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Year '''1976''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXXVI]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] (link will display full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
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===January===
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*January - The [[Cray-1]], the first commercially developed [[supercomputer]], is released by [[Seymour Cray]]'s [[Cray Research]].
* [[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]]
**The [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] defeat the [[Dallas Cowboys]] 21-17 in [[Super Bowl X]] played at the [[Orange Bowl (stadium)|Orange Bowl]] in [[Miami, Florida]].
**The [[Scottish Labour Party]] is formed.
* [[January 19]] - [[Jimmy Carter]] wins the [[Iowa caucus|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 [[Palestine|Palestinian]] state.
* [[January 29]] - Twelve [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] bombs explode in [[London]]'s [[West End of London|West End]].
* [[January 30]] - ''[[Live from Lincoln Center]]'' debuts on [[PBS]].
===February===
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* [[February 4]]
**The [[1976 Winter Olympics]] open in [[Innsbruck]], [[Austria]].
**In [[Guatemala]] and [[Honduras]] an [[earthquake]] kills more than 22,000.
* [[February 5]] - Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged [[Escambia High School riots|riot at Escambia High School]] in [[Pensacola, Florida]]. 30 students are injured in the four-hour fray.
* [[February 11]] - [[Clifford Alexander Jr.]] is confirmed as the first [[African-American]] Secretary of the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]].
* [[February 13]] - General [[Murtala Mohammed]] of [[Nigeria]] was assassinated in a military coup.
* [[February 15]] - The 1976 [[Constitution of Cuba]] is adopted by national [[referendum]].
* [[February 24]] - [[Cuba]]'s current [[constitution]] is enacted.
* [[February 27]] - [[Western Sahara]] declares independence.
* [[February 28]] - [[Spain]] gives up territories in [[Sahara]] but retains its [[enclave]]s of [[Melilla]] and [[Ceuta]].
===March===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Merlyn Rees]] ends [[Special Category Status]] for those sentenced for scheduled [[Terrorism|terrorist]] crimes relating to the civil violence in [[Northern Ireland]].
* [[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 9]] - [[Cavalese cable-car disaster (1976)|A cable-car disaster]] in [[Cavalese]], [[Italy]] leaves 42 dead.
* [[March 9]]-[[March 11]] - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, Letcher County, KY.
* [[March 16]] - [[Harold Wilson]] resigns as Prime Minister of the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[March 17]] - [[Rubin Carter|Rubin "Hurricane" Carter]] is retried in [[New Jersey]].
* [[March 20]] - [[Patty Hearst]] is found guilty of armed robbery of a [[San Francisco]] bank.
* [[March 24]] - [[Argentina]] military forces depose president [[Isabel Peron]].
* [[March 26]] - The [[Toronto Blue Jays]] are created.
* [[March 26]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]] sends the first royal [[e-mail]].
* [[March 27]] - The first 4.6 miles of the [[Washington Metro]] [[Subway (rail)|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===
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* [[April 1]] - [[Apple Computer]] Company is formed by [[Steve Jobs]] and [[Steve Wozniak]].
* April 1 - [[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.
* April 1 - [[Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect]] first reported by the [[astronomer]] [[Patrick Moore]]
* [[April 2]] - [[Norodom Sihanouk]] forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the [[Khmer Rouge]] led by [[Pol Pot]]. Under their control the country becomes known as [[Cambodia]].
* [[April 3]] - The 21st [[Eurovision Song Contest 1976]] is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the [[United Kingdom]], with their song ''[[Save Your Kisses for Me]]''.
* [[April 4]] - Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] resigns as leader of [[Cambodia]] and is placed under house arrest.
* [[April 5]] - [[James Callaghan]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* April 5 - [[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.
* [[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 25]] - [[Portugal]]'s new [[constitution]] is enacted.
===May===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Neville Wran]] becomes [[Premiers of New South Wales|Premier of New South Wales]].
* [[May 4]] - The first [[LAGEOS]] (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
* [[May 4]] - A train crash in [[Schiedam]], the [[Netherlands]], kills 24 people.
* [[May 6]] - An [[earthquake]] hits [[Friuli]] area in [[Italy]] killing more than 900 people with another 100,000 homeless.
* [[May 9]] - [[Ulrike Meinhof]] of [[Red Army Faction]] is found hanging in an apparent suicide, in her Stuttgart-Stannheim prison cell.
* [[May 11]] - U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] signs the [[Federal Election Campaign Act]].
* [[May 24]] - [[Washington, D.C.]] [[Concorde]] service begins.
* [[May 25]] - U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] defeats challenger [[Ronald Reagan]] in three [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] presidential primaries: [[Kentucky]], [[Tennessee]] and [[Oregon]].
* [[May 30]] - [[Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 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 [[Lebanese Civil War#Syrian intervention|intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War]] in opposition to the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] whom it had previously supported.
===June===
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* [[June 1]] - The [[United Kingdom|UK]] and [[Iceland]] end the [[Cod War]].
* [[June 2]] - A car bomb fatally injures [[Arizona Republic]] reporter [[Don Bolles]].
* [[June 5]] - The [[Teton Dam]] collapses in southeast [[Idaho]] in the U.S., killing 11 people.
* [[June 13]] - Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of [[Iowa]] spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 [[tornado]] that destroyed 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 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]].
* June 20 - General elections are held in [[Italy]].
* June 20 - [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]] beats [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] 5-3 on [[kicks from the penalty mark|penalties]] to win [[1976 UEFA European Football Championship|Euro 76]], when the game had ended 2-2 after extra time.
* [[June 25]] - Strikes start in Poland ([[Ursus (district in Warsaw)|Ursus]], [[Radom]], [[Płock]]) after communists raise food prices; strikes 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]] - Palestinian extremists hijack an [[Air France]] plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to [[Entebbe]], [[Uganda]].
===July===
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[[Image:Amerigo vespucci 1976 nyc aufgetakelt.jpg|thumb|Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the [[United States Bicentennial]] celebration.]]
* [[July 2]] - [[North Vietnam]] and [[South Vietnam]] unite to form the Socialist Republic of [[Vietnam]] - a [[Communist]] country.
* [[July 3]] - ''[[Gregg 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 [[1976 United Kingdom heat wave|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, United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]].
* [[July 4]] - The Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) leads 50,000 marchers in Philadelphia to demand a "Bicentennial Without Colonies" and independence for [[Puerto Rico]].
* July 4 - [[Entebbe Raid]]: [[Israel]]i 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]].
* [[July 10]] - Three British and 1 American [[mercenary|mercenaries]] are shot by firing squad in [[Angola]].
* July 10 - [[Seveso disaster|An explosion in Seveso]], [[Italy]], kills a large number of people.
* July 12 - [[Barbara Jordan]] is the first black person to keynote a political convention.
* [[July 15]] - [[Jimmy Carter]] is nominated for [[U.S. President]] at the [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[New York City]].
* [[July 16]]-[[July 20]] - [[Albert Spaggiari]] and his gang break into the vault of the Societe Generale Bank in [[Nice]], [[France]].
* [[July 17]] - The [[1976 Summer Olympics]] begin in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]].
* [[July 17]] - [[East Timor]] is declared the 27th province of [[Indonesia]].
* [[July 18]] -[[Nadia Comaneci]] earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
* [[July 19]] - [[Sagarmatha National Park]] in [[Nepal]] is created.
* [[July 20]] - [[Viking program]]: The [[Viking 1]] lander successfully lands on [[Mars (planet)|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 Party (United States)|Republican]] delegates away from President [[Gerald Ford]].
* [[July 27]] - The [[United Kingdom]] breaks diplomatic relations with [[Uganda]].
* [[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 Esporte Clube|Cruzeiro]] from [[Brazil]] beats [[Club Atlético River Plate|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]].
* [[July 31]] - The [[Big Thompson River]] in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses.
===August===
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* [[August 1]] - The Caribbean nation of [[Trinidad and Tobago]] becomes a [[republic]], replacing [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] with a [[President of Trinidad and Tobago|President]] as its [[head of state]].
* August 1 - The [[Seattle Seahawks]] first football game.
* August 1 - 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 at Mockingbird Lane 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 4]] - The first recognized outbreak of [[Legionellosis|Legionnaires' disease]] kills 29 at the American Legion convention in [[Philadelphia]].
* [[August 5]] - The Great Clock of Westminster (or [[Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster|Big Ben]]) suffers internal damage and stops running for over 9 months.
* [[August 6]] - Former UK Postmaster General [[John Stonehouse]] is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
* [[August 7]] - [[Viking program]]: [[Viking 2]] enters into orbit around [[Mars (planet)|Mars]].
* [[August 14]] - Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in [[Northern Ireland]].
* August 14 - The [[Senegal]]ese [[political party]] ''[[African Independence Party-Renewal|PAI-Rénovation]]'' is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
* [[August 18]] - In [[North Korea]] at Panmunjom, two [[United States]] soldiers are killed while trying to [[Operation Paul Bunyan|chop down part of a tree]] in the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] which had obscured their view.
* [[August 19]] - [[Gerald Ford|U.S. President Gerald Ford]] edges out challenger [[Ronald Reagan]] to win the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] presidential nomination in [[Kansas City, Missouri|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 25]] - Resignation of [[Jacques Chirac]] as [[Prime Minister of France]]; he is succeeded by [[Raymond Barre]].
* [[August 26]]
** First known outbreak of [[Ebola]] virus 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.
===September===
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* [[September 3]] - [[Viking program]]: The [[Viking 2]] spacecraft lands at [[Utopia Planitia]] on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]], taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.
* [[September 6]] - [[Cold War]]: [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] air force pilot Lt. [[Viktor Belenko]] lands a [[MiG-25]] jet fighter at [[Hakodate]], on the island of [[Hokkaidō]] in [[Japan]], and requests [[refugee|political asylum]] from the [[United States]].
* [[September 6]] - [[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 6]] - first appearance of ''[[Motley's Crew]]'', American comic strip by [[Ben Templeton]] and [[Tom Forman (comics)|Tom Forman]]
* [[September 9]] - Chairman [[Mao Zedong]], of the [[People's Republic of China]], dies.
* [[September 10]] - [[1976 Zagreb mid-air collision|Zagreb mid-air collision]]: a [[British Airways]] Trident and a [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] DC-9 collide near [[Zagreb]], [[Yugoslavia]] (now [[Croatia]]), killing all 176 aboard.
* September 10 - [[Osamu Tezuka]] begins serialising ''[[MW (manga)|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 [[Erevan]] [[reservoir]].
* [[September 17]] - The space shuttle [[Space Shuttle Enterprise|''Enterprise'']] is rolled out of a [[Palmdale, California]] hangar.
* [[September 20]] - [[September 21]] - The semi-legendary [[100 Club Punk Festival]] ignites the careers of several influential punk and [[gothic rock]] bands, arguably sparking the [[Punk Movement]]'s introduction into mainstream culture.
* [[September 21]] - [[Seychelles]] joins the [[United Nations]].
* September 21 - [[Orlando Letelier]] is assassinated in [[Washington, D.C.]] by agents of [[Chile]]an dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]].
* [[September 24]] - [[Patricia Hearst]] is sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a [[1974]] bank robbery (an executive clemency order from [[President of the United States|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===
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* [[October 6]] - [[Cubana Flight 455]] crashes due to a bomb placed by [[Opposition to Fidel Castro|anti-Fidel Castro terrorists]], after taking off from Bridgetown, [[Barbados]]. All 73 people on board are killed. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4535661.stm]
* October 6 - [[6 October 1976 Massacre|Massacre of students]] gathering at [[Thammasat University]] in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]] to protest the return of ex-dictator [[Thanom Kittikachorn|Thanom]] by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
* October 6 - 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 was at the time).
* [[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]] had 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 15]] - Schools in [[Eagle Point, OR]] close due to rejection of budget by voters prompting taxpayer creation of B.E.L.T. (Better Education for Less Taxes) Committee.
* [[October 19]] - The [[Copyright Act of 1976]] extends [[copyright]] duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
* October 19 - The [[Battle of Aishiya]] is fought in [[Lebanon]].
* October 19 - The [[Chimpanzee]] (''Pan troglodytes'') is placed on the list of endangered species.
* [[October 20]] - The [[Mississippi River]] ferry [[MV George Prince ferry disaster|MV George Prince]] is struck by a ship while crossing from [[Destrehan, LA]] to [[Luling, LA]], killing 78 passengers and crew.
* [[October 22]] - [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]], the fifth [[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===
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* [[November 2]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1976]]: [[Jimmy Carter]] defeats incumbent [[Gerald Ford]], becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the [[U.S. Civil War|Civil War]].
* [[November 15]] - The first [[megamouth shark]] is discovered off [[Oahu]] in [[Hawaii]].
* [[November 19]] - [[Jaime Ornelas Camacho]] takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of [[Madeira]], [[Portugal]].
* [[November 24]] - At least 3,840 killed in 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]].
===December===
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* [[December 1]]
**[[Angola]] joins the [[United Nations]].
**[[Sex Pistols]] achieve public notoriety as they unleash several 4-letter words live on [[Bill Grundy]]'s TV show.
* [[December 3]] - [[Bob Marley]] and his manager [[Don Taylor]] are shot in an assassination attempt, at [[56 Hope Road]] in [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], [[Jamaica]]. Marley is shot twice, but Taylor takes most of the bullets; both survive.
* [[December 3]] - [[Patrick Hillery]] is elected unopposed as the sixth [[President of Ireland]].
* [[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]].
* [[December 8]] - "The Hotel California", by The Eagles released.
* [[December 15]] - [[Samoa]] joins the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 20]] - [[Richard J. Daley]], [[Mayor of Chicago]] for 21 years, dies.
* [[December 23]] - A new volcano, [[Murara]], erupts in eastern [[Zaire]].
===Undated===
* First [[laser printer]] introduced by [[International Business Machines|IBM]] - the IBM 3800
* [[California]]'s [[sodomy law]] repealed.
* The term [[memetics]] first proposed by [[Richard Dawkins]] in his book ''The Selfish Gene.''
* [[Diffie-Hellman]] [[cryptography]] proposed
* Plans to move the [[Nigeria]]n capital from [[Lagos]] to [[Abuja]] are approved.
* The [[New Jersey State Legislature]] passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] commencing in [[1978]]. After signing the bill into law [[Governor]] [[Brendan Byrne]] declared "The [[Mafia|mob]] is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in [[Nevada]].
===Ongoing===
*[[Angolan Civil War]] (1974-2002)
*[[Cambodian-Vietnamese War]] (1975-1989)
* [[Cold War]] (1945-1991)
*[[Ethiopian Civil War]] (1975-1991)
*[[Independence War in Cabinda]] (1975-2006)
*[[Indonesian invasion of East Timor]] (1975-1978)
*[[Lebanese Civil War]] (1975-1991)
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 2]] - [[Cletidus Hunt]], American football player
* [[January 2]] - [[Paz Vega]], Spanish actress
* [[January 2]] - [[Mahée Paiement]], Canadian actress
* [[January 4]] - [[Shiro Amano]], Japanese [[manga]] artist/writer
* [[January 6]] - [[Danny Pintauro]], US actor
* [[January 6]] - [[Johnny Yong Bosch]], US actor
* [[January 7]] - [[Éric Gagné]], Canadian baseball player
* [[January 7]] - [[Alfonso Soriano]], Dominican [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[January 8]] - [[Jenny Lewis]], US actress and musician ([[Rilo Kiley]])
* [[January 10]] - [[Adam Kennedy]], American baseball player
* [[January 13]] - [[Bic Runga]], New Zealand singer/songwriter
* [[January 19]] - [[Marsha Thomason]], British actress
* [[January 20]] - [[Gretha Smit]], Dutch speed skater
* [[January 20]] - [[Kirsty Gallacher]], TV presenter
* [[January 21]] - [[Emma Bunton]], English musician ([[Spice Girls]])
* [[January 22]] - [[Mikko Luoma]], Finnish ice hockey player
* [[January 22]] - [[James Dearth]], American football player
* [[January 23]] - [[Tony Lucca]], US singer/songwriter
* [[January 23]] - [[Angelica Lee]], Taiwanese actress and singer
* [[January 27]] - [[Ruby Lin]], Taiwanese actress and singer
* [[January 27]] - [[Mohamed Aly]], Egyptian Reformist & Writer
* [[January 28]] - [[Mark Madsen]], US basketball player
* [[January 28]] - [[Lee Ingleby]], British actor
* [[January 29]] - [[Tracy Lynn Cruz]], US actress
* [[January 30]] - [[Andy Milonakis]], Internet and MTV star
* [[January 31]] - [[Buddy Rice]], US race car driver
* [[February 2]] - [[James Hickman]], British swimmer
* [[February 2]] - [[Lori Beth Denberg]], US comedian
* [[February 4]] - [[Cam'ron]], US rapper
* [[February 5]] - [[Abhishek Bachchan]], Indian actor
* [[February 5]] - [[Tony Jaa]], Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
* [[February 5]] - [[Brian Moorman]], American football player
* [[February 6]] - [[Colin Teo]], Singaporean [[D1 Grand Prix|D1 Professional Grand Prix]] drifter
* [[February 8]] - [[Abi Titmuss]], British TV presenter and model
* [[February 9]] - [[Vladimir Guerrero]], Dominican [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[February 10]] - [[Lance Berkman]], baseball player
* [[February 12]] - [[Silvia Saint]], Czech actress
* [[February 12]] - [[Jenni Falconer]], British TV presenter
* [[February 13]] - [[Martin Sastre]], Uruguayan artist
* [[February 15]] - [[Brandon Boyd]], US musician ([[Incubus (band)|Incubus]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Ronnie Vannucci Jr.]], US drummer for Las Vegas based band The Killers
* [[February 16]] - [[Kyo (musician)|Kyo]], Japanese musician ([[Dir en grey]])
* [[February 20]] - [[Ed Graham]], British drummer ([[The Darkness]])
* [[February 23]] - [[Jeff O'Neill]], Canadian hockey player
* [[February 25]] - [[Rashida Jones]], US actress, writer, model, and musician
* [[February 28]] - [[Ali Larter]], US actress, and model
* [[February 28]] - [[Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge]], Canadian actor
* [[February 29]] - [[Ja Rule]], US rapper
===March-April===
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* [[March 2]] - [[Shane Brewer]], Equestrian
* [[March 3]] - [[Fraser Gehrig]], Australian rules footballer
* [[March 4]] - [[Hiram Bocachica]], Puerto Rican baseball player
* [[March 4]] - [[Scott Sturgeon]] (Stza Crack), US musician ([[Choking Victim]] and [[Leftover Crack]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Thierry Renaer]], Belgian field hockey player
* [[March 4]] - [[Vic Wunderle]], US archer
* [[March 5]] - [[Sarunas Jasikevicius]], Lithuanian basketball player
* [[March 6]] - [[Mr.Kennedy]], American professional Wrestler
* [[March 8]] - [[Freddie Prinze Jr.]], US actor
* [[March 10]] - [[Haifa Wehbe]], Lebanese model, actress and singer
* [[March 13]] - [[Danny Masterson]], US actor
* [[March 14]] - [[Hunter Burgan]], US musician ([[AFI (band)|AFI]])
* [[March 16]] - [[Kim Johnsson]], Swedish hockey player ([[Minnesota Wild]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Rachel Blanchard]], Canadian actress
* [[March 19]] - [[Alessandro Nesta]], Italian football player
* [[March 20]] - [[Chester Bennington]], US musician ([[Linkin Park]])
* [[March 22]] - [[Teun de Nooijer]], Dutch field hockey player
* [[March 22]] - [[Reese Witherspoon]], US actress
* [[March 22]] - [[Kellie Shanygne Williams]], US actress
* [[March 22]] - [[Wayne Turner]], US professional basketball player
* [[March 23]] - [[Keri Russell]], US actress
* [[March 24]] - [[Aaron Brooks]], American football player
* [[March 24]] - [[Peyton Manning]], American football player
* [[March 26]] - [[Amy Smart]], US actress
* [[March 27]] - [[Carl Ng]], Hong Kong/British actor and model
* [[March 28]] - [[Dave Keuning]], US guitarist for the Las-Vegas based band The Killers
* [[March 30]] - [[Ty Conklin]], US ice hockey player
* [[April 2]] - [[Lucy Diakovska]], German-Bulgarian pop singer
* [[April 2]] - [[Rory Sabbatini]], South African golfer
* [[April 3]] - [[Drew Shirley]], US guitarist ([[Switchfoot]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Jonathan Ian Mathers]], Creator of Neurotically Yours
* [[April 6]] - [[Candace Cameron]], US actress
* [[April 9]] - [[Kris Radlinski]], English rugby league player
* [[April 13]] - [[Jonathan Brandis]], American actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Yoo Ji-tae]], South Korean actor
* [[April 14]] - [[Anna DeForge]], American professional basketball player
* [[April 15]] - [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]], British rower
* [[April 15]] - [[Jason Bonsignore]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[April 16]] - [[Shu Qi]], Taiwanese actress and singer
* [[April 18]] - [[Melissa Joan Hart]], US actress
* [[April 20]] - [[Joey Lawrence]], US actor
* [[April 21]] - [[Rommel Adducul]], Filipino basketball player
* [[April 22]] - [[Michał Żewłakow]], Polish footballer
* [[April 23]] - [[Darren Huckerby]], English footballer
* [[April 25]] - [[Tim Duncan]], West Indian basketball player
* [[April 25]] - [[Rainer Schüttler]], German tennis player
* [[April 26]] - [[Emily Booth (actress)|Emily Booth]], English actress and TV presenter
* [[April 26]] - [[Jose Pasillas]], drummer of the American alternative rock band [[Incubus (band)|Incubus]]
* [[April 29]] - [[Jay Orpin]] - Swedish composer and record producer
* [[April 30]] - [[Amanda Palmer]] - Lead vocalist and pianist of [[The Dresden Dolls]]
===May-June===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Darius McCrary]], US actor
* [[May 3]] - [[Roberto Luis de Deus Severo|Beto]], Portuguese footballer
* [[May 4]] - [[Jason Michaels]], Major League Baseball
* [[May 8]] - [[Martha Wainwright]], Canadian American folk-pop singer
* [[May 10]] - [[Udo Mechels]], Belgian singer
* [[May 14]] - [[Martine McCutcheon]], British actress and singer
* [[May 15]] - [[Tyler Walker]], Major League Baseball player
* [[May 15]] - [[Jacek Krzynówek]], Polish soccer player
* [[May 15]] - [[Ryan Leaf]], former NFL quarterback
* [[May 17]] - [[Wang Lee Hom]], US born Taiwanese singer/songwriter
* [[May 19]] - [[Kevin Garnett]], National Basketball Association player
* [[May 20]] - [[Ramón Hernández]], Venezuelan [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[May 22]] - [[Chris Brazzell]], Canadian football league player and ex NFL player
* [[May 25]] - [[Miguel Tejada]], Dominican [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[May 25]] - [[Cillian Murphy]], Irish actor
* [[May 26]] - [[Paul Collingwood]], English Cricket Captain
* [[May 26]] - [[Justin Pierre]], US musician ([[Motion City Soundtrack]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Colin Farrell]], Irish actor
* [[June 1]] - [[Angela Perez Baraquio]], Miss America 2001
* [[June 2]] - [[Tim Rice-Oxley]], composer/pianist for British rock band [[Keane (band)|Keane]]
* [[June 2]] - [[Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso]], Queen consort of Lesotho
* [[June 4]] - [[Reggie Rolle]], US actor
* [[June 6]] - [[Geoff Rowley]], professional skateboarder
* [[June 8]] - [[Lindsay Davenport]], US tennis player
* [[June 10]] - [[Freddy Garcia]], Venezuelan [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[June 10]] - [[Esther Ouwehand]], Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the [[Party for the Animals]]
* [[June 13]] - [[Jason 'J' Brown]], English musician ([[5ive]])
* [[June 13]] - [[Kym Marsh]], British singer and actress
*[[june 14]] - [[Alan Carr]], comedian in [[The Friday Night Project]]
* [[June 13]] - [[Lindsay Archer]], US [[fantasy]] artist
* [[June 13]] - [[Lisa Riley]], British actress and presenter
* [[June 15]] - [[Dryden Mitchell]], member of the band [[Alien Ant Farm]]
* [[June 15]] - [[Gary Lightbody]], frontman of the rock band [[Snow Patrol]]
* [[June 20]] - [[Juliano Haus Belletti]], Brazilian soccer player
* [[June 21]] - [[Antonio Cochran]], American football player
* [[June 21]] - [[Mike Einziger]], guitarist of the American alternative rock band [[Incubus (band)|Incubus]]
* [[June 23]] - [[Brandon Stokley]], National Football League wide receiver
* [[June 23]] - [[Emmanuelle Vaugier]], Canadian actress
* [[June 23]] - [[Patrick Vieira]], French soccer player
* [[June 26]] - [[Chad Pennington]], National Football League quarterback
===July-August===
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* [[July 1]] - [[Justin Lo]], Hong Kong singer and actor
* [[July 1]] - [[Patrick Kluivert]], Dutch footballer
* [[July 1]] - [[Ruud van Nistelrooy]], Dutch footballer
* [[July 1]] - [[Lina Rafn]], Danish singer
* [[July 2]] - [[Krisztián Lisztes]], Hungarian footballer
* [[July 4]] - [[Daijiro Kato]], Japanese motorcycle racer
* [[July 5]] - [[Bizarre (rapper)|Bizarre]], American rapper
* [[July 5]] - [[Marina Dias]], Brazilian supermodel
* [[July 5]] - [[Mike DeWolf]], member of the band [[Taproot (band)|Taproot]]
* [[July 5]] - [[Nuno Gomes]], Portuguese footballer
* [[July 7]] - [[Elijah Blue Allman]], Deadsy frontman and son of Cher and Greg Allman
* [[July 7]] - [[Natasha Collins]], British actress and television presenter (d. [[2008]])
* [[July 8]] - [[Ellen MacArthur]], English yachtswoman
* [[July 9]] - [[Shelton Benjamin]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 9]] - [[Fred Savage]], US actor
* [[July 10]] - [[Ludovic Giuly]], French footballer
* [[July 10]] - [[Adrian Grenier]], US actor, musician, and director
* [[July 11]] - [[Eduardo Nájera]], Mexican basketball player
* [[July 16]] - [[Anna Smashnova]], Israeli tennis player
* [[July 16]] - [[Bobby Lashley]], American Professional Wrestler
* [[July 17]] - [[Marcos Senna]], Brazilian footballer
* [[July 20]] - [[Andrew Stockdale]], singer/guitarist for [[Wolfmother]]
* [[July 20]] - [[Alex Yoong]], Malaysian race car driver
* [[July 23]] - [[Judit Polgar]], Hungarian chess player
* [[July 23]] - [[Jonathan Gallant]], bassist for the Canadian rock band [[Billy Talent]]
* [[July 25]] - [[Timur Mucuraev]], Chechen bard
* [[July 25]] - [[Stéphane Rideau]], French actor
* [[July 31]] - [[Annie Parisse]], US actress (''[[Law & Order]]'')
* [[August 3]] - [[Troy Glaus]], US baseball player
* [[August 6]] - [[Melissa George]], Australian actress
* [[August 8]] - [[JC Chasez]], US singer
* [[August 8]] - [[Drew Lachey]], American singer
* [[August 9]] - [[Jessica Capshaw]], US actress
* [[August 9]] - [[Rhona Mitra]], English actress
* [[August 11]] - [[Ben Gibbard]], US musician, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service
* [[August 11]] - [[Brendan Bayliss]], Guitarist and Vocals, Umphrey's McGee
* [[August 12]] - [[Mikko Lindström]], guitarist for Finnish rock band HIM
* [[August 12]] - [[Antoine Walker]], US basketball player
* [[August 12]] - [[Wednesday 13]] (Joseph Poole), lead singer of the [[Murderdolls]] and [[FDQ]]
* [[August 13]] - [[Roddy Woomble]], Scottish musician
* [[August 14]] - [[Alex Albrecht]], US television personality
* [[August 14]] - [[Maya Nasri]], Lebanese actress and singer
* [[August 15]] - [[Boudewijn Zenden]], Dutch football player
* [[August 18]] - [[Alex Katunich]], original bassist for the band Incubus
* [[August 19]] - [[Wartella|Michael M. Wartella]], US underground cartoonist
* [[August 25]] - [[Jensen Atwood]], US actor
* [[August 27]] - [[Carlos Moyà]], Spanish tennis player
* [[August 27]] - [[Mark Webber]], Australian race car driver
* [[August 27]] - [[Sarah Chalke]], Canadian actress
===September-October===
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* [[September 3]] - [[Jevon Kearse]], American football player
* [[September 4]] - [[Brian Myrow]], Major League Baseball Player
* [[September 5]] - [[Carice van Houten]], Dutch actress
* [[September 6]] - [[Naomie Harris]], British actress
* [[September 7]] - [[Stevie Case]], US video game celebrity
* [[September 8]] - [[Sjeng Schalken]], Dutch tennis player
* [[September 10]] - [[Gustavo Kuerten]], Brazilian tennis player
* [[September 12]] - [[Maciej Żurawski]], Polish footballer
* [[September 16]] - [[Tina Barrett]], English singer ([[S Club 7]])
* [[September 19]] - [[Isha Koppikar]], Indian actress
* [[September 20]] - [[Yui Horie]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actress)
* [[September 22]] - [[Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima|Ronaldo]], Brazilian footballer
* [[September 24]] - [[Stephanie McMahon|Stephanie McMahon-Levesque]], wrestling promoter
* [[September 25]] - [[Chauncey Billups]], US basketball player
* [[September 26]] - [[Michael Ballack]], German footballer
* [[September 27]] - [[Francesco Totti]], Italian footballer
* [[September 28]] - [[Fedor Emelianenko]], Russian [[mixed martial arts]] fighter
* [[September 29]] - [[Andriy Shevchenko]], Ukrainian footballer
* [[October 1]] - [[Blu Cantrell]], US singer
* [[October 1]] - [[Dora Venter]], Hungarian pornographic actress
* [[October 4]] - [[Alicia Silverstone]], US actress
* [[October 6]] - [[Barbie Hsu]], Taiwanese actress and singer
* [[October 7]] - [[Taylor Hicks]], US singer
* [[October 7]] - [[Gilberto Silva]], Brazilian football player
* [[October 7]] - [[Rachel McAdams]], Canadian actress
* [[October 10]] - [[Bob Burnquist]], Brazilian skateboarder
* [[October 15]] - [[Yoon Son-ha]], South Korean actress
* [[October 19]] - [[Dan Smith (hockey player)|Dan Smith]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[October 19]] - [[Michael Young (baseball player)|Michael Young]], baseball player
* [[October 21]] - [[Jeremy Miller]], child star ([[Growing Pains]])
* [[October 22]] - [[Jon Foreman]], US singer/guitarist ([[Switchfoot]])
* [[October 23]] - [[Cat Deeley]], British TV presenter
* [[October 23]] - [[Ryan Reynolds]], Canadian actor
* [[October 25]] - [[Kristin Rossum]], American murderer
* [[October 25]] - [[Steve Jones (footballer born 1976)|Steve Jones]], Northern Irish footballer
* [[October 26]] - [[Miikka Kiprusoff]], Finnish hockey player ([[Calgary Flames]])
* [[October 29]] - [[Stephen Craigan]], Northern Irish footballer
* [[October 29]] - [[Mohsen Emadi]], Iranian poet
===November-December===
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* [[November 5]] - [[Sean Brown]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[November 6]] - [[Pat Tillman]], American football player (d. [[2004]])
* [[November 6]] - [[Catherine Clark]], Canadian journalist (also daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister [[Joe Clark]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Mark Philippoussis]], Australian tennis player
* [[November 8]] - [[Brett Lee]], Australian cricket player
* [[November 11]] - [[Mike Leon Grosch]], German singer and finalist of [[Deutschland sucht den Superstar]] 3
* [[November 12]] - [[Mirosław Szymkowiak]], Polish footballer
* [[November 18]] - [[Shagrath]], Norwegian black metal musician ([[Dimmu Borgir]])
* [[November 19]] - [[Jun Shibata]], Japanese singer and songwriter
* [[November 20]] - [[Laura Harris]], Canadian actress
* [[November 20]] - [[Dominique Dawes]], U.S. Olympic gymnast
* [[November 22]] - [[Ville Valo]], Finnish singer [[HIM (Finnish band)|HIM]]
* [[November 24]] - [[Chen Lu]], Chinese figure skater
* [[November 24]] - [[Christian Laflamme]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[November 27]] - [[Jaleel White]], US actor
* [[November 29]] - [[Anna Faris]], US actress
* [[November 29]] - [[Ehren McGhehey]], US actor
* [[December 1]] - [[Matthew Shepard]], US murder victim (d. [[1998]])
* [[December 4]] - [[Amie Comeaux]], US country music singer (d. [[1997]])
* [[December 7]] - [[Georges Laraque]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[December 7]] - [[David A. Smith]], biodiesel promoter
* [[December 8]] - [[Dominic Monaghan]], English actor
* [[December 12]] - [[Dan Hawkins (musician)|Dan Hawkins]], British guitarist ([[The Darkness]])
* [[December 13]] - [[Tom Delonge]], US musician ([[Blink-182]])
* [[December 13]] - [[Radosław Sobolewski]], Polish footballer
* [[December 14]] - [[Leland Chapman]], Bounty Hunter ((Dog The Bounty Hunter))
* [[December 15]] - [[Baichung Bhutia]], Indian footballer
* [[December 17]] - [[Takeo Spikes]], American football player
* [[December 23]] - [[Jamie Noble]], professional cruiserweight wrestler in the WWE
* [[December 25]] - [[Tuomas Holopainen]], keyboardist and main songwriter in the Finnish metal band [[Nightwish]]
* [[December 25]] - [[Armin van Buuren]], Dutch music producer and DJ
* [[December 27]] - [[Fernando Pisani]], Canadian ice hockey player
==Deaths==
=== January - March ===
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* [[January 8]] - [[Zhou Enlai]], [[Premier of the People's Republic of China]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 10]] - [[Howlin Wolf|Howlin' Wolf]], American musician (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Agatha Christie]], English writer (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Paul Robeson]], American actor, singer, writer, and activist (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 26]] - [[João Branco Núncio]], Portuguese Bullfighter (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 29]] - James Edmonson, a.k.a. [[Professor Backwards]], vaudevillian and comedian (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Mance Lipscomb]], American singer (b. [[1895]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Ernesto Miranda]], Defendant in the court case [[Miranda v. Arizona]] (b. [[1941]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Werner Heisenberg]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])
* [[February 1]] - [[George Whipple]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1878]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Zlatyu Boyadzhiev]], Bulgarian painter (b. [[1903]])
* [[February 7]] - [[Eliyahu Kitov]], Jewish political activist (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 6]] - [[Vince Guaraldi]], American musician (b. [[1928]])
* [[February 9]] - [[Percy Faith]], Canadian-born musician and composer (b. [[1908]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Lee J Cobb]], American actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Alexander Lippisch]], German aerodynamicist (b. [[1894]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Charlie Naughton]], Scottish actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[February 12]] - [[Sal Mineo]], American actor (b. [[1939]])
* [[February 13]] - [[Lily Pons]], American soprano (b. [[1898]])
* [[February 20]] - [[René Cassin]], French judge, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[February 20]] - [[Kathryn Kuhlman]], American evangelist and faith healer (b. [[1907]])
* [[February 22]] - [[Florence Ballard]], American singer ([[The Supremes]]) (b. [[1943]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Walter H. Schottky]], German physicist (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 6]] - [[Max Rosenbloom|Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom]], American boxer and actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Wright Patman]], American politician (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 14]] - [[Busby Berkeley]], American choreographer and director (b. [[1895]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Luchino Visconti]], Italian theatre and film director (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Paul Kossoff]], British guitarist ([[free (band)|Free]]) (b. [[1950]])
* [[March 24]] - [[Bernard Montgomery]], British field marshal (b. [[1897]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Paul Strand]], American photographer (b. [[1890]])
=== April - June ===
* [[April 1]] - [[Max Ernst]], German artist (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 4]] - [[Harry Nyquist]], American [[information theory]] pioneer (b. [[1889]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Howard Hughes]], American aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric (b. [[1905]])
* [[April 9]] - [[Dagmar Nordstrom]], American composer, pianist, one of The [[Nordstrom Sisters]] (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 9]] - [[Phil Ochs]], American folk singer and political activist (b. [[1940]])
* [[April 18]] - [[Henrik Dam]], Dutch biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 26]] - [[Sid James]], South African actor (b. [[1913]])
* [[May 1]] - [[T.R.M. Howard]], civil rights leader and surgeon (b. [[1908]])
* [[May 9]] - [[Jens Bjørneboe]], Norwegian author (b. [[1920]])
* [[May 9]] - [[Ulrike Meinhof]], German terrorist (b. [[1934]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect (b. [[1898]])
* [[May 14]] - [[Keith Relf]], British musician ([[The Yardbirds]]) (b. [[1943]])
* [[May 20]] - [[Zelmar Michelini]], Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and [[Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz]], "[[forced disappearance|disappeared]]"
* [[May 26]] - [[Martin Heidegger]], German philosopher (b. [[1889]])
* [[May 26]] - [[Juan Maino]], Chilean leader of [[MAPU]], "[[forced disappearance|disappeared]]"
* [[May 27]] - [[Hilde Hildebrand]], German actress (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 28]] - [[Steffan Danielsen]], Faroese painter (b. [[1922]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Jacques Monod]], French biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1910]])
* [[June 2]] - [[Juan José Torres]], former [[President of Bolivia]], assassinated in the frame of [[Operation Condor]]
* [[June 10]] - [[Adolph Zukor]], Hungarian-born film producer (b. [[1873]])
* [[June 11]] - [[Toots Mondt]], WWF promoter (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 14]] - [[Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[June 15]] - [[Jimmy Dykes]], baseball player and manager (b. [[1896]])
* [[June 25]] - [[Johnny Mercer]], American songwriter (b. [[1909]])
* [[June 30]] - [[Firpo Marberry]], baseball player (b. [[1898]])
=== July - September ===
* [[July 1]] - [[Zhang Mintian]], [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of China]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[July 4]] - [[Antoni Slonimski|Antoni Słonimski]], Polish poet and writer (b. [[1895]])
* [[July 6]] - [[Zhu De]], China Red Army Commander-in-Chief. (b. [[1886]])
* [[July 7]] - [[Walter Giesler]], American soccer coach (b. [[1910]])
* [[July 13]] - [[Joachim Peiper]], German military leader (b. [[1915]])
* [[July 13]] - [[Frederick Hawksworth]], [[Great Western Railway|GWR]] Chief mechanical engineer. (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 16]] - [[Carmelo Soria]], Spanish diplomat assassinated by the Chilean [[DINA]]
* [[July 24]] - [[Afro Basaldella]], Italian painter (b. [[1912]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Cecilia (singer)]], Spanish singer-songwriter (b. [[1948]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Valery Sablin]], Soviet mutineer, executed
* [[August 4]] - [[Enrique Angelelli]], Argentine bishop, assassinated in the context of the "[[Dirty War]]"
* [[August 6]] - [[Gregor Piatigorsky]], Russian cellist (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 22]] - [[Juscelino Kubitschek]], [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[August 25]] - [[Eyvind Johnson]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 26]] - [[Lotte Lehmann]], German soprano (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 27]] - [[Mukesh]], Indian singer (b. [[1923]])
* [[September 2]] - [[Stanisław Grochowiak]], Polish writer (b. [[1934]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Mao Zedong]], Chinese leader (b. [[1893]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Prince Paul of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Orlando Letelier]], former minister of [[Salvador Allende]], assassinated in Washington DC
* [[September 26]] - [[Lavoslav Ružička]], Croatian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1887]])
=== October - December ===
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* [[October 5]] - [[Lars Onsager]], Norwegian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
* [[October 6]] - [[Gilbert Ryle]], British philosopher (b. [[1900]])
* [[October 14]] - [[Edith Evans]], British actress (b. [[1888]])
* [[October 15]] - [[Carlo Gambino]], American gangster (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 11]] - [[Alfredo Bracchi]], Italian author (b. [[1897]])
* [[October 25]] - [[Raymond Queneau]], French poet and novelist (b. [[1903]])
* [[October 28]] - [[Máire Drumm]], Irish nationalist politician (b. [[1919]]) (assassinated)
*[[November 10]] - [[Syd Coventry]], Collingwood Footballer (b. 1899
*[[November 11]] - [[Alexander Calder]], American sculptor (b. [[1898]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Walter Piston]], American composer (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Rosalind Russell]], Tony-Award winning and [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-nominated actress (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 2]] - [[Danny Murtaugh]], baseball player and manager (b. [[1917]])
* [[December 3]] - [[Cornelius Griffin]], American football player
* [[December 4]] - [[Benjamin Britten]], English composer (b. [[1913]])
* [[December 6]] - [[João Goulart]], [[President of Brazil]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Henryk Jasiczek]], Polish writer and political activist (b. [[1919]])
* [[December 20]] - [[Richard J. Daley]], [[Mayor of Chicago]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 24]] - [[Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza]], claimant to the throne of [[Portugal]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 26]] - [[Phil Hart]], U.S. Senator (b. [[1912]])
* [[December 27]] - [[Salman Khan]], Bollywood Actor])
* [[December 28]] - [[Katharine Byron]], U.S. Congresswoman (b. [[1903]])
===Unknown dates===
* [[Mariano Andreu]], Spanish painter (b. [[1888]])
* [[Anna Mae Aquash]], Native American activist (found murdered)
* [[Mariya Vasil’yevna Klenova]], Russian marine geologist (b. [[1898]])
==In Fiction==
* The [[2008]] [[CBS]] [[Television Show]] [[Swingtown]] takes place in the Summer of this year.
==Ship events==
* [[List of ship launches in 1976]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1976]]
* [[List of shipwrecks in 1976]]
==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Burton Richter]], [[Samuel Chao Chung Ting]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[William Lipscomb|William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Baruch S. Blumberg]], [[D Carleton Gajdusek]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Saul Bellow]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Betty Williams (nobel laureate)|Betty Williams]] and [[Mairead Corrigan]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Milton Friedman]]
==Templeton Prize==
* [[Catholic Charismatic Renewal|Cardinal Suenens]]
==See also==
* [[20th century]]
* [[Summer of 1976 (Europe)]]
==Notes==
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