Same Day / Decades
The 1970s
118 icons active, 0 born, 23 at their peak.
The twelve longest careers
Born in the 1970s
Nobody on the bill was born in this decade.
At their peak in the 1970s
- Aretha FranklinMusic
- Bob MarleyMusic
- Bon ScottMusic
- Bruce LeeFilm
- Duane AllmanMusic
- George HarrisonMusic
- Gram ParsonsMusic
- Ian CurtisMusic
- Jerry GarciaMusic
- Jim CroceMusic
- John BonhamMusic
- Karen CarpenterMusic
- Keith MoonMusic
- Linda McCartneyPhotographer
- Marc BolanMusic
- Marvin GayeMusic
- Nick DrakeMusic
- Phil LynottMusic
- Ronnie Van ZantMusic
- Sam PeckinpahDirector
- Sandy DennyMusic
- Sid ViciousMusic
- Stanley KubrickDirector
Active in the 1970s
- Akira Kurosawa1943 to 1993
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1927 to 1993
- Alfred Hitchcock1920 to 1976
- Ansel Adams1927 to 1984
- Aretha Franklin1956 to 2017
- Audrey Hepburn1948 to 1989
- Ava Gardner1941 to 1986
- Barbara Stanwyck1927 to 1986
- Bette Davis1931 to 1989
- Bill Haley1946 to 1981
- Billy Wilder1929 to 1981
- Bing Crosby1926 to 1977
- Bo Diddley1951 to 2007
- Bob Marley1962 to 1981
- Bon Scott1964 to 1980
- Bruce Lee1941 to 1973
- Burt Lancaster1946 to 1991
- Busby Berkeley1930 to 1971
- Cass Elliot1961 to 1974
- Cecil Beaton1925 to 1974
- Charlie Chaplin1914 to 1976
- Chuck Berry1953 to 2017
- Dean Martin1940 to 1991
- Del Shannon1958 to 1990
- Diane Arbus1946 to 1971
- Doris Day1939 to 1973
- Duane Allman1961 to 1971
- Duke Ellington1923 to 1974
- Dusty Springfield1958 to 1995
- Edward G. Robinson1916 to 1973
- Elizabeth Taylor1942 to 2001
- Ella Fitzgerald1934 to 1993
- Elvis Presley1954 to 1977
- Etta James1954 to 2011
- Fats Domino1947 to 2007
- Federico Fellini1950 to 1990
- Frank Sinatra1935 to 1995
- Fred Astaire1905 to 1981
- Freddie Mercury1969 to 1991
- Gene Kelly1938 to 1994
- Gene Vincent1955 to 1971
- George Harrison1958 to 2001
- George Hurrell1925 to 1992
- Ginger Rogers1929 to 1984
- Gloria Swanson1914 to 1975
- Gram Parsons1963 to 1973
- Gregory Peck1944 to 2000
- Groucho Marx1905 to 1976
- Henry Fonda1928 to 1981
- Horst P. Horst1931 to 1991
- Howard Hawks1926 to 1970
- Howlin' Wolf1930 to 1975
- Ian Curtis1976 to 1980
- Ingmar Bergman1944 to 2003
- Ingrid Bergman1935 to 1982
- Irving Penn1943 to 2009
- Jack Lemmon1949 to 2000
- Jackie Wilson1953 to 1975
- James Brown1953 to 2006
- James Cagney1930 to 1984
- James Stewart1932 to 1991
- Janis Joplin1962 to 1970
- Jerry Garcia1960 to 1995
- Jim Croce1964 to 1973
- Jim Marshall1959 to 2010
- Jim Morrison1965 to 1971
- Jimi Hendrix1962 to 1970
- Joan Crawford1925 to 1972
- John Bonham1964 to 1980
- John Ford1914 to 1971
- John Lennon1957 to 1980
- John Wayne1926 to 1976
- Johnny Cash1954 to 2003
- Karen Carpenter1965 to 1983
- Katharine Hepburn1928 to 1994
- Keith Moon1962 to 1978
- Kirk Douglas1946 to 2008
- Lana Turner1937 to 1991
- Lauren Bacall1942 to 2014
- Lillian Gish1912 to 1987
- Linda McCartney1966 to 1998
- Little Richard1947 to 2013
- Louis Armstrong1919 to 1971
- Mae West1907 to 1978
- Mahalia Jackson1927 to 1971
- Man Ray1915 to 1976
- Marc Bolan1965 to 1977
- Marlene Dietrich1923 to 1978
- Marlon Brando1950 to 2001
- Marvin Gaye1957 to 1984
- Miles Davis1944 to 1991
- Muddy Waters1941 to 1982
- Myrna Loy1925 to 1981
- Natalie Wood1943 to 1981
- Nick Drake1967 to 1974
- Nina Simone1954 to 2002
- Orson Welles1934 to 1985
- Paul Newman1952 to 2006
- Peter Sellers1948 to 1980
- Phil Lynott1967 to 1985
- Ray Charles1947 to 2004
- Richard Avedon1944 to 2004
- Rita Hayworth1934 to 1972
- Robert Mitchum1943 to 1997
- Ronnie Van Zant1964 to 1977
- Roy Orbison1953 to 1988
- Sam Peckinpah1955 to 1983
- Sammy Davis Jr.1933 to 1990
- Sandy Denny1966 to 1978
- Sergio Leone1959 to 1984
- Sid Vicious1976 to 1979
- Sidney Poitier1950 to 2001
- Slim Aarons1942 to 1990
- Stanley Kubrick1951 to 1999
- Steve McQueen1952 to 1980
- Syd Barrett1965 to 1972
- Toni Frissell1931 to 1970
- Vincent Price1938 to 1993