List of Famous people who died in 1970

Patriarch Alexy I was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) between 1945 and 1970.

John Conrad Nagel was an American film, stage, television and radio actor. He was considered a famous matinée idol and leading man of the 1920s and 1930s. He was given an Academy Honorary Award in 1940 and three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.

Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert was a Dutch astronomer of Belgian origin. He was born in Bruges and died in Utrecht. He is notable for his contributions to astronomy and physics and for a popular book on meteorological optics: Light and colour in the open air, first published in English in 1940.

Henri Jules Louis Jeanson was a French writer and journalist. He was a "satrap" in the "College of 'Pataphysics".

Naunton Wayne, was a Welsh character actor, born in Llanwonno, Glamorgan, Wales. He was educated at Clifton College. His name was changed by deed poll in 1933.

Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley was an American electronics researcher. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.

Diana Oughton was a member of the Students for a Democratic Society's Michigan Chapter and later, a member of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground. Oughton received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. After graduation, Oughton went to Guatemala with the American Friends Service Committee program to teach the young and older indigenous Indians.

Heino Eller was an Estonian composer and composition teacher.

Lillian West was an American film actress. She appeared in 104 films between 1916 and 1958. She was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.

Carolyn Craig was an American actress who was best known for her performance as Nora Manning in William Castle's 1959 shocker House on Haunted Hill.