List of Famous people who died at 74
Henri Willem Karel Huyssen van Kattendijke
Zdeněk Neubauer
Zdeněk Neubauer was a Czech philosopher and biologist, remarkable especially for original interpretations in science history and epistemology.
Danny Grant
Daniel Frederick Grant was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger, who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for parts of fourteen seasons, most notably for the Minnesota North Stars. In his career, Grant notched 263 goals and 535 points while playing for the Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota North Stars, Detroit Red Wings and the Los Angeles Kings, and played in three All-Star Games.
Fumio Watanabe
Fumio Watanabe was a Japanese actor most known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo before joining the Shōchiku studio in 1956.
Jim Parrott
James Charles William Parrott was a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election, representing the electoral district of Fundy-River Valley. Parrott was a heart surgeon.
Albert Gendelshtein
Albert Gendelshtein was a Russian film director known for the movies Lermontov, and Love and Hate (1935) with an early score by Shostakovich.
David Chilton Phillips
David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS was a pioneering, British structural biologist and an influential figure in science and government.
Jane Charlotte Ferguson
Max Delbrück
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück, a German–American biophysicist, helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time. Formed in 1945 and led by Delbrück along with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey, the Phage Group made substantial headway unraveling important aspects of genetics. The three shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses". He was the first physicist to predict what is now called Delbrück scattering.
Charles Harington
Sir Charles Robert Harington, KBE, FRS was a chemist, best known for synthesizing thyroxine.