Explore 4927 historical events from 1970–1979.
Horace Lindrum was an Australian professional player of snooker and English billiards. Lindrum won the 1952 World Snooker Championship defeating New Zealander Clark McConachy. The …
Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (born 1912)
Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositio…
Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (born 1892)
Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scienti…
Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (born 1893)
Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through wh…
Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (born 1890)
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as th…
Alberta Williams King, Civil rights activist (born 1904)
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 unti…
Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.…
John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (born 1888)
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story …
Georgette Heyer, English author (born 1902)
André Randall was a French screen actor. He was born André Ayaïs in Bordeaux and died at Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
André Randall, French actor (born 1892)
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. She is best known for being the first person to die by su…
Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (born 1944)
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, also known as Jerome Herman Dean, was an American professional baseball pitcher. During his Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the St. Louis …
Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1910)
Allen Curtis Jenkins was an American character actor, voice actor and singer who worked on stage, film, and television. He may be best known to some audiences as the voice of Offic…
Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (born 1900)
Wayne Lyman Morse was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing the Democratic Party’s leadership and for his opposition to the V…
Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (born 1900)
Earl Warren was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953, and as the 14th chief justice of the United States from 1953 to…
Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (born 1891)
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, was a British experimental physicist and life peer who received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1925, he was the fir…
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
Carl Andrew Spaatz, nicknamed "Tooey", was an American World War II general. As commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe in 1944, he successfully pressed for the bombing of the …
Carl Spaatz, American World War II general; commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe (born 1891)
Ernő Schwarz or Schwarcz was a Hungarian American soccer player, coach and promoter who served as head coach of the United States men's national soccer team. He played professional…
Ernő Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player and coach (born 1904)
Kamal Dasgupta (later Kamal Uddin Ahmed) (28 July 1911 – 20 July 1974), was a Bengali (later Bangladeshi) music director, lyricist, composer and folk artist active in Hindi and Ben…
Kamal Dasgupta, Bengali music director, composer and folk artist. (born 1912)
Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the M…
James Chadwick, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Det…
Erich Kästner, German author and poet (born 1899)
Ildebrando Antoniutti was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for Religious from 1963 to 1973, and was elevated to the cardin…
Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (born 1898)
Wallace Douglas Hawkes was a British motor car designer, businessman and racing driver. He was born in Barton, Gloucestershire, married Gwenda Stewart in 1937, and died, aged 80, i…
Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (born 1893)
Ellen Naomi Cohen, known professionally by the stage name Cass Elliot, was an American singer-songwriter, actress, comedian, and television personality. A member of the singing gro…
Cass Elliot, American singer (born 1941)