List of Famous people who died at 74

Otto Robert Frisch FRS was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.

Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan was a Soviet-American Byzantinist.

Joseph Mielziner was an American theatrical scenic, and lighting designer born in Paris, France. He was described as "the most successful set designer of the Golden era of Broadway", and worked on both stage plays and musicals.

Joel Rufino dos Santos was a Brazilian writer. He was born in 1941 in Rio de Janeiro. He died from complications from cardiac surgery on 4 September 2015.

Leif Erickson was an American stage, film, and television actor.

Gary Ennis Collins was an American actor and television host. Throughout his career, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1984 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.