Explore 4925 historical events from 1970–1979.
Iain Norman Macleod was a British Conservative Party politician. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Res…
Iain Macleod, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1913)
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov was a Soviet archaeologist, and anthropologist who discovered the Mal'ta–Buret' culture and developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based…
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (born 1907)
James Robert Kalsu was an American professional football player who was an All-American tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round selection in the 1968 NFL/AFL draft…
Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (born 1945)
George Henry Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. He was the husband and literary collaborator of Charmian Cli…
George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (born 1912)
Eino Alfred Tainio was a Finnish printer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) …
Eino Tainio, Finnish politician (born 1905)
Chevalier Peter Bertram Cypriano Castellino de Noronha was a businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christia…
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (born 1897)
Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly a…
Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1896)
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to pow…
António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1889)
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor …
Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (born 1874)
Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater n…
Frances Farmer, American actress (born 1913)
Doris Fleeson was an American journalist and columnist and was the first woman in the United States to have a nationally syndicated political column.
Doris Fleeson, American journalist (born 1901)
Sir John Barbirolli was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943…
John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (born 1899)
George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer, and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth c…
George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1897)
Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German physiologist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War, and was awarded the Iron…
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)
Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, was a British academic, mathematician, rower, and decorated British Army officer. He served with the Highland Light Infantry during World War I. …
Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, English academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier (born 1891)
Nikos Tsiforos was a Greek humorist, screenwriter, and film director. He had more than 60 film scripts to his credit between 1948 and 1970. He further directed 17 films between 194…
Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1912)
Harold Joseph Haley was an American judge. He was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the …
Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (born 1904)
Jonathan Peter Jackson was an American militant activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an armed invasion of the Marin County Civic Center. The action was initiated to…
Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard and kidnapper (born 1953)
Jimmy Steele was an Irish republican militant. He was one of the most prominent Irish Republican Army (IRA) men in Belfast after the Irish Civil War who held practically every sen…
Jimmy Steele (Irish republican), lifelong militant and editor (born 1907)
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, h…
Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (born 1908)
Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar, a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier.
Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (born 1909)
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest, irreducible …
Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (born 1895)
Tachū Naitō was a Japanese architect, engineer, and professor. He was a father of earthquake-proof design and built many broadcasting and observation towers, including the Tokyo T…
Tachū Naitō, Japanese architect and engineer, designed the Tokyo Tower (born 1886)
Marion Delbridge Moore professionally Del Moore, was an American actor, comedian and radio announcer.
Del Moore, American comedian and actor (born 1916)