Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Herbert Marcuse was a German and American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studi…
Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher (born 1898)
Beatrix Alice Lehmann was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.
Beatrix Lehmann, English actress and director (born 1903)
Thurman Lee Munson was an American professional baseball catcher who played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees, from 1969 until his death in 1979. …
Thurman Munson, American baseball player (born 1947)
Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the Peop…
Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Angelos Terzakis was a Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.
Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (born 1907)
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen was a German biochemist. In 1964, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Konrad Bloch for their discoveries concerning the mechani…
Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–1945), b…
Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (born 1910)
John Nicholas "Dick" Foran was an American actor and singer, known for his performances in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures. He appeared in do…
Dick Foran, American actor and singer (born 1910)
Walther Gerlach was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern–Gerlach effect. The experiment was conceiv…
Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (born 1889)
Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodg…
Walter O'Malley, American businessman, owner of baseball's Dodgers (born 1903)
Raymond Lee Washington was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in Sout…
Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (born 1953)
James Gordon Farrell was an English-born novelist of Irish descent. He gained prominence for a series of novels known as "the Empire Trilogy", which deal with the political and hum…
J. G. Farrell, English author (born 1935)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of…
Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
Andrew Michael Dasburg was an American modernist painter and "one of America's leading early exponents of cubism". Born in Paris and raised in New York City, he trained at the Art …
Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (born 1887)
John George Diefenbaker was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1935 and 1979 to lead the pa…
John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1895)
John C. Allen was a roller coaster designer who was responsible for the revival of wooden roller coasters which began in the 1960s. He attended Drexel University. He started workin…
John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (born 1907)
Vasantrao Phulsingh Naik was an Indian politician, social reformer and Pioneer of Green, White Revolution and Guarantee Employment Scheme. He served as the Chief Minister of Mahara…
Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (born 1913)
Christian Dotremont,, was a Belgian painter and poet who was born in Tervuren, Belgium. He was a founding member of the Revolutionary Surrealist Group (1946) and he also founded CO…
Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (born 1922)
James Thomas Farrell was an American novelist, short story writer and poet.
James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (born 1904)
Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his suicide in the Führerbunker in April 1945. Following her c…
Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (born 1912)
Vivian Vance was an American actress best known for playing landlady Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstand…
Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (born 1909)
Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Inter Milan in the 1930s, scoring 284 goals in 408 games for the club, and w…
Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (born 1910)
Stanley Newcomb Kenton was an American popular music and jazz artist. As a pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, he led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almo…
Stan Kenton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1911)
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian. He was extremely productive; Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, cr…
Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (born 1908)