Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gle…
Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (born 1899)
Silvio Moser was a racing driver from Switzerland.
Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (born 1941)
Hiroshi Kazato was a Japanese racecar driver. Kazato started his career at age 19. He took part in the 1971 Can-Am season, finishing 10th in the championship driving a Lola T222-C…
Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (born 1949)
Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republi…
Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1949)
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to…
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a member of the British royal family. He was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and…
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (born 1900)
Eurico Gaspar Dutra was a Brazilian military leader and politician who served as the president of Brazil from 1946 to 1951. He was the first president of the Fourth Brazilian Repub…
Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (born 1883)
Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola was an Italian far-right philosopher and writer. Evola regarded his values as traditionalist, aristocratic, martial and imperialist. An esoteric…
Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1898)
Amalie Sara Colquhoun was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still l…
Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894)
Refik Koraltan was a Turkish politician, having served as the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) from 22 May 1950 to 27 May 1960.
Refik Koraltan, Turkish lawyer and politician, 8th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (born 1889)
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them publish…
Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (born 1896)
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War …
Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (born 1896)
Horace Lindrum was an Australian professional player of snooker and English billiards. Lindrum won the 1952 World Snooker Championship defeating New Zealander Clark McConachy. The …
Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (born 1912)
Darius Milhaud was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositio…
Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (born 1892)
Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scienti…
Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (born 1893)
André Randall was a French screen actor. He was born André Ayaïs in Bordeaux and died at Sainte-Foy-la-Grande.
André Randall, French actor (born 1892)
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)
Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. She is best known for being the first person to die by su…
Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (born 1944)
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, also known as Jerome Herman Dean, was an American professional baseball pitcher. During his Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played for the St. Louis …
Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1910)
Allen Curtis Jenkins was an American character actor, voice actor and singer who worked on stage, film, and television. He may be best known to some audiences as the voice of Offic…
Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (born 1900)
Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through wh…
Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (born 1890)
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as th…
Alberta Williams King, Civil rights activist (born 1904)
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 unti…
Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
John Crowe Ransom was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.…
John Crowe Ransom, American poet and critic (born 1888)