List of Famous people who died in 1970

George Ingle Finch was an Australian chemist and mountaineer. He was the first person known to climb to a height exceeding 8,000 metres. His obituary in The Times describes him as "one of the two best alpinists of his time".

Gregori Mikhailovich Chmara was a Ukrainian-born stage and film actor whose career spanned six decades.

Born as Fred Valles on 4 May 1886 in London, this Hollywood costume designer took the name Arlington Valles as his professional handle, eventually jettisoning the "Arlington" part completely. He first provided costumes for the 1938 version of A Christmas Carol. He did noticeably good work on National Velvet (1944), Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Yearling (1946) and That Forsyte Woman.

Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Perls coined the term 'Gestalt therapy' to identify the form of psychotherapy that he developed with his wife, Laura Perls, in the 1940s and 1950s. Perls became associated with the Esalen Institute in 1964, and he lived there until 1969.

Edward Selzer was an American animator and publicist who served as head of Warner Bros. Cartoons from 1944 to 1958. He served in the US Navy and fought as a Golden Gloves boxer. He won a boxing exhibition for the Navy and was awarded with a weekend pass. While out on leave he met a New York chorus girl named Laura Cohn; he later married Laura in 1927 and relocated to Los Angeles where they had two children; Phyllis and Robert.

Kurt Ferdinand Krieger, nicknamed "Dutch", was a Major League Baseball player who played pitcher from 1949 to 1951. Kurt is the first person born in Austria to play Major League Baseball. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Daniel Chapin "Dan" Kinsey was an American hurdler and a scholar in physical education.

Erich John Waschneck was a German cameraman, director, screenwriter, and film producer.