List of Famous people who died at 74

Jean Rogers was an American actress who starred in serial films in the 1930s and low–budget feature films in the 1940s as a leading lady. She is best remembered for playing Dale Arden in the science fiction serials Flash Gordon (1936) and Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938).

Jacques Gelman was a producer of Mexican films and a collector of Mexican Art.

Dositej II was the Metropolitan of Skopje, under the canonical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1959 to 1967, and Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia as the primate of the self-proclaimed Macedonian Orthodox Church until his death in 1981.

Pierre Dominique Gaisseau was a French documentary film-maker best known for his documentary Sky Above and Mud Beneath, which was awarded the first Oscar for a documentary. The film is an account of an expedition into the previously unexplored wilds of the Netherlands New Guinea accomplished in 1959 by a small team of French and Dutch explorers under Gaisseau's leadership, in the area where young Michael Rockefeller later disappeared. The film's images of stone age life and mock birth rituals made indelible imprints on the Western mind, repeated in various art and theater forms.

Philippe Labeyrie was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Landes department. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

Ray Goossens was a Belgian artist, animator, writer, and director best known for creating the cartoon character Musti.

Michael Seymour Blankfort was an American screenwriter, writer of books and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of Broken Arrow (1950). He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles.

John Hubbard was an American television and film actor.