page_title: 1974
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Tex Ritter, who is the father of actor John Ritter.
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: January 1 – Jimmy Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895)
  January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and country musician (b. 1905)
  January 3
  Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
  Red Snapp, American baseball player (b. 1888)
  January 5 – Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898)
  January 6
  Lech Pijanowski, Polish screenwriter, film critic, broadcaster and director (b. 1928)
  David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and muralist (b. 1896)
  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
  Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919)
  Princess Patricia of Connaught, (b. 1886)
  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 actor (Hawaii Five-0) (b. 1920)
  Robert Guy Howarth, Australian scholar, literary critic and poet (b. 1906)
  January 22 – Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886)
  January 26 – Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor (b. 1898)
  January 27
  Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898)
  Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886)
  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
  Pina Gallini, Italian actress (b. 1888)
  Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879)
  Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete (b. 1912)
caption: Tex Ritter
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