List of Famous people who died at 74

María Esther Zuno Arce was the wife of Mexican President Luis Echeverría and the first lady of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. She refused to adopt the standard title of primera dama, preferring to be called compañera. She was known for her efforts to support women's rights and social welfare in Mexico.

John Everard Gurdon,, was a British flying ace in the First World War credited with twenty-eight victories.

George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann was a famous archaeologist and scholar of ancient Mediterranean art.

French writer Jacques Natanson first became involved in the movies in 1929 when one of his plays was adapted for the screen. He enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Max Ophüls, on such films as "La Ronde", "Le Plaisir" (1952) and "Lola Montès" (1955).

Mohammed Salah Baouendi was a Tunisian-American mathematician who worked as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. His research concerned partial differential equations and the theory of several complex variables.

Alois Hundhammer was one of the most prominent politicians in Bavaria after World War II.

Chan Woods, well known as Chan Parker, was a common-law wife of jazz musician Charlie Parker; she later married musician Phil Woods.

Sam Bard Treiman was an American theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics, and gravity physics. He made contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing the so-called standard model of elementary particle physics. He was a Higgins professor of physics at Princeton University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. He was a student of Enrico Fermi and John Alexander Simpson Jr. Treiman published articles on quantum mechanics, plasmas, gravity theory, condensed matter and the history of physics.

Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. He portrayed Napaloni in Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Michael Balint was a Hungarian psychoanalyst who spent most of his adult life in England. He was a proponent of the Object Relations school.