Explore 1718 historical events from 1970–1979.
Glenicia James is a Saint Lucian former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter. She appeared in five One Day Internationals for the West Indies in 2003, all against Sri Lank…
Glenicia James, Saint Lucian cricketer
Joseph May is a British-born Canadian actor, who has appeared in television and film. He is best known for his role as Adam Moseby in Bugs, Andy Button in the television series Epi…
Joseph May, British-born Canadian-American actor
Evangelia Psarra is a Greek archer who has competed at the Summer Olympics six times from 2000 to 2020.
Evangelia Psarra, Greek archer
Vincenzo Montella is an Italian football manager and former striker. He is the current head coach of the Turkey national football team.
Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer and manager
Valeri Vladimirovich "Val" Bure is a Russian-American former professional ice hockey player. He was a right winger for 10 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montre…
Valeri Bure, Russian-American ice hockey player
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov, also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, was a left-handed Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer. In the Olympics he won two gold medals, a silver med…
Sergey Sharikov, Russian fencer and coach (died 2015)
Douglas Andrew Mientkiewicz is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a first baseman from 1998 to 2009, most prominentl…
Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-1 constituency. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the Bangladesh …
Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament
Marcel Paul Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Pagnol is gene…
Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (born 1895)
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known as the straight man in the comedy duo Abbott and Costello.
Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (born 1897)
Gustavo Romeo Vincenti was a Maltese architect and developer. Born into a wealthy and business-oriented family in Valletta and Floriana, he was able to purchase land and design and…
Gustavo R
Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. In a career spanning five decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead was the recipient o…
Agnes Moorehead, American actress (born 1900)
James Otto Richardson was an admiral in the United States Navy who served from 1902 to 1947.
James O
Harold Leon "Hal" Mohr, A.S.C. was a famed movie cinematographer, noted for shooting The Jazz Singer, Hollywood's landmark semi-talkie. Mohr won an Oscar for his work on the 1935 f…
Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (born 1894)
Jaime Mario Emilio Torres Bodet was a prominent Mexican politician and writer who served in the executive cabinet of three Presidents of Mexico. He was the second Director-General …
Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican poet and diplomat (born 1902)
Ernest Nash was a student of Roman architecture and pioneer of archaeological photography. Nash was born as Ernst Nathan in Potsdam, Germany, but later changed his name to Nash whe…
Ernest Nash, German-American photographer and scholar (born 1898)
Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo was an English engineer who was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine…
Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (born 1885)
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, née Lotz was a German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer. She was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control, whi…
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (born 1903)
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gle…
Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (born 1899)
Silvio Moser was a racing driver from Switzerland.
Silvio Moser, Swiss racing driver (born 1941)
Hiroshi Kazato was a Japanese racecar driver. Kazato started his career at age 19. He took part in the 1971 Can-Am season, finishing 10th in the championship driving a Lola T222-C…
Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese race car driver (born 1949)
Michael Gaughan was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) hunger striker who died in 1974 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, England. Gaughan was one of 22 Irish republi…
Michael Gaughan, Irish Republican died on hunger strike (born 1949)
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to…
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)