page_title: 1974
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1974 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles Lindbergh.日本語: チャールズ・リンドバーグ（1915～1937年間）
context_page_description: 1974 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
  Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire.
context_section_description: August 2 – Cyril Smith, English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909)
  August 3
  Edna Murphy, American actress of the silent era (b. 1899)
  Almira Sessions, American character actress (b. 1888)
  August 4 – Józef Kondrat, Polish stage and film actor (b. 1902)
  August 5 – Friedrich F. Tippmann, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894)
  August 6 – Gunboat Smith, Irish-born American boxer and referee (b. 1887)
  August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Méxican poet and author (b. 1925)
  August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
  August 11
  José Falcón, Portuguese matador (gored to death by bull) (b. 1944)
  Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (b. 1902)
  August 13 – Ernst Forsthoff, German jurist (b. 1902)
  August 14 – Romuald Bourque, French-Canadian politician from Québec (b. 1889)
  August 15 – Edmund Cobb, American actor (b. 1892)
  August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. 1885)
  August 18 – J. C. Winslow, British missionary to India for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (b. 1882)
  August 19 – Rodger Davies, American diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1921)
  August 20 – Magda Sonja, Austrian actress (b. 1886)
  August 21 – Buford Pusser, American Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (b. 1937)
  August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908)
  August 23 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888)
  August 24 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894)
  August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (Spirit of St. Louis) (b. 1902)
  August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897)
  August 28 –
  Aleksandar Sekulović, Montenegrin cinematographer (b. 1918)
  Lawrence Jones, American UMWA member who was martyred after being slain by a strikebreaker (b. 1950)
  August 29
  Judith Furse, English actress (b. 1912)
  Fred W. Preller, American politician (b. 1902)
  August 30 – Kenneth Anderson, Indian-British writer and hunter (b. 1910)
  August 31
  Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1895)
  Norman Kirk, New Zealander politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
  Gianna Manzini, Italian writer (b. 1896)
caption: Charles Lindbergh
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