Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1974 – Camilla Dallerup, British-Danish dancer, teacher, and model

* 1974 – Érica García, Argentinian-American composer, singer, and actress ( Fool's Gold )

* 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer

* 1974 – Jeff Tymoschuk, Canadian composer

* 1974 – Gina Yashere, English comedian

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – Roman Hamrlík, Czech hockey player

* 1974 – Marley Shelton, American actor

* 1974 – Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer

* 1974 – Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer

* 1974 – José Vidro, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1974 – Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer

* 1974 – Ever Carradine, American actress

* 1974 – Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer

* 1974 – Luis Vizcaíno, Dominican baseball player

* 1974 – Alvin Williams, American basketball player

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player

* 1974 – Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor and director

* 1974 – Matt Morris, American baseball player

* 1974 – Kirill Reznik, American politician

* 1974 – Nicola Stapleton, English actress

* 1974 – Sam Endicott, American singer-songwriter and director ( The Bravery )

Russian abacus began to lose popularity only after the mass production of microcalculators had started in the Soviet Union in 1974.

* 1900 – Olga Baclanova, Russian actress ( d. 1974 )

* 1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union ( d. 1974 )

* 1898 – Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist ( d. 1974 )

* 1974 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player

During the Nobel ceremony in December 1974, Hayek met the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

* 1974 – Valeri Bure, Russian ice hockey player

* 1974 – Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer

* 1974 – Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player

* Oleg Kuleshov ( b. 1974 ), a Russian handball player

* 1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general ( d. 1974 )

* 1907 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist ( d. 1974 )

The Buran (,, Snowstorm or Blizzard ) program was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft project that began in 1974 at TsAGI and was formally suspended in 1993.

For example, the 1961 Russian adaptation Ukroshchenie stroptivoy directed by Sergei Kolosov ; the 1964 French adaptation La mégère apprivoisée, directed by Pierre Badel, which aired on RTF ; the 1971 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Zygmunt Hübner, which aired on TVP1 ; the 1974 German adaptation Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, directed by Otto Schenk, which aired on Das Erste ; the 1975 Dutch adaptation De getemde feeks, directed by Robert Lussac and Senne Rouffaer, which aired on KRO ; another Dutch production, from 1990, under the same name, directed by Berend Boudewijn and Dirk Tanghe, which also aired on KRO ; and the 1990 Polish adaptation Poskromienie złośnicy, directed by Michał Kwieciński, which aired on TVP1.

In 1974, a massive tall statue Alyosha, depicting a Russian World War II soldier, was installed on a high foundation.

From 1974 to 1990 he was head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics at the Russian Space Research Institute in Moscow.

## Popko, M. ( 1974 ) “ Kult Swietego runa w hetyckiej Anatolii ” Cult of the Golden Fleece in Hittite Anatolia ”, Preglad Orientalistyczuy 91, pp. 225-30 Russian

*,, Secret documents regarding 1974 cooperation between the KGB and the PFLP against Israel and arming PFLP – ( in Russian ) from the Soviet Archives collected by Vladimir Bukovsky

Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress.

* Sergei Petrovich Borodin ( 1902 – 1974 ), Soviet Russian writer

Aron Nimzowitsch: a Reappraisal ( 1974 ) is much admired and was revised and translated into Russian in 1986 ,< ref name =" OxfordCompanion ">

The American cardiologist Bernard Lown and the Russian cardiologist Yevgeniy Chazov were motivated in conscience through studying the catastrophic public health consequences of nuclear war in establishing International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ( IPPNW ) which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 and continues to work to " heal an ailing planet ". World wide expressions of conscience contributed to the decision of the French government to halt atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa in the Pacific in 1974 after 41 such explosions ( although below-ground nuclear tests continued there into the 1990s ).

Tatyana Sapunova ( b. ~ 1974 ) is a Russian biophysicist who was seriously injured by an act of anti-Semitic terrorism on 27 May 2002.

Radial keratotomy is a refractive surgery procedure developed by Russian ophtalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov in 1974, where the surgeon makes a spoke-like pattern of incisions into the cornea to modify its shape.