Explore 2970 historical events from 1970–1979.
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading…
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1888)
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrot…
E
Frank Charles Laubach, from Benton, Pennsylvania was a Congregational Christian missionary educated at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and a mystic known as "Th…
Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (born 1884)
Sydney Chapman was a British mathematician and geophysicist. His work on the kinetic theory of gases, solar-terrestrial physics, and the Earth's ozone layer has inspired a broad ra…
Sydney Chapman, English mathematician and geophysicist (born 1888)
Louis Brian Piccolo was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) for four years. He played college fo…
Brian Piccolo, American football player (born 1943)
Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.
Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (born 1901)
Piers Raymond Courage was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1967 to 1970.
Piers Courage, English race car driver (born 1942)
Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronic…
Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)
Roscoe Turner was a record-breaking American aviator who was a three-time winner of the Thompson Trophy air race and widely recognized by his flamboyant style and his pet, Gilmore …
Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (born 1895)
Daniel Chapin Kinsey was an American hurdler and scholar in physical education.
Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (born 1902)
Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian diplomat, suffragette, and a campaigner for Indigenous Australian rights. She was referred to as "Red Jessie" by the Australian media, due…
Jessie Street, Australian suffragette and feminist (born 1889)
Barnett Newman was an American painter. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His pai…
Barnett Newman, American painter and illustrator (born 1905)
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family.
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American sailor and businessman (born 1884)
Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced E…
Dame Laura Knight, English artist (born 1877)
Sigrid Holmquist, also known by the diminutive "Sie" or "Bie" Holmquist was a Swedish actress during the silent film era. After three films in Sweden, she went to pursue a career i…
Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (born 1899)
Bjarni Benediktsson was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970. He was born to Benedikt Sveinsson (1877–1954), …
Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1908)
Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret resear…
Leslie Groves, American general and engineer, head of the Manhattan Project (born 1896)
Sheng Shicai was a Chinese warlord who ruled the province of Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944.
Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (born 1895)
Preston Stratton Foster, was an American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades. He also had a career as a vocalist.
Preston Foster, American actor (born 1900)
Iain Norman Macleod was a British Conservative Party politician. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Res…
Iain Macleod, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1913)
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov was a Soviet archaeologist, and anthropologist who discovered the Mal'ta–Buret' culture and developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based…
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (born 1907)
James Robert Kalsu was an American professional football player who was an All-American tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round selection in the 1968 NFL/AFL draft…
Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (born 1945)
George Henry Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. He was the husband and literary collaborator of Charmian Cli…
George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (born 1912)
Eino Alfred Tainio was a Finnish printer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) …
Eino Tainio, Finnish politician (born 1905)