Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Field Marshal William Slim (1st Viscount Slim)

William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

United Kingdom

1891 – 1970 (79 years old)

British Field Marshal who rebuilt the defeated 'Forgotten Army' into the victorious Fourteenth Army, routing the Imperial Japanese Army at Imphal and Kohima.

Windsor, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Yukio Mishima

三島由紀夫

Empire of Japan

1925 – 1970 (45 years old)

Prodigious Japanese author, nationalist, and aesthetician whose Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and Sea of Fertility tetralogy explored beauty and death.

Fuchu (Tokyo), Japan

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Sciences & Discovery

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C. V. Raman

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Madras Presidency

1888 – 1970 (82 years old)

Indian physicist who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that light scattered by molecules changes wavelength (the Raman Effect), becoming the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any scientific discipline.

Bangalore (Karnataka), India

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Charles de Gaulle

France

1890-11-22 – 1970-11-09 (79 years old)

Rescued French national sovereignty in 1940, established the enduring constitutional framework of the Fifth Republic, and championed national strategic independence.

Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France

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Lazaro Cardenas

Lazaro Cardenas del Rio

Mexico

1895 – 1970 (75 years old)

President of Mexico (1934–1940) who fulfilled the promises of the Mexican Revolution by nationalizing the foreign-owned petroleum industry to create PEMEX, redistributing 45 million acres of land to peasant ejidos, and sheltering Spanish Civil War refugees.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Lázaro Cárdenas

Lázaro Cárdenas del Río

Mexico

1895-05-21 – 1970-10-19 (75 years old)

Icon of Mexican national economic sovereignty and social justice; carried out the largest agrarian reform in Latin American history and nationalized vital mineral assets.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Krim Belkacem

كريم بلقاسم

Algeria

1922 – 1970 (47 years old)

Algerian historic revolutionary leader, commander of Wilaya III, and chief diplomat of the GPRA who negotiated and signed the 1962 Evian Accords sealing Algeria's independence.

Algiers, Algeria

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

جمال عبد الناصر حسين

Egypt

1918-01-15 – 1970-09-28 (52 years old)

Defied European colonial empires during the 1956 Suez Crisis, transforming Egypt into a leader of anti-colonial liberation movements across Africa and the Arab world.

Cairo, Egypt

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James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix)

Arts & Music

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James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix)

Jimi Hendrix

United States

27 November 1942 – 18 September 1970 (27 years old)

The greatest electric guitarist in music history, who revolutionized rock music by turning controlled amplifier feedback, distortion, and the wah-wah pedal into sonic poetry at Monterey and Woodstock.

Kensington (London), United Kingdom

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Karl Jochen Rindt

Germany

1942 – 1970 (28 years old)

Austrian racing driver who remains the only driver in Formula One history to be crowned World Drivers' Champion posthumously.

Monza, Italy

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Vince Lombardi

Vincent Thomas Lombardi

United States

11 June 1913 – 3 September 1970 (57 years old)

Vincent Thomas Lombardi is universally revered as the greatest head coach in American football history, whose legendary Green Bay Packers dynasty won five NFL championships and the first two Super Bowls in a seven-year span (1961–1967). Renowned for his uncompromising discipline, perfection of the 'Packer Sweep', and civil rights leadership in desegregating Wisconsin sports, the Super Bowl trophy bears his name.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Sukarno

Soekarno

Indonesia

1901-06-06 – 1970-06-21 (69 years old)

Founding Father of Indonesia who unified thousands of diverse islands under a single national identity and championed global anti-imperialism.

Jakarta, Indonesia

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Alice Hamilton

United States

1869 – 1970 (101 years old)

American physician and humanitarian who founded the scientific field of industrial toxicology, discovered the deadly effects of industrial lead and carbon monoxide poisoning, and became the first female faculty member at Harvard University.

Hadlyme (Connecticut), United States

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Bruce Leslie McLaren

New Zealand

1937 – 1970 (32 years old)

New Zealand racing driver, designer, and founder of the McLaren racing team, one of the most successful and revered constructors in motorsport history.

Goodwood, Great Britain

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Terrance Gordon Sawchuk

Canada

1929 – 1970 (40 years old)

Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, four-time Stanley Cup champion who held the NHL record for career shutouts (103) for nearly four decades.

Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, United States

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Humanitarian & Peace

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