List of Famous people who died at 74

Alberto Breccia was an Uruguay-born Argentine cartoonist. His son is the noted cartoonist Enrique Breccia.

Françoise Cachin was a French art historian and curator. She was the founding director of the Musée d’Orsay and the author of numerous books on 19th-century French painting.

Achille Casanova was a Swiss journalist and politician. He held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland between 1981 and 2005, and during this time became the first official spokesman for the Swiss Federal Council when that role was created on 1 September 2000.

Captain Donald Edward Williams was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut. He logged a total of 287 hours and 35 minutes in space.

Nikolay Pavlovich Firyubin was a Soviet diplomat.

Dante Caputo was an Argentine academic, diplomat and politician, who served as the nation's foreign minister under President Raúl Alfonsín.

Mathias Gnädinger was a Swiss stage and film actor.

Ivan Terentyevich Peresypkin was a Soviet General, statesman and wartime leader.

Patrick Sercu was a Belgian cyclist who was active on the road and track between 1961 and 1983. On track, he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as three world titles in the sprint, in 1963, 1967 and 1969. On the road, he earned the green jersey in the 1974 Tour de France. Sercu is the record holder for the number of six-day track race victories, having won 88 events out of 223 starts between 1961 and 1983; several of these wins were with cycling great Eddy Merckx. He also won six stages at the Tour de France and eleven stages at the Giro d'Italia.

Emad Hamdy was an Egyptian actor. He was married to the Egyptian actress Shadia and between 1962 and 1975 he was married to the Egyptian actress Nadia El Guindy, and they had one son.