Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Gretchen Esther Whitmer is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 49th governor of Michigan since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House…
Gretchen Whitmer, 49th Governor of Michigan
Jason Death is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. Primarily a hooker, he played for the Canberra Raiders, North Queensland…
Jason Death, Australian rugby league player
Nathan Page is an Australian actor. He is best known for his commercial voice-over work and his role as Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
Nathan Page, Australian actor
Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda is a Mexican singer and actress. Recognized for her enduring influence on Spanish-language music and television, she has been dubbed the "Queen of Latin…
Thalía, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress
Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is the head coach and technical director of Eerste Divisie club Heracles Almelo.
Ernest Faber, Dutch footballer and manager
Kyung I. Lah is a South Korean journalist and correspondent for CNN based in the United States.
Kyung Lah, South Korean-American journalist
Hisayuki Okawa is a retired male long-distance runner from Japan, who won the 1995 edition of Amsterdam Marathon, clocking 2:14:00 on September 24, 1995.
Hisayuki Okawa, Japanese runner
Aygül Özkan is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as managing director of the German Property Federation (ZIA) since 2020.
Aygül Özkan, German lawyer and politician
Darrell Shane Andrews is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball. He graduated from Carlsbad New Mexico High School in 1990. Andrews began his minor-league career in 1990 w…
Shane Andrews, American baseball player
Raúl Márquez is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. He held IBF junior middleweight title between April and December 1997. Márquez also represente…
Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
Luigi Piotti was a racing driver from Italy. He participated in nine Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on January 22, 1956. He scored no championship points.
Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (born 1913)
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician and physician who served as president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (born 1907)
William Brown Meloney V was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and theatrical producer.
William Brown Meloney, writer and theatrical producer (born 1902)
Violet Constance Jessop was an Irish-Argentine ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the early 20th century. She survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in …
Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (born 1887)
Henry Emmett Manush, nicknamed "Heinie", was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 20 years from 1920 to 1939, including 17 years in Major League Bas…
Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (born 1901)
Sir William Tyrone Guthrie was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and t…
Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and playwright (born 1900)
Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kurosh was a Soviet mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He is credited with writing The Theory of Groups, the first modern and high-level …
Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1908)
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New…
Ogden Nash, American poet (born 1902)
Waldo Goronwy Williams was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is …
Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (born 1904)
Béla Juhos was a Hungarian-Austrian philosopher and member of the Vienna Circle.
Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1901)
Armando Picchi was an Italian football player and coach. Regularly positioned as a libero, he captained the Inter Milan side known as "La Grande Inter".
Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (born 1935)
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, and has been described as …
Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1925)
Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (born 1886)
Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry.
Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1894)