List of Famous people who died in 1970

Kamla Chaudhry (1908–1970) was an Indian short story writer in Hindi language and Jagadeesh Kumar a Member of Parliament from Hapur in the 3rd Lok Sabha.

Raja Shri Pattom A. Thanu Pillai was a participant in the Indian independence movement who later served as the chief minister of Kerala from 22 February 1960 to 25 September 1962. He was known as the 'Bhishmacharya' of Kerala politics.

Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. His paintings are existential in tone and content, explicitly composed with the intention of communicating a sense of locality, presence, and contingency.

Lazar Drljača was a painter from modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gonzague de Reynold was a Swiss writer, historian, and right-wing political activist. Over the course of his six-decade career, he wrote more than thirty books outlining his traditionalist Catholic and Swiss nationalist worldview.

Stephan Tauschitz was an Austrian politician (Landbund) and farmer.