List of Famous people who died at 74

Avelar Brandão Vilela was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1971 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.

Donald Woods Winnicott was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst who was especially influential in the field of object relations theory and developmental psychology. He was a leading member of the British Independent Group of the British Psychoanalytical Society, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society twice, and a close associate of Marion Milner.

Anton-Wolfgang "Toni" Lothar Andreas Graf von Faber-Castell was a German entrepreneur and member of the Faber-Castell industrial and noble family. He was the eighth-generation chairman of the board of the stationery manufacturer Faber-Castell for nearly 40 years.

Antonio Quarracino was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires between 1990 and 1998.

Dimitris Sioufas was a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician.