Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
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)
Nicola Moscona was a Greek-born operatic bass. Born in Athens, he made his stage debut in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Greek National Opera in 1931, and went on to sing leading b…
Nicola Moscona, Greek-American operatic bass (born 1907)
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. H…
Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (born 1907)
Pamela Mary Brown was a British actress. For her portrayal of Queen Victoria's mother Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent in Victoria Regina (1961) she was awarded the Primetime Emm…
Pamela Brown, English actress (born 1917)
Alexis Leger, better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse, was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evo…
Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu was a Turkish painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet. His art work was inspired by Anatolian village scenes and folk literature, and included traditi…
Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Turkish painter and poet (born 1911)
Earle Cabell was an American politician who served as the 48th mayor of Dallas from 1961 to 1964. Cabell was mayor at the time of the assassination of United States President John …
Earle Cabell, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1906)
John Thomas Lang, nicknamed "the Big Fella", was an Australian politician who served as the 23rd premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1932. He was the stat…
Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1876)
Gladys Skelton was an Australian and United Kingdom poet, novelist and playwright who wrote using the pseudonym John Presland.
Gladys Skelton, Australian-British poet, novelist and playwright (born 1885)
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s an…
Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (born 1890)