Explore 4927 historical events from 1970–1979.
Kieren John Perkins is an Australian former freestyle swimmer. He specialised in the 1500-metre freestyle and won successive Olympic gold medals in this event in the 1990s. He won …
Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
Marco Materazzi is an Italian former professional football player and manager. A controversial and provocative figure in football, he was known for his very physical and aggressive…
Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer and manager
Roy Lee Rogers Jr. is an American professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as an assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Bask…
Roy Rogers, American basketball player and coach
Tasma Walton is an Aboriginal Australian television and film actress and novelist.
Tasma Walton, Australian actress
Alban Bushi is an Albanian professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Albania under-21 and under-20 team. He is nicknamed "Loku".
Alban Bushi, Albanian footballer
Alexandre Silveira Finazzi, known as Finazzi, is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. He is the current head coach of Tapajós.
Alexandre Finazzi, Brazilian footballer
Scott Linton Goodman is an Australian butterfly swimmer who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning a bronze medal in the 200-metre butterfly. He was also an Austr…
Scott Goodman, Australian swimmer
Todd Lynn Helton is an American former professional baseball first baseman who played his entire 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Colorado Rockies. A five-time Al…
Todd Helton, American baseball player
Cameron George Mather is a rugby union footballer who plays in the back row. He won eleven caps for Scotland between 1999 and 2004.
Cameron Mather, New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
José Luis Paniagua Sánchez is a Dominican former professional baseball relief pitcher. He appeared in Major League Baseball from 1996 through 2003 with the Montreal Expos, Seattle …
José Paniagua, Dominican baseball player
Donn Swaby is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Chad Harris-Crane on the television soap opera Passions.
Donn Swaby, American actor and screenwriter
Juan Alberto Becerra Acosta Aguilar de Quevedo is a Mexican journalist. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Universidad Latinoamericana (ULA).
Juan Becerra Acosta, Mexican journalist
Steve McKenna is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played both defense and left wing. He was a veteran of eight seasons in the NHL. McKenna is currently a consta…
Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., un…
Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google
Roslina Bakar is a Malaysian sport shooter.
Roslina Bakar, Malaysian sport shooter
Howard Dwaine Dorough, also known as Howie D, is an American singer and actor. He is a member of the pop vocal group Backstreet Boys.
Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter and dancer
Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. First breaking through as a performer with the Los Angeles comedy troupe The Groundlings, Wiig ac…
Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian, and screenwriter
Eurelijus Žukauskas is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player. At a height of 2.18 m tall, and a weight of 118 kg (260 lb), he played at the center position.
Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
William Casey Blake is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, Baltimore Oriole…
Casey Blake, American baseball player
Kerry Peter Walmsley is a New Zealand former international cricketer. He played three Test matches and two One Day Internationals for the national side between 1995 and 2003 as a f…
Kerry Walmsley, New Zealand cricketer
Andrew D. Brunette is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). As a player,…
Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
David Khari Webber Chappelle is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and former sketch comedian. He debuted his half-hour TV special in 1998 and his hour-long TV special in 2000. …
Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
James D'Arcy is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe televisio…
James D'Arcy, English actor
Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former competitive swimmer. She is a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record-holder in multiple swimming events.
Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer