page_title: 1974
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Frederick Kelly the winner of the men's 110 metre hurdles at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
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: May 1 – Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor (b. 1906)
  May 2
  James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
  William Wantling, American ex-Marine, poet and novelist (b. 1933)
  May 3
  Nasir Khan, Indian actor (b. 1924)
  Ralph McCabe, Canadian-born Major League Baseball player (b. 1918)
  May 4 – Ludwig Karl Koch, German broadcaster and sound recordist (b. 1881)
  May 6 – Robert Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans (b. 1889)
  May 7
  Abu Bakar of Pahang, Fourth Sultan of Pahang (b. 1904)
  Fred Kelly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891)
  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
  Angela Atwood, American founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1949)
  Donald DeFreeze, American leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army who went by the nom de guerre "Field Marshal Cinque" (b. 1943)
  Camilla Hall, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, one of main kidnappers of heiress Patricia Hearst (b. 1945)
  Nancy Ling Perry, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1947)
  Patricia Soltysik, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1950)
  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
  Donald Crisp, English-American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1882)
  Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician and philosopher (b. 1901)
  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
  Adelle Davis, American author and nutritionist (b. 1904)
  Frederick George Topham, Canadian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1917)
caption: Fred Kelly
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