List of Famous people who died in 1974

Akiko Takojima is a retired Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 6-dan. She is the first female to be accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school and is a former Women's Meijin and Ōshō title holder. She also holds the records for being the oldest women's professional to win an official game at 71 years and 9 months.

Karl Friedrich Meyer was an American scientist of Swiss origin. He was one of the most prodigious scientists in many areas of infectious diseases in man and animals, the ecology of pathogens, epidemiology and public health^[1-6]. Some called him the “Pasteur of the 20th century”.

Johannes Krahn was a German architect and an academic teacher.

Willem Marinus Dudok was a Dutch modernist architect. He was born in Amsterdam. He became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 where he was best known for the brick Hilversum Town Hall, completed in 1931. Not only did he design the building, but also the interior including the carpets, furniture and even the mayor's meeting hammer. He also designed and built about 75 houses, public buildings and entire neighborhoods.

Sonia Gaskell was a Lithuanian-Dutch-Jewish dancer, choreographer, dance teacher, and dance director.

Wang Jiaxiang, one of the senior leaders of the Communist Party of China in its early stage and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks. Wang held a variety of high-level posts in the Party: during the Civil War he was the director of the Red Army's General Office, upon the founding of the People's Republic of China he was the first ambassador to the Soviet Union, and then became the first head of the Party's International Department.