Curated category
1970 deaths
- Jimi HendrixJimi Hendrix died in London on the 18th of September 1970, at the age of 27, from barbiturate-related asphyxia. He was, by then, the world's highest-paid…
- Gonzague de ReynoldGonzague de Reynold was born on the 15th of June 1880 in a sixteenth-century chateau in Cressier, into the minor Fribourgeois nobility of Switzerland.
- Sharda MehtaSharda Mehta entered the world on the 26th of June 1882 in Ahmedabad. Her father Gopilal Manilal Dhruva served as a judicial officer.
- Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle was born on the 22nd of November 1890 in Lille, the third of five children in a devoutly Catholic, conservative, and monarchist household.
- Allen LaneAllen Lane was born in Bristol on the 21st of September 1902, and by the time he died in 1970, he had changed what it meant to buy a book.
- Rudolf CarnapRudolf Carnap was born on the 18th of May 1891 in Ronsdorf, in what is now the city of Wuppertal, Germany. At the age of 14, he taught himself Esperanto and…
- Édouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier landed at Le Bourget Airfield on the 30th of September 1938 to a crowd of cheering Parisians. They waved and shouted, relieved that the man…
- Lev KuleshovLev Kuleshov placed the same footage of an actor named Ivan Mozzhukhin next to a bowl of soup, then a coffin, then a woman reclining on a couch.
- SukarnoSukarno was born Koesno Sosrodihardjo on the 6th of June 1901, in Surabaya, East Java, the son of a Muslim Javanese primary school teacher and a Hindu…
- Max BornMax Born shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for work he had completed nearly three decades earlier. The delay was not an oversight.
- Yukio MishimaOn the 25th of November 1970, Yukio Mishima stepped onto a balcony at a military base in central Tokyo and shouted to the soldiers below, "Where has the…
- Arthur AdamovArthur Adamov was born on the 23rd of August 1908 in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the Terek Oblast of the Russian Empire, into a wealthy Armenian family.
- Adam RapackiAdam Rapacki stood before the United Nations General Assembly on the 2nd of October 1957 and proposed something that no major power had yet attempted: a…
- Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell was born on the 18th of May 1872 in a country house called Ravenscroft, in Trellech, Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent liberal…
- Vince LombardiVince Lombardi died at 7:12 in the morning on the 3rd of September 1970, in Washington, D.C., surrounded by his wife, his parents, both of his children, and…