Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1974

Walter David Jones CH, CBE was a painter and one of the first-generation British modernist poets. As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription designer. As a writer he was considered by T. S. Eliot to be of major importance, while his work The Anathemata was seen by W. H. Auden to be the best long poem written in English in the 20th century. Help in forming his work came from his Christian beliefs and Welsh heritage.

James Bausch fue un atleta estadounidense, especialista en la prueba de decatlón en la que llegó a ser campeón olímpico en 1932.

Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss fue un psicólogo y filósofo nazi alemán, inflyente teórico racial durante los años 20 y el período del Tercer Reich. Uno de los alumnos más prometedores de Edmund Husserl y amigo de Martin Heidegger, es principalmente conocido por su obra Rasse und Seele. Su filosofía de identidad racial tuvo la aprobación del propio Heidegger.

Charlotte Bühler fue una psicóloga del desarrollo nacida en Alemania.

Arnaud Denjoy, fue un matemático francés, autor de la teoría de la integración original.

Günter von Drenkmann was a German lawyer. In 1967 he was appointed president of the Berlin district court ("Kammergericht"). The post was one that his grandfather had held between 1890 and 1904. He was killed by "2 June Movement" terrorists during a kidnapping attempt.

Arthur Thomas Ippen was a noted hydrologist and engineer and was an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born to German parents, he attended high school and college in Aachen, Germany graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1931. He then took an Institute of International Education scholarship to study at the University of Iowa but after his doctoral advisor, Floyd Nagler, died suddenly, Ippen transferred to Caltech to complete his Ph.D. His doctoral work, supervised by Theodore von Kármán and Robert T. Knapp, explored sediment transport and open-channel high-velocity flows and represented the first American development of sonic wave analogy to free-surface flow.

Harold Floyd (Tina) Brooks, fue un músico de jazz estadounidense que tocaba el saxofón tenor.

Erik Charell, born as Erich Karl Löwenberg, was a German theatre and film director, dancer and actor. He is best known as the creator of musical revues and operettas, such as The White Horse Inn and The Congress Dances.