Famous People Who Died in 1970

Deaths 1 - 200 of 316

Jan 17 Robert Lindley Murray, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1917-18), dies at 77
Jan 17 Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
Jan 18 David O. McKay, 9th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, dies at 96
Jan 19 Hal March [Harold Mendelson], American comedian, actor and TV host ($64,000 Question; Outrage), dies of lung cancer at 49
Jan 24 Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
Jan 24 James "Shep" Shepherd, American R&B singer-songwriter (The Heartbeats - "One Thousand Miles"; Shep & Limelites - "Daddy's Home"), beaten to death in a robbery at 34
Jan 25 Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
Jan 25 Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st African American female district attorney (NY), dies at 70
Jan 25 Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano, dies at 92
Jan 25 Marie Benavente, actress (Paradise), dies at 84
Jan 27 Probir Sen, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (14 Tests, 31 dismissals; Bengal), dies at 43
Jan 27 Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
Jan 28 Tommy Andrews (Aust) 16 Tests 1921-26, cricketer (592 runs), dies
Jan 29 B. H. Liddell Hart, English military historian and publicist (The Rommel Papers), dies at 74
Jan 30 Malcolm Keen, British actor (The Lodger, The Manxman, The Murder Party), dies at 82
Jan 31 Slim Harpo [James Moore], American blues musician (I'm a King Bee, Baby Scratch My Back), dies of a heart attack at 46
Feb 1 Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 48
Feb 1 Blaz Arnic, Slovenian composer, dies at 69

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Feb 2 English mathematician and philosopher (Nobel 1950), dies at 97

Feb 2 Dave Franklin, American composer (The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down), dies at 74
Feb 2 Jaroslav Vogel, Czech composer and conductor, dies at 76
Feb 2 Lawrence Gray, American actor, dies at 71
Feb 4 Louise Bogan, American poet (Sleeping Fury) and critic, dies at 72
Feb 5 Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
Feb 6 Roscoe Karns, American actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey), dies at 78
Feb 11 Emil Abranyi, Hungarian composer, conductor, and opera director, dies at 87
Feb 12 André Souris, Belgian composer, dies at 79
Feb 13 Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (28 Tests for England as wicket-keeper), dies at 90
Feb 15 Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, dies at 87
Feb 17 Alfred Newman, American film music arranger, conductor and composer, winner of 9 Academy Awards (The Robe; How The West Was Won; Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing), dies at 69
Feb 17 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Jewish writer (Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), dies at 81
Feb 18 Desideer Stracke, Flemish jesuit and literature historian, dies at 94
Feb 19 Ralph Flanders, American politician (Senator-Vermont), dies at 89
Feb 20 Albert Louis Wolff, French conductor and composer, dies at 86
Feb 20 Café Filho, 18th Brazilian President (1954-1955), dies aged 71
Feb 20 Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist, dies at 84
Feb 23 Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
Feb 24 Conrad Nagel, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Celebrity Time), dies at 72
Feb 25 Mark Rothko [Marcus Rothkovich], Latvian-American abstract expressionist (Green on Blue), takes his own life at 66
Feb 26 Ethel Leginska [Liggins], British pianist, conductor, composer, and music educator, dies of a stroke at 83
Feb 27 Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
Feb 27 Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies
Mar 1 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer & poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
Mar 1 Lucille Hegamin, American singer & entertainer, dies at 75
Mar 2 Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (b. 1888)
Mar 2 Paul Christman, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (University of Missouri; All-Pro 1946, 47; Chicago Cardinals, Green Bay Packers), dies from a heart attack at 51
Mar 6 William Hopper, American actor (Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause), dies of pneumonia following a stroke at 55
Mar 10 Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)

Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)

Mar 11 American detective writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80

Mar 13 Rick Besoyan, American singer, actor, playwright, composer and director (Little Mary Sunshine), dies of internal hemorrhages at 45
Mar 14 Fritz Perls, German-American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (father of Gestalt therapy), dies at 76
Mar 15 Josef Martin Bauer, writer, dies at 68
Mar 15 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian poet and author (Isslottet), dies at 72
Mar 16 Arthur Adamov, Russian-French playwright (Paolo Paoli), dies at 61
Mar 16 Mary Ann Ganser, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las - "Leader of the Pack"), dies of a drug overdose at 22
Mar 16 Tammi Terrell, American soul singer (You're All I Need; with Marvin Gaye - Ain't No Mountain High Enough), dies of a brain tumor at 24
Mar 17 Fernand Crommelynck, Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois), dies at 83
Mar 20 Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and songwriter (b. 1920)
Mar 21 Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
Mar 21 Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49
Mar 23 Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
Mar 26 Fritz Ascher, German Expressionist artist, dies at 76
Mar 29 Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
Mar 29 Lev Kuleshov, Russian filmmaker and film theorist (Po Zakonu, founder of Moscow film school), dies at 71
Mar 30 Heinrich Brüning, German politician and Chancellor of Germany (1930-32), dies at 84
Mar 31 Semjon Timoshenko, Russ marshal/inspector-general (WWII), dies at 75
Apr 4 Byron Foulger, American actor (Capt Nice, Petticoat Junction), dies at 70
Apr 4 Victor Otto Stomps, German writer and publisher, dies at 72
Apr 5 Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist, dies at 78
Apr 5 Jacob H "Jaap" Stotijn, Dutch oboist, and conductor (Residence Orchestra), dies at 78
Apr 6 Maurice Stokes, American Basketball HOF power forward (NBA All-Star 1956, 57, 58; NBA Rookie of the Year 1956; Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), dies from a heart attack at 36
Apr 6 Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
Apr 7 Josina Machel, Mozambican independence activist, and wife of Mozambique's 1st president Samora Machel, dies at 25
Apr 8 Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg, dies
Apr 9 Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish-American artist and chief illustrator for The Walt Disney Company during the 1930s (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Bambi, Pinocchio), dies at 73
Apr 10 Charles Paton, British actor (Freedom of the Seas), dies of a heart attack at 96
Apr 11 Cathy O'Donnell [Ann Steely], American film noir actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 46
Apr 11 John O'Hara, American short story writer and novelist (Appointment at Samarra; Pal Joey; BUtterfield-8), dies of cardiovascular disease at 65
Apr 15 Ripper Collins, American baseball first baseman (MLB All-Star 1935, 36, 37; World Series 1931, 34; NL HR leader 1934; St Louis Cardinals), dies at 66
Apr 16 Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
Apr 17 Sergei Aleksi [Alexy}, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92
Apr 20 Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist, dies at 53
Apr 21 Earl Hooker, American blues slide guitar player ("Blue Guitar"), dies of tuberculosis at 40
Apr 23 Herb Shriner, American humorist & TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
Apr 24 Otis Spann, American blues pianist and singer (The Blues Never Die!), dies of liver cancer at 40 [or perhaps, 46; birth date disputed]
Apr 25 Anita Louise, American actress (The Little Princess, Gorilla, My Friend Flicka), dies from a stroke at 55
Apr 26 "Gypsy" Rose Lee [Hovick], American burlesque actress (Gypsy), dies of lung cancer at 59
Apr 26 Erik Bergman, Swedish pastor, dies at 83
Apr 26 John Knittel, Swiss writer, dies at 79
Apr 26 Paul Celan, Romanian-born writer, dies at 49
Apr 27 Arthur Shields, Irish actor (River, Enchanted Island), dies at 73
Apr 28 Ed Begley, American actor (12 Angry Men, The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 69
Apr 30 Hall Johnson, American composer (Hall Johnson Choir), dies at 82
Apr 30 Inger Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide at 35
Apr 30 Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71
May 1 Yi Un, last Crown Prince of Korea, dies at 72
May 3 Candelario Huízar, Mexican violist, horn player, and classical and canción composer ("Surco"), dies at 82
May 4 Allison Beth Krause, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military at 19
May 4 Jeffrey Miller, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military, at 20
May 4 Sandra Scheuer, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military, at 20
May 4 William Schroeder, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military at 20
May 6 Wharton Esherick, American artist and sculptor who worked primarily in wood, dies at 82
May 7 Carlos Estrada, Uruguayan composer and conductor, dies at 60
May 9 Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician, dies at 86
May 9 Percy Brier, Australian composer, dies at 84
May 9 Walter P. Reuther, American worker's union leader & president of the CIO, dies in a plane crash at 62
May 10 Mari Blanchard, American actress and femme fatale (Kathy-Klondike), dies of cancer at 47
May 11 Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist, dies at 62

Nelly Sachs (1891-1970)

May 12 German-Swedish poet and playwright (O the Chimneys - Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), dies at 78

May 12 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78
May 13 William Dobell, Australian portrait artist, dies at 70
May 14 (Mary) "Billie" Burke, American radio, stage, silent and sound film actress (Zieigfield Follies; The Wizard of Oz; Merrily We Live), dies at 85
May 17 Nigel Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61
May 19 Ray Schalk, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (World Series 1917; Chicago White Sox) and manager (Chicago White Sox 1927-28), dies from cancer at 78
May 19 Tadeusz Breza, Polish writer (The Bronze Gate), dies at 64
May 21 E. L. Grant Watson, Australian biologist (b. 1885)
May 21 Vinton Hayworth, American actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
May 22 Joseph W Krutch, American writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
May 23 Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
May 27 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78
May 29 Eve Hesse, German born Jewish American sculptor dies of a brain tumor aged 34
May 29 John Gunther, American author and host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68

Terry Sawchuk (1929-1970)

May 31 Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender (4-time Vezina Trophy & Stanley Cup winner), dies from liver injuries at 40

Jun 1 Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (Hermeticism) and journalist, dies at 82
Jun 2 Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
Jun 2 Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and founder of eponymous race team, dies in a car crash at 32
Jun 3 Adrian Conan Doyle, youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, dies at 59
Jun 3 Douwe Hermans Kiestra, Frisian farmer and writer, dies at 70
Jun 3 Hjalmar Schacht, German economist, banker and politician (co-founder German Democratic Party), dies at 93
Jun 4 Hjalmar Schcacht [Horace Greeley], Nazi minister, dies
Jun 4 Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier Suriname, dies
Jun 4 Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent), dies at 78
Jun 4 Sonny Tufts [Bowen Charleton Tufts III], American actor (The Seven Year Itch, Variety Girl), dies from pneumonia at 58
Jun 5 "Jopie" Pengel [Johan A], Premier of Suriname (1963-69), dies at 54
Jun 5 Jay Irving, American cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69

E. M. Forster (1879-1970)

Jun 7 English writer and novelist (Maurice, Passage to India), dies at 91

Jun 8 Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
Jun 10 Earl Grant, American pop pianist, organist, and singer ("Ebb Tide"; "Winter Wonderland"), dies in a car crash in New Mexico at 39
Jun 11 Aleksander Kerensky, Minister-Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government (1917), dies at 89
Jun 11 Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87
Jun 11 Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
Jun 11 Frank Silvera, Jamaican-American actor (High Chaparral, Killer's Kiss, Fear and Desire), accidentally electrocutes himself at 55
Jun 11 William 'Billy Batts' Devino, American crime figure (b. 1921)
Jun 16 Brian Piccolo, American NFL football running back, 1965-69 (Chicago Bears), and subject of the 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song", dies of cancer at 26
Jun 16 Elsa Triolet [Ella Kagan], Russian-French writer and Resistance fighter, dies at 73
Jun 16 Heino Eller, Estonian composer, dies at 83
Jun 17 Matthew Henderson, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (1 Test; New Zealand's first-ever Test match 1930), dies at 74

Sukarno (1901-1970)

Jun 21 1st President of Indonesia (1945-67), dies from kidney failure while under house arrest at 68

Jun 23 Roscoe Turner, American aviator and racer (b. 1895)
Jun 24 Man Singh II, Maharajah of Jaipur State, dies at 57
Jun 27 Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
Jun 29 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77
Jun 29 Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia), dies at 64
Jul 2 Jessie Street, Australian suffragette and aboriginal rights fighter, dies at 81
Jul 3 Frances Parkinson Keyes, American novelist (Dinner at Antoine's), dies at 84
Jul 4 Barnett Newman, American abstract expressionist painter (Black Fire I), dies at 65
Jul 4 Harold Vanderbilt, American yachtsman and America's Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
Jul 6 Marjorie Rambeau, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Primrose Path; Torch Song), dies at 80
Jul 7 Allen Lane, English publisher and founder of Penguin Books, dies at 67
Jul 7 Dame Laura Knight, English impressionist artist, dies at 92
Jul 7 Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies at 59
Jul 7 Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
Jul 10 Bjarni Benediktsson, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (1963-70), dies at 62

Leslie Groves (1896-1970)

Jul 13 American army engineer who directed the Manhattan Project and construction of the Pentagon, dies of a heart attack at 73

Jul 14 Preston Foster, American actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
Jul 17 Juano Hernandez, Puerto Rican stage and film actor (St Louis Blues; Stars In My Crown), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 73
Jul 18 Lucien d'Azambuja, French astronomer (studied the solar chromosphere), dies at 86
Jul 19 Barry Wood {Louis Rappaport], American singer (Your Hit Parade), and television producer, dies at 61
Jul 20 Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913)
Jul 21 Bob Kalsu, American NFL football player, 1968 (Buffalo Bills), and US Army officer, killed in action in Vietnam at 25
Jul 21 Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
Jul 22 George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
Jul 23 Leith Stevens, American pianist, composer and conductor of scores for radio (Suspense), film (The Wild Ones; War of the Worlds), and television (Climax!), dies of a heart attack (upon learning his wife was killed in a car accident) at 60
Jul 24 Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist, dies at 73
Jul 26 Claud Allister, British actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet, Bulldog Drummond), dies at 81
Jul 26 Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada, dies at 73

António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970)

Jul 27 Dictator of Portugal (1932-68) who founded and controlled the Estado Novo (New State), dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 81

Jul 29 (Giovanni) "John" Barbirolli, British cellist, and conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1936-43; Hallé Orchestra, 1943-1970; Houston Symphony, 1961-67), dies of a heart attackat 70
Jul 29 Jonel Perlea, Romanian opera conductor, dies at 69
Jul 30 George Szell, Hungarian-born American conductor (Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70), dies at 73
Jul 30 Louis Lomax, African-American author and journalist, dies in a car accident 47
Jul 31 Booker Ervin [Booker Telleferro Ervin II], American saxophonist (Charles Mingus), dies of kidney disease at 39
Jul 31 Jimmy Conzelman, American Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, coach, team owner (Chicago Cardinals), dies at 72
Jul 31 Walter Briggs Jr, American sports executive (owner Detroit Tigers 1952-56), dies at 58

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