List of Famous people who died in 1974

Melchior Lengyel was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter of Jewish heritage.

Heinz Gerhard Pringsheim was a German music critic, composer, pianist and radio contributing editor.

Willem Hendrik van den Bos was a Dutch astronomer who worked at the Union Observatory in South Africa and became its director in 1941. He discovered nearly 3000 new double stars, made more than 71000 astronomical measurements and compiled a catalogue of Southern hemisphere double stars. He computed the orbits of more than 100 double stars using a method he invented and which later became the accepted standard.

Carlo Alberto Conelli, count de Prosperi, best known as Caberto Conelli was a sometime Italian racecar driver.

Pina Gallini was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 82 films between 1935 and 1963.

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson was an American blues singer and guitarist.