Explore 4925 historical events from 1970–1979.
Néstor Mesta Chayres was an acclaimed tenor in Mexico and a noted interpreter of Spanish songs, boleros and Mexican romantic music on the international concert stage. He was widely…
Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (born 1908)
Georgi Asparuhov Rangelov, nicknamed Gundi, was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker.
Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (born 1943)
Herbert J. Biberman was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed Salt of the Earth (1954), a film barely released in the United Stat…
Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (born 1900)
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1…
Georgy Dobrovolsky Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (born 1928)
Nikola Todorov Kotkov, nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker.
Nikola Kotkov, Bulgarian footballer (born 1938)
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Saly…
Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (born 1933)
Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Volkov and the two other crew members wer…
Vladislav Volkov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935)
Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Phy…
William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
Learie Nicholas Constantine, Baron Constantine was a Trinidadian cricketer, lawyer and politician who served as Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and be…
Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901)
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer-songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his charismatic persona, poetic …
Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and t…
August Derleth, American anthologist and author (born 1909)
Thomas Charles Hart was a United States Navy admiral whose service extended from the Spanish–American War through World War II. Following his retirement from the Navy, he served br…
Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (born 1877)
Claude Gauvreau was a playwright, poet, sound poet, and polemicist. He was a member of the radical Automatist movement and a contributor to the revolutionary Refus Global Manifesto…
Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (born 1925)
Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.
Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (born 1893)
Karl Ast was an Estonian writer and politician.
Karl Ast, Estonian author and politician (born 1886)
Laurent Dauthuille was a French boxer.
Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (born 1924)
Pedro Rodríguez de la Vega was a Mexican racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1963 to 1971. Rodríguez won two Formula One Grands Prix across nine seasons. In endurance r…
Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (born 1940)
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career span…
Louis Armstrong, American singer and trumpet player (born 1901)
John Wood Campbell Jr. was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age …
John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (born 1910)
Yvon Robert, nicknamed "The Lion", was a Canadian professional wrestler.
Yvon Robert, Canadian wrestler (born 1914)
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. was an American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string …
Van Heflin, American actor (born 1910)
Edward John Meyers was an American freestyle swimmer and water polo player for the Missouri Athletic Club who won a bronze medal for the U.S. in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Lou…
John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1880)
Leroy Robertson was an American composer and music educator.
Leroy Robertson, American composer and educator (born 1896)
Diane Arbus was an American photographer. She photographed a wide range of subjects including strippers, carnival performers, nudists, people with dwarfism, children, mothers, coup…
Diane Arbus, American photographer and academic (born 1923)