Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, and member of the Briti…
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (born…
Gertrude Chandler Warner was an American author, mainly of children's stories. She was most famous for writing the original book of The Boxcar Children and for the next 18 books in…
Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (born 1890)
Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She is considered an icon of the French New Wave as a result of her performance in Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Breathless.
Jean Seberg, American actress (born 1938)
Sally Rand was an American burlesque dancer, stripper, vedette, and actress, famous for her ostrich-feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Bi…
Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (born 1904)
Ernest James "Tiger" Smith was an English wicket-keeper who played in 11 Tests from 1911/1912 to 1914. In county cricket, he had a much longer career as the successor to Dick Lille…
Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (born 1886)
Otto Paul Weyland was a United States Air Force (USAF) general and the post-World War II Commander of Far East Air Forces during the Korean War and of Tactical Air Command.
Otto P. Weyland, American general (born 1903)
Alberto di Jorio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and for many years along with the layman Bernardino Nogara the powerhouse behind the growing wealth of the Vatican and the Is…
Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (born 1884)
Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music. He arranged many of Mantovani's most famous pieces before composing his own music, which included Elizabethan Seren…
Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)
Ivor Armstrong Richards CH, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician. His work contributed to the foundations of New Criticism, a fo…
I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician (born 1893)
Norman William "Norrie" Paramor was a British record producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bandleader, and orchestral conductor. He is best known for his work with Cliff Richard a…
Norrie Paramor, English composer, conductor, and producer (born 1914)
António Agostinho Neto Kilamba was an Angolan communist revolutionary, politician and poet. He served as the first president of Angola from 1975 to 1979, after leading the Popular …
Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (born 1922)
Nur Muhammad Taraki was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer. He was a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who se…
Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician, 3rd President of Afghanistan (born 1917)
Ludvík Svoboda was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero, and he later served as the president of Czechoslovaki…
Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895)
Abul A'la al-Maududi was an Islamic scholar and the author of Tafhim-ul-Quran, who was active in British India and later, following the partition, in Pakistan. Described by Wilfred…
Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (born 1903)
Catherine Lacey was an English actress of stage and screen.
Catherine Lacey, English actress (born 1904)
Arthur Lee Hunnicutt was an American actor known for his portrayal of old, wise, grizzled rural characters. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for hi…
Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (born 1910)
Dame Gracie Fields was a British actress, singer and comedian. A star of cinema and music hall, she was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered…
Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (born 1898)
James McCulloch was a Scottish musician best known for playing lead guitar and bass as a member of Paul McCartney's band Wings from 1974 to 1977. McCulloch was a member of the Glas…
Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1953)
John Herbert Chapman was a Canadian space researcher. He started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere.
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (born 1921)
Francisco Macías Nguema, often referred to as Macías Nguema or simply Macías, was an Equatoguinean politician who served as the first president of Equatorial Guinea from the countr…
Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatoguinean politician, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (born 1924)
Ivan Alexandrovich Wyschnegradsky, was a Russian composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions. For most of his life, from 1920 onwards, Wyschnegradsky lived in Paris.
Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Russian composer (born 1893)
Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-French Marxist political philosopher and sociologist. In the 1970s, he became a leading figure in the structuralist Marxist school of thought. He is be…
Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (born 1936)
Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 195…
Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (born 1911)
Air Marshal Sir Brian Edmund Baker was an officer of the Royal Air Force who served in both World Wars. He was a flying ace in World War I credited, in conjunction with his gunners…
Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (born 1896)