* 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 – Erwin Thijs, Belgian cyclist

* 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 )

* 1970 – Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor

* Jonathan Livingston Seagull ( 1970 )

London: Jonathan Cape ( 1970 ).

It was first published in 1970 as " Jonathan Livingston Seagull — a story.

* Jonathan Livingston Seagull ( 1970 ), ISBN 0-380-01286-3

On August 7, 1970 Jonathan Jackson, a heavily armed, 17-year-old African American high school student, gained control over a courtroom in Marin County, California.

David Floyd, ( 1970 ), Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel, Jonathan Cape Ltd. ISBN 0-671-45135-9

He played King Lear, as directed by Jonathan Miller, at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1970.

* The Merchant of Venice, directed by Jonathan Miller, with Laurence Olivier as Shylock and Joan Plowright as Portia ( 1970 )

( The hotel manager was played by Jonathan Harris who later did a guest role on Get Smart in 1970.

George Boleyn is portrayed by Michael Johnson in the 1969 film " Anne of the Thousand Days " and by Jonathan Newth in the 1970 television series The Six Wives of Henry VIII ; by Steven MacKintosh in the 2003 television film The Other Boleyn Girl ( based on the novel The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory ); by Jim Sturgess in the 2008 film The Other Boleyn Girl ( also based on the novel by Gregory ).

Jonathan deposed Moshoeshoe in 1970 in order to reestablish his control in the country after his party lost the election.

* Kali Yuga, London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

* The Selected Poems of Nazim Hikmet, London: Cape Editions, Jonathan Cape, c. 1970.

Jonathan William Berry ( b. 1970 )

Kamaal Ibn John Fareed ( born Jonathan Davis on April 10, 1970 ), better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American entertainer from St. Albans, Queens, New York, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.

Born Jonathan Davis on April 10, 1970 in Harlem, he converted to Islam in the mid-1990s, and changed his name to Kamaal Ibn John Fareed.

The book was originally published in the UK in 1970 by Jonathan Cape.

Notable productions were Lulu ( 1962 ; conducted by Karl Böhm, staged by Otto Schenk, designed by Caspar Neher, starring Evelyn Lear ), Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice ( 1967 ; conducted by Richard Bonynge, staged by Rudolf Hartmann, with Nicolai Gedda, Joan Sutherland ), Fidelio ( 1970 ; conducted by Leonard Bernstein, staged by Schenk, with Gwyneth Jones, James King ), Il ritorno d ' Ulisse in patria ( 1971 ; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, staged by Federik Mirdita ), L ' elisir d ' amore ( 1973 ; conducted by Silvio Varviso, staged by Schenk, with Nicolai Gedda, Reri Grist, Eberhard Wächter ), Die Fledermaus ( 1975 ; conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, staged by Michael Kehlmann, with Wiesław Ochman, Reri Grist, Elizabeth Harwood, Waldemar Kmentt ), La clemenza di Tito ( 1976 ; conducted by Julius Rudel, staged by Mirdita, with Werner Hollweg, Teresa Berganza, Arleen Augér, Edda Moser ), Fierrabras ( 1988 ; conducted by Claudio Abbado, staged by Ruth Berghaus, with Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, László Polgár ), Die Entführung aus dem Serail ( 1989 ; conducted by Harnoncourt, staged by Ursel Herrmann, Karl-Ernst Herrmann ), Don Giovanni ( 1990 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Luc Bondy, with Ruggero Raimondi, Karita Mattila, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ), Le nozze di Figaro ( 1991 ; conducted by Abbado, staged by Jonathan Miller, with Ruggero Raimondi, Marie McLaughlin, Cheryl Studer ) and the world premiere of Adriana Hölszky's Die Wände ( 1995 ; conducted by Ulf Schirmer, staged by Hans Neuenfels ).

In the United Kingdom it was published first during 1970 by Jonathan Cape with the title The Book of Choice.

* Jonathan Bielby 1968 – 1970 ( afterwards organist of Wakefield Cathedral )

* Jonathan Leo Fairbanks ( 1933 – present ) – Katharine Lane Weems Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture ( 1970 – 1999 )

* Lesotho: Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan ( January 30, 1970 )

During her tenure at the show, she played Josette du Pres ( a lover of Barnabas Collins ( Jonathan Frid ), who was killed at Widow's Hill in 1795 ); Rachel Drummond ( a governess in 1897 ); Kitty Soames ( aka Lady Hampshire on the second-half of the 1897 storyline ); and Maggie Collins ( aka Maggie Evans ), who married Quentin Collins ( David Selby ) in " Parallel Time " ( 1970 ).