page_title: 1974
section_title: December
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 / Deaths / December
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Jack Benny.
context_page_description: 1974 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
  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.
context_section_description: December 1 – Anita Brenner, Mexican anthropologist, historian and author (b. 1905)
  December 2
  Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Russian-born, Canadian composer, virtuoso pianist, & violinist (b. 1899)
  Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
  December 3 – Hans Leibelt, German film actor (b. 1885)
  December 4 – Lee Kinsolving, American actor (b. 1938)
  December 5
  Pietro Germi, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
  Zaharia Stancu, Romanian prose writer (b. 1902)
  Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (b. 1886)
  December 6
  Einar Texas Ljungberg, Swedish Socialist politician (b. 1880)
  Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk, Dutch anthropologist, biologist and psychologist (b. 1887)
  Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Russian admiral (b. 1904)
  Luigi Salvatorelli, Italian historian and publicist (b. 1886)
  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
  Hans Traut, German General-Lieutenant in the Nazi Wehrmacht in World War II (b. 1895)
  Ludwig Weber, Austrian bass (b. 1899)
  December 10 – Paul Richards, American actor, Beneath the Planet of the Apes (b. 1924)
  December 11
  Maravillas de Jesús, Spanish Roman Catholic professed member of the Discalced Carmelites and saint (b. 1891)
  Reed Hadley, American radio, television and film actor (b. 1911)
  December 12 – Booker McDaniels, American baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues with (Kansas City Monarchs) (b. 1913)
  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
  Luis Almarcha Hernández, Spanish cleric, politician and Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1887)
  Bing Slamet, Indonesian singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1927)
  December 18 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887)
  December 19
  Bernd von Brauchitsch, German air force officer (b. 1911)
  Catrano Catrani, Italian-born Argentine director & producer (b. 1910)
  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
  Jack Benny, American actor (b. 1894)
  Frank Hussey, American Olympic athlete (b. 1905)
  December 27
  Bob Custer, American film actor (b. 1898)
  Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898)
  Ned Maddrell, last surviving native speaker of the Manx language (b. 1877)
  December 28 – Zachary Cope, British physician and surgeon (b. 1881)
  December 29
  Robert Ellis, American actor (b. 1892)
  William Charles Fuller, Welsh soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884)
  December 30
  George Howard Earle III, American politician and diplomat; served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939 (b. 1890)
  Sid Terris, American boxer (b. 1904)
  December 31
  Dogen Handa, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1914)
  Robert Pache, Swiss footballer (b. 1897)
caption: Jack Benny
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