List of Famous people who died in 1970

Haim-Moshe Shapira was a key Israeli politician in the early days of the state's existence. A signatory of Israel's declaration of independence, he served continuously as a minister from the country's foundation in 1948 until his death in 1970 apart from a brief spell in the late 1950s.

Panagiotis Pipinelis was a Greek politician and diplomat.

Jacques Cotta was a French politician, lawyer, journalist. He was a member of the SFIO party. He served as Mayor of Nice from 1945 to 1947. He was elected mayor of Nice in 1945 against the communist Virgile Barel. He was also member of the French Resistance. He lost the municipal election of 1947 during which Jean Médecin won.

Hortense Powdermaker was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood.

Francis Hall Johnson was an American composer and arranger of African-American spiritual music. He is one of a group—including Harry T. Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett, and Eva Jessye—who had great success performing African-American spirituals.

Gabriel Le Bras (1891-1970) was a French legal scholar and sociologist.