Explore 6419 historical events from 1970–1979.
Jack Leonard Warner was a Canadian-born American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spa…
Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (born 1892)
Michael Gazella was an American Major League Baseball player who played for the New York Yankees on several championship teams in the 1920s.
Mike Gazella, American baseball player and manager (born 1895)
In 1978, a smallpox outbreak in the United Kingdom led to the death of Janet Parker, a British medical photographer. She was the last person recorded to have died from this disease…
Janet Parker, English photographer (born 1938)
Bengt Ronnie Peterson was a Swedish racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1978. Nicknamed "Superswede", Peterson twice finished runner-up in the Formula One World…
Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (born 1944)
Sir William Hudson was a New Zealand-born engineer who headed construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydroelectricity and irrigation in Australia from 1949 to 1967, when he…
William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (born 1896)
Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defe…
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian author and playwright (born 1929)
Robert Cliche was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
Robert Cliche, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)
Robert Bruce Montgomery was an English crime writer and composer. Known as a composer as Bruce Montgomery, he published his detective novels under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin.
Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (born 1921)
Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed a number of prominent aircraft for the Luftwaffe and civil aviation.
Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (born 1898)
Étienne Henri Gilson was a French Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy. A scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also…
Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (born 1884)
Lyman Wesley Bostock Jr. was an American professional baseball player. He played Major League Baseball for four seasons, as an outfielder for the Minnesota Twins (1975–77) and Cali…
Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (born 1950)
James Elias Bassett Jr. was an American newspaper editor and author, most notably of the best-selling novel Harm's Way, which was later adapted into the motion picture In Harm's Wa…
James Bassett, American journalist and author (born 1912)
Ida Noddack, née Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. In 1934 she was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission. With her husband Walter Noddack, and Otto Ber…
Ida Noddack, German chemist and physicist (born 1896)
Hasso Eccard Freiherr von Manteuffel was a German baron born to the Prussian noble von Manteuffel family and was a general during World War II who commanded the 5th Panzer Army in …
Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (born 1897)
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."
Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
Pope John Paul I was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, …
Pope John Paul I (born 1912)
Edgar John Bergen was an American ventriloquist, comedian, actor, vaudevillian and radio performer. He was best known for his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Bergen…
Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (born 1903)
Bertha Pallan Thurston Cody was an American archaeologist, working as an assistant in archaeology at the Southwest Museum. She was also married to actor Iron Eyes Cody. She is thou…
Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (born 1907)
John Michael O'Keefe was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the early 1950s. A pioneer of Rock music in Australia, his hits include "Wild One" (1958), "Shout!…
Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (born 1935)
Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed theatrical songs. He generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, but…
Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1929)
Ralph Marterie was an Italian big-band leader born in Acerra, Italy.
Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1914)
Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. was an American track and field sprinter and politician. He jointly held the world record in the 100-meter dash and placed second in that event in two Oly…
Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (born 1910)
Nancy Laura Spungen was the American girlfriend of English musician Sid Vicious and a figure of the 1970s punk rock scene.
Nancy Spungen, American figure of the 1970s punk rock scene (born 1958)
William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist. He has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo es…
W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)