List of Famous people who died at 74

Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African American physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT).

Heinz König was a German researcher, economist and former professor for Economy and Econometrics at the University of Mannheim from 1962 to 1996. Moreover, he served as President (Rektor) of the University of Mannheim between 1979 and 1982. In addition, König was founding director of the Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW).

Rolf Müller was a German graphic designer. He was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. He worked on visual design for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The central themes of his creative work were corporate design, the development of information and orientation systems, posters, publications and exhibitions.

Raymond Leslie White was an American geneticist.

Nikolai Alekseevich Pilyugin was Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems.