1974
1974 (
MCMLXXIV) was a
common year starting on Tuesday.
January
*
January 5 -
Dungeons & Dragons officially released.
*
January 6 - In response to the
energy crisis,
daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the
United States.
*
January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia was
flooded.
*
January 30 -
G. Gordon Liddy found guilty of
Watergate charges
February
*
February 1 - Fire in Joelman Bank Building in
São Paulo,
Brazil - 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
*
February 3 - Prisoners riot in the
Bathurst Jail Riots, destroying much of the jail.
*
February 4 -
Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps
Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher
William Randolph Hearst*
February 8 - After 84 days in
space, the crew of the temporary American
space station,
Skylab, return to
Earth.
*
February 12 - US District Court Judge
George Boldt rules that
Native American tribes in
Washington State are entitled to half of the legal
salmon and
steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the US government.
*
February 13 -
Nobel Prize winning writer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union (he returns
May 27 1994)
*
February 17 -
Soccer stampede in
Cairo - 49 dead
*
February 20 - Following a visit to his home from a woman wearing a strange pendant,
Phillip K Dick begins to receive a series of visions which he refers to as 2-3-74, shorthand for February/March of 1974.
*
February 21 - The long-running comic strip "
Sazae-san" is published in the
Asahi Shimbun for the final time after 28 years of daily installments.
*
February 23 - The
Symbionese Liberation Army demand $4 million more to release kidnap victim
Patty Hearst.
*
February 27 -
People magazine is published for the first time.
*
February 28 -
United Kingdom general election results in an almost dead-heat.
Harold Wilson becomes
Prime Minister again despite his
Labour Party (UK) having received fewer votes than the
Conservative Party (UK).
*
February 28 -
Ethiopian prime minister
Tsehafi Aklilu Habte-Wold, who has held the position since
1961, is dismissed by Emperor
Haile Selassie and replaced with
Endelkachew Makonnen.
March
*
March 1 -
Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the
Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
*
March 1 -
Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as
Prime Minister of France.
*
March 3 - A
Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
*
March 8 - The
Brady Bunch Starring Robert Reed & Florence Henderson, is cancelled after 5 seasons.
*
March 8 -
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in
Paris,
France.
*
March 10 - Ten miners die in a
methane gas explosion at
Golborne Colliery near
Wigan,
Lancashire.
*
March 10 -
Japanese
World War Two soldier, Second Lieutenant
Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the
Philippines.
*
March 18 -
Oil embargo crisis: Most
OPEC nations end a five-month
oil embargo against the
United States,
Europe and
Japan.
*
March 20 -
Ian Balls fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness
Princess Anne and her husband Captain
Mark Phillips in
The Mall, outside
Buckingham Palace,
London.
*
March 29 -
Mariner 10 approaches
Mercury.
April
*
April 1 - the
Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in
England and Wales, creating six new
metropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map
*
April 3 -
The Super Outbreak, the largest series of
tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 148 tornadoes hit early the following morning, 315 died and over 5,000 were injured.
*
April 6 -
ABBA started their road to fame, after winning
The Eurovision Song Contest*
April 8 -
Hank Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves broke
Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home-run off
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher
Al Downing at
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
*
April 10 - In
Israel,
Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister
*
April 15 - In
San Francisco, members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army rob a branch of the
Hibernia Bank, joined by
Patricia Hearst, their erstwhile captive.
*
April 17 - Three members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army die when their apartment catches fire during a shootout with the
LAPD.
*
April 25 -
Coup in
Portugal restores
democracy (see
Carnation Revolution)
*
April 28 - Last Americans evacuated from
Saigon.
May
*
May 4 - All female
Japanese team summits
Manaslu and become the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
*
May 4 -
Expo '74 World's Fair opens in
Spokane, Washington,
USA*
May 9 - The
United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public
impeachment hearings against
President Richard M. Nixon*
May 17 -
Los Angeles, California police raid
Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, killing six members, including
Camilla Hall*
May 17 - Thirty-three people die in the
Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in
Ireland. Members of the
UDR and
UVF, allegedly assisted by
British intelligence, are behind the blast.
*
May 18 -
Nuclear test: Under project
Smiling Buddha,
India successfully detonates its first
nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
*
May 18 - Completion of
Warsaw radio mast. The Warsaw radio mast was the tallest construction ever built. It collapsed on
August 8,
1991*
May 19 - In the second round of the presidential elections in
France,
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins over
François Mitterrand, but by a close margin.
*
May 19 - The
Philadelphia Flyers defeat the
Boston Bruins, thereby becoming the first expansion team to win the
Stanley Cup*
May 28 - Italian fascist organization
Ordine Nuovo bombs demonstrators in
Brescia; 6 killed.
*
May 30 -
NASA's
ATS-6 satellite is launched.
June
*
June 1 -
Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in
Flixborough,
UK kills 28 people
*
June 4 - The
Cleveland Indians attempt an ill-advised
ten cent beer promotion for a game against the
Texas Rangers at
Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeited after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
*
June 6 - A new
Instrument of Government is promulgated making
Sweden a
parliamentary monarchy*
June 15 - The
Red Lion Square disorders*
June 16 - First
Darwin beer-can boat regatta in
Darwin,
Australia - 63 crafts made of
beer cans participate
*
June 17 - A bomb explodes at the
Houses of Parliament in
London damaging
Westminster Hall. The
Irish Republican Army claim responsibility for planting the bomb.
*
June 26 - The
Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
*
June 29 -
Isabel Peron becomes interim president of
Argentina when
Juan Peron falls seriously ill
*
June 30 - Assassination of
Alberta Williams King, mother of the late
Martin Luther King, Jr., during a church service
July
*
July 7 -
West Germany beat
the Netherlands 2-1 to win the
1974 FIFA World Cup.
*
July 15 -
Christine Chubbuck, US television presenter for
WXLT-TV, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours later.
*
July 15 - Military coup overthrows
President Makarios in
Cyprus*
July 17 - A bomb planted by the
Irish Republican Army explodes in the
White Tower at the
Tower of London, killing one person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South
London.
*
July 20 -
Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from
Turkey invade
Cyprus after the
coup d'etat by
EOKA B*
July 22 -
Ethiopian Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen is replaced with
Mikael Imru.
*
July 23 -
Greek military junta government collapses.
*
July 24 -
Constantine Karamanlis sworn in as interim Prime Minister of
Greece.
*
July 24 -
Watergate Scandal: The
United States Supreme Court unanimously rules that President
Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold
subpoenaed
White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
*
July 27-
July 30 - Watergate Scandal: The
House of Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of
impeachment charging President
Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.
August
*
August 4 - Bomb explodes in
Italicus Expressen train between
Italy and
West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility
*
August 5 -
Watergate scandal: The "
smoking gun" tape of
June 23,
1972 is revealed, in which
U.S. President Richard Nixon and
H.R. Haldeman discuss using the
CIA to block an
FBI inquiry into
Watergate. Nixon's support in
Congress collapses.
*
August 7 - Three
Republican congressional leaders (
Barry Goldwater,
Hugh Scott and
John Rhodes) visit
President Nixon in the
White House. They inform him that he lacks the votes to escape
impeachment in the
House of Representatives and conviction in the
Senate.
*
August 8 -
Watergate scandal: US President
Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective
August 9)
*
August 9 -
Richard Nixon becomes the first
President of the United States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment in response to his role in the
Watergate scandal. His
Vice President,
Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th President.
*
August 14 - Turkey
invades for the second time in Cyprus and occupies 37% of the territory of the island.
*
August 30 - An express train bound for
Germany from
Belgrade derails in
Zagreb,
Yugoslavia (now
Croatia) killing more than 150 passengers.
September
*
September 1 - Daredevil
Bob Gill fails a world-record attempt to jump Appalachia Lake in
West Virginia.
*
September 8 -
Watergate Scandal: US President
Gerald Ford pardons former President
Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
*
September 8 -
TWA Flight 841 crashes into the
Ionian sea, 18 minutes after take off from
Athens, by a bomb explosion in the cargo hold killing 88 people.
*
September 8 - Professional stuntman
Evel Knievel fails to cross the
Snake River Canyon in
Idaho, when a drogue parachute deploys prematurely on his rocket-powered
Skycycle X-2.
*
September 13 -
Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in
The Hague,
Netherlands. They secure the release of member
Yatuka Fumiya, $300.000 and a flight to
Aden*
September 23 -
Ceefax is started by the
BBC - one of the first public service information systems
October
*
October 5 - The
Guildford pub bombings at
The Horse and Groom and
The Seven Stars kill 5 people, lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the
Guildford Four the next year
*
October 10 - The second
United Kingdom general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by
Harold Wilson.
*
October 15 - U.S. President
Gerald Ford signs a campaign reform bill, which sets new regulations for federal campaigns, in the wake of the
Watergate scandal.
*
October 30 - The "
Rumble in the Jungle" between
Muhammad Ali and
George Foreman takes place in
Kinshasa,
Zaire. Using his new "Rope-and-dope" strategy, Ali knocks down an exhausted Foreman after eight rounds, and regains the Heavyweight Boxing Title.
November
*
November 7 -
Lord Lucan disappears
*
November 7 - An
IRA bomb explodes at the
Kings Arms, Woolwich*
November 8 - In
Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer
Ted Bundy.
*
November 10 - Members of the
Movement 2 June try to kidnap
Günter von Drenkmann, the president of
West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home but he is fatally shot during the attempt
*
November 14 -
Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his parents and his four siblings in what would later become known as "
The Amityville Horror House".
*
November 16 -
Arecibo radio telescope sends an
interstellar radio message towards the
M 13 Great Globular Cluster.
*
November 17 -
Irish President
Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the
Republic of Ireland, in the middle of a public speech.
*
November 20 - The
United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against
AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of
AT&T and the
Bell System.
*
November 21 - In
Birmingham, England, two pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the
Birmingham Six were later sentenced to life in prison for this)
*
November 22 - The
United Nations General Assembly grants the
Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
*
November 24 - A skeleton from the
hominid species
Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
*
November 27 - The
Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in the
United Kingdom.
December
*
December 1 - A
Boeing 727 carrying
TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of
Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on-board
*
December 8 -
Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
*
December 19 -
Cearbhall " Dálaigh becomes the fifth
President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in
Dublin Castle*
December 19 - Former New York Governor
Nelson Rockefeller, is sworn in as
Vice President of the United States.
*
December 23 - Former British minister
John Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in
Melbourne,
Australia.
*
December 24-
December 25 -
Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by
Cyclone Tracy.
*
December 31 - Restrictions on holding private
gold within the
United States, implemented by
Franklin Roosevelt in
1933, are removed.
Unknown date
*The
Milgram experiment first described by
Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book
Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.*
Baltimore police strike*
Volkswagen's
Golf automobile first enters production. VW will go on to sell 22 million Golfs, and the model is still in full scale production as of 2006.
*World population reaches 4 billion
January
*
January 3 -
Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
*
January 10-
Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood Actor
*
January 11 - The
Rosenkowitz sextuplets (Cape Town, South Africa), the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy.
*
January 12 -
Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
*
January 16 -
Kate Moss, English model
*
January 17 -
Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d.
2003)
*
January 23 -
Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
*
January 27 -
Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
*
January 28 -
Tony Delk, American basketball player
*
January 30 -
Christian Bale, Welsh actor
*
January 31 -
Ian Huntley, English murderer
February
*
February 7 -
Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
*
February 8 -
Seth Green, American actor
*
February 8 -
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey
*
February 11 -
D'Angelo, American singer
*
February 13 -
Gus Hansen, Danish poker player
*
February 13 -
Robbie Williams, English singer
*
February 15 -
Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d.
2002)
*
February 15 -
Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
*
February 24 -
Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (
The Neptunes)
March
*
March 1 -
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
*
March 5 -
Jens Jeremies, German footballer
*
March 7 -
Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
*
March 8 -
Fardeen Khan, Bollywood Actor
*
March 11 -
Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
*
March 11 -
Russ Haas, American wrestler (d.
2001)
*
March 20 -
Paula Garces, Colombian actress
*
March 20 -
Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
*
March 20 -
Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
*
March 22 -
Marcus Camby, American basketball player
*
March 22 -
Kidada jones, American actress, model, fashion designer
*
March 24 -
Alyson Hannigan, American actress
*
March 25 -
Lark Voorhies, American actress
*
March 25 -
Tapani Mokko, Finnish Artist
April
*
April 1 -
Richard Christy, American musician and radio writer
*
April 4 -
Dave Mirra, American athlete
*
April 9 -
Jenna Jameson, American actress
*
April 11 -
Trot Nixon, baseball player
*
April 14 -
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
*
April 14 -
Da Brat, American rapper
*
April 14 -
George D. Sax, American bank innovator
*
April 15 -
Josh Todd, American musician and singer (
Buckcherry)
*
April 17 -
Victoria Beckham, English singer (
Spice Girls)
*
April 22 -
Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (
System of a Down)
*
April 28 -
Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
*
April 28 -
Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
May
*
May 8 -
Korey Stringer, American football player (d.
2001)
*
May 17 -
Andrea Corr, Irish singer (
The Corrs)
*
May 21 -
Havoc, American rapper (
Mobb Deep)
*
May 23 -
Ken Jennings, American game show winner
*
May 23 -
Jewel, American singer
*
May 23 -
Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
*
May 24 -
Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
*
May 26 -
Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
*
May 27 -
Danny Wuerffel, American football player
*
May 30 -
Big L, American rapper
June
*
June 1 -
Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
*
June 2 -
Gata Kamsky, American chess player
*
June 7 -
Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
*
June 10 -
James Spix, American author
*
June 12 -
Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
*
June 13 -
Brande Roderick, American actress
*
June 13 -
Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
*
June 20 -
Steve 'Flash' Juon, American webmaster and writer
*
June 21 -
Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
*
June 25 -
Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
*
June 26 -
Derek Jeter, baseball player
July
*
July 2 -
Matthew Reilly, Australian writer
*
July 4 -
La'Roi Glover, American football player
*
July 4 -
Gackt, Japanese singer
*
July 8 -
Allen Skillicorn, American race car driver
*
July 19 -
Preston Wilson, baseball player
*
July 22 -
Daddy Kev, American record producer
*
July 23 -
Maurice Greene, American athlete
*
July 23 -
Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
*
July 26 -
Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
*
July 27 -
Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
*
July 31 -
Emilia Fox, English actress
*
July 31 -
Jonathan Ogden, American football player
August
*
August 2 -
Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
*
August 7 -
Sek Loso, Thai singer, songwriter and guitarist
*
August 9 -
Matt Morris, baseball player
*
August 14 -
Christopher Gorham, American actor
*
August 15 -
Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
*
August 20 -
Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
*
August 23 -
Ray Park, Scottish actor
*
August 24 -
Jennifer Lien, American actress
*
August 25 -
Eric Millegan, American actor
*
August 27 -
Jose Vidro, baseball player
*
August 27 -
Mase, American rapper
*
August 31 -
Mike Foster, Media, Pa
September
*
September 1 -
Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
*
September 2 -
Lisa Snowdon, English television presenter
*
September 6 -
Tim Henman, English tennis player
*
September 6 -
Nina Persson, Swedish singer
*
September 10 -
Ben Wallace, American basketball player
*
September 14 -
Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
*
September 17 -
Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
*
September 18 -
Sol Campbell, English footballer
*
September 18 -
Xzibit, American rapper
*
September 19 -
Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
*
September 19 -
Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
*
September 23 -
Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
*
September 29 -
Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
October
*
October 7 -
Allison Munn, American actress
*
October 10 -
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver
*
October 11 -
Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
*
October 16 -
Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
*
October 21 -
Lera Auerbach, Russian composer, pianist, and poet
*
October 23 -
Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
*
October 26 -
LISA, Japanese musician
*
October 28 -
Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
*
October 29 -
Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
November
*
November 1 -
VVS Laxman, Indian cricketer
*
November 2 -
Beverley Mahood, Canadian singer and songwriter
*
November 4 -
Louise Redknapp, English singer
*
November 5 -
Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
*
November 5 -
Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
*
November 9 -
Uncle Kracker, American singer
*
November 11 -
Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
*
November 11 -
Bettina Goislard, French UN worker (d.
2003)
*
November 22 -
David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
*
November 23 -
Jamie Sharper, American football player
*
November 27 -
Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
December
*
December 1 -
Costinha, Portuguese footballer
*
December 7 -
Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer (
All Saints)
*
December 8 -
Maya Mishalska, Mexican actress
*
December 11 -
Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
*
December 13 -
Nicholas McCarthy, English-born guitarist (
Franz Ferdinand (band))
*
December 14 -
Billy Koch, baseball player
*
December 18 -
Peter Boulware, American football player
*
December 18 -
Euroboy, Norwegian musician (
Turbonegro)
*
December 19 -
Jake Plummer, American football player
*
December 19 -
Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
*
December 21 -
Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
*
December 23 -
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, American poet
*
December 24 -
Ryan Seacrest, American television host
*
December 29 -
Jenny Barker, British radio presenter
*
December 29 -
Richie Sexson, baseball player
*
December 29 -
Brad Hodge, Australian cricketer
January
*
January 2 -
Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b.
1905)
*
January 12 -
Princess Patricia of Connaught (b.
1886)
*
January 31 -
Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b.
1879)
February
*
February 11 -
Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish actress (b.
1888)
*
February 15 -
Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b.
1887)
*
February 21 -
Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b.
1930)
*
February 23 -
Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b.
1895)
March
*
March 1 -
Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b.
1935)
*
March 4 -
Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b.
1903)
*
March 5 -
Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b.
1888)
*
March 6 -
Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropologist
*
March 9 -
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1915)
*
March 12 -
George D. Sax, Drive-in bank innovator
*
March 20 -
Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b.
1911)
April
*
April 2 -
Georges Pompidou,
President of France (b.
1911)
*
April 5 -
A. Y. Jackson, Canadian Painter (b.
1882)
*
April 15 -
Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b.
1906)
*
April 19 -
Ayub Khan,
President of Pakistan (b.
1907)
*
April 24 -
Bud Abbott, American actor (b.
1897)
May
*
May 24 -
Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b.
1899)
June
*
June 9 -
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890)
*
June 10 -
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester,
Governor-General of Australia (b.
1900)
*
June 22 -
Darius Milhaud, French composer (b.
1892)
*
June 28 -
Frank Sutton, American actor (b.
1923)
July
*
July 1 -
Juan Domingo Perón,
President of Argentina (b.
1895)
*
July 9 -
Earl Warren, Governor of California and
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b.
1891)
*
July 11 -
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
*
July 13 -
Patrick Blackett, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
*
July 24 -
James Chadwick, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
*
July 29 -
Erich Kästner, German author (b.
1899)
August
*
August 6 -
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1925)
September
*
September 3 -
Harry Partch, American composer (b.
1901)
*
September 4 -
Creighton Williams Abrams, American general (b.
1914)
*
September 4 -
Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b.
1899)
*
September 14 -
Warren Hull, American actor (b.
1903)
October
*
October 4 -
Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b.
1928)
*
October 6 -
V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b.
1897)
*
October 9 -
Oskar Schindler, Austrian industrialist (b.
1908)
*
October 24 -
David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b.
1908)
November
*
November 11 -
Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b.
1894)
*
November 13 -
Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b.
1901)
*
November 17 -
Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth
President of Ireland (b.
1905)
*
November 19 -
George Brunies, American musician (b.
1902)
*
November 21 -
John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b.
1897)
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November 21 -
Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b.
1890)
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November 24 -
Nick Drake, British musician (b.
1948)
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November 24 -
Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician (b.
1927)
*
November 29 -
Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b.
1898)
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November 29 -
H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (b.
1889)
December
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December 2 -
Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1897)
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December 18 -
Harry Hooper, baseball player (b.
1887)
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December 20 -
André Jolivet, French composer (b.
1905)
*
December 26 -
Jack Benny, American comedian (b.
1894)
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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*
Enrico Bombieri,
David Mumford*
Brother Roger*
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