Famous Deaths for Year 1970 (Part 2)

Months in Year 1970: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Deaths 151 - 273 of 273

Jul 6th - Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80
Jul 7th - Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67
Jul 7th - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
Jul 7th - Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
Jul 7th - Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
Jul 14th - Preston S Foster, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
Jul 17th - Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
Jul 18th - Lucien H d'Azambuja, Fren astronomer (chromosphere of Sun), dies at 86
Jul 19th - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
Jul 20th - Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913)
Jul 21st - Mikhail Gerasimov, Russian anthropologist and sculptor (b. 1907)
Jul 21st - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
Jul 22nd - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)
Jul 24th - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
Jul 26th - Claud Allister, actor (Kiss Me Kate, Quartet), dies at 81
Jul 26th - Robert Taschereau, French Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1896)
Jul 27th - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68), dies
Jul 28th - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch), dies at 70
Jul 29th - John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70
Jul 29th - Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69
Jul 30th - George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73
Jul 31st - Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (b. 1912)
Aug 1st - Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come & Get It), dies at 55
Aug 6th - Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58
Aug 7th - ... Haley, US judge, shot dead
Aug 7th - James McClain, US black activist, shot dead
Aug 7th - Jonathan P Jackson, US black activist, shot dead
Aug 7th - William Christmas, US black activist, shot dead
Aug 10th - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Germ composer (Requiem), commits suicide at 52
Aug 13th - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75
Aug 14th - Vano Il'ich Muradeli, composer, dies at 62
Aug 15th - Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66
Aug 17th - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker (b. 1908)
Aug 19th - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
Aug 20th - Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
Aug 21st - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79
Aug 22nd - Richard Frank Donovan, composer, dies at 78
Aug 22nd - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
Aug 23rd - Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55
Aug 29th - Mary Clare, dies at 76
Aug 30th - Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41
Aug 30th - Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53
Aug 30th - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
Sep 1st - Francois Mauriac, writer, dies
Sep 2nd - Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
Sep 2nd - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63
Sep 3rd - Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27
Sep 3rd - Jochen Rindt, German race car driver, dies at 28
Sep 3rd - Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57
Sep 4th - James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39
Sep 6th - Gerard Smithson, cricketer (Eng batsman against W Indies 1948), dies
Sep 8th - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
Sep 11th - Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69
Sep 14th - Rudolph Carnap, German philosopher/mathematician, dies at 79
Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix (Sep 18th) Sep 18th - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze), dies of an overdose at 27
Sep 19th - Greville Stevens, cricketer (10 Tests for England 1922-29), dies
Sep 21st - Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies
Sep 23rd - Bourvil, French actor and singer (b. 1917)
Sep 25th - Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
Sep 25th - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
Sep 28th - Gamal' Abd al-Nassar, Egypt Pres (1953-70), dies of heart attack at 52
Sep 28th - John Roderigo Dos Passos, US writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74
Sep 29th - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
Sep 30th - Patrick Aherne, actor (Bwana Devil, Botany Bay), dies at 69
Oct 1st - Hans Poser, composer, dies at 52
Oct 1st - Petar Konjovic, composer, dies at 87
Oct 1st - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
Oct 2nd - Alfred Julius Swan, composer, dies at 79
Oct 2nd - Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer, dies at 37
Oct 4th - George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
Oct 4th - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
Oct 8th - Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
Oct 8th - Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies
Oct 8th - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
Oct 9th - Jean Giono, writer, dies
Oct 10th - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60
Oct 10th - Edouard Daladier, premier of France (1933..40), dies at 86
Oct 11th - Anis Fuleihan, composer, dies at 69
Oct 12th - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (b. 1930)
Oct 13th - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90
Oct 17th - Pierre Laporte, Vice-Premier of Quebec (assassinated) (b. 1921)
Oct 17th - Vola Vale, American actress (b. 1897)
Oct 19th - Unica Zorn, writer, dies at 54
Oct 20th - Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44
Oct 21st - John T Scopes, US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70
Oct 22nd - René Schneider, Chilean general/supreme commander, murdered
Oct 24th - Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54
Oct 28th - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey & Babysitters), dies
Oct 28th - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
Nov 2nd - Richard Cushing, US cardinal to Boston, dies at 75
Nov 3rd - Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
Nov 6th - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
Nov 8th - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
Nov 9th - William L Dawson, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
French President Charles de Gaulle (Nov 9th) Nov 9th - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69), dies at 79
Nov 10th - Charles DeGaulle, general/president France (Free French), dies at 79
Nov 17th - Naunton Wayne, actor (Dead of Night), dies at 69
Nov 18th - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
Nov 21st - Newsy Lalonde, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
Nov 21st - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
Nov 23rd - Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60
Nov 24th - Evgeny Karlovich Tikotsky, composer, dies at 76
Nov 25th - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
Nov 26th - B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
Nov 28th - Fritz v Unruh, writer, dies at 85
Nov 28th - Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55
Nov 29th - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65
Dec 1st - Frank Smailes, cricketer (England pace bowler Test v India 1946), dies
Dec 6th - Thomas S Power, USAF-gen (Raid on Tokyo-March 1945), dies at 65
Dec 7th - Rube Goldberg, US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87
Dec 8th - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77
Dec 9th - Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
Dec 9th - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
Dec 12th - Louis Zimmer, Flem clock maker (Jubelklok, Wonder Clock), dies at 82
Dec 12th - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
Dec 14th - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
Dec 23rd - Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
Dec 26th - Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
Dec 28th - L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65
Dec 29th - John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58
Dec 29th - Marie Menken, American experimental filmmaker and socialite (b. 1909)
Dec 30th - Sonny Liston, World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64), found dead at 38
Dec 31st - Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91