Famous People Who Died at Age 74

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Walton, Sam (died of multiple myeloma at 74 years 8 days on April 6, 1992)

• Hopper, Dennis (died of prostate cancer at 74 years 12 days on May 29, 2010)

• Milne, A.A. (died following a stroke at 74 years 13 days on January 31, 1956)

• Highsmith, Patricia (at 74 years 16 days on February 4, 1995)

• Shah Jahan (at 74 years 17 days on January 22, 1666)

• Muybridge, Eadweard (at 74 years 29 days on May 8, 1904)

• Clooney, Rosemary (died of lung cancer at 74 years 37 days on June 29, 2002)

• Black, Karen (died of cancer at 74 years 38 days on August 8, 2013)

• Kaye, Danny (at 74 years 44 days on March 3, 1987)

• Handel, G. F. (at 74 years 50 days on April 14, 1759)

• Levertov, Denise (died of complications from lymphoma at 74 years 57 days on December 20, 1997)

• Fillmore, Millard (at 74 years 60 days on March 8, 1874)

• Dahl, Roald (died of myelo-dysplastic anemia at 74 years 71 days on November 23, 1990)

• Coburn, James (died of a heart attack at 74 years 79 days on November 18, 2002)

• Derrida, Jacques (died of pancreatic cancer at 74 years 86 days on October 9, 2004)

• Cochran, Jacqueline (at 74 years 90 days on August 9, 1980)

• Giger, H.R. (at 74 years 96 days on May 12, 2014)

• Woodson, Carter G. (at 74 years 105 days on April 3, 1950)

• De Quincey, Thomas (at 74 years 115 days on December 8, 1859)

• Ali, Muhammad (at 74 years 138 days on June 3, 2016)

• Turner, Lana (died of throat cancer at 74 years 141 days on June 29, 1995)

• Twain, Mark (died of heart failure at 74 years 142 days on April 21, 1910)

• Frost, Sir David (at 74 years 146 days on August 31, 2013)

• Niven, David (died of Lou Gehrig's Disease at 74 years 150 days on July 29, 1983)

• Jeanne-Claude (died of complications from a brain aneurysm at 74 years 158 days on November 18, 2009)

• Crosby, Bing (died of a heart attack at 74 years 164 days on October 14, 1977)

• Baha'u'llah (at 74 years 199 days on May 29, 1892)

• Bradley, Milton (at 74 years 203 days on May 30, 1911)

• Homer, Winslow (at 74 years 217 days on September 29, 1910)

• Murray, Pauli (at 74 years 223 days on July 1, 1985)

• Cain, Herman (Covid-19 at 74 years 230 days on July 30, 2020)

• Shepard, Alan (died of leukemia at 74 years 245 days on July 21, 1998)

• Engels, Friedrich (died of cancer at 74 years 250 days on August 5, 1895)

• Addams, Jane (at 74 years 257 days on May 21, 1935)

• Liszt, Franz (at 74 years 282 days on July 31, 1886)

• Sarte, Jean-Paul (at 74 years 299 days on April 15, 1980)

• Hubbard, L. Ron (at 74 years 317 days on January 24, 1986)

• Banneker, Benjamin (at 74 years 334 days on October 9, 1806)

• Rogers, Fred (died of stomach cancer at 74 years 344 days on February 27, 2003)

• Mayhew, Peter (at 74 years 346 days on April 30, 2019)

• Wilson, Robert Anton (at 74 years 358 days on January 11, 2007)

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