List of Famous people who died in 1970

Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. In 1967, Sturtevant received the National Medal of Science.

Sean Leslie Flynn was an American actor and freelance photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot was a French physician, biographer of his grandfather Louis Pasteur and editor of Pasteur's complete works. In 1936 he was elected as a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Shoichi Sakata was a Japanese physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles. He proposed the two meson theory, the Sakata model, and the Pontecorvo–Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing matrix.

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century.

Sir Anselm William Edward Guise, 6th Baronet was an English soldier, landowner, and magistrate, of Elmore Court, Gloucester.

Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was the third consecutive Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary to attain the highest rank at the College of Arms.