The following events occurred in April 1974:
Born:
Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
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Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (b. 1889)
Georges Pompidou, 100th Prime Minister of France and 19th President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra
An enormous tornado outbreak strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 and injuring about 5,484.
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Carrie, the debut novel by Stephen King, is published.
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A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882)
Swedish pop group ABBA's song Waterloo wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK.
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Robert Kovač, Croatian football player and coach
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Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884)
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Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013)
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K. A. C. Creswell, English architectural historian (b. 1879)
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Jenna Jameson, American adult actress and model
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Patricia Collinge, Irish-born American actress (b. 1892)
The Kiryat Shmona massacre takes place in Israel.
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Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
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Marley Shelton, American actress
Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
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Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress
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Danny Pino, Cuban American actor
Tim Thomas, American Ice Hockey player
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Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director
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Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)
Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer
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Lorraine Pilkington, Irish actress
Edgar Wright, English film director
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Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897)
Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895)
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Ayub Khan, Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
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Peter Lee Lawrence, German actor (b. 1944)
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Oleksiy Zhuravko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2022)
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Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress
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Guillaume Affair: exposure of an East German spy Günter Guillaume within the West German government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
