page_title: 1974
section_title: September
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 / Deaths / September
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Walter Brennan as Amos McCoy from the television program The Real McCoys.
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: 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
  Creighton Williams Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
  Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)
  September 6
  Olga Baclanova, Soviet stage and screen actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. 1893)
  Otto Kruger, American actor of German descent (b. 1885)
  September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña, Spanish football manager (b. 1912)
  September 8
  Dhani Nivat, Prince of Thailand (b. 1885)
  Bert Niehoff, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1884)
  Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist, Little Jimmy (b. 1875)
  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
  Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900)
  Craig Woods, American actor (b. 1918)
  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
  Tránsito Cocomarola, Argentine musician and folklorist (b. 1918)
  Zack Taylor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
  September 20
  Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, singer, and actor (b. 1896)
  Sir Arthur Rylah, Australlian lawyer and politician. (b. 1909)
  September 21
  Walter Brennan, American actor; 3-time Best Supporting Academy Award-winning actor (1936, 1938, and 1940) (b. 1894)
  Jacqueline Susann, American writer and actress (b. 1918)
  September 22
  Winfried Otto Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888)
  George Spahn, American rancher connected to the Manson family (b. 1889)
  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
  Silvio Frondizi, Argentine intellectual and lawyer (b. 1907)
  James R. Webb, American soldier and screenwriter who won the 1963 Academy Award for How the West Was Won (b. 1909)
  September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director who pioneered in the mountain film genre (b. 1889)
  September 30
  Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. 1915)
  Sofía Cuthbert, wife of Carlos Prats (b. 1918)
caption: Walter Brennan
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