* 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.

* 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, African-German hockey player

* 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer ( Stone Sour, Soulfly, Amebix, Black President, and Nausea )

* 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer

* 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.

* 1970 – Sylvain Bouchard, Canadian speed skater

* 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1970 )

* 1899 – Byron Foulger, American actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Andy Bichel, Australian cricketer

* 1970 – Peter Ebdon, English snooker player

* 1970 – Mark Ilott, English cricketer

* 1970 – Tony Kanal, English-American bass player, songwriter, and producer ( No Doubt )

* 1970 – Jeff Kenna, Irish footballer

* 1970 – Park Myeong-su, South Korean comedian and singer

* 1970 – Jim Thome, American baseball player

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1904 – Jean Dessès, Greek-Egyptian fashion designer ( d. 1970 )

* 1916 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer

* 1970 – Rod Brind ' Amour, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1970 – Christopher Cuomo, American journalist

* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

Since appearing in the widely-popular Sound of Music, Plummer has appeared in a vast number of notable films, including Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ), The Night of the Generals ( cameo as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ) ( 1967 ), Oedipus the King ( 1968 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1969 ), Battle of Britain ( 1970 ), Waterloo ( 1970 ), The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ), The Silent Partner ( 1978 ), International Velvet ( 1978 ), Murder by Decree ( 1979 ), Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), Eyewitness ( 1981 ), Dragnet ( 1987 ), Shadow Dancing ( 1988 ), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), Malcolm X ( 1992 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The New World ( 2005 ), and The Lake House ( 2006 ).

* Erwin J. Saxl and Mildred Allen, " 1970 solar eclipse as ' seen ' by a torsion pendulum ," Phys.

* Panofsky, Erwin, " Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait ", in Creighton, Gilbert, Renaissance Art, New York: Harper and Row, pages 1 – 20, 1970

Josef Erwin Bachmann ( October 12, 1944 Reichenbach im Vogtland, Saxony – February 24, 1970 ) became widely known in Germany for his assassination attempt on the leader of the German student movement, Rudi Dutschke, firing three bullets at him, on April 11, 1968.

In 1970, the mirror from his telescope was reconditioned and used in a newly reconfigured telescope, also named after Mather, and installed in the Erwin W. Fick Observatory.

* 1970: Heinz Hoffmann, Erich Mückenberger, Erwin Kramer, Bruno Apitz, Harry Tisch, Otto Braun, Max Burghardt

At the release of their first album Focus Plays Focus ( aka In and Out of Focus ) ( 1970 ), Focus comprised keyboardist and flutist Thijs van Leer, guitarist Jan Akkerman, bassist Martin Dresden, and drummer Hans Cleuver.

* 1970 – Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor

* 1970 – Isabelle Arnould, Belgian swimmer

* 1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete

* 1970 – Mohammed Mourhit, Belgian athlete

Since around 1970, the significant national Belgian political parties have split into distinct representations for each communities ' interests besides defenders of their ideologies.

The division into language areas was included in the Belgian Constitution in 1970.

Since 1970, the Belgian Constitution includes the possibility to create agglomerations and federations of municipalities by law.

* 1970 The German Cultural Community is formed under the first Belgian state reform.

He became the head of the medical service of the Belgian army and retired in 1970, in the rank of major general.

Vincent Rijmen (; born 16 October 1970 ) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the two designers of the Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard.

Between 1970 and 2001 the Belgian Parliament approved five successive constitutional reforms.

The preferred organisational structure in the 1970s was for the BRB to form wholly owned subsidiaries which were run at an arm's-length relationship, e. g. the railway engineering works became British Rail Engineering Limited ( BREL ) in 1970 ; the ferry operations to Ireland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were run by Sealink ( U. K .) Ltd, part of the Sealink consortium, which also used ferries owned by the French national railway SNCF, the Belgian Maritime Transport Authority Regie voor maritiem transport / Regie des transports maritimes ( RMT / RTM ), and the Dutch Zeeland Steamship Company.

Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert ( 12 February 1893 – 26 October 1970 ) was a Belgian astronomer.

Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970.

In 1970 British singer Samantha Jones won the music festival held in Belgian Knokke-Heist with a version of " My Way ", which subsequently reached # 4 on the Dutch charts.

The team regrouped with new drivers and Tony Southgate as designer, and gained its first V12 victory for Pedro Rodríguez at the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix in a P153, with further victories for Jo Siffert and Peter Gethin in 1971 in the P160.

Yann Tiersen was born in Brest in the Finistère département in Brittany in northwestern France, in 1970, into a family of Belgian and Norwegian origins.

The 1970 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Spa-Francorchamps on June 7, 1970.

By 1970 all Belgian political parties had split into Dutch-speaking and French-speaking parties.

His work includes several eyewitness accounts of key moments in European left politics ( the Belgian general strike of 1960, Paris in May 1968, Portugal Carnation Revolution in 1974-75 ), a substantial body of English translations of the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, the main thinker of the French group Socialisme ou Barbarie, and two short books — one ( The Bolsheviks and Workers ' Control, 1970 ) on the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution, and one ( The Irrational in Politics, 1974 ) on sexual politics.

On 28 May 1970, Haughey and Blaney went on trial in Dublin, together with an Irish Army intelligence officer, Captain James Kelly, a Belfast republican leader named John Kelly and Belgian businessman and former Nazi Albert Luykx, who had allegedly agreed to use his contacts to acquire the weapons.

Patrick Musimu ( 12 October 1970 – 21 July 2011 ) was a Belgian freediver, sport business manager, marketing and event manager, and physiotherapist.

Stef Kamil Carlens ( born 1970 ) is a Belgian musician and leader of Belgian rock band Zita Swoon.