* 1974 – Mat Devine, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and author ( Kill Hannah )

* 1974 – Rachel Simmons, American activist and author

* 1974 – Shannon Hale, American author

* 1974 – Steve-O, American stuntman, actor, and author

* 1899 – Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author ( d. 1974 )

* 1897 – John G. Bennett, English scientist and author ( d. 1974 )

* 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, American author ( d. 1974 )

* 1974 – Justin Lee Collins, English comedian, author, and actor

* 1974 – Kate Brian, American author

* 1974 – Ken Jennings, American game show contestant, computer scientist, and author, 74-time Jeopardy!

* Micah Wright ( born 1974 ), American author

* Scott Monk ( born 1974 ), Australian author

* 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic ( d. 1974 )

* 1974 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author

* 1974 – Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author

* 1906 – Sterling North, American author ( d. 1974 )

Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).

* Alexandra Tolstoy ( b. 1974 ), equine adventurer, author

Edmund Charles Blunden, MC ( 1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974 ) was an English poet, author and critic.

* First African-American author to win Best Play: Joseph A. Walker for The River Niger in 1974.

* In 1974 The Big Con author David Maurer filed a ten million dollar lawsuit claiming at least part of the film's story had been taken from his book.

* Idris James Barwick, author of In the Shadow of Death, died in 1974

Edwin " Ed " Meese, III ( born December 2, 1931 ) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration ( 1967 – 1974 ), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team ( 1980 ), and the Reagan White House ( 1981 – 1985 ), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States ( 1985 – 1988 ).

Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.

* One Two Three ... Infinity ( 1947, revised 1961 ), Viking Press ( copyright renewed by Barbara Gamow, 1974 ), Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-25664-2, illustrated by the author.

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, Python ; a study of Delphic myth and its origins, New York, Biblio & Tannen, 1974.

* 1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.

* 1974 – Joseph Utsler, American musician

By 1974, Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr. designed the silver wings took on a white outline, and this style on a kelly green helmet became standard for over two decades.

The Philadelphia Eagles Helmet Cart sat at Joseph A. Scirrotto Jr .' s ( Designer of the 74 Helmet ) " Joe's Gulf Gas Station " at Rising Sun Ave & Van Kirk St. 1974 off season year to raise money for " The Eagles Fly for Leukemia ", where every weekend Eagles NFL Team Members joined to help raise awareness and funds.

Other examples are the Peter Marlow series, beginning with The Private Sector ( 1971 ) by Joseph Hone, which is set during Israel's Six Day War ( 1967 ) against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and William Garner's secret agents, the fantastic Michael Jagger, in Overkill ( 1966 ), The Deep, Deep Freeze ( 1968 ), The Us or Them War ( 1969 ) and A Big Enough Wreath ( 1974 ) and the realistic John Morpurgo in Think Big, Think Dirty ( 1983 ), Rats ' Alley ( 1984 ), and Zones of Silence ( 1986 ).

Before the 1974 season began, the Padres were on the verge of being sold to Joseph Danzansky, who was planning to move the franchise to Washington, D. C. by the beginning of the 1974 season.

On January 10, 1974, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little were arrested and charged with Foster's murder, and initially both men were convicted of murder.

The “ Videoviews ” series consists of Sharps ’ dialogues with Bruce Nauman ( 1970 ), Joseph Beuys ( 1972 ), Vito Acconci ( 1973 ), Chris Burden ( 1973 ), Lowell Darling ( 1974 ), and Dennis Oppenheim ( 1974 ).

Yugoslavia's communist ruler Joseph Broz Tito subdues the Croatian Spring movement and arrests its leaders, but does initiate major constitutional reform resulting in the 1974 Constitution which decentralized powers to the republics, gave them the official right to separate from Yugoslavia, and weakened the influence of Serbia ( Yugoslavia's largest and most populous constituent republic ) in the federation by granting significant powers to the Serbian autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, Python ; a study of Delphic myth and its origins, New York, Biblio & Tannen, ISBN 0-8196-0285-X ( 1959 ; 1974 )

* Joseph Weber ( born 1974 ), Firefighter / Paramedic

Joseph Chamberlain: Radical and Imperialist, Longman Higher Education, 1974

During the final two months of 1974, Neave had asked Keith Joseph, William Whitelaw and Edward du Cann to stand against Heath, and said that in the case of any of them challenging for the party leadership, he would be their campaign manager.

* Joe C. born Joseph Calleja ( 1974 – 2000 ) Rapper and part of Kid Rock's band.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

by Joseph A. Stout, Jr., 1974.

In 1974, Brown ran in a highly contested Democratic primary for Governor of California against Speaker of the California Assembly Bob Moretti, San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto, Representative Jerome R. Waldie, and others.

* Joseph Cabibbo ( born 1974 ), American wrestler with ring name of The Sheik

: Marek, George R. ( 1974 ), The Eagles Die: Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and Their Austria.