List of Famous people who died at 74

Sidney Lanfield was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs.

Morton DaCosta was an American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor.

Paul Ford Weaver was an American character actor who came to specialize in authority figures whose ineptitude and pompous demeanor were played for comic effect, notably as Mayor Shinn in The Music Man (1962) and as Colonel John T. Hall in The Phil Silvers Show.

Wolf Paul Barth was a German mathematician who discovered Barth surfaces and whose work on vector bundles has been important for the ADHM construction. Until 2011 Barth was working in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.

Ljubomir Ćipranić was a Serbian actor. He appeared in over 160 films and television shows since 1959. He starred in the 1967 film The Rats Woke Up, which won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.

David Michael Staton, better known as Mick Staton was an American politician. He was a Republican from West Virginia.