Explore 4925 historical events from 1970–1979.
Christopher John Minns is an Australian politician who has served as the 47th premier of New South Wales since 2023 and the leader of the New South Wales Labor Party since 2021. He…
Chris Minns, Australian politician, 47th Premier of New South Wales
Daniel Aranzubia Aguado is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current goalkeeper coach of Amorebieta.
Daniel Aranzubia, Spanish footballer
Robert Lynn Pruett was a Texas man convicted and executed for the 1999 murder of TDCJ Correctional Officer Daniel Nagle. Pruett had been certified as an adult at 16 and was already…
Robert Pruett, American criminal (died 2017)
Mikael Karl Tellqvist is a Swedish former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Hockey League, his second tenure with the club.
Mikael Tellqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
Crystle Stewart Sebrechts is an American actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Stewart began her acting career in 2011, when she played real estate agent Leslie Morris-Jetson on …
Crystle Stewart, American actress and beauty queen
Muhsin Ertuğrul, also known as Ertuğrul Muhsin Bey, was a Turkish actor and director.
Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (born 1892)
Bernhard August "Hardie" Gramatky, Jr. was an American painter, writer, animator, and illustrator. In a 2006 article in Watercolor Magazine, Andrew Wyeth named him as one of Americ…
Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (born 1907)
Giulio Natta was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. Natta's work at Politecnico di Milano led to the improvement of earlier work by Karl Ziegler and to the developmen…
Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)
Cyrus Stephen Eaton Sr. was a Canadian-American investment banker, businessman and philanthropist, with a career that spanned 70 years.
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Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or so…
Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (born 1918)
Lester Raymond Flatt was an American singer, bluegrass guitarist, and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the duo Flatt and Scruggs.
Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her …
Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)
Somasundaram Selvanayagam was a Ceylon Tamil geographer, academic and head of the Department of Geography at the University of Jaffna.
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Sir Ernest Bullock was an English organist, composer, and teacher. He was organist of Exeter Cathedral from 1917 to 1928 and of Westminster Abbey from 1928 to 1941. In the latter p…
Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (born 1890)
Itzhak "Ben" Bentov was a Czechoslovakia-born Israeli-American scientist, inventor, mystic and author. His many inventions, including the steerable cardiac catheter, helped pioneer…
Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (born 1923)
Asa Philip Randolph was an American railwayman, trade unionist and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successfu…
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Amedeo "Amédée" Gordini was an Italian-born race car driver and sports car manufacturer in France.
Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (born 1899)
John Arthur Spenkelink was an American convicted murderer. He was executed in 1979, the first convicted criminal to be executed in Florida after capital punishment was reinstated i…
John Spenkelink, American murderer (born 1949)
George Brent was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.
George Brent, Irish-American actor (born 1904)
Gladys Louise Smith, baptised as Gladys Marie Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film indust…
Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (born 1892)
John Howland Wood Jr. was an American lawyer and judge from Texas. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas…
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Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheter…
Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Dana Scott James Hutton was an American actor in film and television best remembered for his role as Ellery Queen in the 1970s TV series of the same name, and his screen partnershi…
Jim Hutton, American actor (born 1934)
John Joseph Haley Jr. was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He is most notable for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand co…
Jack Haley, American actor (born 1897)