List of Famous people who died in 1970

Marie Menken was an American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite. She was noted for her unique filming style that incorporated collage.

Péter Veres was a Hungarian politician and writer, who served as Minister of Defence from 1947 to 1948.

Clinton Rossiter was an American historian and political scientist at Cornell University (1947-1970) who wrote The American Presidency among 20 other books and won both the Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for his book Seedtime of the Republic.

Román Viñoly Barreto was a Uruguayan-Argentine film director.

Alice Beatrice Roberts was an American film actress.

Feyhaman Duran was a Turkish artist.

Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician, composer and bandleader. He played the tres, as well as the tumbadora, and he specialized in son, rumba and other Afro-Cuban music styles. In the 1940s and 1950s Rodríguez established the conjunto format and contributed to the development the son montuno, the basic template of modern-day salsa. He claimed to be the true creator of the mambo and was an important as well as a prolific composer who wrote nearly two hundred songs.