Calendar year
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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.
Calendar year
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal . In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir 's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin . In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute , the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal , and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume . In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany , in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle , a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire .
January [ edit ]
February [ edit ]
March 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 , travelling from Paris to London, crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. This becomes the deadliest single aircraft accident with no survivors.
March 4
March 8 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
March 9 – Hiroo Onoda , one of the last Japanese holdouts of World War II, surrenders.
March 18
March 26 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district , Uttarakhand , India, use their bodies to surround trees to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement .
March 29
September [ edit ]
October [ edit ]
November [ edit ]
November 1 – The World Tourism Organization (WTO) is established.
November 5 – The Democratic Party makes big gains nationwide in House, Senate, and Gubernatorial elections .
November 13 – McDonald's opens its first UK restaurant in Woolwich, South East London.[11]
November 16 – Arecibo message : The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sends an interstellar radio message towards Messier 13 , the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000 .
November 17 – The 1974 Greek legislative election , the first election since the fall of the Greek junta of 1967–1974 , is held and the newly formed New Democracy party wins 220 of 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament .[12]
November 18 – The International Energy Agency is founded.
November 20 - Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes in Nairobi , Kenya ,due to a mechanical failure, killing 59 of its 157 passengers.
November 21 – Birmingham pub bombings : In Birmingham , England, two pubs are bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army . The Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy campaign.[13]
November 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status .
November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy .
November 26 – Anneline Kriel is crowned as Miss World 1974 , the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958 , when Helen Morgan resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.
November 28 – In a rare (and final) public performance, former Beatle John Lennon joins Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
December [ edit ]
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January [ edit ]
January 3 – Alessandro Petacchi , Italian road cyclist
January 9 – Farhan Akhtar , Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, producer, and television host[16]
January 10 – Hrithik Roshan , Indian actor
January 12
January 14 – Kevin Durand , Canadian-American actor and singer
January 16 – Kate Moss , English model
January 18 – David Dorby , Seychellois footballer
January 22 – Joseph Muscat , 13th Prime Minister of Malta[18]
January 23 – Tiffani Thiessen , American actress
January 24 – Ed Helms , American actor and stand-up comedian
January 27 – Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Norwegian biathlete
January 28 – Kari Traa , Norwegian freestyle skier
January 29
January 30
February [ edit ]
February 1 - Roberto Heras , Spanish road cyclist[19]
February 3 – Miriam Yeung , Hong Kong actress and singer
February 4
February 7
February 8
February 10
February 11 – Alex Jones , American radio host, conspiracy theorist, author and filmmaker[22]
February 12 – Naseem Hamed , British boxer
February 13 – Robbie Williams , British singer
February 14
February 15
February 16 – Mahershala Ali , American actor and rapper
February 17 – Jerry O'Connell , American actor
February 22 – James Blunt , English singer
February 25
February 26 ] – Sébastien Loeb , French rally driver
February 27 – Hiroyasu Shimizu , Japanese speed skater
April 1 – Marcos Balter , Brazilian composer
April 2 – Håkan Hellström , Swedish musician
April 8 – Chris Kyle , American sniper (d. 2013 )
April 11 – Tricia Helfer , Canadian actress and model
April 12 – Marley Shelton , American actress
April 13 – Marta Jandová , Czech musician and actress
April 15 – Danny Pino , Cuban American actor
April 16 – Xu Jinglei , Chinese actress and director
April 17
April 18
April 22 – Shavo Odadjian , Armenian-born rock bassist
April 24
April 28 – Penélope Cruz , Spanish actress and model
April 29 – Anggun , Indonesian-French singer-songwriter
May 1 – Lornah Kiplagat , Kenyan-Dutch runner
May 2
May 3 – Princess Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan
May 4
May 6
May 7
May 8 – Marge Kõrkjas , Estonian swimmer
May 9 – Brian Deegan , American Motocross Racer
May 10
May 14 – Chantal Kreviazuk , Canadian singer-songwriter
May 16 – Laura Pausini , Italian singer
May 17 – Andrea Corr , Irish singer
May 19
May 20
May 21 – Fairuza Balk , American actress and musician
May 22
May 23 – Jewel , American singer
May 26 – Lars Frölander , Swedish swimmer
May 28 – Misbah-ul-Haq , Pakistani cricketer
May 29 – Steve Cardenas , American martial artist and actor
May 30
Big L , American rapper (d. 1999 )
CeeLo Green , African-American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor
May 31 – Kenan Doğulu , Turkish pop musician
July 1
July 2 – Moon So-ri , South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter
July 3
July 4
July 7 – Jennifer Jones , Canadian curler
July 8
July 12
July 14
July 20 – Doug Ithier , Australian footballer
July 22
July 23
July 24
Eva Aridjis , Mexican-American director and screenwriter
July 25 – Lauren Faust , American animator
July 26 – Daniel Negreanu , Canadian poker player
July 28 – Alexis Tsipras , Greek politician
July 29 – Josh Radnor , American actor
July 30 – Hilary Swank , American actress
July 31 – Emilia Fox , English actress
August 5 – Kajol , Indian actress
August 6 – Ever Carradine , American actress
August 7 – Michael Shannon , American actor[33]
August 9 – Derek Fisher , American basketball player
August 13 – Niklas Sundin , Swedish musician
August 14
August 15 – Natasha Henstridge , Canadian actress and model
August 16
August 20
August 22
August 23
Ray Park , Scottish actor and martial artist
Ovi , Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician
Shifty Shellshock , American singer
August 24 – Jennifer Lien , American actress
August 28 – Carsten Jancker , German footballer
August 31 – Marc Webb , American music video and film director
September [ edit ]
September 3 – Jen Royle , American sports reporter and chef
September 4
September 6
September 7 – Glenn Ljungström , Swedish guitarist
September 10
September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj , Moroccan athlete
September 15 – Wael Kfoury , Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter
September 17
September 18
September 19
September 22 – Jenn Colella , American actress and singer
September 23 – Matt Hardy , American professional wrestler
September 24 – Kati Wolf , Hungarian singer
September 26 – Joo Jin-mo , South Korean actor
September 30 – Yul Bürkle , Venezuelan actor and model
October [ edit ]
October 2 – Rachana Banerjee , Indian film actress
October 3 – Marianne Timmer , Dutch speed skater
October 4 – Kiti Kokkonen , Finnish film, television and voice actress, and author[34]
October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh , Vietnamese sports shooter
October 7 – Charlotte Perrelli , Swedish singer
October 8 – Koji Murofushi , Japanese hammer thrower[35]
October 10
October 11 – Jason Arnott , Canadian hockey player
October 16
October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen , English actor
October 18 – Zhou Xun , Chinese actress and singer
October 21 – Lera Auerbach , Russian composer and pianist
October 23
October 24 – Catherine Sutherland , Australian actress
October 28
October 29
November [ edit ]
November 2 – Nelly , American rapper[37]
November 5
November 8
November 9 – Alessandro Del Piero , Italian football player
November 10 – Chris Lilley , Australian comedian and actor
November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio , American actor, producer and environmentalist
November 13 – Kerim Seiler , Swiss artist and architect
November 15
November 16 – Paul Scholes , English football player
November 17 – Leslie Bibb , American actress and model
November 18
November 20
November 24 – Stephen Merchant , English actor and comedian
November 27
November 29 – Ferenc Merkli , Hungarian Slovene priest, writer and translator
November 30 – Wallace Chung , Hong Kong actor and singer
December [ edit ]
December 1
December 5
Kid Koala , Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and graphic novelist
Ravish Kumar , Indian journalist, author and media personality
December 7 – Nicole Appleton , Canadian singer
December 10 – Meg White , American drummer
December 11
December 12 – Michelle Saram , Singaporean singer and actress
December 17
December 18
December 19
December 20 – Paul Linger , English footballer
December 23 – Agustin Delgado , Ecuadorian footballer
December 24
December 27 – Alena Vinnitskaya , Ukrainian singer
December 29 – Mekhi Phifer , American actor[42]
December 31 – Tony Kanaan , Brazilian racing driver
January [ edit ]
January 1 – Jimmy Smith , American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895 )
January 2 – Tex Ritter , American actor and country musician (b. 1905 )
January 3
January 5 – Dewey Mayhew , American football coach (b. 1898 )
January 6
January 7 – Wang Shusheng , Chinese general (b. 1905 )
January 8 – Charles-Édouard Ferland , Canadian jurist, Liberal politician and Senator (b. 1892 )
January 10 – Charles G. Bond , U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1877 )
January 11 – Antonio Bautista , Filipino pilot with the Philippine Air Force (b. 1937 )
January 12
January 14 – Joseph Dippolito , Italian American Mafia member of the Los Angeles crime syndicate (b. 1914 )
January 15 – Harold D. Cooley , U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1897 )
January 17 – Clara Edwards , American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1880 )
January 18 – Bill Finger , American comic strip and book writer (b. 1914 )
January 19 – Edward Seago , British artist (b. 1910 )
January 20 – Leonard Freeman , American television writer and producer (Hawaii Five-0 ) (b. 1920 )
January 21 – Robert Guy Howarth , Australian scholar, literary critic and poet (b. 1906 )[44]
January 22 – Oskar Herman , Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886 )
January 26 – Julius Patzak , Austrian tenor (b. 1898 )
January 27
January 28 – Oswald Cornwallis , English cricketer (b. 1894 )
January 29 – H. E. Bates , English writer and author (b. 1905 )
January 30 – Bill Whitty , Australian cricketer (b. 1886 )
January 31
February [ edit ]
March 1
March 2 – Péter Schell , Hungarian politician (b. 1898 )
March 3
March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb , American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903 )
March 5
March 6 – Ernest Becker , American anthropologist and writer; who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for his book The Denial of Death (b. 1924 )
March 7
March 8 – Martha Wentworth , American actress (b. 1889 )
March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. , American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )
March 10 – Alexander John Majeski , American architect and Naval Lieutenant (b. 1920 )
March 12 – Oleksii Shovkunenko , Ukrainian painter (b. 1884 )
March 13 – Red Wing , American actress (b. 1873 )
March 14 – Maulana Shams-ud-din Harifal , Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1944 )
March 15 – José Tohá , Chilean Socialist politician, minister (assassinated) (b. 1927 )
March 17 – Louis Kahn , Russian-born American architect (b. 1901 )
March 19 – Edward Platt , American actor known as "The Chief " on NBC/CBS's Get Smart (b. 1916 )
March 20 – Chet Huntley , American television reporter (b. 1911 )
March 21 – Candy Darling , American actress (b. 1944 )
March 22 – Peter Revson , American race car driver (b. 1939 )
March 24 – Lewie G. Merritt , U.S. Marine, major general and aviator (b. 1897 )
March 27
March 28 – Dorothy Fields , American librettist and lyricist (b. 1904 )
March 29
March 31 – Frank Seno , American football running back and defensive back (b. 1921 )
April 2
April 3 – Ossie Newton-Thompson , South African cricketer and politician (b. 1920 )
April 5 – A. Y. Jackson , Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882 )
April 6
April 8 – K. A. C. Creswell , English architectural historian (b. 1879 )
April 9 - Marvin L. Kline , Republican politician (b. 1903 )
April 10 – Patricia Collinge , Irish-born American actress (b. 1892 )
April 11 – Edward Alexander Bott , psychologist at the University of Toronto (b. 1887 )
April 14
April 18
April 19 – Ayub Khan , Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907 )
April 20 – Peter Lee Lawrence , German actor in Spaghetti Westerns ; such as For a Few Dollars More (b. 1944 )
April 21 – Mirja Mane , Finnish actress (b. 1929 )
April 23 – Cy Williams , American baseball player (b. 1887 )
April 24
April 25 – Gustavo R. Vincenti , Maltese architect and developer (b. 1888 )[45]
April 27 – Hans W. Petersen , Danish actor of over 40 films (b. 1897 )
April 28 – Paul Page , American actor of the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1903 )
April 30 – Agnes Moorehead , American actress (b. 1900 )
May 1 – Frank Packer , Australian media proprietor (b. 1906 )
May 2
May 3
May 4 – Ludwig Karl Koch , German broadcaster and sound recordist (b. 1881 )
May 6 – Robert Maestri , Mayor of New Orleans (b. 1889 )
May 7
May 8 – Fred Conyngham , Australian actor (b. 1901 )
May 10 – Takeshi Sakamoto , Japanese actor (b. 1899 )
May 12 – Wayne Maki , Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944 )
May 13 – Jaime Torres Bodet , Mexican public servant, 2nd Director-General of the UNESCO (b. 1902 )
May 14 – Jacob L. Moreno , Romanian-American psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. 1889 )
May 15 – Guy Simonds , Canadian Lieutenant-General , commander of the Canadian Armed Forces in World War II (b. 1903 )
May 16 – Billy Welu , American professional bowler (b. 1932 )
May 17 – Symbionese Liberation Army shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department
May 18 – Harry Ricardo , English mechanical engineer (b. 1885 )
May 19 – Allal al-Fassi , Moroccan politician, poet, writer and scholar (b. 1910 )
May 20 – Jean Daniélou , French Catholic cardinal, theologian and academic (b. 1905 )
May 21 – Lily Kronberger , Hungarian figure skater (b. 1890 )
May 24 – Duke Ellington , American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899 )
May 25
May 26 – Kitty Gordon , English stage and silent film actress. (b. 1878 )
May 27 – Rudolf Altstadt , German soldier in World War II (b. 1914 )
May 28 – Francesco Fausto Nitti , Italian journalist (b. 1899 )
May 31
June 1 – Henry Clay Sevier , American lawyer and member from Louisiana House of Representatives (b. 1896 )
June 2 – Roger C. Slaughter , American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1905 )
June 3 – Rashid Nezhmetdinov , Soviet chess player (b. 1912 )
June 4
June 5 – Larry Cabrelli , American football player and assistant coach Philadelphia Eagles (b. 1917 )
June 7 – Abdul Rahman Hashim , Malaysian Inspector-General of Police (b. 1925 )
June 9
June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester , 11th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900 )
June 11
June 12 – André Marie , French Radical politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (b. 1897 )
June 14 – Knud Jeppesen , Danish musicologist , composer, and songwriter (b. 1892 )
June 15 – Kevin Gately , English mathematics student at University of Warwick involved in the Red Lion Square disorders (b. 1953 )
June 16
June 17
June 18 – Georgy Zhukov , Soviet Army marshal and Minister of Defence (b. 1896 )
June 21 – Katsutaro Kouta , Japanese female geisha and ryūkōka singer (b. 1904 )
June 22 – Darius Milhaud , French composer (b. 1892 )
June 23 – Calvin B. Hoover , noted U.S. economist and professor (b. 1897 )
June 24 – József Juhász , Hungarian stage and film actor (b. 1908 )
June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos , Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893 )
June 26 – Ernest Gruening , American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953 , and United States Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887 )
June 27 – Fred DeStefano , American football player and physician; who won the National Football League title with the Chicago Cardinals of 1925 (b. 1900 )
June 28
June 29 – José Maria Ferreira de Castro , Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898 )
June 30 – Alberta Williams King , American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King, Sr. , and mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1904 )
July 1 – Juan Perón , Argentine army general and politician, 2-time President of Argentina (b. 1895 )
July 2
July 4
July 6 – Joseph Baldacchino , Maltese archaeologist (b. 1894 )
July 7
July 8
July 9 – Earl Warren , American jurist and politician, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891 )
July 10 – Nancy Wickwire , American soap opera actress (b. 1925 )
July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891 )
July 12 – Sonja Ludvigsen , Norwegian politician (b. 1928 )
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16 – Oduvaldo Vianna Filho , Brazilian playwright (b. 1936 )
July 17 – Dizzy Dean , American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals ) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1910 )
July 19 – Joe Flynn , American actor (b. 1924 )
July 20 – Charles Rudolph d'Olive , American World War I ace (b. 1896 )
July 22 – Wayne Morse , American lawyer, politician, and United States Senator from Oregon (1945–1969) (b. 1900 )
July 23 – Peter Lei , Bishop of Hong Kong (b. 1922 )
July 24 – Sir James Chadwick , British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891 )
July 25 – Robert Hanbidge , Canadian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kerrobert and 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (b. 1891 )
July 27
July 28 – Truman Bradley , American radio actor (b. 1905 )
July 29
July 30 – Lev Knipper , Soviet composer (b. 1898 )
August 2 – Cyril Smith , English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909 )
August 3
August 4 – Józef Kondrat , Polish stage and film actor (b. 1902 )
August 5 – Friedrich F. Tippmann , Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894 )
August 6 – Gunboat Smith , Irish-born American boxer and referee (b. 1887 )
August 7 – Rosario Castellanos , Méxican poet and author (b. 1925 )
August 8 – Baldur von Schirach , Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907 )
August 11
August 13 – Ernst Forsthoff , German jurist (b. 1902 )
August 14 – Romuald Bourque , French-Canadian politician from Québec (b. 1889 )
August 15 – Edmund Cobb , American actor (b. 1892 )
August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi , Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. 1885 )
August 18 – J. C. Winslow , British missionary to India for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (b. 1882 )
August 19 – Rodger Davies , American diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1921 )
August 20 – Magda Sonja , Austrian actress (b. 1886 )
August 21 – Buford Pusser , American Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (b. 1937 )
August 22 – Jacob Bronowski , Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908 )
August 23 – Roberto Assagioli , Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888 )
August 24 – Alexander P. de Seversky , Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894 )
August 26 – Charles Lindbergh , American aviator (Spirit of St. Louis ) (b. 1902 )
August 27 – Otto Strasser , Nazi German politician (b. 1897 )
August 28 –
August 29
August 30 – Kenneth Anderson , Indian-British writer and hunter (b. 1910 )
August 31
September [ edit ]
September 1 – Mary Broadfoot Walker , Scottish physician (b. 1888 )
September 2 – Walter Strenge , American cinematographer (b. 1898 )
September 3 – Harry Partch , American composer (b. 1901 )
September 4
September 6
September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña , Spanish football manager (b. 1912 )
September 8
September 10 – Melchior Wańkowicz , Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892 )
September 11 – Robert Nodar Jr. , American Republican politician from New York and its member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1916 )
September 12
September 15 – René Capistrán Garza , Méxican Association of Catholic Youth leader, lawyer, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1898 )
September 16 – Phog Allen , American basketball and baseball player (b. 1885 )
September 17 – Claudia Morgan , American actress, The Edge of Night in the 1950s (b. 1912 )
September 18 – Edna Best , British actress (b. 1900 )
September 19
September 20
September 21
September 22
September 23 – Cliff Arquette , American comedian who created the character Charlie Weaver (b. 1905 )
September 24 – Dorothy Stone , American actress (b. 1905 )
September 26 – Jean Gale , American vaudeville performer (b. 1912 )
September 27
September 28 – Arnold Fanck , German film director who pioneered in the mountain film genre (b. 1889 )
September 30
October [ edit ]
October 1
October 2 – Vasily Shukshin , Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter, and director from the Altai region (b. 1929 )
October 3 – Bessie Louise Pierce , American historian (b. 1888 )
October 4
October 5
October 6 – V. K. Krishna Menon , Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. 1896 )
October 7 – Henry J. Cadbury , American biblical scholar and Quaker (b. 1883 )
October 8 – Harry Carney , American jazz musician (b. 1910 )
October 9
October 10 – Werner Heyking , Danish actor, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) (b. 1913 )
October 11 – Frank Kowalski , American soldier United States Army and United States representative from Connecticut (b. 1907 )
October 13
October 14 – Sattar Bahlulzade , Azerbaijani landscape painter (b. 1909 )
October 16 – Vlasta Dekanova , Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (b. 1909 )
October 17
October 18 – Anders Lange , Norwegian politician (b. 1902 )
October 19
October 20 – Élie Lescot , 29th President of Haiti , leader of the World War II (b. 1883 )
October 21 – Donald Goines , American writer of urban fiction (b. 1936 )
October 23 – Melchior Lengyel , Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter (b. 1880 )
October 24 – David Oistrakh , Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908 )
October 25 – Fahrettin Altay , Ottoman military officer (b. 1880 )
October 26 – Bidia Dandaron , Buryat Buddhist practitioner in the USSR (b. 1914 )
October 27
October 30 – Begum Akhtar , Indian singer (b. 1914 )
October 31 – Mikheil Chiaureli , Soviet Georgian filmmaker (b. 1894 )
November [ edit ]
November 1 – Ralf Harolde , American character actor (b, 1899 )
November 2
November 3 – Mamá Tingó , Dominican activist (b. 1921 )
November 4 – Harry Fritz , American baseball player Chicago Whales (b. 1890 )
November 5
November 7
November 8 – Ivory Joe Hunter , American rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1914 )
November 9 – Egon Wellesz , British composer, teacher and musicologist (b. 1885 )
November 13
November 14 – Johnny Mack Brown , American football star and actor (b. 1904 )
November 15
November 16 – Walther Meissner , German technical physicist (b. 1882 )
November 17
November 18 – Gösta Lilliehöök , Swedish pentathlete and 1912 Olympic Games champion (b. 1884 )
November 19 – Alessandro Momo , Italian actor (b. 1956 )
November 21
November 22 – Ilie Antonescu , Romanian general (b. 1894 )
November 23
November 25
November 27 – T. A. Madhuram , Tamil stage & film actress and film producer (b. 1918 )
November 28 – Konstantin Melnikov , Soviet architect (b. 1890 )
November 29
December [ edit ]
December 1 – Anita Brenner , Mexican anthropologist, historian and author (b. 1905 )
December 2
December 3 – Hans Leibelt , German film actor (b. 1885 )
December 4 – Lee Kinsolving , American actor (b. 1938 )
December 5
December 6
December 7 – Ariyavangsagatayana, 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand , Member of the Chetupon Temple (b. 1896 )
December 8 – Nadia Benois , Russian painter and stage designer; also the mother of English actor Peter Ustinov (b. 1896 )
December 9
December 10 – Paul Richards , American actor, Beneath the Planet of the Apes (b. 1924 )
December 11
December 12 – Booker McDaniels , American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues with (Kansas City Monarchs ) (b. 1913 )[citation needed ]
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
December 18 – Harry Hooper , American baseball player (Boston Red Sox ) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887 )
December 19
December 20 – André Jolivet , French composer (b. 1905 )
December 21 – Richard Long , American actor (b. 1927 )
December 22 – Gordon Purdy , Canadian Liberal politician (b. 1888 )
December 23 – Jules Rykovich , Croatian-born, American football player (b. 1923 )
December 24 – Sentarō Ōmori , Japanese admiral (b. 1892 )
December 25 – Gorman Kennedy , Canadian executive and general manager of the Montreal Alouettes from (1957 to 1959) (b. 1907 )
December 26
December 27
December 28 – Zachary Cope , British physician and surgeon (b. 1881 )
December 29
December 30
December 31
Nobel Prizes [ edit ]
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