Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Yeho, real name Yoni Getreuer, is an Israeli singer and actor. He has performed under the stage names Gatro and Yehonathan. He has had a long collaboration with Israeli music produ…
Yeho, Israeli singer and actor
Jonathan Joseph Heder is an American actor. He is best known for his breakout role as the awkward nerd Napoleon in the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite (2004). He also voiced Napoleo…
Jon Heder, American actor and producer
Marisha Pessl is an American writer known for her novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Night Film, Neverworld Wake, and Darkly.
Marisha Pessl, American author
Jiří Jarošík is a Czech professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Kazakhstani club Shakhter Karagandy. In his playing career, he played as a defender an…
Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
Sheeri Rappaport is an American actress. She is most famous for portraying lab technician Mandy Webster on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan cricket commentator and former cricketer who represented Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2015. A former captain for Sri Lanka in all formats. Bo…
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
Jon Avery Abrahams is an American actor and film director. He is best known for his roles in several films such as Sonny Poncelet in Dead Man Walking (1995), Bobby Prinze in Scary …
Jon Abrahams, American actor
Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying Michael Guerin in the WB television series Roswell, and for portraying lab tech D…
Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor
William John Conway was an Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1963 until his death, and was elevated to …
William Conway, Irish cardinal (born 1913)
Milton "Gummo" Marx was an American vaudeville performer, theatrical agent and businessman. He was the fourth-born of the five Marx Brothers. Born in Manhattan, he worked with his …
Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (born 1892)
Stanley Adams was an American actor and screenwriter. He appeared in several films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and Lilies of the Field (1963). On television, he is pro…
Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (born 1915)
Ricardo Cortez was an American actor and film director. He was also credited as Jack Crane early in his acting career.
Ricardo Cortez, American actor (born 1900)
Josef "Sepp" Herberger was a German football player and manager. He is most famous for being the manager of the West Germany national team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup final, a…
Sepp Herberger, German footballer and coach (born 1897)
Nicholas Magallanes was a Mexican-born American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet. Along with Francisco Moncion, Maria Tallchief, and Tanaquil Le Cler…
Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (born 1922)
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard was a German politician and economist who served as the second chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. Affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union…
Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
James Ramon Jones was an American novelist renowned for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. He won the 1952 National Book Award for his debut novel, From Here to Et…
James Jones, American novelist (born 1921)
Joan Crawford was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion-picture contr…
Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
Michael J. Spillane was an Irish-American mobster who controlled Hell's Kitchen in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Spillane, the so-called “Gentleman Gangster", was a marked contr…
Mickey Spillane, American mobster (born 1934)
Charles Emery Rosendahl was a highly decorated vice admiral in the United States Navy, and an advocate of lighter-than-air flight.
Charles E
Modibo Keïta was a Malian politician who served as the first President of Mali from 1960 to 1968. He espoused a form of African socialism. He was deposed in a coup d'état in 1968 b…
Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (born 1915)
Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag. Her given name is often Latinized to Eugenia.
Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (born 1904)
Ba Maw, known honorifically as Dr. Ba Maw, was a Burmese lawyer and politician, active during the interwar period and Second World War. He was the first Burma Premier (1937–1939) a…
Ba Maw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (born 1893)
William Castle was an American filmmaker and actor. He was best known as a director of horror and thriller B-movies in the 1950s and '60s, for which he devised innovative and disti…
William Castle, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1914)
Albert Bittlmayer was a German footballer who made a combined total of 142 league appearances for 1. FC Nürnberg and Tennis Borussia Berlin until he died of cancer at the age of 24…
Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (born 1952)