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1970 (MCMLXX ) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium , the 70th year of the 20th century , and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
Calendar year
January [ edit ]
February [ edit ]
September [ edit ]
September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.
September 3 –6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon
September 4 – Chilean Socialist Senator Salvador Allende wins 36.2% of the vote in his run for presidency defeating former right-wing President Jorge Alessandri with 34.9% of the votes and Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic with 27.8% of the votes.
September 5 – Vietnam War : Operation Jefferson Glenn : The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).
September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings , The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am , TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels , Frankfurt and Zürich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.
September 7 – Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman , Jordan .
September 8 –10 – The Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces.
September 9 – Guinea recognizes the German Democratic Republic .
September 10 - Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after three months.
September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
September 17 – "Black September ": King Hussein of Jordan orders the Jordanian Armed Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen from Jordan.
September 19 – Kostas Georgakis , a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial Greek junta led by Georgios Papadopoulos .
September 20
September 21 – Palestinian armed forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi , Jordan .
September 22
September 27
September 28 – Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser .
September 29 – In Berlin , Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over DM 200,000.
October [ edit ]
October 2 – The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado , killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University .
October 3
October 4
October 5 – The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members, beginning Quebec 's October Crisis . The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
October 6
October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia .
October 8
October 9 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia , escalating the Cambodian Civil War between the government and the Khmer Rouge .
October 10
October 11 – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad .
October 12 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas .
October 13 – Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon .
October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor .
October 15
October 16 – October Crisis : The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front .
October 17
October 20
The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
October 22 – Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25 .
October 23 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile by a run-off vote in the National Congress
October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston , South Carolina , by pioneer underwater archaeologist , Dr. E. Lee Spence ,[4] then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
October 28
October 30 – In Vietnam , the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods , kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War .
November [ edit ]
November 1
November 3
Salvador Allende takes office as president of Chile .
The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970 USD , $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
November 8 – Egypt , Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.
November 9
The Soviet Union launches Luna 17 .
Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts , about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 13
November 14
November 16 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flies for the first time.
November 17 – Luna programme : The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
November 19 – The six European Economic Community nation prime ministers meet in Munich to begin the new programme of European Political Cooperation (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.
November 20 – The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall , London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade , in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa .
November 21
November 22 – Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry . The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
November 25 – 29 – A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
November 25 – In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état . After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor , he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila .
November 28 – The Montréal Alouettes defeat the Calgary Stampeders , 23–10, to win the 58th Grey Cup .[6]
December [ edit ]
December 1
December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency is established.
December 3
October Crisis: In Montreal , kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba .
Burgos Trial: In Burgos , Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins.
December 4
The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzcoa, over strikes and demonstrations.
The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
December 5
December 7
Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro ; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.
The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.
During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto , which will become known as the Warschauer Kniefall ("Warsaw Genuflection").
December 12 – A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead.
December 15
The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korea Strait ; 308 people are killed.
December 16 – The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in the county of Eritrea over the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front .
December 20 – An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid .
December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight.
December 22
The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
Franz Stangl , the ex-commander of Treblinka , is sentenced to life imprisonment.
December 23
December 25 – The ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
December 27 – President of India V. V. Giri declares new elections .
December 28 – The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte , Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act .
December 30 – In Biscay in the Basque country of Spain, 15,000 go on strike in protest at the Burgos trial death sentences. Francisco Franco commutes the sentences to 30 years in prison.
December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Britain to dissolve The Beatles ' legal partnership.
Date unknown [ edit ]
World population [ edit ]
World population
1970
1965
1975
World
3,692,492,000
3,334,874,000
357,618,000
4,068,109,000
375,617,000
Africa
357,283,000
313,744,000
43,539,000
408,160,000
50,877,000
Asia
2,143,118,000
1,899,424,000
243,694,000
2,397,512,000
254,394,000
Europe
655,855,000
634,026,000
21,829,000
675,542,000
19,687,000
Latin America
284,856,000
250,452,000
34,404,000
321,906,000
37,050,000
North America
231,937,000
219,570,000
12,367,000
243,425,000
11,488,000
Oceania
19,443,000
17,657,000
1,786,000
21,564,000
2,121,000
January births
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January 2
January 9 – Lara Fabian , Canadian/Belgian singer
January 12 – Zack de la Rocha , American musician
January 13
January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky , Russian-American animator
January 18 – DJ Quik , American rapper and producer
January 20 – Skeet Ulrich , American actor
January 21 – Ken Leung , American actor
January 22 – Alex Ross , American comic artist
January 24 – Matthew Lillard , American actor, presenter, director, and producer
January 29
January 30 – Hans Vonk , South African footballer
January 31 – Minnie Driver , English actress
February births
[ edit ]
February 1 – Malik Sealy , American basketball player (d. 2000 )
February 3
February 4 – Hunter Biden , American attorney and son of U.S. president Joe Biden
February 8 – Alonzo Mourning , American basketball player
February 9 – Glenn McGrath , Australian test cricketer
February 10 – Ardy Wiranata , Indonesian badminton player
February 13 – Park Hee-soon , South Korean actor
February 14 – Simon Pegg , British comedian, actor, and screenwriter
February 15 – Shepard Fairey , American temporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator, and founder of OBEY (clothing)
February 16 – Armand Van Helden , American DJ and music producer
February 17
February 18 – Susan Egan , American actress, voice actress, singer and dancer
February 19 – Bellamy Young , American actress
February 26 – Cathrine Lindahl , Swedish curler
February 28
March 1 – Warren Davidson , American politician[9]
March 2 – Alexander Armstrong , English comedian, actor and presenter
March 3 – Julie Bowen , American actress
March 5
March 7
March 10
March 13 – Carme Chacón , Spanish politician (d. 2017 )
March 16 – Paul Oscar (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey
March 18 – Queen Latifah , American rapper and actress
March 20
March 21
Jaya , Filipino pop singer
Cenk Uygur , Turkish-American political commentator, activist, and attorney
March 22 – Leontien van Moorsel , Dutch cyclist
March 23 – Gianni Infantino , Swiss football administrator
March 24
March 27
March 28 – Vince Vaughn , American actor, writer, and producer
March 30 – Secretariat , American Thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1989 )
March 31 – Alenka Bratušek , 7th Prime Minister of Slovenia
April 4
April 7 – Rosey , Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2017 )
April 8 – Andrej Plenković , 12th Prime Minister of Croatia
April 10
April 11 – Trevor Linden , Canadian hockey player
April 13 – Ricky Schroder , American actor
April 14 – Anna Kinberg Batra , Swedish politician
April 17 – Redman , American rapper and actor
April 18
April 19 – Luis Miguel , Mexican singer
April 20 – Shemar Moore , American actor
April 21
April 22 – Regine Velasquez , Filipino singer and actress
April 23
April 25
Kate Allen , Australian born-Austrian triathlete
April 26
April 28
April 29
April 30 – Halit Ergenç , Turkish actor
May 3
May 4
May 5 – Zorana Mihajlović , Serbian politician
May 6
May 8
May 9
May 10
May 11 – Pooja Bedi , Indian actress
May 12 – Samantha Mathis , American actress
May 15
May 16 – Gabriela Sabatini , Argentine tennis player
May 17
May 18 – Tina Fey , American comedian and actress
May 19 – K.J. Choi , South Korean golfer
May 20
May 21 – Once Mekel , Indonesian singer
May 22 – Naomi Campbell , British model and actress
May 25
May 26 – Nobuhiro Watsuki , Japanese cartoonist
May 27
May 28 – Glenn Quinn , Irish actor (d. 2002 )
May 30 – Erick Thohir , Indonesian politician and businessman
August 1
August 2 – Kevin Smith , American screenwriter, film director, and actor
August 3 – Masahiro Sakurai , Japanese video game director, designer and writer
August 4 – Hakeem Jeffries , American politician[24]
August 5 – Konstantin Yeryomenko , Russian futsal player (d. 2010 )
August 6 – M. Night Shyamalan , Indian-American film director and writer
August 10
August 11 – Daniella Perez , Brazilian actress and ballerina (d. 1992 )
August 13 – Alan Shearer , English footballer
August 14 – Leah Purcell , Australian actress
August 15 – Anthony Anderson , American actor[25]
August 16
August 17
August 18 – Malcolm-Jamal Warner , American actor
August 19 – Fat Joe , American rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer and record executive
August 20
August 21
August 22
August 23
August 25 – Claudia Schiffer , German model
August 26
August 27
August 29 – Alessandra Negrini , Brazilian actress
August 30 – Guang Liang , Malaysian singer
August 31
September [ edit ]
September 1
September 3 – Jeremy Glick , passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001 )
September 4
September 5 – Kim Hye-soo , South Korean actress
September 7
September 8 – Benny Ibarra , Mexican singer
September 10 – Julie Halard-Decugis , French tennis player[29]
September 11
September 12 – Amala Akkineni , Indian actress, dancer and activist
September 14
September 17 – Valeria Cappellotto , Italian racing cyclist. (d. 2015 )
September 18
September 19
September 20 – Gert Verheyen , Belgian footballer
September 21 – Samantha Power , Irish-American government official and writer
September 22 – Emmanuel Petit , French footballer[30]
September 23 – Ani DiFranco , American musician
September 25
September 26
September 27 – Yoshiharu Habu , Japanese professional shogi player
September 28 – Kimiko Date-Krumm , Japanese tennis player
September 29
September 30 – Tony Hale , American actor
October [ edit ]
October 1 – Moses Kiptanui , Kenyan athlete
October 4
October 6 – Amy Jo Johnson , American-Canadian actress
October 7 – Nicole Ari Parker , American actress and model
October 8
October 9 – Annika Sörenstam , Swedish golfer
October 10
October 12 – Kirk Cameron , American actor and Christian activist[32]
October 14 – Daniela Peštová , Czech supermodel
October 15 – Dalia El Behery , Egyptian actress, model and beauty pageant
October 16 – Mehmet Scholl , German footballer
October 17
October 19 – Chris Kattan , American comedian and actor
October 20 – Michelle Malkin , American political commentator[33]
October 21
October 22 – Javier Milei , Argentine politician and economist
October 24
October 25 – Adam Goldberg , American actor
October 26 – Chavo Guerrero Jr. , Mexican-American professional wrestler
October 27
October 29 – Edwin van der Sar , Dutch footballer
October 30 – Nia Long , American actress[34]
October 31
November [ edit ]
November 1
November 2
November 3 – Dawn Marie Psaltis , American professional wrestler
November 4 – François Delapierre , French politician (d. 2015 )
November 5 – Tamzin Outhwaite , English actress, presenter and narrator
November 6 – Ethan Hawke , American actor, writer, and film director
November 7
November 8 – Tom Anderson , American co-founder of Myspace
November 9 – Chris Jericho , professional wrestler
November 10 – Warren G , American rapper
November 12 – Tonya Harding , American figure skater
November 13 – Frederick Herman , American air line pilot
November 15
November 16
November 17 – Paul Allender , English guitarist
November 18
November 21 – Karen Davila , Filipina journalist, TV host and news personality
November 22 – Joe Son , Korean-American actor, wrestler, and convicted felon
November 23 – Oded Fehr , Israeli-American actor
November 24 – Julieta Venegas , American born-Mexican singer, guitarist and producer[40]
November 25 – Eluana Englaro , Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009 )
November 26 – Dave Hughes , Australian comedian
November 27 – Jorge Luis González Tanquero , Cuban dissident (d. 2016 )
November 28
November 30
December [ edit ]
December 1 – Sarah Silverman , American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, producer, and writer
December 3
December 4 – Kevin Sussman , American actor and comedian
December 5
December 6 – Michaela Schaffrath , German actress
December 9 – Kara DioGuardi , American songwriter, producer and singer
December 11 – Chris Henderson , American soccer player[42]
December 12
December 14 – Andrew Lewis , Guyanese professional boxer (d. 2015 )
December 15
December 17
December 18
December 20 – Massimo Ellul , Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
December 22
December 23 – Catriona Le May Doan , Canadian speed skater
December 25 – Emmanuel Amuneke , Nigerian footballer
December 26 – Krissada Sukosol Clapp , Thai actor and singer
December 28
December 29
January–February [ edit ]
January 5 – Max Born , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882 )[47]
January 10 – Pavel Belyayev , Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925 )[48]
January 18 – David O. McKay , 9th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873 )
January 25 – Eiji Tsuburaya , Japanese film director and special effects designer (b. 1901 )
January 27 – Erich Heckel , German painter (b. 1883 )
January 29
January 30 – Fritz Bayerlein , German general (b. 1899 )
January 31 – Slim Harpo , American singer (b. 1924 )[49]
February 2 – Bertrand Russell , British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872 )[50]
February 3 – Italo Gariboldi , Italian general (b. 1879 )
February 7 – Abe Attell , American boxer (b. 1883 )[51]
February 14
February 15 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , British RAF Fighter Commander during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882 )
February 16 – Francis Peyton Rous , American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1879 )
February 17
February 19 – Jules Munshin , American actor (b. 1915 )
February 20
February 22 – Dora Boothby , English tennis champion (b. 1881 )
February 24 – Conrad Nagel , American actor (b. 1897 )
March–April [ edit ]
March 6 – William Hopper , American actor (b. 1915 )
March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner , American crime writer (b. 1889 )[53]
March 15 – Arthur Adamov , Russian-French playwright (b. 1908 )[54]
March 16 – Tammi Terrell , American singer (b. 1945 )
March 18 – William Beaudine , American film director (b. 1892 )
March 21 – Marlen Haushofer , Austrian author (b. 1920 )
March 29 – Vera Brittain , British writer (b. 1893 )[55]
March 30 – Heinrich Brüning , German academic and politician, 21st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885 )
March 31 – Semyon Timoshenko , Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895 )
April 1 – Polina Zhemchuzhina , Soviet politician (b. 1897 )
April 5
April 6 – Maurice Stokes , American basketball player (b. 1933 )
April 8
April 11 – Cathy O'Donnell , American actress (b. 1923 )
April 16 – Richard Neutra , Austrian-born American architect (b. 1892 )
April 17 – Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (b. 1877 )
April 18 – Michał Kalecki , Polish economist (b. 1899 )
April 26
April 27 – Arthur Shields , Irish actor (b. 1896 )
April 28 – Ed Begley , American actor (b. 1901 )
April 30 – Inger Stevens , Swedish-American actress (b. 1934 )
June 1 – Pedro Eugenio Aramburu , 31st President of Argentina (b. 1903 )
June 2 – Bruce McLaren , founder of McLaren Racing (b. 1937 )
June 3 – Hjalmar Schacht , Nazi German economic minister (b. 1877 )
June 7
June 8 – Abraham Maslow , American psychologist (b. 1908 )
June 9 – Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia , 19th President of Costa Rica (b. 1900 )
June 10 – Bartolomé Blanche , Chilean military officer, provisional President of Chile (b. 1879 )
June 11 – Alexander Kerensky , Russian revolutionary politician (b. 1881 )[60]
June 14 – Roman Ingarden , Polish philosopher (b. 1893 )
June 15 – José de Almada Negreiros , Portuguese artist (b. 1893 )
June 16 – Heino Eller , Estonian composer and composition teacher (b. 1887 )
June 21 – Sukarno , 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901 )
June 26 – Leopoldo Marechal , Argentine writer (b. 1900 )
July 6 – Marjorie Rambeau , American actress (b. 1889 )
July 7 – Sylvester Wiere, Austro-Hungarian-born American slapstick comedian, member of the Wiere Brothers (b. 1909 )
July 10 – Bjarni Benediktsson , 11th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908 )
July 11 – André Lurçat , French modernist architect, landscape architect, (b. 1894 )
July 13
July 14 – Luis Mariano , Spanish tenor (b. 1914 )
July 19
July 22 – Fritz Kortner , Austrian-born director (b. 1892 )
July 23 – Amadeo Bordiga , Italian Marxist (b. 1889 )
July 27 – António de Oliveira Salazar , Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889 )
July 29 – Sir John Barbirolli , English conductor (b. 1899 )
July 30 – George Szell , Hungarian conductor (b. 1897 )
September [ edit ]
September 1 – François Mauriac , French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885 )
September 2
September 3
September 5
September 7 – Yitzhak Gruenbaum , noted leader of the Zionist movement in the interwar period (b. 1879 )
September 14 – Rudolf Carnap , German-American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1891 )
September 18 – Jimi Hendrix , American rock musician (b. 1942 )[63]
September 22 – Alice Hamilton , the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University (b. 1869 )
September 23 – André Bourvil , French actor (b. 1917 )
September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque , German author (All Quiet On The Western Front ) (b. 1898 )[64]
September 28
September 29 – Edward Everett Horton , American actor (b. 1886 )
September 30 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella , Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1875 )
October [ edit ]
November [ edit ]
November 2
November 4 – Friedrich Kellner , German diarist (b. 1885 )[68]
November 6 – Agustín Lara , Mexican composer (b. 1897 )[69]
November 8 – Napoleon Hill , American author in the area of the new thought (b. 1883 )
November 9 – Charles de Gaulle , French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France and 18th President of France (b. 1890 )
November 13 – Bessie Braddock , British politician (b. 1899)[70]
November 15 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris , Greek politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884 )
November 19
November 21
November 23 – Yusof bin Ishak , Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910 )
November 25
December [ edit ]
December 2 – John H. Hoover , American admiral (b. 1887 )[72]
December 7 – Rube Goldberg , American cartoonist (b. 1883 )
December 8 – Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold , British chemist (b. 1893 )
December 9 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon , 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893 )
December 14 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim , British field marshal and 13th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891 )
December 15 – Ernest Marsden , English-New Zealand physicist (b. 1889 )
December 16 – Friedrich Pollock , German social scientist and philosopher (b. 1894 )
December 23 – Charlie Ruggles , American actor (b. 1886 )[73]
December 29 – Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (b. 1886 )
December 30 – Sonny Liston , American boxer (b. c.1930 )
December 31 – Cyril Scott , English composer, writer, and poet (b. 1879 )
Nobel Prizes [ edit ]
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