* 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 )

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

* 1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, introduced the term to the Western world with the 1973 publication of his novel The Gulag Archipelago.

# Ringworld ( 1970 )— Nebula Award, 1970 Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1971

The 1970 Heisman Trophy winner was drafted by the New England Patriots and was later named the 1971 NFL Rookie of the Year.

* The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969 ( winner of the Hugo Award, 1969 and Nebula Award, 1970 )

It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker players to the Horseshoe Casino for a single tournament, with a set start and stop time, and a winner determined by secret ballot.

The winner in 1970, Johnny Moss, was elected by his peers as the first World Champion of Poker and received a silver cup as a prize.

* Fabrizio Macchi known as “ Cuky ” ( born 1970 ), an amputee cyclist and bronze medal winner at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.

* Górnik Zabrze-men football team ( Polish Champion 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 ; Polish Cup winner 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 ; Polish Supercup winner 1988 )

* Awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1970 and 1972, the first two-time winner of the playoff MVP award

* Stanley Cup winner in 1970 and 1972

* Harold E. Martin, journalist and 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner

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

* Jennifer Hosten, 1970 Miss World winner

Two of Ireland's winners attended the contest ; Dana, who was Ireland's first winner, winning the contest in 1970 with " All Kinds of Everything ", and Mr Eurovision himself, Johnny Logan, winning the contest as a singer in 1980 and 1987 (" What's Another Year?

Among the most respected of the postwar American poets are John Ashbery, the key figure of the surrealistic New York School of poetry, and his celebrated Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1976 ); Elizabeth Bishop and her North & South ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1956 ) and " Geography III " ( National Book Award, 1970 ); Richard Wilbur and his Things of This World, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1957 ; John Berryman and his The Dream Songs, ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1964, National Book Award, 1968 ); A. R.

Scallon was a singer, the winner of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, and a Family values campaigner.

* Hadi Soua ' an Al-Somaily ( b. 1970 ) First Saudi Olympic medal winner.

Robinson, winner of 16 straight Gold Glove Awards and hero of the 1970 World Series, becomes the 14th player elected in his first year of eligibility.

Each winner of the 1970 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Gibson won 23 games in 1970, and was once again named the NL Cy Young award winner.