Editing 1970 (section)

===January–February===
[[File:Max Born.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Max Born]]]]
[[File:Bertrand Russell smoking in 1936.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bertrand Russell]]]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1978-033-02, Fritz Bayerlein.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Fritz Bayerlein]]]]
[[File:Cafe Filho.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Joao Cafe Filho]]]]
* [[January 5]] – [[Max Born]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iZtRAAAAIBAJ&pg=5297%2C1066126 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |location=(Pennsylvania, U.S.) |agency=Associated Press |title=Nobel prize winner dies |date=6 January 1970 |page=26}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[Pavel Belyayev]], Soviet cosmonaut (b. [[1925]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/11/archives/pavel-belyayev-astronaut-dead-russian-headed-flight-that-led-to.html |title=Pavel Belyayev, Astronaut, Dead |date=1970-01-11 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-01-15 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[David O. McKay]], 9th president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Eiji Tsuburaya]], Japanese film director and special effects designer (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Erich Heckel]], German painter (b. [[1883]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Basil Liddell Hart|Sir Basil Liddell Hart]], British military historian (b. [[1895]])
** [[Thelma Morgan]], American socialite (b. [[1904]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Slim Harpo]], American singer (b. [[1924]])<ref>{{cite book |title=The Blues Encyclopedia |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=2004 |isbn=9781135958329 |page=410}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – [[Bertrand Russell]], British logician and philosopher, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (b. [[1872]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Jagdish Mehra |author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9ZmLmVFSYQC&pg=PA44 |date=28 December 2000 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-95178-2 |pages=44}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – [[Italo Gariboldi]], Italian general (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Abe Attell]], American boxer (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abe-Attell |title=Abe Attell &#124; American boxer &#124; Britannica |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=May 24, 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 14]]
** [[Arthur Edeson]], American cinematographer (b. [[1891]])
** [[Harry Stradling]], American cinematographer (b. [[1901]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding]], British [[RAF Fighter Command]]er during the [[Battle of Britain]] (b. [[1882]])
* [[February 16]] – [[Francis Peyton Rous]], American pathologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 17]]
** [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], Israeli writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])
** [[Alfred Newman (composer)|Alfred Newman]], American film composer (b. [[1900]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Jules Munshin]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[February 20]] 
** [[Café Filho]], Brazilian politician, 18th [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1899]])
** [[Sophie Treadwell]], American playwright and journalist (b. [[1885]])<ref>[https://stageagent.com/writers/6017/sophie-treadwell Sophie Treadwell Playwright, Author]</ref>
* [[February 22]] – [[Dora Boothby]], English tennis champion (b. [[1881]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Conrad Nagel]], American actor (b. [[1897]])