Concept
The following events occurred in April 1974: Born: Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician Died: 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. Born: Died: Carrie, the debut novel by Stephen King, is published. Born: Died: 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. Born: Robert Kovač, Croatian football player and coach Died: Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884) Born: Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013) Died: K. A. C. Creswell, English architectural historian (b. 1879) Born: Jenna Jameson, American adult actress and model Died: Born: Died: Patricia Collinge, Irish-born American actress (b. 1892) The Kiryat Shmona massacre takes place in Israel. Born: Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model Died: Born: Marley Shelton, American actress Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer Died: Born: Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress Died: Born: Danny Pino, Cuban American actor Tim Thomas, American Ice Hockey player Died: Born: Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director Died: Born: Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth) Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer Died: Born: Lorraine Pilkington, Irish actress Edgar Wright, English film director Died: Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897) Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895) Born: Died: Ayub Khan, Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907) Born: Died: Peter Lee Lawrence, German actor (b. 1944) Born: Oleksiy Zhuravko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2022) Died: Born: Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress Died: 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.
