Explore 5304 historical events from 1970–1979.
Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian inte…
Kristian Welhaven, Norwegian police officer (born 1883)
James Benjamin Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his…
James Blish, American author and critic (born 1921)
Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts. As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is consi…
Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (born 1928)
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was …
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (born 1906)
Murilo Monteiro Mendes was a Brazilian Modernist poet, considered to be one of the forerunners of the Surrealist movement in Brazil.
Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (born 1901)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also known as Mujib or by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist, and diarist who was the founding presi…
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (born 1920)
Harun Karadeniz was a Turkish political activist and author. He was the student leader of the late 1960s generation in Turkey and the chair of the Student Union of Istanbul Technic…
Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (born 1942)
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was a Norwegian military officer and war historian. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign in Northern Norway during the Second World War as the chief-of-sta…
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen, Norwegian Army general and war historian (born 1897)
Mark Neary Donohue Jr., nicknamed "Captain Nice", was an American race car driver and engineer known for his ability to develop and set up his race car as well as driving it, often…
Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (born 1937)
Ömer Faruk Gürler was a Turkish general. He was the 15th Commander of the Turkish Army during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, and then Chief of the General Staff of Turkey (1972–1973…
Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (born 1913)
Olaf Holtedahl was a Norwegian geologist. He became a senior lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1914, and was Professor of Geology there from 1920 to 1956.
Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (born 1885)
Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia under Empress Zewditu between 1916 and 1930.
Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (born 1892)
Fritz Wotruba was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of the 20th century in Austria. In his work, he increasingly…
Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (born 1907)
Éamon de Valera was an Irish statesman. He served as the president of Ireland from 1959 to 1973, and three terms as prime minister. He had a leading role in introducing the Constit…
Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (born 1882)
Mabel Vernon was an American suffragist, pacifist, and a national leader in the United States suffrage movement. She was a Quaker and a member of the National American Woman Suffra…
Mabel Vernon, American activist (born 1883)
Alice Catherine Evans was an American microbiologist. She became a researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture where she investigated bacteriology in milk and cheese. She prov…
Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (born 1881)
Johannes Brenner was an Estonia football forward, who played for ESS Kalev Tallinn, Tallinna Jalgpalli Klubi and the Estonia national football team.
Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (born 1906)
John Irwin McGiver was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975.
John McGiver, American actor (born 1913)
Hans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth.
Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (born 1899)
Sir George Paget Thomson was a British experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction …
George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
Mudikondan Venkatarama Iyer was a South Indian Carnatic music singer and musicologist. He was also known as Mudikondan - the name of his native village.
Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (born 1897)
Walter Herbert was an American conductor and impresario of German birth, and also a world champion at contract bridge.
Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (born 1902)
Franco Bordoni-Bisleri was an Italian aviator and racing car driver. He is one of the top-scoring aces of the Regia Aeronautica, with 19 air victories. His nickname was "Robur" and…
Franco Bordoni, Italian race car driver and pilot (born 1913)