# 1974

1974 in other calendars| Gregorian calendar | 1974 *MCMLXXIV* |
| Ab urbe condita | 2727 |
| Armenian calendar | 1423 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6724 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 130–131 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1895–1896 |
| Bengali calendar | 1381 |
| Berber calendar | 2924 |
| British Regnal year | 22 Eliz. 2 – 23 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2518 |
| Burmese calendar | 1336 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7482–7483 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4670 or 4610     *— to —* 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4671 or 4611 |
| Coptic calendar | 1690–1691 |
| Discordian calendar | 3140 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1966–1967 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5734–5735 |
| Hindu calendars |  |
|  - *Vikram Samvat* | 2030–2031 |
|  - *Shaka Samvat* | 1895–1896 |
|  - *Kali Yuga* | 5074–5075 |
| Holocene calendar | 11974 |
| Igbo calendar | 974–975 |
| Iranian calendar | 1352–1353 |
| Islamic calendar | 1393–1394 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 49 (昭和４９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1905–1906 |
| Juche calendar | 63 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4307 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 63 民國63年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 506 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2517 |
| Tibetan calendar | ཆུ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Water-Ox) 2100 or 1719 or 947     *— to —* ཤིང་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Tiger) 2101 or 1720 or 948 |
| Unix time | 126230400 – 157766399 |

**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 11 – Lil' Kim, American rapper

* 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
* 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

Georges Pompidou
Ayub Khan
Franz Jonas
Agnes Moorehead
* 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

Juan Perón
Earl Warren
James Chadwick
Cass Elliot
Erich Kästner
* 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

Zalman Shazar
Oskar Schindler
Ed Sullivan
Everaldo
* 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