Discover what happened on 23 August 1974 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- Roberto Assagioli (Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974))
- Renato Bodini (Italian footballer (1909-1974))
- Cock van der Tuijn (Dutch footballer (1924-1974))
- Pierre Bobot (French painter (1902-1974))
- Antoine Marc Gaudin (American engineer)
- Rauf Onursal (Turkish politician)
- Mikuláš Medek (Czech painter (1926–1974))
- Shankar Damodar Pendse (Indian writer (1897-1974))
- Tokisuke Yokogawa (Japanese businessperson (1896-1974))
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- Beatrix von Steiger ((1889-1974))
- Konstantinos Bellas (Greek politician)
- Helen Steketee (American painter)
- Manuel Filamir Cartes Lara (victim of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet)
- Otto Drews
- Richard Herber
- Roman Bławat
- Yi Chen (Chinese zoologist and oligochaetologist (1900-1974))
- Hans Petri
- Robert Guelpa (French rower)
- Oswald Müller
- Mabel Lillian Violet Capell ((died 1974))
- Wendelin Scheuermann
- Andreas Werthemann
- Željko Marković (Croatian mathematician (1889-1974))
- Kálmán Lajos Tisza (Hungarian nobleman (1914-1974))
- Joannes Bams (Righteous Among the Nations)
- Edvard Ryd
- František Böhm