Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Đặng Thùy Trâm was a Vietnamese doctor. She worked as a battlefield surgeon for the People's Army of Vietnam and Vietcong during the Vietnam War. Her wartime diaries, which chronic…
Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)
Roscoe Turner was a record-breaking American aviator who was a three-time winner of the Thompson Trophy air race and widely recognized by his flamboyant style and his pet, Gilmore …
Roscoe Turner, American soldier and pilot (born 1895)
Daniel Chapin Kinsey was an American hurdler and scholar in physical education.
Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler and scholar (born 1902)
Jessie Mary Grey Street was an Australian diplomat, suffragette, and a campaigner for Indigenous Australian rights. She was referred to as "Red Jessie" by the Australian media, due…
Jessie Street, Australian suffragette and feminist (born 1889)
Barnett Newman was an American painter. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His pai…
Barnett Newman, American painter and illustrator (born 1905)
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player of contract bridge, and a member of the Vanderbilt family.
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American sailor and businessman (born 1884)
Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced E…
Dame Laura Knight, English artist (born 1877)
Sigrid Holmquist, also known by the diminutive "Sie" or "Bie" Holmquist was a Swedish actress during the silent film era. After three films in Sweden, she went to pursue a career i…
Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (born 1899)
Bjarni Benediktsson was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970. He was born to Benedikt Sveinsson (1877–1954), …
Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1908)
Leslie Richard Groves Jr. was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project, the top secret resear…
Leslie Groves, American general and engineer, head of the Manhattan Project (born 1896)
Sheng Shicai was a Chinese warlord who ruled the province of Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944.
Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (born 1895)
Preston Stratton Foster, was an American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades. He also had a career as a vocalist.
Preston Foster, American actor (born 1900)
Iain Norman Macleod was a British Conservative Party politician. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Res…
Iain Macleod, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1913)
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov was a Soviet archaeologist, and anthropologist who discovered the Mal'ta–Buret' culture and developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based…
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (born 1907)
James Robert Kalsu was an American professional football player who was an All-American tackle at the University of Oklahoma and an eighth-round selection in the 1968 NFL/AFL draft…
Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (born 1945)
George Henry Johnston OBE was an Australian journalist, war correspondent and novelist, best known for My Brother Jack. He was the husband and literary collaborator of Charmian Cli…
George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (born 1912)
Eino Alfred Tainio was a Finnish printer, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) …
Eino Tainio, Finnish politician (born 1905)
Chevalier Peter Bertram Cypriano Castellino de Noronha was a businessman and civil servant of Kanpur, India. He was knighted by Pope Paul VI in 1965 for his work for the Christia…
Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman, philanthropist, and civil servant (born 1897)
Robert Taschereau was a lawyer who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Canada from 1963 to 1967, as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1940 to 1963, and briefly a…
Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1896)
António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as President of the Council of Ministers of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to pow…
António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1889)
Sir John Barbirolli was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943…
John Barbirolli, English cellist and conductor (born 1899)
Sir Walter Logie Forbes Murdoch, was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence and wit. He was a founding professor of English and former Chancellor …
Walter Murdoch, Scottish-Australian academic (born 1874)
George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer, and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth c…
George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1897)
Frances Elena Farmer was an American actress. She appeared in over a dozen feature films and three significant Broadway plays over the course of her career. Farmer gained greater n…
Frances Farmer, American actress (born 1913)