Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
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)
Abraham Zapruder was a Ukrainian-born American clothing manufacturer based in Dallas, Texas, who filmed the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texa…
Abraham Zapruder, American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (born 1905)
François Charles Mauriac was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). H…
François Mauriac, French novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)
Vasil Gendov was a Bulgarian film and stage actor, film director and screenwriter. Gendov wrote, directed and had a starring role as an actor in the first feature-length film relea…
Vasil Gendov, Bulgarian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1891)
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was an American professional football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). Lombardi is considered by many to be among the greatest coa…
Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach (born 1913)
Alan Christie Wilson, nicknamed "Blind Owl", was an American musician, best known as the co-founder, leader, co-lead singer, and primary composer of the blues rock band Canned Heat…
Alan Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
Karl Jochen Rindt was a racing driver who competed under the Austrian flag in Formula One from 1964 to 1970. Rindt won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1970 with Lotu…
Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (born 1942)
Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finish…
Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (born 1894)
Alexandros Othonaios was a distinguished Greek general, who became briefly the acting Prime Minister of Greece, heading an emergency government during an abortive coup d'état in 19…
Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (born 1879)
John Roderigo Dos Passos was an American novelist, most notable for his U.S.A. trilogy.
John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (born 1896)
Edward Everett Horton, Jr. was an American character actor and comedian. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons.
Edward Everett Horton, American actor (born 1886)
Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a Polish and later Israeli politician. He was a leader of the Bloc of National Minorities and one of the top Zionist leaders in interwar Poland. In 1933 he tr…
Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Polish-Israeli journalist and politician, 1st Internal Affairs Minister of Israel (born 1879)
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. He was in…
Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1942)
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His 1928 landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which was based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I…
Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (born 1898)
Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian military officer and revolutionary who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the Egyptian…
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (born 1918)
Gilbert Vivian Seldes was an American writer and cultural critic. Seldes served as the editor and drama critic of the seminal modernist magazine The Dial and hosted the NBC televis…
Gilbert Seldes, American writer and cultural critic (born 1893)