Explore 5304 historical events from 1970–1979.
Ahmad Akbarpour Ahmad Akbarpūr Persian pronunciation: [æhˈmæd(-e) ækbærpuːr], born July 31, 1970, in Chah Varz, Lamerd, Fars province, is a novelist and author of short stories and…
Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian author and poet
Benedict John Greenwood, better known as Ben Chaplin, is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in films, including Feast of July (1995), The Thin Red Line (1998), Lost So…
Ben Chaplin, English actor
Andrzej Kobylański born 31 July 1970) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker or midfielder. In 2012, he was the assistant manager for Cracovia, and held…
Andrzej Kobylański, Polish footballer and manager
Giorgos Sigalas is a Greek retired professional basketball player and is the current head coach for Iraklis of the Greek Basketball League.
Giorgos Sigalas, Greek basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
Quentin John Coryatt is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Tex…
Quentin Coryatt, American football player
David Benjamin James is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His most recent position was manager at Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League …
David James, English footballer and manager
Eugenie van Leeuwen is a former Dutch cricketer who represented the Netherlands women's national cricket team.
Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
Anthony Lewis Amonte is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played right wing over 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Chicag…
Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player and coach
Philo Alphonso Wallace is a Barbadian cricketer who played for the West Indies.
Philo Wallace, Barbadian cricketer
Stephen Carpenter is an American musician, best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. He is also a founding member of the instrumental …
Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
Gina G is an Australian former singer. She is most notable for her song "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit", with which she represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest…
Gina G, Australian singer-songwriter
Kevin Patrick Smith is an American filmmaker. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, co-edited, and acted in as…
Kevin Smith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Masahiro Sakurai is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series. Apart from his work on those series, he a…
Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
John August is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is known for writing the films Go (1999), Charlie's Angels (2000), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (20…
John August, American director and screenwriter
William Bret Baier is an American journalist and the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News and the chief political anchor for Fox. He previously worked as the network'…
Bret Baier, American journalist
Kate Silverton is an English child therapist. She formerly worked as a broadcaster and newsreader for the BBC. Silverton was a regular presenter of BBC News at One and BBC Weekend …
Kate Silverton, English journalist
Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan is an American filmmaker. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. The cumulative gross of his films exceeds $3.3 billion …
M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
Eric John Namesnik, nicknamed "Snik," was an American competition swimmer who competed for the University of Michigan and a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the men's 400-meter …
Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (died 2006)
Trev Kendall Alberts is an American sports administrator and former professional football linebacker who is the athletic director at Texas A&M University. He previously played in t…
Trev Alberts, American football player and journalist
Benjamin Guy Davis is a British chemist who is Professor of Chemical biology in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the Uni…
Ben G. Davis, English chemist and academic
José Francisco Molina Jiménez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently manager of the Honduras national team.
José Francisco Molina, Spanish footballer and manager
Roderic Jean Brind'Amour is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nickna…
Rod Brind'Amour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Christopher Charles Cuomo is an American news broadcaster and journalist for NewsNation. He previously worked as the ABC News chief law and justice correspondent and the co-anchor …
Chris Cuomo, American lawyer and journalist
Chester Mornay Williams was a South African rugby union player. He played as a winger for the South Africa national rugby union team (Springboks) from 1993 to 2000, most notably fo…
Chester Williams, South African rugby player and coach (died 2019)