List of Famous people who died at 74
Nikolai Ozerov
Nikolai Nikolayevich Ozerov was a Soviet tennis player and actor, who was best known as a leading sports commentator of the Soviet Union in the 1950s–80s. He was awarded the Olympic Order in 1992, and received the Paul Loicq Award in 2016.
René Tavernier
René Tavernier was a French poet and philosopher.
Youssef Dawoud
Youssef Dawoud was an Egyptian actor, who worked in theatre, cinema and television.
Stuart Christie
Stuart Christie was a Scottish anarchist writer and publisher. When aged 18, Christie was arrested while carrying explosives to assassinate the Spanish caudillo, General Francisco Franco. He was later alleged to be a member of the Angry Brigade, but was acquitted of related charges. He went on to found the Cienfuegos Press publishing house, as well as radical publications The Free-Winged Eagle and The Hastings Trawler, and in 2006 the online Anarchist Film Channel, which hosts films and documentaries with anarchist and libertarian socialist themes. His memoir Granny Made Me an Anarchist was published in 2004.
Daniel Robin
Daniel Robin was a French wrestler who was inducted into the United World Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2012.
Daniel Contet
Daniel Contet was a French international tennis player. He competed in 16 ties for the French Davis Cup team between 1961 and 1969.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer was a German author who incorporated the Theatre of the Absurd. He originally trained as an artist, before turning to writing.
Keith Murdoch
Keith Murdoch was a New Zealand rugby union footballer.
Yasuhiro Takai
Yasuhiro Takai was a Japanese professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hankyu Braves.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah was a prominent twelver Shia cleric from a Lebanese family. Born in Najaf, Iraq, Fadlallah studied Islam in Najaf before moving to Lebanon in 1952. In the following decades, he gave many lectures, engaged in intense scholarship, wrote dozens of books, founded several Islamic religious schools, and established the Mabarrat Association. Through the aforementioned association, he established a public library, a women's cultural center, and a medical clinic.