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Dead at age 70
1,871 Notable deaths
Henry Scott Tuke
English painter and photographer (1858-1929).
Died March 13th, 1929 at 70 years old in Falmouth.
Otto Grotewohl
German politician (1894–1964).
Born March 11th, 1894 in Brunswick.
Died September 21st, 1964 at 70 years old in East Berlin.
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
British anthropologist (1902–1973).
Born September 21st, 1902 in Crowborough.
Died September 11th, 1973 at 70 years old in Oxford.
Hugh McCracken
American session musician (1942-2013).
Born March 31st, 1942 in Glen Ridge.
Died March 28th, 2013 at 70 years old in Manhattan (leukemia).
Willis Bouchey
American actor (1907-1977).
Born May 24th, 1907 in Vernon.
Died September 27th, 1977 at 70 years old in Burbank.
Benson Fong
American actor (1916-1987).
Born October 10th, 1916 in Sacramento.
Died August 1st, 1987 at 70 years old in Los Angeles (stroke).
John Douglas Cockcroft
British physicist (1897–1967).
Born May 27th, 1897 in Todmorden.
Died September 18th, 1967 at 70 years old in Churchill College. [ref]
Ulrich Beck
German sociologist & scholar (1944–2015).
Born May 15th, 1944 in Słupsk.
Died January 1st, 2015 at 70 years old in Munich (myocardial infarction).
Michał Kalecki
Polish economist (1899–1970).
Born June 22nd, 1899 in Łódź. [ref]
Died April 18th, 1970 at 70 years old in Warsaw. [ref]
Elmyr de Hory
Hungarian painter & art forger (1906-1976).
Born April 14th, 1906 in Budapest.
Died December 11th, 1976 at 70 years old in Ibiza (intoxication).
Deaths 331 to 340 of 1871
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot