* 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 – Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player

* 1970 – Tony Vidmar, Australian footballer

* Goodstone, Tony ( 1970 ) The Pulps: 50 Years of American Pop Culture, Bonanza Books ( Crown Publishers, Inc .), ISBN 394-4418-6.

* 1970 – Tony Hale, American actor

In 1970, Bailey founded the record label Incus with Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters.

In June 1970, at the age of 29, he gained the East Midlands constituency of Rushcliffe, south of Nottingham, from Labour MP Tony Gardner.

* Tony Sacca ( born 1970 ), former NFL quarterback who played for the Phoenix Cardinals.

* 1970 Tony Award for Best Musical ( Applause, winner )

Lunt and Fontanne shared a special Tony Award in 1970.

In 1967, she played the leading role in Illya Darling ( from 11 April 1967 to 13 January 1968 ) at Broadway, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, while her performance in Promise at Dawn ( 1970 ) gave her another Golden Globe Award nomination.

Alexander's major break in acting came in 1967 when she played Eleanor Backman in the original production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope at Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. Like her co-star, James Earl Jones, she went on to play the part both on Broadway ( 1968 ), winning a Tony Award for her performance, and in the film version ( 1970 ), which earned her an Oscar nomination.

* The Fence, B & C 1970 ( with Keith Tippett, Ric Grech, Terry Cox, Danny Thompson, Tony Carr, Colin Green, Alan Branscombe )-reissued on CD in 2007 by Hux Records

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell ( 2010 ) became the first European player to win the event since Tony Jacklin of England in 1970.

Other notable films include: George Cukor's Justine ( 1969 ), Tony Richardson's Laughter in the Dark ( 1969 ), Christian de Chalonge's L ' Alliance ( 1970 ), Andre Delvaux's Rendezvous a Bray ( 1971 ), The Salzburg Connection ( 1972 ), Franco Brusati's Bread and Chocolate ( 1973 ) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette ( 1976 ).

* the Leaphorn and Chee books, Tony Hillerman ( 1970 – 2006 )

Jack Klugman and Tony Randall expressed displeasure during the first season of The Odd Couple ( ABC, 1970 – 75 ), which used a laugh track without a live audience.

In 1970, she co-starred with Harry Belafonte in the hour-long Harry & Lena for ABC ; in 1973, she co-starred with Tony Bennett in Tony and Lena.

Powell also played with swamp rocker Tony Joe White at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

Perhaps his first profesional " gig " as singer and composer was with Pete Rodriguez La Magnifica Orchestra, under the musical direction of trumpetist Tony Pabon, including song hits such as " Descarga Caliente " and " De Panama a NewYork ", recorded on Alegre records label around 1970 in New York City.

* " Monsieur Coutcha ", under the name " Abel ", with Tony DELSHAM ( one of the first caribbean cartoons, published during the 1970 ).

: 5 Tony Oliva ( 1964 – 1966, 1969 – 1970 )

: 4 Tony Oliva ( 1964, 1967, 1969 – 1970 )