Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Guo Moruo, courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. A prominent Chinese writer in the May Fourth Movement and later in…
Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (born 1892)
Georg Siimenson was an Estonian international footballer who scored 13 goals in 42 games for the Estonian national side.
Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (born 1912)
Walter Clement Alvarez was an American physician of Spanish descent. He authored several dozen books on medicine, and wrote introductions and forewords for many others.
Walter C
Mark Robson was a Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor. Robson began his 45-year career in Hollywood as a film editor. He later began working as a director and pro…
Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1913)
Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau. He was a French author known for his writings on the ancient astronaut theme.
Robert Charroux, French author and critic (born 1909)
Robert Edward Crane was an American actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
Bob Crane, American actor (born 1928)
Aris Alexandrou was a Greek novelist, poet and translator. Always on the Left and always unconventional, he is the author of a single novel which is widely considered to be among t…
Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (born 1922)
James Firman Daly was an American actor. Recognized for his work on stage and screen, he is perhaps best known for his role as Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series Medical Cen…
James Daly, American actor (born 1918)
Francisco Mendes, popularly known by his nom de guerre as Chico Té, was a Bissau-Guinean politician and revolutionary. He was the country's first Prime Minister and held that posit…
Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (born 1933)
Clifford Walter Dupont was a British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of officer administrating the government and president. Born…
Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (born 1905)
Kurt Arthur Benno Student was a German general in the Luftwaffe during World War II. An early pioneer of airborne forces, Student was in overall command of developing a paratrooper…
Kurt Student, German general and pilot (born 1890)
Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley was an American magazine editor and socialite. Affectionately known as Babe throughout her life, Paley made notable contributions to the field of mag…
Babe Paley, American socialite and fashion style icon (born 1915)
John Davison Rockefeller III was an American philanthropist. Rockefeller was the eldest son and second child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as well as a gr…
John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (born 1906)
Kamil Özdemir Tolon was a Turkish businessperson, industrialist and inventor, known for the first manufacture of an electric engine in Turkey. Tolon was born in 1912 in Istanbul. H…
Kamil Tolon, Turkish industrialist (born 1912)
Robert James Heffron, also known as Bob Heffron or R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Australian Labor Party (ALP) Premier of New Sou…
Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (born 1890)
Jan Willem van Otterloo was a Dutch conductor, cellist and composer.
Willem van Otterloo, Dutch cellist, composer, and conductor (born 1907)
Andrzej Bogucki was a Polish television, stage and film actor, as well as operetta singer and songwriter, sometimes referred to as "The Polish Chevalier".
Andrzej Bogucki, Polish actor, operetta singer, and songwriter (born 1904)
Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He wa…
Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor (born 1899)
Antony Noghès was the founder of the Monaco Grand Prix.
Antony Noghès, French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (born 1890)
Jesse Joseph Haines, nicknamed "Pop", was an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). After a lengthy …
Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (born 1893)
Pope Paul VI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatica…
Pope Paul VI (born 1897)
Edward Durell Stone was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. His works include the Museum of Modern Art, in N…
Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts…
Albert Edward Calvert was an English trumpeter successful in the 1950s. Between 1953 and 1958 he achieved seven instrumental hits on the UK Singles Chart, including the two chart-t…
Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (born 1922)
James Gould Cozzens was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer whose work enjoyed an unusual degree of popular success and critical acclaim for more than three decades. His 1949 …
James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (born 1903)