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1976 (''' MCMLXXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar).
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- July 2 - North Vietnam and South Vietnam united to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam - a Communist country
- July 3 - Supreme Court Of The United States rules on Gregg V. Georgia and decides that 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
- July 4 - Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda 's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in raid.
- July 7 - German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich , Gabriella Rollnick , Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from Lehrterstrasse maximum security prison in West Berlin
- July 10 - Three British and one American Mercenaries were shot by firing squad in Angola .
- July 10 - Explosion In Seveso , Italy , kills a large number of people
- 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 , Canada .
- July 17 - East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia
- July 19 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- lander successfully lands on Mars
- July 21 - A bomb kills Christopher Ewart , British ambassador to the Irish Republic
- July 27 - United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda
- July 28 - Tangshan Earthquake flattens Tangshan , China , killing 242,769 people, and 164,851 people are heavily injured
- July 29 - In New York City , the " Son Of Sam " pulls a gun from a paper bag killing one and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
- July 30 - In Santiago , capital of Chile , Cruzeiro from Brazil wins 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
August
- August 1 - the Caribbean nation of Trinidad And Tobago becomes a Republic , replacing Queen Elizabeth II with an elected president as their Head Of State .
- 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, was tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder. He was later found innocent of a plot to kill several people, including Priscilla and a judge, and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen went broke afterwards
- August 4 - First outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia
- August 5 - Racing Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand prix; 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 for seven years for fraud
- enters into orbit around Mars
- August 14 - 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland
- August 14 - The Senegal ese Political Party '' PAI-Rénovation '' is legally recognized. PAI-Rénovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country.
- August 18 - In North Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Demilitarized Zone which had obscured their view
- August 24 - In Uruguay , an army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Marcelo is later killed and his wife and child disappeared.
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
Births
January
- January 2 - Cletidus Hunt , American football player
- January 2 - Paz Vega , Spanish actress
- January 6 - Danny Pintauro , American actor
- January 7 - Éric Gagné , Canadian Major League Baseball player
- January 7 - Alfonso Soriano , Dominican Major League Baseball player
- January 8 - Jenny Lewis , American actress and musician ( Rilo Kiley )
- January 19 - Marsha Thomason , British Actress
- January 20 - Gretha Smit , Dutch speed skater
- January 21 - Emma Bunton , English musician ( Spice Girls )
- January 25 - Mia Kirshner , Canadian actress
- January 28 - Mark Madsen , American basketball player
- January 30 - Andy Milonakis , Internet and MTV star
- January 31 - Buddy Rice , American race car driver
February
- February 2 - James Hickman , British swimmer
- February 4 - Cam'ron , Harlem , New York Rapper
- February 5 - Abhishek Bachchan , Indian Actor
- February 9 - Vladimir Guerrero , Dominican Major League Baseball player
- February 10 - Lance Berkman , baseball player
- February 12 - Silvia Saint , Czech actress
- February 15 - Brandon Boyd , American musician ( Incubus )
- February 20 - Ed Graham , British drummer ( The Darkness )
- February 29 - Ja Rule , American rapper
March
- March 5 - Sarunas Jasikevicius , Lithuanian basketball player
- March 8 - Freddie Prinze Jr. , American actor
- March 19 - Rachel Blanchard , Canadian actress
- March 20 - Chester Bennington , American musician ( Linkin Park )
- March 22 - Teun De Nooijer , Dutch field hockey player
- March 22 - Reese Witherspoon , American actress
- March 23 - Keri Russell , American actress
- March 24 - Aaron Brooks , American football player
- March 24 - Peyton Manning , American football player
- March 25 - Juvenile , American rapper
- March 26 - Amy Smart , American actress
April
May
June
July
- July 1 - Patrick Kluivert , Dutch footballer
- July 1 - Ruud Van Nistelrooy , Dutch footballer
- July 3 - Andrea Barber , American actress
- July 4 - Daijiro Kato , Japanese motorcycle racer
- July 8 - Ellen MacArthur , English yachtswoman
- July 9 - Shelton Benjamin , American professional wrestler
- July 9 - Fred Savage , American actor
- July 11 - Eduardo Nájera , Mexican basketball player
- July 13 - Al Santos , American actor/model
- July 20 - Alex Yoong , Malaysian Race Car driver
- July 23 - Judit Polgar , Hungarian chess player
- July 24 - Nate Bump , American baseball player
- July 31 - Annie Parisse , American actress
August
- August 6 - Melissa George , Australian actress
- August 9 - Jessica Capshaw , American actress
- August 9 - Rhona Mitra , English actress
- August 8 - JC Chasez , American singer
- August 12 - Antoine Walker , American basketball player
- August 13 - Roddy Woomble , Scottish musician
- August 14 - Alex Albrecht , American television personality
- August 15 - Boudewijn Zenden , Dutch football player
- August 18 - Alex Katunich , Original bassist for the band Incubus
- August 19 - Michael M. Wartella , American underground cartoonist
- August 27 - Carlos Moyà , Spanish tennis player
- August 27 - Mark Webber , Australian race car driver
September
- September 6 - Naomie Harris , British actress
- September 7 - Stevie Case (Killcreek) , American video game celebrity
- September 8 - Abi Titmuss , British TV presenter and model
- September 8 - Sjeng Schalken , Dutch tennis player
- September 10 - Gustavo Kuerten , Brazilian tennis player
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- September 16 - Tina Barrett , English singer ( S Club 7 )
- September 22 - Ronaldo , Brazilian footballer
- September 25 - Chauncey Billups , American basketball player
- September 26 - Michael Ballack , German footballer
- September 29 - Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian footballer
October
- October 1 - Blu Cantrell , American rapper
- October 1 - Dora Venter , pornographic actress
- October 4 - Alicia Silverstone , American actress
- October 7 - Gilberto Silva , Brazilian football player
- October 10 - Bob Burnquist , Brazilian skateboarder
- October 15 - Yoon Son-ha , South Korean actress
- October 18 - Azlea Antistia , pornographic actress
- October 19 - Michael Young , baseball player
- October 19 - Joy Bryant , American actress
- October 23 - Ryan Reynolds , Canadian actor
- October 25 - Steve Jones , Northern Irish footballer
- October 29 - Stephen Craigan , Northern Irish footballer
November
December
Deaths
January
February
- February 1 - Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, 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 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 22 - Florence Ballard , American singer ( The Supremes ) (b. 1943 )
March
April
- 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 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 )
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