Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan, was a Canadian orchestral conductor, composer, organist, and Canada's only "Musical Knight". He is widely regarded as being Canada's pre-em…
Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (born 1893)
Frances Marion was an American screenwriter, director, journalist and author often cited as one of the most renowned female screenwriters of the 20th century alongside June Mathis …
Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (born 1888)
Artle Lee Pollard Jr., was an American racecar driver.
Art Pollard, American race car driver (born 1927)
Jean Gebser was a Swiss philosopher, linguist, and poet who described the structures of human consciousness.
Jean Gebser, German linguist, philosopher, and poet (born 1905)
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S…
Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (born 1880)
Renzo Pasolini, nicknamed "Paso", was an Italian professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1964 to 1972.
Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1938)
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen was a Finnish professional Motorcycle racer. He competed in the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships from 1968 to 1971 as Yamaha privateer…
Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (born 1945)
Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one…
Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (born 1911)
Ivan Stepanovich Konev was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II, responsible for taking much of Axis-oc…
Ivan Konev, Soviet Marshal and general (born 1897)
Sir George William Harriman CBE was a leading figure in the British motor industry in the 1960s.
George Harriman, English businessman (born 1908)
Jean Batmale was a French footballer who played as a midfielder for the France national team at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.
Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (born 1895)
René Maurice Fréchet was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define metric spaces. He also made several important contribut…
Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (born 1878)
Murry Gage Wilson was an American songwriter, talent manager, record producer, and music publisher, best known as the father of the Beach Boys' Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson. Afte…
Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer, and manager (born 1917)
Charles Henry Bennett was an American football player and coach. He played halfback for the Indiana University football team from 1926 to 1928 and won the 1928 Chicago Tribune Silv…
Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (born 1907)
John Creasey was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using…
John Creasey, English author and politician (born 1908)
Erich von Manstein was a German military officer who served as a Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war c…
Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887)
William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. With his portraits of sm…
William Inge, American playwright and novelist (born 1913)
Marie Vieux-Chauvet was a Haitian novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Her novels are considered by translator Myriam J. A. Chancy to be "by far the best-known works by a …
Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (born 1916)
Gerald Hussey Buchanan Birrell was a British racing driver from Scotland, who was killed in a wreck during practice for a Formula Two race at Rouen-Les-Essarts.
Gerry Birrell, Scottish race car driver (born 1944)
Ida Mett (1901–1973) was a Belarusian anarcho-syndicalist, physician and writer. Following her experiences in the Russian Revolution, she fled into exile in France, where she colla…
Ida Mett, Belarusian Jewish anarchist (born 1901)
Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. S…
Nancy Mitford, English journalist and author (born 1904)
Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered a martyr in the Catho…
Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (born 1903)
Elizabeth Ruth Grable was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and for 10 consecutiv…
Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1916)
Ferdinand Schörner was a German military commander and convicted war criminal, who held the rank of Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. He wa…
Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal and convicted war criminal (born 1892)