List of Famous people who died in 1974

Everett M. Arnold, also known as Busy Arnold, was an American publisher and an early comic-book entrepreneur whose company Quality Comics published during the 1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. He was also instrumental in the publishing arrangement that led to Will Eisner's newspaper Sunday-supplement comics series The Spirit.

Errett Lobban "E. L." Cord was an American business executive. He was considered a leader in United States transport during the early and middle 20th century.

Edgar Dearing was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films.

Gertrude Bambrick was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 60 films between 1912 and 1916.

Eberardo Pavesi was an Italian professional road racing cyclist.

Amund Dietzel was an early American tattoo artist who tattooed tens of thousands of people in Milwaukee between 1913 and 1967. He developed a substantial amount of flash art, influenced many other tattoo artists, and helped to define the American traditional tattoo style. He was known as the "Master of Milwaukee" and "Master in Milwaukee".

Herbert William Compton Bennett, better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story.

Hermine Stindt was a German freestyle swimmer, who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.