page_title: 1970
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1970 / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Air Marshal Hugh Dowding: also available at This is photograph D 1417 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-27)
context_page_description: 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
context_section_description: February 2
  Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)
  Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
  February 3 – Italo Gariboldi, Italian general (b. 1879)
  February 4 – Louise Bogan, American poet (b. 1897)
  February 5 – Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
  February 6 – Roscoe Karns, American actor (b. 1891)
  February 10
  John Davidson, Scottish-Canadian botanist. (b. 1878)
  Tobias Geffen, Lithuanian-born, American Orthodox rabbi. (b.1870)
  Alfred Roberts, English lay preacher, politician, and father of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1892)
  February 14
  Arthur Edeson, American cinematographer (b. 1891)
  Sasha Siemel, adventurer, hunter, guide, actor, writer, photographer, and lecturer. (b. 1890)
  Harry Stradling, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
  Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880)
  February 15 – Hugh Dowding, British RAF Fighter Commander 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 laureate (b. 1888)
  Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
  February 19 – Jules Munshin, American actor (b. 1915)
  February 20
  João Café Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
  Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
  February 21 – Johannes Semper, Estonian writer and translator (b. 1892)
  February 22
  Edward Selzer, American film producer (b. 1893)
  Dora Boothby, English tennis champion (b. 1881)
  February 24 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
  February 25 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian social reformer (b. 1878)
  February 28 – Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond, English painter (b. 1875)
caption: Hugh Dowding
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