: | 1971 1972 1973 – 1974 – 1975 1976 1977 |
Events
change- 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
change- The Ellice Islands decide to split from the Gilbert Islands in a referendum.
Births
change- 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
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change- 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
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- February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and polymath from Bengal (b. 1894)
March
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- 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
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- May 7 – Fred Kelly, American hurdler (b. 1891)
- May 24 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (b. 1899)
June
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- 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
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- 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
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- August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (b. 1902)
September
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- September 21 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
October
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- 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
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- 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
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change- 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
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