Celebrity Deaths 1970-1979

Paying tribute to the stars we've lost from 1970-1979 – in memoriam

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Hint	Year	Answer
One of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music	1970	Jimi Hendrix
Female singer whose popular song is 'Piece of My Heart'	1970	Janis Joplin
Statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II	1970	Charles de Gaulle
New Zealand race-car designer whose name lives in Formula One	1970	Bruce McLaren
Prime minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968	1970	António de Oliveira Salazar
Lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors	1971	Jim Morrison
American trumpeter and vocalist born in New Orleans	1971	Louis Armstrong
French fashion designer and businesswoman	1971	Coco Chanel
First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)	1972	J. Edgar Hoover
33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953	1972	Harry S. Truman
Spanish painter and leading proponent of the cubism style	1973	Pablo Picasso
Hong Kong American actor, martial artist and the founder of Jeet Kune Do	1973	Bruce Lee
Author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings	1973	J.R.R. Tolkien
36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969	1973	Lyndon Johnson
First person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927	1974	Charles Lindbergh
German industrialist who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust	1974	Oskar Schindler
President of Argentina supported by his second wife Eva Duarte	1974	Juan Perón
Shipping magnate who was married to Jacqueline Kennedy	1975	Aristotle Onassis
Spanish dictator from 1939 to 1975	1975	Francisco Franco
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974	1975	Haile Selassie
American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot and engineer	1976	Howard Hughes
Prolific and best-selling writer of Murder on the Orient Express	1976	Agatha Christie
Founding father of the People's Republic of China	1976	Mao Zedong
"King of Rock and Roll"	1977	Elvis Presley
English comic actor from the era of silent film, starred in The Great Dictator	1977	Charlie Chaplin
American-born Greek soprano	1977	Maria Callas
Head of the Catholic Church from 26 Aug 1978 to his death 33 days later	1978	John Paul I
Duke, the archtypical Western actor, won an Oscar for True Grit	1979	John Wayne
American businessman known as the founder of the famous hotel chain.	1979	Conrad Hilton
Italian footballer after whom was stadium in Milan named	1979	Giuseppe Meazza

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