* 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 – 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 )

* 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist ( d. 1970 )

Peter Rodman and Michael Lind claimed that the US intervention saved Cambodia from collapse in 1970 and 1973.

* ( 1970 ) Nominated – Best Original Screenplay / Easy Rider ( shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern )

* ( 1970 ) Nominated-Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen / Easy Rider ( shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern )

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

* 1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Hypocrisy, Pain, Bloodbath, and Lock Up )

* Foote, Peter & Wilson, D. M. ( 1970 ).

* Peter II, King of Yugoslavia ( 1934 – 1945 ), King-in-exile from 1945 until his death in 1970.

* 1970 – Peter Aerts, Dutch kickboxer and martial artist

As expressed by Peter Fraser in Punch & Judy ( 1970 ), " the drama developed as a succession of incidents which the audience could join or leave at any time, and much of the show was impromptu.

* Punch and Judy by Peter Fraser ( 1970 ) B. T.

** Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman ( d. 1970 )

* September 6 – King Peter II of Yugoslavia ( d. 1970 )

In April 1970, Peter Pearson and Martin Bobrow at the MRC Population Genetics Unit in Oxford and Canino Vosa at the University of Oxford reported fluorescent " male " sex chromatin bodies in the nuclei of interphase cells in buccal smears treated with quinacrine dihydrochloride, which could be used to screen for Y chromosome aneuploidies like 47, XYY.

According to Shepherd's autobiography, it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich.

* Peter Jones: " Tom Jones: Biography of a Great Star " ( Avon Publishing, 1970 ( 1st edition ), 1971 )

Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.

The first attempt was the filming ( by Peter Whitehead and Stanley Dorfman ) of Led Zeppelin's Royal Albert Hall performance on 9 January 1970, but the lighting was judged to be mediocre, and the film was shelved ( this footage was later remastered and featured on the 2003 release Led Zeppelin DVD ).

As an homage to Schoenberg, the English composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle founded The Pierrot Players in 1967 ; they performed under that name until 1970.

In film and television adaptations, the character has been played by, amongst others, Peter Paget ( 1934 ), Roland Young ( 1935 ), Colin Jeavons ( 1966 ), Ron Moody ( 1970 ), Martin Jarvis ( 1974 ), Paul Brightwell ( 1986 ), Nicholas Lyndhurst ( 1999 ) and Frank MacCusker ( 2000 ).

The 1970 cast from left: Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Lupus, and Peter Graves.

In 1969 he returned to the studio to play bass guitar on The Family Dogg's A Way of Life album, in 1970 and keyboards for guitarist Peter Green on his solo album The End of the Game.

* A 1970 drama-documentary about the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, Upon this Rock, featured Dirk Bogarde as the older Prince.