List of Famous people who died in 1970

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
First Name Charles
Last Name Gaulle
Born on November 22, 1890
Died on November 9, 1970 (aged 79)

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946 in order to reestablish democracy in France. In 1958, he came out of retirement when appointed President of the Council of Ministers by President René Coty. He rewrote the Constitution of France and founded the Fifth Republic after approval by referendum. He was elected President of France later that year, a position to which he was reelected in 1965 and held until his resignation in 1969.

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Jimi Hendrix

Johnny Allen Hendrix
First Name Jimi
Last Name Hendrix
Born on November 27, 1942
Died on September 18, 1970 (aged 27)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin
First Name Janis
Last Name Joplin
Born on January 19, 1943
Died on October 4, 1970 (aged 27)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who sang rock, soul and blues music. One of the most successful and widely known rock stars of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence.

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Yukio Mishima

平岡 公威
First Name Yukio
Last Name Mishima
Born on January 14, 1925
Died on November 25, 1970 (aged 45)
Born in Japan, Tokyo
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Yukio Mishima , born Kimitake Hiraoka was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai , an unarmed civilian militia. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, but the award went to his countryman and benefactor Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion , and the autobiographical essay "Sun and Steel" . Mishima's work is characterized by "its luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles, and its obsessive assertions of the unity of beauty, eroticism and death".

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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Born on November 7, 1888
Died on November 21, 1970 (aged 82)

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known mainly for his work in the field of light scattering. With his student K. S. Krishnan, he discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes wavelength and amplitude. This phenomenon was a new type of scattering of light and was subsequently termed as the Raman effect. Raman won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics and was the first Asian person to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science.

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Bourvil

André Robert Raimbourg
Died on September 23, 1970
Born in France, Normandy

André Bourvil, born André Robert Raimbourg, often known mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud (1965) and La Grande Vadrouille (1966). For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

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Sonny Liston

First Name Sonny
Born on May 8, 1932
Died on December 30, 1970 (aged 38)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Charles L. "Sonny" Liston was an American professional boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970.

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Eiji Tsuburaya

圓谷 英一
First Name Eiji
Last Name Tsuburaya
Born on July 7, 1901
Died on January 25, 1970 (aged 68)

Eiji Tsuburaya was a Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction films and television shows. He was one of the co-creators of the Godzilla series, as well as the main creator of the Ultra series. During his rise to post-war fame in the wake of Godzilla (1954), many press accounts gave Tsuburaya's birthdate as July 7, which falls on the high day of Tanabata, a sign of good fortune.

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Sukarno

Kusno Sosrodihardjo
Born on June 6, 1901
Died on June 21, 1970 (aged 69)
Born in Indonesia, East Java

Sukarno was an Indonesian politician who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967.

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Max Born

First Name Max
Last Name Born
Born on December 11, 1882
Died on January 5, 1970 (aged 87)

Max Born was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

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