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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 4.1 January to June 4.2 July to December 4.3 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 January to June 5.2 July to December 5.3 Full date unknown

Events

• 26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
• 27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Eric Smith - Gruzman - Architect
• Prix Puvis de Chavannes - Daniel du Janerand

Works

See also: Category:1970 paintings

• Barbara Hepworth - Family of Man
• Henry Moore - Reclining Figure LH608
• Kanda Nissho - Indoor Landscape
• Isamu Noguchi - Night Wind
• Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty

Births

January to June

• 17 January - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born American animator.
• 22 January - Alex Ross, American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter.
• 15 February - Shepard Fairey, American artist, graphic designer and illustrator.
• 27 February - Matthias Lechner, German set designer and art director.
• 12 March - Marine Delterme, French actress, painter, sculptor and former model.
• 3 May - Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer.
• 9 May - Damian Loeb, American painter.
• 26 May - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese mangaka.
• 1 June - Joshua Compston - British gallerist (d.1996).

July to December

• 6 July - Grant Bond, American comic book artist and writer.
• 9 July - Benoit Pierre Emery, French art director and fashion designer.
• 4 August - Pete Abrams, American webcomic writer and illustrator.
• 22 November - Aleksander Balos, Polish-born American artist and figurative painter.

Full date unknown

• Stéphane Ducret, Swiss contemporary artist.
• Emily Jacir, Palestinian artist.
• Tomoki Kyoda, Japanese animation director and animator.
• Vincent Paronnaud, French comics artist and filmmaker.
• David Quinn, Irish artist.

Deaths

January to June

• 27 January - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b.1908).
• 25 February - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter and printmaker (b.1903).
• 2 March - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Canadian painter (b.1888).
• 8 March - Waldo Peirce, American painter (b.1884).
• 8 March - Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (b.1892).
• 13 May - William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (b.1899).
• 29 May - Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b.1936).
• 6 June - Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (b.1883).

July to December

• 4 July - Barnett Newman, American artist (b.1905).
• 7 July - Laura Knight, English Impressionist painter (b.1877).
• 1 December - Hermine David, French painter (b.1886).

Full date unknown

• Robert Laurent, American sculptor (b.1890).
• Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (b.1898).