* 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 – 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 )

They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet " Jocko Homo Heavenbound ", which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled " D-EVOLUTION " and would later inspire the song " Jocko Homo ".

* 1970 – Mark Foster, English swimmer

Mark Kendall Bingham ( May 22, 1970 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American public relations executive who founded his own company, the Bingham Group.

* 1970 – Mark Schultz, American singer-songwriter

* 1970 – Mark Webber, English guitarist ( Pulp )

** Mark Rothko, Latvian-born painter ( d. 1970 )

To commemorate this, the only surviving Mark I tank was sited at Hatfield from 1919 until 1970 before being moved to the Bovington Tank Museum.

Fiennes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England in 1970, the son of photographer Mark Fiennes and novelist Jennifer Lash.

* Mark Schorer, " Afterword ", Elmer Gantry, Signet Books edition, 1970

Others who acknowledge Norman's influence on their career or music include American drummer Hilly Michaels, who recorded with Norman and Randy Stonehill in 1970 ; Grammy Award-winning recording artist and rapper TobyMac, who described Norman as " socially relevant, spiritually significant and passionate about challenging his generation to new heights of love ", considered Norman his " greatest lyrical influence "; Mark Salomon, the lead singer of Christian metal band Stavesacre and thrash metal band The Crucified, who reveals that it was Norman's concert performance that connected him to Christian music ; and Welsh singer-songwriter Martyn Joseph.

Mark Rothko ( Russian: Марк Ро ́ тко ; born Ма ́ ркус Я ́ ковлевич Ротко ́ вич Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz ) ( September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970 ), was a Russian-American painter.

Glenn Martin Christopher Francis Quinn ( 28 May 1970 – 3 December 2002 ) was an Irish actor in television and film, known for playing Mark Healy in the American sitcom Roseanne, and Doyle, a half-demon, on the 1999 – 2004 television series Angel, a spin-off series of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The band's original lineup — vocalist / organist Mark Stein, bassist / vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist / vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer / vocalist Carmine Appice — recorded five albums during the years 1966 – 69, before disbanding in 1970.

* Mark Stein – lead vocals, keyboards ( 1966 – 1970, 1982 – 1984, 2005, 2006 – present )

* Mark Kincaid ( 1969 – 1970 )

* Mark Warnecke ( b. 1970 ), breaststroke swimmer, won the world title at the age of 35

* Mark Rothko ( 1903 – 1970 ), abstract expressionist painter

Mark Rothko, Untitled ( Black on Grey ), 1970, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.

These in turn were both dropped with the introduction of the Mark III in 1970.

The dashboard was carried over intact from the last of the Mark III Cortinas while the estate used the rear body pressings of the previous 1970 release Taunus.

In 1970, NIR started using new rolling stock to re-launch the once-popular Enterprise between Dublin and Belfast with three new NIR Class 101 diesel locomotives built by Hunslet in England and Mark 2B carriages built by BREL.

In 1970 Sheehan reviewed Conversations With Americans by Mark Lane in the New York Times Book Review ( December 27 ).

* 1970 in art-Birth of Jenny Saville, Death of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Eva Hesse

Motor Trend ’ s 1970 head-to-head review of the Eldorado vs. the Mark III gave the nod, barely, to the Mark III, beginning an annual " King of the Hill " series that ran for years.