Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Ali Shariati Mazinani was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who specialised in the sociology of religion. He is regarded as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals…
Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (born 1933)
Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who began making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations that centered women. She was the first commer…
Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (born 1908)
Peter Laughner was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.
Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell.
Olave Baden-Powell, British Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting leader (born 1889)
Endre Szervánszky was a Hungarian composer.
Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1911)
Arthur W. Perdue (1885–1977) was an American businessman and the founder of Perdue Farms along with his wife Pearl in 1920. The business was started in his backyard, and at the tim…
Arthur Perdue, American businessman (born 1885)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin, was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (born 1899)
Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist, playwright, university lecturer. He was an author of novels, short stories, plays and poems for children, mostly remembered for…
Alexander Volkov, Russian mathematician and author (born 1891)
Gersh Itskovich Budker, also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker, was a Soviet physicist born in Murafa in Ukrainian People's Republic, specialized in nuclear physics and accelerator …
Gersh Budker, Ukrainian physicist and academic (born 1918)
Ödön Pártos [alternate transcription in English: Oedoen Partos, Hungarian: Pártos Ödön, Hebrew: עֵדֶן פרטוש ] was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israe…
Ödön Pártos, Hungarian-Israeli viola player and composer (born 1907)
Alice Stokes Paul was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Ni…
Alice Paul, American activist (born 1885)
Donald Bruce Mackay was an Australian businessman and anti-drug campaigner. He disappeared in 1977, but his body has never been found. In 1986, James Bazley was convicted for his m…
Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (born 1933)
Karl Ristikivi was an Estonian writer. He is known as one of the best Estonian writers for his historical novels.
Karl Ristikivi, Estonian geographer, author, and poet (born 1912)
Gary Kellgren was an American audio engineer and co-founder of The Record Plant recording studios, along with businessman Chris Stone.
Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (born 1939)
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer and photojournalist. Miller was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, becoming a fa…
Lee Miller, American model and photographer (born 1907)
Captain Shivrampant Damle was an Indian educationist. He is best remembered for founding the Maharashtriya Mandal in 1924.
Shivrampant Damle, Indian educationist (born 1900)
Rufus Emory Holloway was an American literary scholar-educator most known for his books and studies of Walt Whitman. His Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative (1926) was the firs…
Emory Holloway, American scholar, author, and educator (born 1885)
Alfred David Lunt was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and We…
Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (born 1892)
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian was an English electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on…
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1889)
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, whe…
Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (born 1929)
Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and Jul…
Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (born 1913)
Sir Frederic Calland Williams,, known as F.C. Williams or Freddie Williams, was an English engineer, a pioneer in radar and computer technology.
Frederic Calland Williams, British co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems…
Raymond Alfred Palmer was an American author and magazine editor. Influential in the first wave of science fiction fandom, his first fiction stories were published in 1935.
Raymond A. Palmer, American author and magazine editor (born 1910)
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant figures of the 20t…
Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (born 1935)