List of Famous people who died at 74

Herbert William Compton Bennett, better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story.

Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (1898-1973) was a Russian-born German linguist and philologist, expert in Slavic studies: Slavic languages and literature. He worked in universities of France, Great Britain and the United States.

Franz Schulz was a playwright and screenwriter who worked from 1920 through 1956.

Dzidra Ritenberga was a Latvian actress and film director. Ritenberga won the best actress award at the 1957 Venice International Film Festival for her performance as Malva in Malva. From 1976 she directed a few films at Riga Film Studio.

François Châtelet was a mathematician at the Université de Besançon who introduced the Weil–Châtelet group and Châtelet surfaces. His father was the mathematician Albert Châtelet.

Robert Joseph Coffy was a French Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Marseille.