List of Famous people who died in 1974

Hans Hinrich was a German actor and film director. As well as Germany, he also worked in Italy where he was usually credited as Giovanni Hinrich.

Fausto Gullo was an Italian politician.

Kostas Varnalis was a Greek poet.

Béla Illés, March 22, 1895 - Budapest, January 5, 1974) was a Hungarian left-wing writer and journalist who spent much of his life in exile in the Soviet Union.

Eugene Karl Rabe was a German-American astronomer.

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier and died in Saint-Jeannet.

Adolph Gottlieb was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and printmaker.

Adolf Süsterhenn (1905–1974) was a German constitutional lawyer and politician. He worked on the state constitution for Rhineland-Palatinate and was on the Parlamentarischer Rat, which drafted the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. He was born on May 31, 1905, in Cologne and was Minister for Culture and Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate between 1946 and 1951 for Christian Democratic Union of Germany. He also served on the European Commission of Human Rights from 1954 to 1973. He died in Cologne on November 24, 1974, at the age of 69.