1970: The Year in People

Generation X · Year of the Dog 🐕 · Born in 1970 turn 56 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.36

Median home

$17,000

Minimum wage

$1.60/hr

Movie ticket

$1.55

US population

3.70B

US president

Richard Nixon

Top song

"Bridge over Troubled Water" — Simon & Garfunkel

Top film

Love Story

Top TV show

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Best Picture

Patton

In the news: First Earth Day; The Beatles break up

What happened in 1970

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.

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Born in 1970

491 people in our data · most viewed first

Dawn Staley

b. 1970 · May 4

American basketball player and coach

Christopher Nolan

b. 1970 · July 30

British and American filmmaker

Will Arnett

b. 1970 · May 4

Canadian actor

John Frusciante

b. 1970 · March 5

American guitarist

Diego Simeone

b. 1970 · April 28

Argentine football manager

Charisma Carpenter

b. 1970 · July 23

American actress

Constance Zimmer

b. 1970 · October 11

American actress

Chris O'Donnell

b. 1970 · June 26

American actor

Andre Agassi

b. 1970 · April 29

American tennis player

Alan Shearer

b. 1970 · August 13

English former footballer and pundit

Kevin Smith

b. 1970 · August 2

American filmmaker and actor

Cenk Uygur

b. 1970 · March 21

American political activist

Anthony Anderson

b. 1970 · August 15

American actor and comedian

Anne-Marie Duff

b. 1970 · October 8

British actress

Aisha Tyler

b. 1970 · September 18

American actress and talk show host

Gabrielle Anwar

b. 1970 · February 4

British actress

Amy Jo Johnson

b. 1970 · October 6

American and Canadian actress

Beck

b. 1970 · July 8

American musician

Alexi Lalas

b. 1970 · June 1

American soccer player

Hunter Biden

b. 1970 · February 4

American businessman and lobbyist

Genndy Tartakovsky

b. 1970 · January 17

Russian and American animator

Debbie Gibson

b. 1970 · August 31

American singer, songwriter, and actress

Adam Goldberg

b. 1970 · October 25

American actor

Barry Pepper

b. 1970 · April 4

Canadian-American actor

Died in 1970

Charles de Gaulle1890–1970 · French general and statesman
Gamal Abdel Nasser1918–1970 · President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970
Bertrand Russell1872–1970 · Mathematician and philosopher
António de Oliveira Salazar1889–1970 · Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968
Bruce McLaren1937–1970 · New Zealand racing driver and motorsport executive
Frances Farmer1913–1970 · American actress
E. M. Forster1879–1970 · English novelist and writer
Alan Wilson (musician)1943–1970 · American blues rock musician
Abraham Maslow1908–1970 · American psychologist
Rube Goldberg1883–1970 · American cartoonist
Alfred Newman1900–1970 · American composer
Brian Piccolo1943–1970 · American football player