Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer, political leader, and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s u…
Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-i…
Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1917)
Jack Morrison Gregory was an Australian cricketer.
Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (born 1895)
Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his four‑volume…
Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (born 1898)
Walter Rudolf Hess was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs.…
Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work…
Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)
Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was …
Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (born 1908)
Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discove…
Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
Conrad Potter Aiken was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published w…
Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (born 1889)
Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué was a French composer and music writer. His relatively small œuvre is known for its serialism.
Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (born 1928)
Paul Williams was an American baritone singer. He was noted for being one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Motown group the Temptations. Personal problem…
Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (born 1939)
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám de Dancka was a conservative Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister and temporary Minister of Finance of the second counter-revolutionary govern…
Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1875)
Carl Ward Dudley (1910–1973) was an American film director and producer. He was best known for directing and producing short travelogues.
Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
John Martin Feeney, better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden …
John Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
J. R. R. Tolkien, English novelist, short story writer, poet, and philologist (born 1892)
John Frank Fournier was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, …
Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (born 1889)
Holling Clancy Holling was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis …
Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (born 1900)
Lev Anatolevich Vladimirsky, was a Soviet naval officer and an Admiral (1954).
Lev Vladimirsky, Kazakhstani-Russian admiral (born 1903)
Cornelia Lynde Meigs (1884–1973) was an American writer of fiction and biography for children, teacher of English and writing, historian and critic of children's literature. She wo…
Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (born 1884)
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his suicide in 1973. As a socialist committed to dem…
Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (born 1908)
Neem Karoli Baba or Neeb Karori Baba, also known to his followers as Maharaj-ji, was a Hindu guru and a devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman, known to have influenced Steve Jobs, Mar…
Neem Karoli Baba, Indian philosopher and guru
Betty Field was an American film and stage actress.
Betty Field, American actress (born 1913)
Syed Sajjad Zaheer, commonly known as Sajjad Zaheer, was an Urdu-language writer, Marxist ideologue, radical revolutionary and once a member of the Communist Party of India.
Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (born 1905)
Gustaf VI Adolf was King of Sweden from 29 October 1950 until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Adolf acceded to t…
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (born 1882)