List of Famous people who died in 1974

Carl Jaffe was a German actor. Jaffe trained on the stage in his native Hamburg, Kassel and Wiesbaden before moving to Berlin, where his career began to develop.

Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.

Carlo Campogalliani was an Italian screenwriter, actor and film director. Campogalliani directed around eighty films during his career and acted in another fifty. He directed the 1934 sports film Stadio. He was married to the actress Letizia Quaranta who appeared in several of his films.

Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin was an American politician. He was a member of the United States Republican Party, served as mayor of Baltimore twice, from 1943 to 1947 and again from 1963 to 1967. McKeldin was the 53rd Governor of Maryland from 1951 to 1959.

Fern Andra, Dowager Baroness von Weichs was an American actress, film director, script writer, and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen, she was one of the most popular and well-known actresses in German silent film.

Johnston Murray was an American lawyer, politician, and the 14th governor of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as governor from 1951 to 1955.

Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist, who was born in Székesfehérvár, Fejér County, Kingdom of Hungary on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974. According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.