List of Famous people who died in 1970

Oscarito, stage name of Oscar Lorenzo Jacinto de la Inmaculada Concepción Teresa Diaz was a Spanish-Brazilian actor, considered to be one of the most popular comedians of Brazil.

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia was the only daughter and eldest child of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. She was also the only niece of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and the wife of the wealthiest man in Imperial Russia, Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, one of the men who murdered Grigori Rasputin, "holy healer" to her cousin, the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, in 1916.

Ilse (Intrator) Stanley, , was a German Jewish woman who, with the collusion of a handful of people ranging from Nazi members of the Gestapo to other Jewish civilians, secured the release of 412 Jewish prisoners from Nazi concentration camps between 1936 and 1938.

Aníbal Augusto Milhais GOTE, nicknamed "Soldado Milhões", was the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I and the only Portuguese soldier awarded the highest national honour, the Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of Valour, Loyalty and Merit on the battlefield instead of the usual public ceremony in Lisbon.

Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt whom he had first met in Paris in 1936. During his life in America, Blücher traveled in popular academic circles and appears prominently in the lives of various New York intellectuals.

Zeki Velidi Togan, was a Bashkir historian, Turkologist, and leader of the Bashkir revolutionary and liberation movement.

Shaken Kenzhetaiuly Aimanov was a Kazakh Soviet actor and film director. He is considered to be the father of Kazakh cinematography, as well as an iconic film director and actor. He directed eleven films between 1954 and 1970.

Grete Wiesenthal was an Austrian dancer, actor, choreographer, and dance teacher. She transformed the Viennese Waltz from a staple of the ballroom into a wildly ecstatic dance.

Ida Philippine Eleanor Rosa Schick, married name Philippine von Waltershausen, (1893–1970) was a German composer, pianist, conductor and university lecturer. She was one of the few female composers whose works were performed in Nazi Germany.

Cathy O'Donnell was an American actress, best remembered for her roles in The Best Years of Our Lives and film noirs.