Explore 4009 historical events from 1970–1979.
Pablo José Ozuna is a Dominican former professional baseball utility player. During his major league career, he played for the Florida Marlins, the Colorado Rockies (2003), the Chi…
Pablo Ozuna, Dominican baseball player
Kelvin Tavares Cato is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'11" center from the University of South Alabama and Iowa State University, Cato played in the National…
Kelvin Cato, American basketball player and coach
Meredith Hope Eaton Gordon is an American actress. She is known for portraying the attorney Emily Resnick on the CBS television series Family Law, for her recurring role as Bethany…
Meredith Eaton, American actress
Aaron Douglas Downey is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. Downey played 13 seasons of professional ice hockey and played 243 games in the National Hockey …
Aaron Downey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Emmanuel L. Fernandez is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Dallas Stars, Minnesota Wild and the Boston Br…
Manny Fernandez, Canadian ice hockey player
Michael James Mason is a former New Zealand cricketer, born in Carterton. He played Test matches and One Day Internationals for New Zealand.
Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer
José Angel Vidro is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals and Seattle Mar…
José Vidro, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
Mohammad Yousuf PP SI is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer and captain, who played all three formats. Prior to his conversion to Islam, Yousuf was one of the few Chris…
Mohammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
Johan Andersson is a Swedish video game designer and studio manager for Paradox Tinto, a division of Paradox Interactive based in Sitges, Spain near Barcelona. Andersson is widely …
Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer
Takahito Eguchi is a Japanese composer, orchestrator, and musician. He is best known for collaborating with Noriko Matsueda on Final Fantasy X-2 and with Tomoya Ohtani on several …
Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer
Carsten Jancker is a German football coach and former player. He played as a forward for various teams between 1993 and 2009, including 1. FC Köln, Rapid Wien, Bayern Munich, Udine…
Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
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)