* 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 )

* Mori, Masahiro ( 1970 ).

The term was coined by the robotics professor Masahiro Mori as Bukimi no Tani Genshō ( 不気味の谷現象 ) in 1970.

: Mori, Masahiro ( 1970 ).

* 1970: The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan ( Buraikan ) – d. Masahiro Shinoda

Nambu has won numerous honors and awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize ( 1970 ), the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize ( 1977 ), Japan's Order of Culture ( 1978 ), the U. S .' s National Medal of Science ( 1982 ), the Max Planck Medal ( 1985 ), the Dirac Prize ( 1986 ), the Sakurai Prize ( 1994 ), the Wolf Prize in Physics ( 1994 / 1995 ), and the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal ( 2005 ).

* 1970 – Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer and actress ( Onyanko Club )

* 1970 – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress ( d. 2011 )

* Cleopatra ( 1970 film ), a 1970 Japanese anime film

* 1970 – Takeshi Konomi, Japanese artist

* 1901 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer ( d. 1970 )

* 1970 – Masami Tsuda, Japanese writer and illustrator

* 1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian

In the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora, Konoe was portrayed by Japanese actor Koreya Senda.

* 1970 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist

* 1970 – Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress ( d. 2000 )

* 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.

After 1970 they splintered into several violent terrorist groups including the United Red Army who tortured their own members and the Japanese Red Army which murdered civilians and hijacked aircraft.

* 1970 – Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer

* 1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter

In 1970, a Japanese layman, Yukio Nemoto ( 1925 – 1988 ), created a sedevacantist group called Seibo No Mikuni.

* 1970 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese chess player

* 1970 – Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer, producer, and actor ( Abingdon Boys School and Luis-Mary )

* 1970 – Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker of All Nippon Airways Flight 61

( 1970 ) ( based on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ), Midway ( 1976 ) and A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ).

* July 7 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer ( died 1970 )

* January 14 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer ( d. 1970 )

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora!

( born on July 10, 1901 – died January 25, 1970, in Sukagawa, Fukushima ) was the Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction movies, including the Godzilla series.