1970s missing person cases

American labor union leader (1913 – disappeared 1975)

French lawyer, political activist and writer (1925–2013)

20th-century Japanese murderer

Lebanese Shiite jurist and political activist

German entrepreneur (1922-2010)

German manager and president of industry association, former SS officer and Nazi party member; kidnapped by terrorist group RAF in 1977 to force release of imprisoned terrorists, subsequently murdered

Argentine journalist and cartoonist

American boy who disappeared in 1979

Kidnapped Japanese child (1964-)

Moroccan Amazigh (Berber) writer and former "disappeared"

American attorney, politician, novelist and activist (1935-1974)

abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea from 1977-83

Dutch-American artist (1942–1975)

1978 disappearance of a pilot over Bass Strait, Australia

Italian singer (born 1946)

American photojournalist

American politician (1932–1972)

Disappeared in the Dirty War (1959-1977)

United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (1920-1979)

British peer and missing murder suspect (born 1934)

Bangladeshi novelist, writer & filmmaker (1935-1972)

American politician (1914–1972)

Mi'kmaq activist (1945-1975)

American mobster (1905–1976)

German politician (1922-1987)

Cambodian politician (1920–1976)

unsolved deaths/disappearance of five California men

American basketball player (1947–1985)

Italian journalist (1921-1970)

American musician

Korean abduction

American alleged alien abduction

Canadian journalist, lawyer and politician (1921-1970)

Hawaiian surfer and lifeguard (1946–1978)

sailor, writer, television host, rally driver and all-round adventurer (1941-2005)

Jesuit priest and author of spiritual books. (1927–2021)

German diplomat (1907-1970)

British explorer (1898–1977)

solved cold case

American mobster (1950–1979)

French sailor (1943-1978)

activist

American singer-songwriter

American child kidnapping victim (1965-1989)

New Zealand cardiologist

American diplomat, intelligence officer, head of Office of Strategic Services in Europe (1898-1977)

Sahrawi nationalist leader, executed by the Spanish Legion in 1970.

Brazilian civil engineer and politician who disappeared during the military dictatorship

British diplomat (1921-2021)

Cambodian prince

American diplomat

kidnapping that happened between 1977 and 1984

Romanian painter and abductee in North Korea

homicide of American girl

Brazilian musician

PLO terrorist

Spanish politician (1913–1977)

Chilean journalist (1950-1974)

murdered in 1972 in Northern Ireland