The year1974 (MCMLXXIV) predates the launch of theTransformers brand by ten years.

For further information, see:Transformers timeline

Events

Non-Fiction

• Takara launches theMicroman line.
• Scotti Bros. Records is founded.

Births

•  ???? —Gabriel Rodríguez,Marco Antônio Abreu,Yuki Ohshima,Greg Sepelak,Hu Qian,Nathan Cockerill,Dave Perillo,Marco Wittorf,Gerrit Hamann

January

• January 3 —Kentarō Itō
• January 5 —Jongnic Bontemps,Felipe Grinnan
• January 10 —Ryōka Yuzuki
• January 14 —Alexis Victor
• January 16 —Andrew Crossley
• January 21 —Sami Kuronen
• January 22 —Chip Wallace
• January 28 —Ty Olsson
• January 29 —Kōji Wada
• January 31 —Taketora

February

• February 5 —Ciro Nieli,Gabriele Marchingiglio
• February 20 —Ophélie Kleerekoper
• February 22 —Adriana Pissardini
• February 28 —Cony Madera

March

• March 7 —Krizz Kaliko
• March 28 —Daisuke Kishio,Tommy Morgenstern
• March 30 —Jakub Szydłowski

April

• April 1 —Gyeong-su Hyeon
• April 4 —Masashi Endō
• April 7 —Tom Whalen
• April 13 —Gwangju Jeon
• April 18 —Katja Sirkiä,Cavan Scott
• April 19 —Vincent Barazzon
• April 24 —Santo Verduci

May

• May 6 —Matthew Yang King,Mónica Estrada
• May 11 —Bill Rogers
• May 30 —Fanny Roy

June

• June 6 —Scott Peat
• June 10 —Raymundo Armijo,Szabolcs Pálmai
• June 11 —Lenny Jacobson
• June 13 —Takahiro Sakurai,Sascha Rotermund
• June 18 —Wendel Bezerra
• June 22 —Ryō Naitō
• June 24 —Emanuela Damasio
• June 29 —Janusz Kruciński

July

• July 2 —Sanjay Kharwar
• July 4 —Sean Galloway,Mio Tanaka
• July 10 —Stefano Crescentini
• July 12 —Izabel Lira
• July 15 —Enrique Cervantes
• July 18 —Go Seong-il
• July 20 —Idzi Dutkiewicz
• July 28 —Bryan Baugh

August

• August 28 —Leonardo García
• August 29 —David Messina

September

• September 2 —Jan-David Rönfeldt
• September 6 —Bebi Romeo
• September 7 —Hiroki Takahashi
• September 8 —Nobuyuki Kobushi
• September 9 —Ferenc Hujber
• September 10 —Claudio Dos Santos
• September 19 —Janusz German
• September 20 —Masahiro Iwasaki
• September 30 —Frederik Haùgness

October

• October 7 —Alexander Polinsky
• October 13 —Sébastien Reding
• October 17 —Rizwan Manji
• October 19 —Hyeon-kyeong Jeong
• October 28 —Brent Miller

November

• November 1 —Claudia Spinelli
• November 9 —Jiang Ke
• November 11 —Gianluca Crisafi
• November 12 —Haruo Yamagishi
• November 13 —Kim Ki-cheol
• November 15 —Nelson Medina
• November 28 —Jan Andres
• November 29 —Arturo Mercado Jr.

December

• December 2 —Armin Schlagwein
• December 6 —Setsuji Satō
• December 7 —Lee Seong-wook
• December 10 —Sylvia Salustti
• December 16 —Beomki Hong
• December 26 —Björn Schalla
• December 30 —Moisés Ivan Mora

Fiction

Transformers/Back to the Future

After arriving in2015 viaDoc Brown'sDeLorean time machine,Rumble found that the Decepticons had been defeated. Stealing the time machine, he travelled to 1974, enslavingBiff Tannen, and began building a stockpile ofenergon cubes until1984.Transformers/Back to the Future #2