Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. …
Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint (born 1902)
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
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Constantinos A. Doxiadis, often cited as C. A. Doxiadis, was a Greek architect and urban planner, most widely known for being the lead architect and planner of Islamabad, the purpo…
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (born 1913)
Timothy Charles Buckley III was an American musician. He began his career based in folk rock, but subsequently experimented with genres such as psychedelia, jazz, the avant-garde, …
Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
Rodman Edward Serling was an American screenwriter and television producer, widely known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series The Twiligh…
Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (born 1924)
James Robertson Justice was a British actor. He often portrayed pompous authority figures in comedies, including each of the seven films in the Doctor series. He also co-starred wi…
James Robertson Justice, English actor (born 1907)
Gilda Dalla Rizza was an important Italian soprano.
Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano and actress (born 1892)
Reşad Ekrem Koçu was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia, which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times. Koçu and…
Reşat Ekrem Koçu, Turkish historian, scholar, and poet (born 1905)
James Ormsbee Chapin was an American painter and illustrator. He was the father of jazz musician Jim Chapin and grandfather of folk singer Harry Chapin.
James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (born 1887)
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure. Educated and first published in Germany, he married Western European influences to purely Georgian thematic to pro…
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (born 1893)
Vaughn Bodē was an American underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women. A contemporary of Ralph Bakshi,…
Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (born 1941)
William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell was an American country and honky-tonk singer-songwriter.
Lefty Frizzell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)
John Alan Coey was a U.S. Marine who served in the Rhodesian Army as one of the "Crippled Eagles", a loosely organised group of U.S. expatriates fighting for the unrecognized gover…
John Alan Coey, American mercenary and medic in the Rhodesian Bush War
Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah was a Sri Lankan lawyer who served as Mayor of Jaffna from 1970 until his assassination. He was also a Member of Parliament for Jaffna from 1960 to 19…
Alfred Duraiappah, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (born 1926)
Kristian Welhaven was a Norwegian police officer. He was chief of police of Oslo for 27 years, from 1927 to 1954. He was a leading force in establishing an organized Norwegian inte…
Kristian Welhaven, Norwegian police officer (born 1883)
James Benjamin Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his…
James Blish, American author and critic (born 1921)
Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts. As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is consi…
Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (born 1928)
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was …
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (born 1906)
Murilo Monteiro Mendes was a Brazilian Modernist poet, considered to be one of the forerunners of the Surrealist movement in Brazil.
Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (born 1901)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, also known as Mujib or by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist, and diarist who was the founding presi…
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (born 1920)
Harun Karadeniz was a Turkish political activist and author. He was the student leader of the late 1960s generation in Turkey and the chair of the Student Union of Istanbul Technic…
Harun Karadeniz, Turkish political activist and author (born 1942)
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen was a Norwegian military officer and war historian. He participated in the Norwegian Campaign in Northern Norway during the Second World War as the chief-of-sta…
Odd Lindbäck-Larsen, Norwegian Army general and war historian (born 1897)
Mark Neary Donohue Jr., nicknamed "Captain Nice", was an American race car driver and engineer known for his ability to develop and set up his race car as well as driving it, often…
Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (born 1937)