Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Stanley's work contributed to lepracidal compounds, diphenyl stereochemistry, and the chemistry …
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 y…
Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (born 1892)
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition t…
György Lukács, Hungarian historian and philosopher (born 1885)
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In…
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (born 1889)
Thomas Gomez was an American actor.
Thomas Gomez, American actor (born 1905)
Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and British chemist Norman Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.
Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr,, styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman…
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, biologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1880)
Franz Paul Stangl was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II.
Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (born 1908)
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)
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)
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)