This is a list of people and other topics appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1970s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.
For the first time since 1960, all of the issues had been back to its standard Monday scheduled time frame.
For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.
1970
January 5 – Middle Americans, Time Man and Woman of the Year January 12 – The Band January 19 – Najeeb Halaby January 26 – Biafra: End of a Rebellion February 2 – Barry Commoner February 9 – The American Indian February 16 – Jane, Henry & Peter Fonda February 23 – Anita Caspary & James Shannon March 2 – Japan's Expo '70 March 9 – Integration March 16 – Heroin Hits the Young March 23 – Inefficient America March 30 – U.S. Postal Strike April 6 – Jesse Jackson April 13 – Günter Grass April 20 – Richard Nixon April 27 – Astronauts Lovell, Haise & Swigert May 4 – Leonid Brezhnev May 11 – Cambodian Invasion May 18 – U.S. Student Protest May 25 – William Masters & Virginia Johnson June 1 – Arthur Burns June 8 – Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, John N. Mitchell, John Ehrlichman & H. R. Haldeman June 15 – Mike Nichols June 22 – Middle East Turmoil June 29 – Edward Heath July 6 – Fight over the Flag July 13 – Jerry Vernon Wilson July 20 – Henry Ford II July 27 – Alaska August 3 – Aged in America August 10 – William P. Rogers August 17 – Generation Gap August 24 – Howard Stein August 31 – Kate Millett September 7 – Elliott Gould September 14 – John Fairchild September 21 – Dawson's Field hijackings September 28 – The Arab Guerillas October 5 – Richard Nixon October 12 – Gamal Abdel Nasser October 19 – Salvador Allende October 26 – Battle for the Senate November 2 – The Urban Guerillas November 9 – Blue Collar Power November 16 – Adlai Stevenson III, John V. Tunney, James L. Buckley & Bill Brock November 23 – Big Bird November 30 – Martha Mitchell December 7 – American POWs December 14 – U.S. Inflation December 21 – Elmo Zumwalt December 28 – The U.S. Family
1971
January 4 – Willy Brandt, Man of the Year January 11 – Ali MacGraw January 18 – U.S. Prisons January 25 – Philip & Daniel Berrigan February 1 – Carl Albert February 8 – The Welfare Maze February 15 – Creighton Abrams February 22 – The Cooling of America March 1 – James Taylor March 8 – Joe Frazier & Muhammad Ali March 15 – Suburbia March 22 – George C. Scott March 29 – Konstantin Katushev, Kirill Mazurov, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexander Shelepin & Dmitry Polyansky April 5 – Aerospace Industry April 12 – William Calley April 19 – The New Genetics April 26 – Yanks in Peking May 3 – Alexis Smith May 10 – Akio Morita May 17 – Anwar Sadat May 24 – The Graduate, 1971 May 31 – Jimmy Carter June 7 – Dick Cavett June 14 – Eddie Cox and Tricia Nixon June 21 – The Jesus Revolution June 28 – The Pentagon Papers July 5 – Daniel Ellsberg July 12 – Joe Colombo July 19 – Lee Trevino July 26 – Henry Kissinger & Richard Nixon August 2 – Pakistan Refugees August 9 – David Scott, James Irwin & Alfred Worden August 16 – George Shultz & Arthur Burns August 23 – Vida Blue August 30 – Richard Nixon September 6 – George Meany September 13 – Edmund Muskie September 20 – B. F. Skinner September 27 – Attica Prison Riots October 4 – Emperor Hirohito October 11 – The New Spy October 18 – John Connally October 25 – Jesus Christ Superstar November 1 – William Rehnquist & Lewis Powell Jr. November 8 – Zhou Enlai November 15 – Battle over Busing November 22 – Beverly Sills November 29 – Edward Kennedy December 6 – Indira Gandhi & Yahya Khan December 13 – Space Exploration December 20 – Birth of Bangladesh December 27 – The Good Samaritan (stained glass depiction by Leandro Velasco)
1972
January 3 – Richard Nixon, Man of the Year January 10 – IRA Fighter January 17 – Roger Staubach & Bob Griese January 24 – Howard Hughes January 31 – Flip Wilson February 7 – Henry Kissinger February 14 – Robert Coles February 21 – Clifford Irving February 28 – Liza Minnelli March 6 – Nixon in China March 13 – Is the U.S. Going Broke? March 20 – The American Woman March 27 – George Wallace April 3 – Jack Anderson April 10 – What It Means to be Jewish April 17 – Viet Nam April 24 – Gang War May 1 – Richard Nixon May 8 – George McGovern May 15 – Võ Nguyên Giáp May 22 – Haiphong Harbor May 29 – Leonid Brezhnev June 5 – Moscow Summit June 12 – Kemmons Wilson June 19 – The Occult Revival June 26 – Edwin Land July 3 – Woody Allen July 10 – Johnny Bench July 17 – Kenneth Elstein July 24 – George McGovern & Thomas Eagleton July 31 – Boris Spassky & Bobby Fischer August 7 – Thomas Eagleton August 14 – Sargent Shriver & George McGovern August 21 – Sex and the Teenager August 28 – Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew September 4 – Global War on Heroin September 11 – Mark Spitz September 18 – Murder at the Olympics September 25 – Redd Foxx, Bea Arthur & Carroll O'Connor October 2 – Richard Nixon & George McGovern October 9 – Pat Nixon & Eleanor McGovern October 16 – Joe Namath October 23 – Campaign Financing October 30 – Henry Kissinger November 6 – The Shape of Peace November 13 – Richard Bach November 20 – Richard Nixon November 27 – Ernest and Julio Gallo December 4 – Liv Ullmann December 11 – Don Shula December 18 – Nutrition December 25 – Skiing
1973
January 1 – Henry Kissinger & Richard Nixon, Time Men of the Year January 8 – The Bombing Question January 15 – Crisis in Congress January 22 – Marlon Brando January 29 – Nixon's Second Term with Zhou Enlai, Leonid Brezhnev, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Henry Kissinger, Lê Đức Thọ, South Vietnamese soldier, American POW & Vietnam veteran protester February 5 – Vietnam Cease-Fire with Lê Đức Thọ & Henry Kissinger February 12 – Ian Anderson, Roberta Flack, Harry Nilsson & Carole King February 19 – POW Families February 26 – George Shultz March 5 – Carlos Castaneda March 12 – Europe March 19 – Robert A. Good March 26 – L. Patrick Gray April 2 – Muammar Gaddafi April 9 – Food Prices April 16 – Sam Ervin April 23 – Pedro Arrupe April 30 – The Watergate Scandal May 7 – Georg Solti May 14 – Richard Nixon May 21 – John Mitchell May 28 – Watergate Revelations June 4 – Richard Nixon June 11 – Secretariat June 18 – The U.S. Economy June 25 – Leonid Brezhnev July 2 – John Dean July 9 – John Dean & Richard Nixon July 16 – Marilyn Monroe & Norman Mailer July 23 – John Mitchell July 30 – Richard Nixon & Sam Ervin August 6 – Constitutional Challenge August 13 – Wendell Anderson August 20 – Spiro Agnew & Richard Nixon August 27 – Nixon's Problems September 3 – Henry Kissinger September 10 – Bobby Riggs September 17 – Hamburger Empire September 24 – Salvador Allende October 1 – Spiro Agnew October 8 – Spiro Agnew October 15 – Middle East War October 22 – Gerald Ford October 29 – Archibald Cox & Richard Nixon November 5 – Richard Nixon November 12 – Nixon's Jury: The People November 19 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia November 26 – Peter Falk December 3 – The Big Freeze December 10 – Rose Mary Woods December 17 – Gerald & Betty Ford December 24 – The Child's World: Christmas 1973 December 31 – The Big Car
1974
January 7 – John Sirica, Man of the Year January 14 – Inside the Brain January 21 – William E. Simon January 28 – The Telltale Tape February 4 – Tip O'Neill February 11 – James Schlesinger February 18 – Exxon February 25 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn March 4 – The Psychics March 11 – Leon Jaworski March 18 – Robert Redford & Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby March 25 – James D. St. Clair April 1 – Henry Kissinger with Henry M. Jackson, Mao Zedong, Georges Pompidou, Hafez al-Assad, Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir & Leonid Brezhnev April 8 – World Inflation April 15 – Richard Nixon April 22 – Alcoholism April 29 – Patty Hearst May 6 – Merle Haggard May 13 – Richard Nixon May 20 – Nixon's Collapsing Presidency May 27 – Mid-East Massacres (victims of Ma'alot massacre and of retaliatory attacks on Lebanon at Nabatieh refugee camp) June 3 – Reggie Jackson June 10 – Henry Kissinger June 17 – Middle-Class Blacks June 24 – Richard Nixon & Anwar Sadat July 1 – Richard Nixon, Henry M. Jackson & Leonid Brezhnev July 8 – The Press: Fair or Foul July 15 – Leadership in America July 22 – Nixon & The Supreme Court July 29 – Republicans (Charles E. Wiggins, Robert McClory, William Cohen) & Impeachment August 5 – Peter W. Rodino August 12 – Jack Nicholson August 19 – Gerald Ford August 26 – Gerald Ford September 2 – Nelson Rockefeller September 9 – The Economy September 16 – Richard Nixon September 23 – Gerald Ford September 30 – William Colby October 7 – Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy & Pat Nixon October 14 – Gerald Ford October 21 – Jerry Brown October 28 – Mary Tyler Moore & Valerie Harper November 4 – Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi November 11 – Yasser Arafat November 18 – David L. Boren, Jerry Brown, Dale Bumpers, Hugh Carey, Michael Dukakis, John Glenn, Ella Grasso & Gary Hart November 25 – The Big Raise. Labor & Inflation December 2 – Yitzhak Rabin December 9 – The Recession December 16 – Joni Mitchell December 23 – The American Pet December 30 – Biblical Magi
1975
January 6 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Man of the Year January 13 – Dr. John Laragh January 20 – Gerald Ford January 27 – Gerald Ford & Carl Albert doctoring the Economy February 3 – Chou En-Lai February 10 – Rebates and Smaller Cars February 17 – Henry M. Jackson February 24 – Bernie Parent March 3 – The World Arms Trade March 10 – American Jews & Israel March 17 – Cher March 24 – Indochina March 31 – Vietnam April 7 – America (Henry Kissinger) & the World (Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Yitzhak Rabin & Anwar Sadat) April 14 – Vietnam April 21 – Gerald Ford April 28 – Jimmy Connors May 5 – North Vietnamese Victory May 12 – Ho Chi Minh May 19 – Mikhail Baryshnikov May 26 – Mayaguez Incident June 2 – Old Age: How to help our parents June 9 – Anwar Sadat June 16 – Margaux Hemingway June 23 – Scene from Jaws June 30 – Crime July 7 – Elton John July 14 – Adam Smith July 21 – U.S. & Soviet hands shaking July 28 – The Ford family in the White House August 4 – Gerald Ford & Leonid Brezhnev August 11 – Lisbon's Troika: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Vasco dos Santos Goncalves & Francisco da Costa Gomes August 18 – Charles O. Finley August 25 – Yitzhak Rabin, Henry Kissinger & Anwar Sadat September 1 – Earthquakes September 8 – Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich September 15 – Lynette Alice Fromme September 22 – Busing Battle September 29 – Patricia Hearst, alias Tania October 6 – Gerald Ford October 13 – The Maharishi October 20 – Abraham Beame October 27 – Bruce Springsteen November 3 – Juan Carlos November 10 – Sarah Caldwell November 17 – Donald Rumsfeld, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford & Henry Kissinger November 24 – Ronald Reagan December 1 – Bloomingdale's shoppers December 8 – L. C. Greenwood, Dwight White, Ernie Holmes & Joe Greene December 15 – Marisa Berenson December 22 – J. Edgar Hoover December 29 – Mother Teresa
1976
January 5 – Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Ker Conway, Billie Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton, Alison Cheek, Women of the Year January 12 – Scene from Days of Our Lives (Susan Seaforth Hayes & Bill Hayes) January 19 – Deng Xiaoping January 26 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan February 2 – Dorothy Hamill February 9 – Doonesbury February 16 – F. Lee Bailey February 23 – Lockheed Scandal March 1 – Gore Vidal March 8 – Jimmy Carter with Mo Udall, Henry M. Jackson, George Wallace & Hubert Humphrey March 15 – Americans on the Move March 22 – American Chic (model Carol Gustafson) March 29 – Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford April 5 – The Porno Plague April 12 – The Middle East Crisis (Lebanese Civil War photograph by Catherine Leroy) April 19 – Howard Hughes April 26 – Baseball player Babe Ruth May 3 – Royal Families