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MCMLXXVI

Ab urbe condita 2729
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Buddhist calendar 2520
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Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. It was also the 1976th year of the Common Era, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s. In Europe the summer of this year was particularly long, warm and dry.

Events[]

January[]

  • January – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
  • January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
  • January 11 – The 1976 Flyers-Red Army game results in a 4-1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union.
  • January 15 – Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison.
  • January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany.
  • January 18
    • Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War.
    • The Scottish Labour Party is formed.
  • January 19Jimmy Carter wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus.
  • January 21 – The first commercial Concorde flight takes off.
  • January 27 – The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state.
The First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara
  • January 29 – Twelve Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs explode in the West End of London.
  • January 30Live from Lincoln Center debuts on PBS.

February[]

  • February 4 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
  • February 5 – Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged riot at Escambia High School in Pensacola, Florida; 30 students are injured in the 4-hour fray.
  • February 11Clifford Alexander Jr. is confirmed as the first African-American Secretary of the United States Army.
  • February 13 – General Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria is assassinated in a military coup.
  • February 15 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
  • February 24Cuba's current constitution is enacted.
  • February 26 – The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.
  • February 27 – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's national liberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" (SADR).
  • February 28 - Madagascar becomes the first country to recognise the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

March[]

  • March 1
    • U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
    • Burundi recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 2Vietnam recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 4
    • The Maguire Seven are found guilty of possessing explosives and subsequently jailed for 14 years.
    • The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British Parliament.
  • March 6Algeria recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 9A cable-car disaster in Cavalese, Italy leaves 42 dead.
  • March 9March 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.
  • March 11Angola and Benin recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 13Mozambique recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain for the next twenty-two years, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. That record will finally be broken by The Ten Commandments, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973 and is still (2012) telecast by that network.
  • March 15Guinea Bissau recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 16
  • March 17
    • Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in New Jersey.
    • Togo recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • March 20Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
  • March 24
    • Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Peron.
    • A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of Congo.
  • March 26 – The Toronto Blue Jays are created.
  • March 27 – The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
  • March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.
  • March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that coma patient Karen Ann Quinlan can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.

April[]

  • April 1
    • Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
    • Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
    • The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by astronomer Patrick Moore.
    • Rwanda recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
  • April 2Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
  • April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
  • April 5
    • James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
    • Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
  • April 13
    • An explosion in an ammunition factory in Lapua, Finland kills 40.
    • The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
  • April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
  • April 23 – The punk rock group The Ramones release their first self-titled album.
  • April 25Portugal's new constitution is enacted.

May[]

  • May 1Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales.
  • May 4
    • The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
    • A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
  • May 6 – An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
  • May 9Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide, in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
  • May 11
    • U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.
    • An accident involving a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia takes place in Houston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.[1][2]
  • May 24Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
  • May 25 – U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
  • May 30Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).
  • May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, whom it had previously supported.

June[]

  • June 1 – The UK and Iceland end the Cod War.
  • June 2 – A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
  • June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128-126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
  • June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the U.S., killing 11 people.
  • June 6 - The Double Six Tragedy, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
  • June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa.
  • June 14 – The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
  • June 16 – The Soweto riots in South Africa begin.
  • June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA-NBA merger.
  • June 20
    • Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. ambassador.
    • General elections are held in Italy.
    • Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76, when the game had ended 2–2 after extra time.
  • June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
  • June 26 – The CN Tower is built in Toronto; the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
  • June 27
    • G-6 renamed “Group of 7” (G-7).
    • Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • June 29Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.

July[]

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Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.

  • July 2North Vietnam and South Vietnam unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • July 3Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
  • July 3 – The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
  • July 4
    • United States Bicentennial: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
    • Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
  • July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.
  • July 7
    • German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.
    • David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe.
  • July 10
    • Three British and 1 American mercenaries are shot by firing squad in Angola.
    • An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milano, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
  • July 12Barbara Jordan is the first black person to keynote a political convention.
  • July 15Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
  • July 16July 20Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Societe Generale Bank in Nice, France.
  • July 17
  • July 18Nadia Comăneci earns the first of 7 perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
  • July 19Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
  • July 20Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
  • July 21 – A bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Irish Republic.
  • July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
  • July 27
    • The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda.
    • Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
  • July 28 – The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
  • July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
  • July 30 – In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions.
  • July 31
    • NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
    • The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

August[]

  • August 1
    • The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II with a President as its head of state.
    • The Seattle Seahawks play their first football game.
    • Racing Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix.
  • August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
  • August 5 – The Great Clock of Westminster (or Big Ben) suffers internal damage and stops running for over nine months.
  • August 6 – Former UK Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
  • August 7Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
  • August 8 – As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
  • August 14
    • Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
    • The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
  • August 16The Ramones, made their first "professional" performance at CBGB.
  • August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea, 2 United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which had obscured their view.
  • August 19U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
  • August 24 – In Uruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Marcelo is later killed and his wife (and unborn child) disappear.
  • August 25Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre.
  • August 26
    • The first known outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in Yambuku, Zaire.
    • Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.
  • August 30James Alexander George Smith "Jags" McCartney was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

September[]

  • September 1 – Cigarette and tobacco advertising banned on Australian television and radio.
  • September 3Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.
  • September 6
    • Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.
    • Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, Nevada, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
  • September 9 – Chairman Mao Zedong, of the People's Republic of China, dies.
  • September 10
    • Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.
    • Osamu Tezuka begins serialising MW, a manga inspired by the 1974 Kakuei Tanaka government scandal.
  • September 16
    • Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into an Erevan reservoir.
    • Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.
  • September 17 – The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar.
  • September 20International Organization of Space Communications (Intersputnik) is founded.
  • September 20September 21 – The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Festival ignites the careers of several influential punk and post-punk bands, arguably sparking the Punk Movement's introduction into mainstream culture.
  • September 21
  • September 24Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).
  • September 25 – The Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.

October[]

  • October 4 – The brand new Intercity 125 High Speed Train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
  • October 6
    • Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on board are killed.[3]
    • Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
    • In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
    • The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.
  • October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-ming is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
  • October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong, as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
  • October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory).
  • October 18Ford officially launches volume production of Fiesta car at its Valencia plant.
  • October 19
    • The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
    • The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.
    • The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
  • October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, LA to Luling, LA, killing 78 passengers and crew.
  • October 21 – The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees in four games to win the 1976 World Series.
  • October 22Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
  • October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.

November[]

  • November 2U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
  • November 15 – The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii.
  • November 19Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
  • November 24 – At least 3,840 are killed in a Richter scale magnitude 7.3 earthquake of Van and Muradiye in Turkey.
  • November 25 – In San Francisco, The Band holds its farewell concert, The Last Waltz.
  • November 26
    • Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
    • Warsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat established.

December[]

  • December 1
    • Angola joins the United Nations.
    • José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico.
    • The Sex Pistols achieve public notoriety as they unleash several 4-letter words live on Bill Grundy's early evening TV show.
    • Sir Douglas Nicholls appointed 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.
  • December 3
    • Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.
    • Patrick Hillery is elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland.
  • December 6
    • The Viet Cong is disbanded in which its former members become a part of the Vietnam People's Army.
  • December 8
    • The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Rio.
    • Hotel California by The Eagles is released.
  • December 10 –The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
  • December 15
    • Samoa joins the United Nations.
    • Denis Healey announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from the International Monetary Fund.
  • December 20Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies.
  • December 23 – A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire.
  • December 28 – Legendary guitarist Freddie King dies.

Date unknown[]

  • In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U.S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell. The orchestra is the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel.
  • Random Breath Testing introduced in Victoria (Australia)
  • The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).
  • California's sodomy law is repealed.
  • The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
  • Diffie-Hellman cryptography is proposed.
  • Plans to move the Nigerian capital from Lagos to Abuja are approved.
  • The New Jersey State Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada.
  • The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) was established by the University of California (UC) in response to the State Legislature's recommendation to expand post-secondary opportunities to all of California’s students including those who are first-generation, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and English-language learners.[4]

Births[]

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Paz Vega

January[]

  • January 2
    • Cletidus Hunt, American football player
    • Paz Vega, Spanish actress
    • Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
  • January 4Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist/writer
  • January 6Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
  • January 7
    • Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
    • Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
  • January 8Jenny Lewis, American actress and singer (Rilo Kiley)
  • January 10Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
  • January 13
    • Bic Runga, New Zealand singer/songwriter
    • Ross McCall, Scottish actor
    • Mario Yepes, Colombian football player
  • January 19Marsha Thomason, English actress
  • January 20
    • Anastasia Volochkova, Russian prima ballerina
    • Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
    • Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish TV presenter
  • January 21Emma Bunton, English musician (Spice Girls)
  • January 22
    • Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice-hockey player
    • James Dearth, American football player
  • January 23
    • Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
    • Nigel McGuiness, English professional wrestler
  • January 27Mohamed Aly, Egyptian reformist & writer
  • January 28Mark Madsen, American basketball player
  • January 30Andy Milonakis, American Internet and MTV star
  • January 31Buddy Rice, American race car driver

February[]

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Tony Jaa

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Rashida Jones

  • February 1Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
  • February 2
    • Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
    • James Hickman, British swimmer
    • Lori Beth Denberg, American comedian
  • February 4 - Cam'ron, American rapper
  • February 5
    • Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
    • Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
    • Brian Moorman, American football player
  • February 6Kim Zmeskal, American Olympic gymnast
  • February 10Lance Berkman, American baseball player
  • February 12
    • Silvia Saint, Czech actress
    • Jenni Falconer, British TV presenter
  • February 14Erica Leerhsen, American actress
  • February 15Brandon Boyd, American rock musician (Incubus)
  • February 16Kyo, Japanese rock musician (Dir en grey)
  • February 20
    • Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
    • Chris Cillizza, American journalist
  • February 21Michael McIntyre, British stand-up comedian
  • February 23Jeff O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
  • February 24Zach Johnson, American golfer
  • February 25Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model, and musician
  • February 27Tamura Yukari, Japanese seiyu and songwriter
  • February 28
    • Ali Larter, American actress and model
    • Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
  • February 29 - Ja Rule, American rapper

March[]

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Reese Witherspoon

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Keri Russell

  • March 1Luke Mably, English actor
  • March 3Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
  • March 4
    • Robbie Blake, English footballer
    • Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
    • Sean Covel, American film producer
    • Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
    • Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
    • Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
  • March 5Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
  • March 6Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
  • March 8
    • Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
    • Gaz Coombes, English musician and singer-songwriter (Supergrass)
  • March 10Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese model, actress and singer
  • March 12Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress
  • March 13Danny Masterson, American actor
  • March 14Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
  • March 16
    • Kim Johnsson, Swedish hockey player
    • Blu Cantrell, American R&B singer
    • Zhu Chen, Chinese chess grandmaster
  • March 17
    • Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
    • Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (d. 2009)
  • March 19
    • Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
    • Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
  • March 20Chester Bennington, American singer Linkin Park
  • March 22
    • Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
    • Reese Witherspoon, American actress
    • Wayne Turner, American basketball player
  • March 23
    • Keri Russell, American actress
    • Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
  • March 24
    • Aaron Brooks, American football player
    • Peyton Manning, American football player
  • March 26Amy Smart, American actress
  • March 27Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
  • March 30
    • Ty Conklin, American ice-hockey player
    • Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer

April[]

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Melissa Joan Hart

  • April 2
    • Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
    • Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
  • April 3Will Mellor, English Actor
  • April 4James Roday, American actor, director and screenwriter
  • April 5Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
  • April 6Candace Cameron, American actress
  • April 9Kris Radlinski, English rugby league player
  • April 10Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006)
  • April 12Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
  • April 13Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor
  • April 14Anna DeForge, American basketball player
  • April 15
    • Steve Williams, British rower
    • Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • April 16Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress and singer
  • April 17 - Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
  • April 18
    • Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
    • Sean Maguire, British actor and singer
  • April 20Joey Lawrence, American actor
  • April 21Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
  • April 22Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
  • April 23Darren Huckerby, English footballer
  • April 25
    • Tim Duncan, West Indian basketball player
    • Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
  • April 29Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and record producer

May[]

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Colin Farrell

  • May 3Beto, Portuguese footballer
  • May 4Jason Michaels, American baseball player
  • May 7 - Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL, First recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Afghanistan War
  • May 8
    • Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American folk-pop singer
    • Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Steps) and actor
  • May 10Udo Mechels, Belgian singer
  • May 14Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
  • May 15
    • Tyler Walker, American baseball player
    • Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
    • Ryan Leaf, former American football quarterback
  • May 17Daniel Komen, Kenyan athlete
  • May 19Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
  • May 20Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
  • May 22
    • Chris Brazzell, Canadian and American Football player
    • Daniel Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
  • May 25
    • Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
    • Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
  • May 26Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
  • May 28Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
  • May 31
    • Roar Ljokelsoy, Norwegian ski jumper
    • Colin Farrell, Irish actor

June[]

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Kym Marsh

  • June 1Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss America 2001
  • June 2
    • Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane)
    • Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
  • June 5Ian Bavitz, better known as Aesop Rock, an American hip-hop artist
  • June 6Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
  • June 8Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
  • June 10
    • Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
    • Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
    • Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress
  • June 11Gran Naniwa, Japanese professional wrestler
  • June 13
    • Kym Marsh, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress
    • Lisa Riley, British actress and presenter
    • Jason "J" Brown, British singer (5ive)
  • June 14Alan Carr, English comedian
  • June 17Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
  • June 20Juliano Haus Belletti, Brazilian footballer
  • June 21Antonio Cochran, American football player
  • June 23
    • Brandon Stokley, American football player
    • Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
    • Patrick Vieira, French footballer
  • June 26Chad Pennington, American football quarterback

July[]

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Bérénice Bejo

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Adrien Grenier

  • July 1
    • Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor
    • Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
    • Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
    • Lina Rafn, Danish singer
  • July 2Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
  • July 3
    • Shane Lynch, Irish singer (Boyzone)
    • Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • July 4Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
  • July 5Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
  • July 7 - Bérénice Bejo, Argentine actress
  • July 8Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman
  • July 9
    • Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
    • Mickey He, Chinese actor and singer
    • Fred Savage, American actor and director
  • July 10
    • Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
    • Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician, and director
  • July 11Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player
  • July 12 - Tracie Spencer, American R&B singer
  • July 16
    • Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
    • Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler
  • July 17Marcos Senna, Brazilian footballer
  • July 19Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer
  • July 20
    • Alex Yoong, Malaysian race car driver
    • Barney Stinson, CEO of Legend wait for it.. Dary
  • July 23Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
  • July 25
    • Timur Mucuraev, Chechen bard
    • Stéphane Rideau, French actor
  • July 26Martha Roby, American U.S. Representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district
  • July 28Jacoby Shaddix, American singer
  • July 31Annie Parisse, American actress

August[]

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Soleil Moon Frye

  • August 1Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian Football player
  • August 3Troy Glaus, American baseball player
  • August 6
    • Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
    • Melissa George, Australian actress
  • August 8
    • Drew Lachey, American singer (98 Degrees)
    • JC Chasez, American singer ('N Sync)
  • August 9
    • Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio producer and presenter
    • Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
    • Audrey Tautou, French actress
  • August 11Will Friedle, American actor and comedian
  • August 12
    • Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist
    • Antoine Walker, American basketball player
  • August 14
    • Alex Albrecht, American television personality
    • Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
  • August 15Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player
  • August 18
    • Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
    • Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player
  • August 19Michael M. Wartella, American underground cartoonist
  • August 24Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater
  • August 27
    • Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
    • Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
    • Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
  • August 30
    • Lillo Brancato, Jr., American actor
    • Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer

September[]

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Naomie Harris

  • September 1Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
  • September 3Jevon Kearse, American football player
  • September 4Brian Myrow, American baseball player
  • September 5Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
  • September 6Naomie Harris, British actress
  • September 7Stevie Case, American video game celebrity
  • September 8Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
  • September 10Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
  • September 12Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
  • September 16Tina Barrett, English singer (S Club 7)
  • September 19
    • Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
    • Alison Sweeney, American actress
  • September 20
    • Yui Horie, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
    • Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
  • September 22Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
  • September 23Rob James-Collier, British actor and model
  • September 24Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American wrestling promoter
  • September 25Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
  • September 26Michael Ballack, German footballer
  • September 27Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
  • September 28Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
  • September 29Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

October[]

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Emily Deschanel

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Ryan Reynolds

  • October 1Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic actress
  • October 4
    • Alicia Silverstone, American actress
    • Mauro Camoranesi, Italian footballer
  • October 6Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
  • October 7
    • Taylor Hicks, American singer
    • Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football player
  • October 10
    • Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
    • Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
  • October 11Emily Deschanel, American actress
  • October 14Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
  • October 15Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress
  • October 18Galder, Norwegian musician
  • October 19
    • Ryuji Imada, Japanese golfer
    • Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey player
    • Michael Young, American baseball player
  • October 21Jeremy Miller, American actor
  • October 22Laidback Luke, Dutch DJ
  • October 23
    • Cat Deeley, British television presenter
    • Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
  • October 25Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
  • October 26
    • Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
    • Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater
  • October 29Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer

November[]

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Anna Faris

  • November 1Chad Lindberg, American actor
  • November 5Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • November 6
    • Pat Tillman, American footballer (d. 2004)
    • Troy Hambrick, American Football Player
    • Wiley Wiggins, American actor
  • November 7Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
  • November 8Brett Lee, Australian cricket player
  • November 11Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
  • November 12Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
  • November 16Mario Barravecchia, Italian singer
  • November 17Diane Neal, American actress
  • November 18Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir)
  • November 19
    • Jack Dorsey, American software architect, businessman, creator of Twitter
    • Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
  • November 20
    • Laura Harris, Canadian actress
    • Dominique Dawes, American Olympic gymnast
  • November 22
    • Torsten Frings, German footballer
    • Ville Valo, Finnish rock singer (HIM)
  • November 24
    • Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
    • Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • November 25Grégory Havret, French golfer
  • November 27Jaleel White, American actor
  • November 29Anna Faris, American actress

December[]

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Dominic Monaghan

  • December 1Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
  • December 3
    • Cornelius Griffin, American football player
    • Marcos Denner, Brazilian footballer
  • December 4Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater
  • December 6Alicia Machado, Miss Universe 1996
  • December 7Georges Laraque, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • December 8Dominic Monaghan, English actor
  • December 13Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
  • December 14Leland Chapman, American bail bondsman
  • December 15Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
  • December 17Takeo Spikes, American football player
  • December 18 - Antti Koivumäki, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko) (d. 2002)
  • December 23Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
  • December 24Angel Matos, former Cuban taekwondo athlete.
  • December 25
    • Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal keyboardist (Nightwish)
    • Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and DJ
  • December 27Fernando Pisani, Canadian ice-hockey player

Deaths[]

January[]

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Agatha Christie

  • January 13Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
  • January 19Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
  • January 21John Gould Moyer, American naval officer, 31st Governor of American Samoa (b. 1893)
  • January 23Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer, writer, and activist (b. 1898)
  • January 26
    • Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (b. 1906)
    • João Branco Núncio, Portuguese bullfighter (b. 1901)
  • January 29 – James Edmonson, American vaudevillian and comedian (b. 1910)
  • January 30Mance Lipscomb, American singer (b. 1895)
  • January 31Ernesto Miranda, American defendant in the court case Miranda v. Arizona (b. 1941)

February[]

March[]

  • March 4Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
  • March 5
    • Charles Lederer, American screenwriter (b. 1910)
    • Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889)
  • March 6
    • Mary Petty, American illustrator (b. 1899)
    • Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
  • March 7Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
  • March 8Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
  • March 10Andris Andreiko, Latvian draughts player (b. 1942)
  • March 14Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
  • March 17Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906)
  • March 19Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
  • March 24
    • Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
    • E. H. Shepard, English artist and book illustrator (b. 1879)
  • March 25Josef Albers, German-American artist (b. 1888)
  • March 28Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
  • March 31Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)

April[]

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Howard Hughes

  • April 1Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
  • April 4Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer (b. 1889)
  • April 5Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric (b. 1905)
  • April 9
    • Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (Nordstrom Sisters) (b. 1903)
    • Phil Ochs, American folk singer and political activist (Outside of a Small Circle of Friends) (b. 1940)
  • April 12
    • Miriam Cooper, American actress (b. 1891)
    • Paul Ford, American actor (b. 1901)
  • April 18Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
  • April 25
    • Carol Reed, English film director (b. 1906)
    • Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886)
  • April 26Sid James, South African actor (b. 1913)
  • April 28Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (b. 1897)

May[]

  • May 1T.R.M. Howard, African-American civil rights leader and surgeon (b. 1908)
  • May 9
    • Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
    • Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (b. 1934)
  • May 11Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
  • May 14Keith Relf, British rock musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
  • May 20
    • Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party (disappeared) (b. 1924)
    • Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politicican (assassinated) (b. 1934)
  • May 26
    • Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
    • Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
  • May 28Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
  • May 30Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer, and Christian evangelist (b. 1902)
  • May 31
    • Martha Beall Mitchell, American wife of John N. Mitchell (b. 1918)
    • Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1910)

June[]

  • June 2
    • Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia (assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor) (b. 1920)
    • Don Bolles, American newspaper reporter (assassinated) (b. 1928)
  • June 6
    • J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil (b. 1892)
    • Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
  • June 7Bobby Hackett, American jazz musician (b. 1915)
  • June 9Sybil Thorndike, British actress (b. 1882)
  • June 10Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
  • June 11Toots Mondt, American WWF promoter (b. 1886)
  • June 14Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (b. 1900)
  • June 15Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
  • June 17Francisco Urondo, Argentine writer (b. 1930)
  • June 23DeHart Hubbard, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
  • June 24Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
  • June 25Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
  • June 28Stanley Baker, British actor (b. 1928)
  • June 30Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b. 1898)

July[]

  • July 1Zhang Wentian, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1900)
  • July 4
    • Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and writer (b. 1895)
    • Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli commando leader (b. 1946)
  • July 6Zhu De, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886)
  • July 7
    • Norman Foster, American film director (b. 1900)
    • Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
  • July 11León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
  • July 12
    • James Wong Howe, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
    • Ted Mack, American radio and television host (b. 1904)
  • July 13
    • Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)
    • Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
  • July 16Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat (assassinated by the Chilean DINA) (b. 1921)
  • July 17Arthur Hornblow, Jr., American film producer (b. 1893)
  • July 24Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912)

August[]

  • August 2
    • Cecilia (singer), Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
    • Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890)
  • August 3Valery Sablin, Soviet mutineer (executed) (b. 1939)
  • August 4Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (assassinated in the "Dirty War") (b. 1923)
  • August 6
    • Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
    • William Mervyn, English actor (b.1912)
  • August 10
    • Ray "Crash" Corrigan, American actor (b. 1902)
    • Robert L. May (Rudolph), Creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (b. 1905)
  • August 19Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (b. 1900)
  • August 22Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
  • August 25Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
  • August 26
    • Warner Anderson, American actor (b. 1911)
    • Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
  • August 27Mukesh, Indian singer (b. 1923)
  • August 28Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)

September[]

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Mao Zedong

  • September 2Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer (b. 1934)
  • September 9
    • Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born rabbi, head of the London Beth Din for 17 years (b. 1886)
    • Mao Zedong, Chinese communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, author, political theorist, and leader of the Chinese Revolution (b. 1893)
  • September 10Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1905)
  • September 11Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
  • September 21Orlando Letelier, Chilean former minister of Salvador Allende (assassinated in Washington, D.C.) (b. 1932)
  • September 26Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
  • September 28Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (b. 1893)
  • September 30Paul Dehn, British screenwriter (b. 1912)

October[]

  • October 5
    • Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1929)
    • Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
  • October 6Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
  • October 11
    • Connee Boswell, American singer (b. 1907)
    • Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
  • October 14Edith Evans, British actress (b. 1888)
  • October 15Carlo Gambino, American gangster (b. 1902)
  • October 25Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist (b. 1903)
  • October 28Máire Drumm, Irish nationalist politician (assassinated) (b. 1919)

November[]

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Rosalind Russell

December[]

Date unknown[]

  • Mariano Andreu, Spanish painter (b. 1888)
  • Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898)
  • Arvid Noe, Norwegian sailor and truck driver, probably the first European to die of AIDS-related illness (b. 1946)

Nobel Prizes[]

  • PhysicsBurton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting
  • ChemistryWilliam Nunn Lipscomb, Jr
  • Physiology or MedicineBaruch S. Blumberg, D Carleton Gajdusek
  • LiteratureSaul Bellow
  • PeaceBetty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
  • EconomicsMilton Friedman

In fiction[]

References[]

  1. ^ "35 years later: Houston’s deadly ammonia truck disaster". Houston Chronicle. 2011-05-26. http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2011/05/35-years-later-houstons-deadly-ammonia-truck-disaster/. Retrieved 2011-05-27. 
  2. ^ "1976 ammonia truck disaster". Houston Chronicle. 2011-05-11. http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Remembering_the_1976_ammonia_truck_disaster.html. Retrieved 2011-05-26. 
  3. ^ "Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent". BBC News. May 11, 2005. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4535661.stm. 
  4. ^ University of California EAOP, 2003 in Review. University of California, 2009-10 Budget for Current Operations Budget Detail, as Presented to the Regents for Approval.


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People of the year 1976 at Familypedia

45 people were born in 1976

 FatherMotherAge mother at birth
Jason Joseph Barbier (1976)Jean-Claude Barbier (1944-2016)Audrey MacCraith (1945-2009)
Barbara Adriana Barrionuevo (1976)Jorje Barrionuevo (1940-)Carmen Landin (1951-)
Chester Charles Bennington (1976-2017)Lee Russel Bennington (1941-1999)Susan Elaine Johnson (1954)
George Prescott Bush (1976)John Ellis Bush (1953)Columba Garnica Gallo (1953)
Csaba Bánffy de Losoncz (1976)András Bánffy de Losoncz (1945)Györgyi Kalavszky (1948)
Matei Ioan Chiliman-Juvara (1976)Andrei Chiliman (1947)Alexandra Juvara (1947)
James Eugene Clanton (1976-)James Ervin Clanton (1947)Geraldine Lynn Hurst (1951)
Amanda Dawn Cornett (1976)David Michael Cornett (1947)Debbie Jean Gibson (1950)
Evin Harrah Cosby (1976)William Henry Cosby (1937)Camille Olivia Hanks (1944)
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (1976)Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch (1939-)Wanda Ventham
Raphael De Niro (1976)Robert De Niro (1943)Diahnne Abbott (1945)
Emily Erin Deschanel (1976)Joseph Caleb Deschanel (1944)Mary Josephine Weri (1945)
Thomas Dumitrescu (1976-)Teodor Dumitrescu (c1952-)Ștefana Țițeica (c1955-)
Anna Kay Faris (1976)John Homan Faris (1946)Karen L. Faris (1946)
Douglas Ferreira (1976)Michael Ferreira (1940-2011)Taylor Bennett (1945-2009)
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14 children were born to the 18 women born in 1976

180 people died in 1976

 FatherMotherAge at death
Delbert William Adair (1934-1976)Leslie Ronald Adair (1914-1951)Mildred Lilly (1918-1997)
Albert John Adams (1903-1976)John Adams (1860-1928)Emily Eliza Watson (1876-1953)
Melissa Iona Allred (1893-1976)Alma Hilford Allred (1861-1935)Luella May Angell (1874-1951)
Golden L. Ard (1900-1976)Moses Caswell "Bunk" Ard (1857-1934)Elizabeth McKenzie (1855-1931)
Bernard Beals Atkins (1896-1976)Arthur Eber Atkins (1874-1950)Effie Beals (1876-1922)
Louise Baldi (1896-1976)
Hilda Elsie Jane Barlow (1890-1976)Samuel Barlow (1848-1891)Emma Castledine (1852-1943)
Ralph Lewis Bass (1896-1976)
Texas Pringle Bates (1902-1976)Albert Franklin Bates (1867-1751)Texas Cope Pringle (1866-1958)
Augustus Beaton (1896-1976)Justin Beaton (1860-1937)Nicoletta Almirante (1863-1930)
Antanas Bedaukis (1888-1976)
Milton Harry Biow (1892-1976)Harry Louis Biow (1865-1931)Lena Deckinger (1868-1928)
Reginald Paul Blunt (1914-1976)Harold Edmund Blunt (1884-1975)Ellen A Baxter
Marrigje Adriana Boot (1900-1976)Casper Boot (c1875-1919)Mensje Schlingmann (c1870-1942)
Richard Midgley Bottomley (1893-1976)Godfrey Bottomley (1854-1943)Sarah Jane Leach (1855-1931)
... further results

5674 people lived in 1976

 FatherMother
Lady Irina Bud de BudfalvaLord János Bud de BudfalvaBaroness Anna Tisza de Borosjenő et Szeged
Tsunekichi Yonogi (1905-2015)Shigeru Yonogi (1876-1940)Miyoko Yonogi (1882-1950)
Rebecca Ababio (1926-1998)
Isabella Abadiano (1930-2003)
Annabelle Abargil (1922-2000)
Jennifer Abaya (1918-1996)
Alysson Abberton (1935-2012)
Julia Abbot (1900-1979)Jordan Abbot (1876-1960)Helen O'Malley (1879-1959)
Alwyn Roy Abbott (1926-1985)Cecil Roy Ernest Abbott (1894-1984)Harriet Helena Bennett (1897-1984)
Anthony Abbott (1911-1993)
Cecil Roy Ernest Abbott (1894-1984)William Abbott (1867-1956)Laura Roberts (1869-1944)
Alexander Abel-Smith (1904-1980)Francis Abel Smith (1861-1908)Madeline St. Maur Seymour (1862-1951)
Henry Abel Smith (1900-1993)Francis Abel Smith (1861-1908)Madeline St. Maur Seymour (1862-1951)
Robert Fuller Abell (1919-2010)Clifford Abell (1875-1965)Jennie Ferne Loshbough (1886-1957)
Elva Alice Abercrombie (1921-1985)Roy Christopher Abercrombie (1888-1959)Alice Elizabeth Harker (c1888-)
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Events of the year 1976 at Familypedia

46 people were married in 1976.

 Joined with
Diahnne Abbott (1945)Robert De Niro (1943)
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904-1985)Hazel Holland Wilson (1899-1966)+Annemarie Hoffman (1946-1976)+Margaret Fristoe (1904-2009)
Taylor Bennett (1945-2009)Michael Ferreira (1940-2011)
Carl XVI Gustaf av Sverige (1946-)Silvia Renate Sommerlath (1943-)
Lynne Irene Bridges (1955)James Parnell Spears (1952)
James H.T.C. Butler (1899-1997)Nan Gilpin + Elizabeth Rarden
Glen Travis Campbell (1936-2017)Diane Kirk+Billie Jean Nunley+Sarah Barg+Kimberly Woollen
Eugene Joseph Carey (1925-2009)Maureen Peppler + Colleen Welch
Greta D'Souza (1946-2018)Ronald Tadashi Hagihara (1940-2020)
Ronald Ivor Ferguson (1931-2003)Susan Mary Wright (1937-1998)+Susan Rosemary Deptford (1946-)
Michael Ferreira (1940-2011)Taylor Bennett (1945-2009)
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (1949)Naomi Achs (1946) + Kathleen Kwai Ching Man (1974)
István Gúthy (1950)Erzsébet Konkoly-Thege (1943)
John Charles Hagee (1940)Martha Downing + Diana Castro
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (1945)Kostas Trikonis (1937)+ William Louis Hudson Jr. (1949)+ Kurt Vogel Russell (1951)
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There were 0 military battles in 1976.


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