Explore 2973 historical events from 1970–1979.
Franco Battaini is an Italian motorcycle road racer. His best years were in 2002 and 2003 when he finished sixth in the 250cc world championship. In 2005 Battaini competed in MotoG…
Franco Battaini, Italian motorcycle racer
Colin Ferguson is a Canadian actor, director and producer. He is known for playing Sheriff Jack Carter on the Syfy series Eureka, the Maytag Man, and Lewis on Then Came You.
Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
Seth Fisher was an American comic book artist.
Seth Fisher, American illustrator (died 2006)
Joseph Keyshawn Johnson is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons.
Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
Skillet is an American Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1996. The band currently consists of husband and wife John Cooper and Korey Cooper along with Jen Ledger…
Korey Cooper, American singer and guitarist
Suat Kılıç is a Turkish lawyer, journalist, and politician. He was the former Minister of Youth and Sports, served in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and i…
Suat Kılıç, Turkish journalist, lawyer, and politician, former Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports
Floyd Lamonte Reifer is a Barbadian cricketer and politician. He is a left-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.
Floyd Reifer, Barbadian cricketer and coach
Marlon Lamont Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work with his brother Shawn Wayans on The WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–1999)…
Marlon Wayans, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Kaiō Hiroyuki is a former professional sumo wrestler from Nōgata, Fukuoka, Japan.
Kaiō Hiroyuki, Japanese sumo wrestler
David Penna is an Australian rugby league coach and former footballer who played for the Parramatta Eels and the South Sydney Rabbitohs during his long professional career.
David Penna, Australian rugby league player and coach
Nathan Charles Buckley is a former professional Australian rules football senior coach, player and commentator.
Nathan Buckley, Australian footballer and coach
Clint David Robinson, OAM, born 27 July 1972, is an Australian sprint kayaker and surf lifesaver. He won three medals at the Summer Olympics: gold in the K-1 1000 meters at the 199…
Clint Robinson, Australian kayaker
Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress and comedian. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). During her tenure on the show, …
Maya Rudolph, American actress
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha is a Malaysian doctor. He launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew on 10 Oc…
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian surgeon and astronaut
Robert James Chapman is an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire between 1992 and 1998, and List A cricket for Lincolnshire in the…
Robert Chapman, English cricketer
Anssi Kela is a Finnish singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has published six albums. During his career, Kela has sold over 230,000 records in Finland. He received four Emm…
Anssi Kela, Finnish singer and songwriter
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III is an American actor and writer. He portrayed Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie Lachance in the film …
Wil Wheaton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
James Michael McIlvaine is an American former professional basketball player who spent seven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Washington Bullets, Seatt…
Jim McIlvaine, American basketball player and sportscaster
Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japane…
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
Francis Alexander O'Connor was a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of Supply and Shipping (1946–1948) and later the Department of Supply (1953–19…
Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (born 1894)
Fernand Amorsolo y Cueto was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," he was the first-ever to be recognized as a …
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (born 1892)
George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as soph…
George Sanders, English actor (born 1906)
Kwame Kofi Nkrumah, baptised Francis, was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it …
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana (born 1909)
Gia Scala was a British and American actress.
Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (born 1934)