List of Famous people who died in 1970

Patrick de Lacy Aherne was an English film actor. He was the son of the architect William de Lacy Aherne, and the elder brother of the actor Brian Aherne. The family lived at Kings Norton.

Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter was a German diplomat. He was a Nazi Party member between 1934 and 1945 and excluded from the diplomatic service between 1945 and 1952, the year in which he returned to government service for what was now West Germany.

James Arthur Norman Butler, 6th Marquess of Ormonde, CVO, MC was a British peer. He was the son of James Arthur Wellington Foley Butler, 4th Marquess of Ormonde.

Tang Shengzhi was a Chinese warlord during the Warlord Era, a military commander during the Second Sino-Japanese War and a politician after World War II.

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species.

William DeWolf Hopper Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. The only child of actor DeWolf Hopper and actress and Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, he appeared in predominantly minor roles in more than 80 feature films in the 1930s and 1940s. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he left acting, but in the mid-1950s, he was persuaded by director William Wellman to resume his film career. He became best known for his work as private detective Paul Drake in the CBS television series Perry Mason.