1976

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1976

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Clockwise from top-left: theArgentine coup d'étatoverthrewIsabel Perónas President of Argentina;VHSis released; anearthquakeinGuatemalakilled 23,000 people; a series ofdemonstrations and protestsled by black school children inSouth Africaunder apartheid takes place; theUnited Statescelebrates itsbicentennial;acounter-terrorist hostage-rescue missioncarried out by commandos of theIDFatEntebbe AirportinUgandatakes place; the1976 Summer Olympicsare held inMontreal,Quebec;anearthquakehitsTangshankilling 242,769 people.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

1976 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	1976 MCMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2729
Armenian calendar	1425 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar	6726
Baháʼí calendar	132–133
Balinese saka calendar	1897–1898
Bengali calendar	1383
Berber calendar	2926
British Regnal year	24Eliz. 2– 25Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2520
Burmese calendar	1338
Byzantine calendar	7484–7485
Chinese calendar	Ất mãoNăm (WoodRabbit) 4673 or 4466 — to — Bính thần năm (FireDragon) 4674 or 4467
Coptic calendar	1692–1693
Discordian calendar	3142
Ethiopian calendar	1968–1969
Hebrew calendar	5736–5737
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	2032–2033
-Shaka Samvat	1897–1898
-Kali Yuga	5076–5077
Holocene calendar	11976
Igbo calendar	976–977
Iranian calendar	1354–1355
Islamic calendar	1395–1397
Japanese calendar	Shōwa51 ( chiêu cùng ５１ năm )
Javanese calendar	1907–1908
Juche calendar	65
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4309
Minguo calendar	ROC65 Dân quốc 65 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	508
Thai solar calendar	2519
Tibetan calendar	Âm mộc thỏ năm (female Wood-Rabbit) 2102 or 1721 or 949 — to — Dương hỏa long năm (male Fire-Dragon) 2103 or 1722 or 950
Unix time	189302400 – 220924799

1976(MCMLXXVI) was aleap year starting on Thursdayof theGregorian calendar,the 1976th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 976th year of the2nd millennium,the 76th year of the20th century,and the 7th year of the1970sdecade.

Events

January

Main article:January 1976

• January 2– TheInternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rightsenters into force.
• January 5– ThePol Potregime proclaims a new constitution forDemocratic Kampuchea.
• January 18– Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after theBangladesh Liberation War.
• January 27
  • The United States vetoes aUnited Nationsresolution that calls for an independentPalestinian state.
  • TheFirst Battle of Amgalabreaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.

February

Main article:February 1976

• February 4
  • The1976 Winter Olympicsbegin inInnsbruck,Austria.
  • The 7.5M_wGuatemala earthquakeaffectsGuatemalaandHonduraswith a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
• February 9– TheAustralian Defence Forceis formed by unification of theAustralian Army,theRoyal Australian Navyand theRoyal Australian Air Force.
• February 13– GeneralMurtala MohammedofNigeriais assassinated in a military coup.
• February 24–Cuba'sconstitutionof 1976 is enacted.
• February 26– TheSpanish Armed Forceswithdraw fromWestern Sahara.
• February 27– ThePolisario Front,Western Sahara's nationalliberation movement,declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic".

March

Main article:March 1976

• March– TheCray-1,the first commercially-developedsupercomputer,is released bySeymour Cray'sCray Research,with the first purchaser being theEnergy Research and Development Administration(ERDA) inLos Alamos, New Mexico.
• March 1
  • U.K. Home SecretaryMerlyn ReesendsSpecial Category Statusfor those sentenced for scheduledterroristcrimesrelating to the civil violence inNorthern Ireland.
  • Bradford Bishopallegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on theFBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitiveslist.
• March 4
  • TheNorthern Ireland Constitutional Conventionis formally dissolved inNorthern Ireland,resulting inDirect rule over Northern Irelandby theGovernment of the United Kingdomin London.
  • TheMaguire Sevenare found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions were overturned in 1991.
• March 9–A cable car disasteroccurs when a supporting cable breaks inCavalese,Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.
• March 9–11– Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, inLetcher County, Kentucky.
• March 16–Harold Wilsonresigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• March 20–Patty Hearstis found guilty of armed robbery of aSan Franciscobank in1974.
• March 24
  • Argentinamilitary forces depose presidentIsabel Perón.
  • Ageneral striketakes place in thePeople's Republic of the Congo.
• March 26
  • The Body Shop,the retail chain forskin careproducts andcosmeticsfounded byAnita Roddick,opens its first branch inBrighton,England.
• March 27
  • TheSouth African Defence Forcewithdraws fromAngolaand concludesOperation Savannah.
  • The first 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) of theWashington Metrosubwaysystem opens.
• March 29– Themilitary dictatorshipof GeneralJorge Videlacomes to power inArgentina.
• March 31– TheNew JerseySupreme Court rules that patient in apersistent vegetative statein theKaren Ann Quinlan casecan be disconnected from herventilator.She remains comatose and dies in1985.

April

Main article:April 1976

• April 1
  • Apple ComputerCompany is formed bySteve JobsandSteve Wozniakin California.
  • Conrail(Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until1986,when it is sold to the public.
  • TheJovian–Plutonian gravitational effectis first reported by British astronomerPatrick Moore.
• April 2–Norodom Sihanoukis forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by theKhmer Rougeled byPol Potand is placed under house arrest.
• April 3– TheEurovision Song Contest 1976is won byBrotherhood of Man,representing the United Kingdom, with their songSave Your Kisses for Me.
• April 5
  • James CallaghanbecomesPrime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Tiananmen Incident:Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing'sMonument of the Martyrsto commemorate the death of PremierZhou Enlai.Poems against theGang of Fourare also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
  • Segovia prison break:in Spain's largest prison break since theSpanish Civil War,29 political prisoners escape fromSegoviaprison.
• April 13
  • TheLapua Cartridge Factory explosioninLapua,Finland kills 40.
  • TheUnited States Treasury Departmentreintroduces thetwo-dollar billas aFederal Reserve NoteonThomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of theUnited States Bicentennialcelebration.
• April 16– As a measure to curbpopulation growth,the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
• April 19– Aviolent F5 tornadostrikes aroundBrownwood, Texas,injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.
• April 21– TheGreat Bookie RobberyinMelbourne,Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
• April 25– Portugal'snew constitutionis enacted.
• April 29–Sino-Soviet split:A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.

May

Main article:May 1976

• May 1–Neville WranbecomesPremier of New South Wales.
• May 4
  • The firstLAGEOS(Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
  • A train crash inSchiedam,the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
• May 6– Anearthquake hits the Friuli areain Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
• May 9–Ulrike Meinhofof theRed Army Factionis found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
• May 11
  • U.S. PresidentGerald Fordsigns theFederal Election Campaign Act.
  • An accident involving a tanker truck carryinganhydrous ammoniatakes place inHouston, Texas,resulting in the deaths of 7 people.
• May 13– TheAtarivideo arcade gameBreakoutis released.
• May 16– TheMontreal Canadienssweep thePhiladelphia Flyersin four games to win theStanley Cupin ice hockey. Flyers forwardReggie Leachbecame the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win theConn Smythe Trophyas MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
• May 21– TheYuba City bus disaster,the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
• May 24
  • Washington, D.C.Concordeservice begins.
  • The Judgment of Parispits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
• May 25– U.S. PresidentGerald Forddefeats challengerRonald Reaganin 3Republicanpresidential primaries:Kentucky,TennesseeandOregon.
• May 30–Indianapolis 500automobile race:Johnny Rutherfordwins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi).
• May 31– Syriaintervenes in the Lebanese Civil Warin opposition to thePalestine Liberation Organization,which it has previously supported.

June

Main article:June 1976

• June 1– The United Kingdom andIcelandend theThird Cod War,with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
• June 2
  • A car bomb fatally injuresArizona RepublicreporterDon Bolles.
  • ThePhilippinegovernment opens relations with theSoviet Union.
• June 4– TheBoston Celticsdefeat thePhoenix Suns128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of theNational Basketball Association Finalsat theBoston Garden.In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA 's first 50 years.
• June 5– TheTeton Damcollapses in southeastIdahoin the US, killing 11 people.
• June 6– TheDouble Six Crash,a plane crash inKota Kinabalu,Malaysia,kills everyone on board, includingSabahanChief MinisterTun Fuad Stephens.
• June 12–Alberto Demicheli,a jurist, is inaugurated as a civiliande facto President of UruguayafterJuan María Bordaberryis deposed by the military.
• June 13– Savage thunderstorms roll through the state ofIowa,spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5tornadothat destroys the town ofJordan.
• June 16– TheSoweto uprisingin South Africa begins.
• June 20
  • Hundreds of Western tourists are moved fromBeirutand taken to safety inSyriaby the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
  • General electionsare held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
  • CzechoslovakiabeatsWest Germany5–3 onpenaltiesto winEuro 76when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
• June 25– Strikes start in Poland (Ursus,Radom,Płock) after communists raisefood prices;they end onJune 30.
• June 26– TheCN Toweris opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
• June 27
  • G-6is renamed "Group of 7"(G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.
  • Palestinian militantshijackanAir Franceplane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it toEntebbe,Uganda.
• June 29
  • Seychellesgains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • TheConference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europeconvenes inEast Berlin.

July

Main article:July 1976

Italian tall shipAmerigo Vespucciin New York Harbor during theUnited States Bicentennialcelebration.

• July 2–North Vietnamdissolves theProvisional GovernmentofSouth Vietnamand unites the two countries to form theSocialist RepublicofVietnam.
• July 3
  • Gregg v. Georgia:TheSupreme Court of the United Statesrules that thedeath penaltyis not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning theFurman v. Georgiacase of1972.
  • Thegreat heat wavein the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
• July 4
  • The U.S. celebrates itsbicentennial,in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of theUnited States Declaration of Independencefrom the United Kingdom.
  • Entebbe Raid:Israeliairborne commandos free 103 hostages being held byPalestinianhijackers of anAir Franceplane atUganda'sEntebbeAirport;Yonatan Netanyahuand several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
• July 6– The first class of women is inducted at theUnited States Naval AcademyinAnnapolis, Maryland.
• July 7
  • German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison inWest Berlin.
  • David Steelbecomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced outJeremy Thorpe.
• July 10
  • Fourmercenaries,three British and one American, are shot by firing squad inAngola,following theLuanda Trial.
  • Seveso disaster:An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
• July 12– In the United States:
  • California State University, Fullerton massacre:seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in amass shootingon campus atCalifornia State University, Fullerton.
  • Price Club,as predecessor ofCostco,a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded inCalifornia.
• July 15
  • Jimmy Carteris nominated for U.S. president at theDemocratic National Conventionin New York City.
  • Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver areabducted and buried in a box truck within a quarryin Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
• July 16–20–Albert Spaggiariand his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank inNice,France.
• July 17
  • The1976 Summer Olympicsbegin inMontreal,Quebec, Canada.
  • East Timoris declared the27th provinceofIndonesia.
• July 18– 14-year-old Romanian gymnastNadia Comăneciearns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• July 19–Sagarmatha National ParkinNepalis created.
• July 20
  • Viking program:TheViking 1lander successfully lands onMars.
  • American criminalGary Gilmoreis arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
• July 21– AProvisional Irish Republican Armybomb killsChristopher Ewart-Biggs,new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
• July 26– In Los Angeles,Ronald Reaganannounces his choice of liberal U.S. SenatorRichard Schweikeras his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderateRepublicandelegates away from PresidentGerald Ford.
• July 27
  • The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colonyUgandain response to the hijacking ofAir France Flight 139.
  • Delegates attending anAmerican Legionconvention atThe Bellevue-Stratford HotelinPhiladelphia,US, begin falling ill with a form ofpneumonia:this will eventually be recognised as the firstoutbreakofLegionnaires' diseaseand will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
• July 28– TheTangshan earthquakeflattensTangshan,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 one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
• July 30
  • Bruce Jennerwins the gold medal in the men'sdecathlonat the1976 Summer Olympicsin Montreal.
  • InSantiago,Chile,Cruzeirofrom Brazil beatsRiver Platefrom Argentina and are theCopa Libertadores de Américachampions inAssociation football.
• July 31
  • NASAreleases the famousFace on Marsphoto, taken byViking 1.
  • TheBig Thompson Riverin northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

August

Main article:August 1976

Tsunami damage atbarangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao

• August 1
  • The1976 Summer Olympicsends inMontreal,Quebec, Canada.
  • Trinidad and Tobagobecomes arepublic,replacingElizabeth IIas itshead of statewithPresidentEllis Clarke.
  • Defending F1 World ChampionNiki Laudasuffers serious burns in theGerman Grand Prixafter a huge accident that nearly cost him his life.
• August 2– A gunman murdersAndrea WilbornandStan Farrand injuresPriscilla Davisand Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion inFort 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 clock of "Big Ben"at thePalace of Westminsterin London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
• August 6– Former United Kingdom Postmaster GeneralJohn Stonehouseis sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
• August 7–Viking program:Viking 2enters into orbit aroundMars.
• August 8– As part of theAmerican Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger,a dispersal draftis conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
• August 11– A sniper rampage inWichita, Kansason aHoliday Innresults in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.
• August 14
  • Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace inNorthern Ireland.
  • TheSenegalesepolitical partyPAI-Rénovationis legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
• August 17– The 8.0 M_w Moro Gulf earthquakehits off the coast ofMindanao,Philippines,triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.
• August 18– At Panmunjom,North Korea,two United States soldiers are killed while trying tochop down part of a treein theKorean Demilitarized Zonewhich has obscured their view.
• August 19– U.S. PresidentGerald Fordedges out challengerRonald Reaganto win theRepublican Partypresidential nomination inKansas City.
• August 24– InUruguay,the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
• August 25
  • Jacques Chiracresigns asPrime Minister of France;he is succeeded byRaymond Barre.
  • Landslide disaster inSau Mau Ping,Hong Kong.
• August 26
  • The first known outbreak ofEbola virusoccurs inYambuku,Zaire.
  • Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld,husband of QueenJuliana of the Netherlands,resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with theLockheed Corporation.
• August 30–James Alexander George Smith McCartneyis sworn in as the firstchief ministerof theTurks and Caicos Islands.

September

Main article:September 1976

• September 1
  • Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.
  • Aparicio Méndez,a jurist, is inaugurated as a civiliande factoPresident of Uruguayin the framework of a dictatorship.
  • Thestate of emergencyin theRepublic of Irelandlegally still in force since1939is lifted.
• September 3–Viking program:TheViking 2spacecraft lands atUtopia PlanitiaonMars,taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
• September 6
  • Cold War:SovietAir Force pilot Lt.Viktor Belenkolands aMiG-25jet fighter atHakodate,on the island ofHokkaidōin Japan, and requestspolitical asylumin the United States.
  • Frank SinatrabringsJerry Lewis's former partnerDean Martinonstage, unannounced, at the 1976Jerry Lewis MDA TelethoninLas Vegas,reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
• September 10–Zagreb mid-air collision:ABritish AirwaysTrident and aYugoslavDC-9 collide nearZagreb,Yugoslavia(modern-dayZagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.
• September 15–Darryl Sittlerscores the winning goal in the1976 Canada Cupfor Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey.
• September 16
  • Shavarsh Karapetyansaves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into aYerevanreservoir.
  • Beginning with theNight of the Pencils,a series of kidnappings andforced disappearancesfollowed by torture, rape, and murder of students under theArgentine dictatorshiptakes place.
• September 17– The space shuttleEnterpriseis rolled out of a hangar inPalmdale, California,United States.
• September 21
  • TheSeychellesjoin theUnited Nations.
  • Orlando Letelieris assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents ofChileandictatorAugusto Pinochet.
• September 24–Patty Hearstis sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of aSan Franciscobank in1974(an executive clemency order from U.S. PresidentJimmy Carterwill set her free after only 22 months).

October

Main article:October 1976

October 4:TheInterCity 125high-speed trainis introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.

• October 4– TheInterCity 125high-speed trainis introduced in the United Kingdom.
• October 6
  • Cubana de Aviación Flight 455crashes due to a bomb placed byanti-Fidel Castro terrorists,after taking off fromBridgetown,Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.
  • Students gathering atThammasat UniversityinBangkok,Thailandaremassacred,while protesting the return of ex-dictatorThanom Kittikachornby a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
  • InSan Francisco,during his second televised debate withJimmy Carter,U.S. PresidentGerald Fordincorrectly declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
  • TheCultural Revolutionin China concludes upon the capture of theGang of Four.
• October 8–Thorbjörn FälldinreplacesOlof PalmeasPrime MinisterofSweden.
• October 10– Taiwan GovernorHsieh Tung-minis injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
• October 12– The People's Republic of China announces thatHua Guofengis the successor toMao ZedongasChairman of the Chinese Communist Partyfollowing the latter's death on September 9 from aheart attack.
• October 13– TheUnited States Commission on Civil Rightsreleases the report,Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future,that documents thatPuerto Ricans in the United Stateshave 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 includingPuerto Rico,a U.S. territory).
• October 19
  • TheBattle of Aishiyais fought inLebanon.
  • TheCopyright Act of 1976extendscopyrightduration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
  • TheChimpanzee(Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
• October 20– TheMississippi RiverferryMVGeorge Princeis struck by a ship while crossing fromDestrehan, LouisianatoLuling, Louisiana,killing 78 passengers and crew.
• October 22–Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh,the 5thPresident of Ireland,resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
• October 26–Transkeigains "independence" fromSouth Africa.

November

Main article:November 1976

• November 2–1976 United States presidential election:Jimmy Carternarrowly defeats incumbentGerald Ford,becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since theCivil War.
• November 12–Disappearance of Renee MacRaeand her 3-year-old son Andrew fromInvernessin Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.
• November 15– The firstmegamouth sharkis discovered offOʻahuin Hawaiʻi.
• November 19–Jaime Ornelas Camachotakes office as the first President of the Regional Government ofMadeira,Portugal.
• November 24–1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake:Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3M_searthquake atVanandMuradiyein eastern Turkey.
• November 26
  • Microsoftis officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State ofNew Mexico.
  • TheWarsaw Treaty Organizationjoint secretariat is established.

December

Main article:December 1976

• December 1
  • Angolajoins theUnited Nations.
  • José López Portillotakes office asPresident of Mexico.
  • SirDouglas Nichollsis appointed the 28thGovernor of South Australia,the firstAustralian Aboriginalappointed tovice-regal office.
• December 3–Patrick Hilleryis sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6thPresident of Ireland.
• December 5– TheJapanese general electiontakes place, and the rulingLiberal Democratic Partyloses its majority in the 511-memberHouse of Representatives,but remains the largest party with 249 seats.
• December 6– TheViet Congis disbanded, and its former members become a part of theVietnam People's Army.
• December 8– TheCongressional Hispanic Caucusis established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress:Herman Badilloof the Bronx, E. de la Garza andHenry B. Gonzalezof Texas,Edward R. Roybalof California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner ofPuerto Rico,Baltasar Corrada del Río.
• December 10– TheUnited Nations General Assemblyadopts theConvention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
• December 15
  • Samoajoins theUnited Nations.
  • Denis Healeyannounces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from theInternational Monetary Fund.
• December 23– A new volcano,Murara,erupts in easternZaire.

Date unknown

• Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
• The firstlaser printeris introduced byIBM(the IBM 3800).
• TheNew Jersey Legislaturepasses legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town ofAtlantic Citycommencing in1978.After signing the bill into law,GovernorBrendan Byrnedeclares "Themobis not welcome in New Jersey! "referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos inNevada.

Births

January

Paz Vega

Johnny Yong Bosch

Michael Peña

Emma Bunton

• January 2–Paz Vega,Spanish actress
• January 3–Angelos Basinas,Greek footballer
• January 4–August Diehl,German actor
• January 13
  • Michael Peña,American actor
  • Mario Yepes,Colombian football player
• January 16–Martina Moravcová,Slovak swimmer
• January 21–Emma Bunton,English musician
• January 23
  • Anne Margrethe Hausken,Norwegian orienteer
  • Angelica Lee,Taiwanese actress and singer
• January 27August DiehlAhn Jung-hwan,South Korean footballer and television personality
• January 28–Rick Ross,American rapper

February

Isla Fisher

Tony Jaa

Abhishek Bachchan

Charlie Day

Kelly Macdonald

Rashida Jones

• February 1
  • Katrín Jakobsdóttir,Icelandic politician, 28thPrime Minister of Iceland
  • Muteba Kidiaba,Congolese football goalkeeper
• February 2
  • Carlos Coste,Venezuelan free-diver
  • James Hickman,British swimmer
• February 3
  • Isla Fisher,Australian actress
  • Tim Heidecker,American comedian
  • Tijana,Macedonian singer
• February 4–Cam'ron,African-American rapper
• February 5
  • Abhishek Bachchan,Indian actor
  • Tony Jaa,Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
  • Brian Moorman,American football player
• February 6–Kim Zmeskal,American gymnast
• February 9–Charlie Day,American actor
• February 10–Lance Berkman,American baseball player
• February 11–Brice Beckham,American actor
• February 12–Silvia Saint,Czech actress
• February 14–Erica Leerhsen,American actress
• February 15–Brandon Boyd,American singer-songwriter and author
• February 16
  • Kyo,Japanese rock musician (Dir En Grey)
  • Adam Simpson,Australian rules footballer
  • Janet Varney,American actress and comedian
• February 17–Svein Berge,Norwegian musician (Röyksopp)
• February 18–Chanda Rubin,American tennis player
• February 20
  • Johanna Beisteiner,Austrian guitarist
  • Chris Cillizza,American journalist
• February 21–Michael McIntyre,British stand-up comedian
• February 23
  • Aaron Aziz,Singaporean-born Malaysian actor
  • Kelly Macdonald,Scottish actress
• February 24–Zach Johnson,American golfer
• February 25–Rashida Jones,American actress, writer, model and musician
• February 27–Sergei Semak,Russian football player and coach
• February 28
  • Ali Larter,American actress and model
  • Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge,Canadian actor
• February 29
  • Ja Rule,American rapper
  • Mark Pollock,blind Irish adventurer and author

March

Freddie Prinze Jr.

Danny Masterson

Rachael MacFarlane

Reese Witherspoon

Peyton Manning

Wladimir Klitschko

Ayako Kawasumi

Vice Ganda

• March 3
  • Fraser Gehrig,Australian rules footballer
  • Isabel Granada,Filipino actress and singer (d.2017)
• March 5–Šarūnas Jasikevičius,Lithuanian basketball player
• March 6–Ken Anderson,American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
• March 8
  • Sergej Ćetković,Montenegrin singer
  • Gaz Coombes,English musician and singer-songwriter (Supergrass)
  • Freddie Prinze Jr.,American actor
• March 9–Yamila Diaz-Rahi,Argentinean model
• March 10–Miroslav Kostadinov,Bulgarian singer and songwriter
• March 12–Zhao Wei,Chinese singer and actress
• March 13–Danny Masterson,American actor
• March 14–Merlin Santana,American actor (d.2002)
• March 16
  • Nick Spano,American actor
  • Blu Cantrell,American R&B singer
  • Pál Dárdai,Hungarian football player and manager
  • Kim Johnsson,Swedish hockey player
  • Zhu Chen,Chinese chess grandmaster
• March 17
  • Stephen Gately,Irish singer (Boyzone) (d.2009)
  • Álvaro Recoba,Uruguayan footballer
• March 18
  • Emma Willis,English television presenter and former model
  • FanFan,American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
  • Eric Sorensen,American meteorologist and politician
• March 19
  • Rachel Blanchard,Canadian actress
  • Andre Miller,American basketball player
  • Alessandro Nesta,Italian football player
• March 20–Chester Bennington,American singer (Linkin Park) (d.2017)
• March 21–Rachael MacFarlane,American actress and singer, sister ofSeth MacFarlane
• March 22
  • Teun de Nooijer,Dutch field hockey player
  • Shawty Lo,American rapper (d.2016)
  • Kellie Shanygne Williams,American actress
  • Reese Witherspoon,American actress
• March 23
  • SirChris Hoy,Scottish cyclist
  • Keri Russell,American actress
  • Sa Beining,Chinese host
• March 24
  • Aaron Brooks,American football player
  • Peyton Manning,American football player
• March 26–Amy Smart,American actress
• March 27
  • Brandon Johnson,American politician, mayor-elect of Chicago
  • Liu Limin,Chinese swimmer
• March 29–Jennifer Capriati,American tennis player
• March 30
  • Jessica Cauffiel,American actress and singer
  • Ty Conklin,American ice-hockey player
  • Ayako Kawasumi,Japanese voice actress

April

David Oyelowo

Candace Cameron Bure

Melissa Joan Hart

Joey Lawrence

Sally Hawkins

• April 1
  • Troy Baker,American actor and musician
  • David Oyelowo,English-American actor
• April 2
  • Lucy Diakovska,German-Bulgarian pop singer
  • Daisuke Namikawa,Japanese voice actor
  • Rory Sabbatini,South African golfer
• April 3–Will Mellor,English actor
• April 4
  • Emerson,Brazilian footballer
  • James Roday,American actor, director and screenwriter
  • Paula Yacoubian,Lebanese politician and journalist
• April 5
  • Fernando Morientes,Spanish footballer
  • Natascha Ragosina,Russian boxer
  • Henrik Stenson,Swedish golfer
  • Sterling K. Brown,African-American actor
• April 6–Candace Cameron Bure,American actress
• April 10–Jan Werner Danielsen,Norwegian singer (d.2006)
• April 12–Andrei Lipanov,Russian ice skater
• April 13
  • Glenn Howerton,American actor
  • Jonathan Brandis,American actor, director and screenwriter (d.2003)
• April 14–Anna DeForge,American basketball player
• April 15
  • Jason Bonsignore,Canadian ice-hockey player
  • Steve Williams,British rower
• April 16
  • David Lyons,Australian actor
  • Robert Dahlqvist,Swedish guitarist and vocalist (d.2017)
  • Shu Qi,Taiwanese actress
• April 18
  • Melissa Joan Hart,American actress
  • Sean Maguire,British actor and singer
• April 19
  • Wyatt Cenac,American actor, writer and director
  • Kim Young-oh,South Korean illustrator
• April 20
  • Joey Lawrence,American actor
  • Shay Given,Irish football goalkeeper
• April 21–Rommel Adducul,Filipino basketball player
• April 22–Michał Żewłakow,Polish footballer
• April 23–Darren Huckerby,English footballer
• April 25
  • Tim Duncan,American basketball player
  • Denis Kartsev,Russian professional ice hockey player
  • Rainer Schüttler,German tennis player
  • Kim Jong-kook,South Korean singer, television personality
• April 26–Elisabet Reinsalu,Estonian actress
• April 27–Sally Hawkins,English actress
• April 28–Joseph N'Do,Cameroonian international footballer

May

Anza

Michele Frangilli

Anže Logar

Ana Paula Valadão

Cillian Murphy

Colin Farrell

• May 1
  • Darius McCrary,American actor
  • Michele Frangilli,Italian archer
• May 3
  • Beto,Portuguese footballer
  • Jeff Halpern,American ice hockey player
• May 4–Anza,Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character ofSailor Moonin some Sailor Moon musical
• May 5–Juan Pablo Sorín,Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster
• May 8–Martha Wainwright,Canadian-American folk-pop singer
• May 10
  • Rhona Bennett,American actress, singer and model
  • Rogério Oliveira da Costa,Brazilian-born football striker (d.2006)
• May 14–Martine McCutcheon,British actress and singer
• May 15
  • Mark Kennedy,Irish footballer
  • Jacek Krzynówek,Polish footballer
  • Anže Logar,Slovenian politician, minister of foreign affairs
• May 17–Mayte Martínez,Spanish athlete
• May 20–Ramón Hernández,Venezuelanbaseballplayer
• May 23–Ricardinho,Brazilian football player and coach
• May 25
  • Stefan Holm,Swedish high jumper
  • Cillian Murphy,Irish actor
  • Erinn Hayes,American actress
  • Nadine Heredia,Peruvian politician,First Lady of Peru
• May 26–Paul Collingwood,English cricketer
• May 28
  • Alexei Nemov,Russian gymnast
  • Liam O'Brien,American actor
• May 31
  • Colin Farrell,Irish actor
  • Roar Ljøkelsøy,Norwegian ski jumper

June

'Masenate Mohato Seeiso

Alexei Navalny

Emilie-Claire Barlow

Lindsay Davenport

Blake Shelton

Ryan Hurst

Juliano Belletti

• June 2
  • Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira,Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Tim Rice-Oxley,English rock musician/composer (Keane)
  • Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeisoof Lesotho
• June 3–Jamie McMurray,American race car driver
• June 4
  • Alexei Navalny,Russian lawyer and political activist (d.2024)
  • Nenad Zimonjić,Serbian tennis player
• June 5
  • Aesop Rock,American hip-hop artist
  • Marc Worden,Canadian actor and voice actor
• June 6
  • Emilie-Claire Barlow,Canadian actress and singer
  • Geoff Rowley,English skateboarder
• June 7
  • Necro,American rapper
  • Nora Salinas,Mexican actress and model
  • Mirsad Türkcan,Serbian born-Turkish basketball player
• June 8–Lindsay Davenport,American tennis player
• June 10
  • Esther Ouwehand,Dutch politician, parliamentarian for theParty for the Animals
  • Mariana Seoane,Mexican actress
• June 12–Thomas Sørensen,Danish football goalkeeper
• June 13
  • Kym Marsh,British singer (Hear'Say) and actress
  • Jason "J" Brown,British singer (5ive)
• June 14–Alan Carr,English comedian
• June 16–Tom Lenk,American actor
• June 17
  • Estelle Folest,French politician
  • Peter Svidler,Russian chess grandmaster
• June 18
  • Petri Haapimaa,Finnish footballer and coach
  • Brady Haran,Australian-British founder and cast ofNumberphilechannel
  • Blake Shelton,American singer
• June 19–Ryan Hurst,American actor
• June 20–Juliano Belletti,Brazilian footballer
• June 21–Antonio Cochran,American football player
• June 22–Mike O'Brien,American actor, writer and comedian
• June 23
  • Brandon Stokley,American football player
  • Paola Suárez,Argentine tennis player
  • Emmanuelle Vaugier,Canadian actress
  • Patrick Vieira,French footballer
  • Yasmine Hamdan,Lebanese pop singer
  • Gavin Williamson,British politician, Secretary of State for Education
• June 25–Maurren Maggi,Brazilian athlete and politician
• June 26
  • Cédric Jimenez,French film producer, film director and screenwriter
  • Wilson Lima,Brazilian politician and journalist
  • Alexander Zakharchenko,Ukrainian separatist rebel (d.2018)
• June 27–Joseph Sikora,American actor
• June 28
  • Nawaf Al-Temyat,Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player
  • David Palmer,Australian squash player
• June 29
  • Annette Beutler,Swiss professional racing cyclist
  • Katsutoshi Domori,Japanese football player
  • Angelo Lekkas,Australian rules footballer
• June 30
  • Tamara Sedmak,Swiss television presenter, model and actress
  • Jason Bostic,American football defensive back
  • Christine Schürrer,German serial killer
  • Gilbert Yvel,Dutch mixed martial artist

July

Gino D'Acampo

Bérénice Bejo

Adrian Grenier

Diane Kruger

Gabriel Iglesias

Luke Bryan

Benedict Cumberbatch

• July 1
  • Patrick Kluivert,Dutch footballer
  • Ruud van Nistelrooy,Dutch footballer
• July 2
  • Kon Arimura,Malaysian-Japanese radio personality, film critic and film commentator
  • Krisztián Lisztes,Hungarian footballer
  • Tommy Pistol,American actor and director
• July 3
  • Shane Lynch,Irish singer
  • Wanderlei Silva,Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Bobby Skinstad,Zimbabwean rugby union player
  • Andrea Barber,American actress
  • Henry Olonga,Zambian-Zimbabwean cricketer
• July 4
  • Jo Chen,American-Taiwanese comic book artist and writer
  • Daijiro Kato,Japanese motorcycle racer (d.2003)
• July 5
  • Jamie Elman,Canadian-American actor
  • Nuno Gomes,Portuguese footballer
  • Rufus Johnson,American rapper also known as Bizarre
• July 7
  • Lina Teoh,Malaysian actress, television host and model
  • Bérénice Bejo,Argentine actress
  • Hamish Linklater,American actor and playwright
• July 8
  • Ellen MacArthur,English yachtswoman
  • Grettell Valdez,Mexican television and film actress and fashion model
• July 9
  • Fred Savage,American actor and director
  • Arturo Carmona,Mexican actor
  • Elliot Cowan,English actor
• July 10
  • Edmílson,Brazilian footballer
  • Ludovic Giuly,French footballer
  • Adrian Grenier,American actor, musician and director
  • Elissa Slotkin,American politician
• July 11–Eduardo Nájera,Mexican basketball player
• July 12
  • Anna Friel,English actress
  • Tracie Spencer,American R&B singer
  • Kyrsten Sinema,American politician
• July 14–Geraint Jones,Papua New Guinea cricketer
• July 15
  • Diane Kruger,German actress
  • Gabriel Iglesias,American actor, voice actor and comedian
• July 16
  • Anna Smashnova,Israeli tennis player
  • Bobby Lashley,American professional wrestler
• July 17
  • Luke Bryan,American country music singer-songwriter
  • Marcos Senna,Brazilian born-Spanish footballer
  • Eric Winter,American actor and fashion model
• July 18–Elsa Pataky,Spanish actress and model
• July 19
  • Diether Ocampo,Filipino actor, singer and model
  • Benedict Cumberbatch,English actor
  • Eric Prydz,Swedish DJ and producer
• July 20–Alex Yoong,Malaysian racing driver
• July 21
  • Cori Bush,American politician
  • Tatyana Lebedeva,Russian long jumper
  • Jaime Murray,English actress
• July 23–Judit Polgár,Hungarian chess player
• July 25–Timur Mutsurayev,Chechen bard
• July 26–Pável Pardo,Mexican footballer
• July 28–Jacoby Shaddix,American singer
• July 31–Paulo Wanchope,Costa Rican footballer

August

Iván Duque

Alexander Skarsgård

Alex O'Loughlin

Sarah Chalke

• August 1
  • Iván Duque,Colombian politician, 33rdPresident of Colombia
  • Don Hertzfeldt,American animator
  • Nwankwo Kanu,Nigerian footballer
  • Hasan Şaş,Turkish football player and coach
  • Amar Upadhyay,Indian television actor and model
• August 2–Kati Wilhelm,German biathlete
• August 4
  • Paul Goldstein,American tennis player
• August 5–Napoleon Beazley,juvenile offender (d.2002)
• August 6
  • Andero Ermel,Estonian actor
  • Soleil Moon Frye,American actress, director and screenwriter
  • Melissa George,Australian actress
  • Travis Kalanick,American businessman and computer programmer; co-founder ofUber
• August 8–JC Chasez,American singer ('N Sync)
• August 9
  • Jessica Capshaw,American actress
  • Audrey Tautou,French actress
• August 11
  • Iván Córdoba,Colombian football player and manager
  • Will Friedle,American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
• August 12
  • Mikko Lindström,Finnish rock guitarist
  • Lina Rafn,Danish singer
• August 14–Maya Nasri,Lebanese actress and singer
• August 15
  • Abiy Ahmed,Ethiopian Prime Minister, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize
  • Boudewijn Zenden,Dutch football player
• August 18
  • Lee Seung-yeop,South Korean baseball player
  • Bryan Volpenhein,American rower
• August 21–Liezel Huber,South African born-American tennis player
• August 25–Alexander Skarsgård,Swedish actor
• August 27
  • Sarah Chalke,Canadian actress
  • Carlos Moyá,Spanish tennis player
  • Mark Webber,Australian racing driver
• August 29
  • Luana Piovani,Brazilian actress and model
  • Jon Dahl Tomasson,Danish footballer
• August 30–Cristian Gonzáles,Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer
• August 31–Roque Júnior,Brazilian footballer

September

Naomie Harris

Alison Sweeney

Jon Bernthal

Emma de Caunes

Ronaldo

• September 1
  • Marcos Ambrose,Australian racing driver
  • Ivano Brugnetti,Italian race walker
  • Sebastián Rozental,Chilean footballer
• September 3
  • Jevon Kearse,American football player
  • Samuel Kuffour,Ghanaian footballer
  • Vivek Oberoi,Indian actor
• September 4–Brian Myrow,American baseball player
• September 5–Carice van Houten,Dutch actress
• September 6
  • Naomie Harris,British actress
  • Mark Wilkerson,American musician
  • Robin Atkin Downes,English actor and voice actor
• September 7–Stevie Case,American video game celebrity
• September 8–Sjeng Schalken,Dutch tennis player
• September 9
  • Mick Blue,Austrian pornographic actor and director
  • Emma de Caunes,French actress
  • Lúcia Moniz,Portuguese singer and actress
• September 10–Gustavo Kuerten,Brazilian tennis player
• September 11–Marco Rose,German football player and coach
• September 12–Maciej Żurawski,Polish footballer
• September 13–Puma Swede,Swedish pornographic actress
• September 15–Rob Wiethoff,American actor
• September 16–Tina Barrett,English singer (S Club 7)
• September 17–Nicole Reinhart,American track and road racing cyclist (d.2000)
• September 18–Ronaldo,Brazilian footballer
• September 19
  • Raja Bell,American basketball player
  • Isha Koppikar,Indian actress
  • Alison Sweeney,American actress
  • Sergey Tsinkevich,Belarusian footballer and referee
• September 20
  • Jon Bernthal,American actor
  • Yui Horie,Japanese voice actress
  • Enuka Okuma,Canadian actress
• September 23–Rob James-Collier,British actor and model
• September 24–Stephanie McMahon-Levesque,American professional wrestling promoter
• September 25
  • Chauncey Billups,American basketball player
  • Chiara Siracusa,Maltese singer,Eurovision Song Contest2005 runner-up
• September 26
  • Michael Ballack,German footballer
  • Kersti Heinloo,Estonian actress
• September 27–Francesco Totti,Italian footballer
• September 28–Fedor Emelianenko,Russianmixed martial artsfighter
• September 29–Andriy Shevchenko,Ukrainian footballer

October

Seann William Scott

Alicia Silverstone

Ramzan Kadyrov

Emily Deschanel

Andrew Scott

Ryan Reynolds

Piper Perabo

• Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi,Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d.2022)
• October 1–Danielle Bisutti,American actress and singer
• October 2–Anita Kulcsár,Hungarian handball player (d.2005)
• October 3–Seann William Scott,American actor and producer
• October 4
  • Mauro Camoranesi,Argentine born-Italian footballer
  • Alicia Silverstone,American actress
  • Ueli Steck,Swiss mountaineer (d.2017)
• October 5–Ramzan Kadyrov,Head of the Chechen Republic
• October 6
  • Freddy García,Venezuelan baseball player
  • Barbie Shu,Taiwanese actress and singer
• October 7
  • Taylor Hicks,American singer
  • Pekka Kuusisto,Finnish violinist
  • Gilberto Silva,Brazilian football player
  • Santiago Solari,Argentine football player and coach
• October 9
  • Sam Riegel,American voice actor and director
  • Nick Swardson,American actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter
• October 10
  • Bob Burnquist,Brazilian skateboarder
  • Shane Doan,Canadian ice hockey player
• October 11–Emily Deschanel,American actress
• October 12–Kajsa Bergqvist,Swedish high jumper
• October 14–Chang Chen,Taiwanese actor
• October 15–Yoon Son-ha,South Korean actress
• October 18–Galder,Norwegian musician
• October 19
  • Joe Duplantier,French musician
  • Dan Smith,Canadian ice-hockey player
  • Michael Young,American baseball player
  • Desmond Harrington,American actor
  • Omar Gooding,American actor
• October 20
  • Dan Fogler,American actor, comedian and writer
  • Plamen Goranov,Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d.2013)
• October 21
  • Jeremy Miller,American actor
  • Andrew Scott,Irish actor
• October 23
  • Cat Deeley,British television presenter
  • Ryan Reynolds,Canadian actor
• October 25
  • Steve Jones,Northern Irish footballer
  • Anton Sikharulidze,Russian figure skater
• October 26
  • Miikka Kiprusoff,Finnish hockey player
  • Jeremy Wotherspoon,Canadian speed skater
  • Thurop Van Orman,American animator and voice actor
• October 29
  • Stephen Craigan,Northern Irish footballer
  • Mark Sheehan,Irish guitarist (The Script) (d.2023)
• October 31
  • Guti,Spanish football player and coach
  • Piper Perabo,American actress

November

Chad Lindberg

Sebastian Arcelus

Jack Dorsey

Jaleel White

Chadwick Boseman

Anna Faris

• November 1
  • Chad Lindberg,American actor
  • Sam Presti,American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA 'sOklahoma City Thundersince 2007
• November 2–Thierry Omeyer,French handball goalkeeper
• November 5
  • Oleh Shelayev,Ukrainian footballer
  • Sean Brown,Canadian ice-hockey player
  • Sebastian Arcelus,American actor
• November 6
  • Pat Tillman,American football player, victim of friendly fire (d.2004)
  • Troy Hambrick,American football player
  • Wiley Wiggins,American actor
• November 7–Mark Philippoussis,Australian tennis player
• November 8–Brett Lee,Australian cricketer
• November 9
  • Josh Kaufman,American singer-songwriter, winner ofThe Voiceseason 6
  • Federica De Bortoli,Italian voice actress
• November 11–Mike Leon Grosch,German singer
• November 12
  • Tevin Campbell,American singer and actor
  • Mirosław Szymkowiak,Polish footballer
• November 13–Janine Leal,Venezuelan nutritionist, television presenter and model.
• November 15–Virginie Ledoyen,French actress
• November 17–Diane Neal,American actress
• November 18–Shagrath,Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir)
• November 19
  • Jack Dorsey,American software architect, businessman, co-founder ofTwitter
  • Benny Vansteelant,Belgian duathlete (d.2007)
• November 20
  • Dominique Dawes,African-American Olympic gymnast
  • Ji Yun-nam,North Korean footballer
  • Laura Harris,Canadian actress
• 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 25
  • Donovan McNabb,American football player
  • Hienadz Shutau,Belarusian demonstrator (d.2020)
• November 26–Maia Campbell,American actress and singer
• November 27–Jaleel White,African-American actor
• November 28–Ryan Kwanten,Australian actor and comedian
• November 29
  • Chadwick Boseman,American actor and playwright (d.2020)
  • Anna Faris,American actress
  • Ehren McGhehey,American stunt performer and actor

December

Zoe Konstantopoulou

Armin van Buuren

Danny McBride

• December 1
  • Matthew Shepard,American murder victim (d.1998)
  • Laura Ling,AmericanjournalistimprisonedbyNorth Koreain 2009
• December 3
  • Cornelius Griffin,American football player
  • Marcos Denner,Brazilian footballer
• December 4–Amie Comeaux,American country music singer (d.1997)
• December 5
  • Amy Acker,American actress
  • Rafaela Crespín Rubio,Spanish politician
  • Evonne Hsu,Taiwanese singer
• December 6–Alicia Machado,Venezuelan beauty queen,Miss Universe 1996
• December 7
  • Mark Duplass,American actor, screenwriter and director
  • Georges Laraque,Canadian ice-hockey player
  • Derek Ramsay,Filipino actor and model
• December 8
  • Zoe Konstantopoulou,Greek lawyer and politician
  • Dominic Monaghan,English-German actor
• December 13
  • Mark Paston,New Zealand footballer
  • Radosław Sobolewski,Polish footballer
• December 14–Leland Chapman,American bail bondsman
• December 17
  • Takeo Spikes,American football player
  • Dan Hageman,American screenwriter and television producer
• December 18
  • Koyuki,Japanese actress
• December 21–Mirela Maniani,Greek javelin thrower
• December 23
  • Jamie Noble,American professional wrestler
  • Amjad Sabri,PakistaniQawwalisinger (d.2016)
  • Christopher Pizzey,English actor and comedian
• December 24–Ángel Matos,Cubantaekwondoathlete
• December 25
  • Tuomas Holopainen,Finnish metal keyboardist (Nightwish)
  • Armin van Buuren,Dutch music producer and DJ
• December 26
  • Nadia Litz,Canadian actress and producer
  • Dmitri Tertyshny,Russian professional ice hockey (d.1999)
• December 27–Fernando Pisani,Canadian ice-hockey player
• December 28–Joe Manganiello,American actor
• December 29–Danny McBride,American actor, comedian and writer

Date unknown

• Pedro X. Molina,Nicaraguan caricaturist

Deaths

Further information:Category:1976 deaths

January

Zhou Enlai

DameAgatha Christie

Paul Robeson

• January 3–John Ainsworth-Davis,Welsh surgeon and athlete (b.1895)
• January 5
  • John A. Costello,formerTaoiseachof theRepublic of Ireland(b.1891)
  • Mal Evans,English road manager to the Beatles (b.1935)
  • Károly Takács,Hungarian Olympic shooter (b.1910)
• January 8–Zhou Enlai,1stPremier of the People's Republic of China(b.1898)
• January 10–Howlin' Wolf,American blues singer (b.1910)
• January 12–Agatha Christie,English detective fiction writer (b.1890)
• January 13–Margaret Leighton,English actress (b.1922)
• January 14
  • Abdul Razak Hussein,Malaysian politician, 2ndPrime Minister of Malaysia(b.1922)
  • Muhammad Sakizli,2ndPrime Minister of Libya(b.1892)
• January 19–Hidetsugu Yagi,Japanese electrical engineer (b.1886)
• January 22–Hermann Jónasson,Icelandic politician, 7thPrime Minister of Iceland(b.1896)
• January 23–Paul Robeson,American actor, singer, writer and activist (b.1898)
• January 24–Emil Bodnăraș,Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (b.1904)
• January 26–Gabriele Allegra,ItalianRoman Catholicpriest and blessed (b.1907)
• January 29–Jesse Fuller,American one-man band musician (b.1896)
• January 31–Ernesto Miranda,American criminal and namesake of theMiranda right(b.1941)

February

Sal Mineo

Florence Ballard

• February 1
  • Werner Heisenberg,German physicist,Nobel Prizelaureate (b.1901)
  • Hans Richter,German artist and filmmaker (b.1888)
  • George Whipple,American scientist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(b.1878)
• February 4–Roger Livesey,Welsh actor (b.1906)
• February 6–Ritwik Ghatak,Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b.1925)
• February 9–Percy Faith,Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (b.1908)
• February 11
  • Lee J. Cobb,American actor (b.1911)
  • Alexander Lippisch,German aeronautical engineer (b.1894)
  • Dorothy Maud Wrinch,British mathematician and biochemical theorist (b.1894)
• February 12–Sal Mineo,American actor (b.1939)
• February 13
  • Murtala Mohammed,Nigerian general (b.1938)
  • Lily Pons,French-American operatic soprano and actress (b.1898)
• February 17–Jean Servais,Belgian actor (b.1910)
• February 20
  • René Cassin,French judge, recipient of theNobel Peace Prize(b.1887)
  • Kathryn Kuhlman,American evangelist and faith healer (b.1907)
• February 22–Florence Ballard,American singer (The Supremes) (b.1943)
• February 23–L. S. Lowry,British artist (b.1887)
• February 26–Frieda Inescort,Scottish-born actress (b.1901)

March

Luchino Visconti

• March 4–Walter H. Schottky,German physicist (b.1886)
• March 5–Otto Tief,Estonian politician and military commander (b.1889)
• March 6–Maxie Rosenbloom,American boxer and actor (b.1907)
• March 8–Alfons Rebane,Estonian military commander (b.1908)
• March 10–Haddon Sundblom,Swedish illustrator and American artist (b.1899)
• 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 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 25–Josef Albers,German-American artist (b.1888)
• March 28–Richard Arlen,American actor (b.1899)
• March 31–Paul Strand,American photographer (b.1890)

April

Max Ernst

Howard Hughes

• April 1
  • Max Ernst,German artist (b.1891)
  • Alfred Lennon,father of musicianJohn Lennon(b.1912)
• April 4–Harry Nyquist,Americaninformation theorypioneer (b.1889)
• April 5–Howard Hughes,American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b.1905)
• April 8–Renato Petronio,Italian rower (b.1891)
• April 9–Phil Ochs,American singer-songwriter (b.1940)
• April 12–Miriam Cooper,American actress (b.1891)
• April 13–Sabri al-Asali,Syrian politician, 3-timePrime Minister of Syria(b.1903)
• April 14–Mariano Ospina Pérez,Colombian politician, 17thPresident of Colombia(b.1891)
• April 17–Henrik Dam,Danish biochemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(b.1895)
• April 25
  • Carol Reed,English film director (b.1906)
  • Markus Reiner,Israeli scientist (b.1886)
• April 26–Andrei Grechko,Soviet general,Minister of Defence(b.1903)

May

Hugo Wieslander

• May 9
  • Jens Bjørneboe,Norwegian author (b.1920)
  • Ulrike Meinhof,German terrorist (b.1934)
• May 11–Alvar Aalto,Finnish architect (b.1898)
• May 12–Keith Relf,British rock musician (The Yardbirds) (b.1943)
• May 15–Samuel Eliot Morison,American historian (b.1887)
• May 24–Hugo Wieslander,Swedish Olympic athlete (b.1889)
• May 26
  • Martin Heidegger,German philosopher (b.1889)
  • Edgar Moon,Australian tennis player (b.1904)
• May 27–Ruth McDevitt,American actress (b.1895)
• May 28–Zainul Abedin,Bangladeshi painter (b.1914)
• May 30–Mitsuo Fuchida,Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist (b.1902)
• May 31–Jacques Monod,French biologist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(b.1910)

June

J. Paul Getty

DameSybil Thorndike

• June 2
  • Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam,Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1stSecretary-General of the Arab League(b.1893)
  • Juan José Torres,Bolivian politician and military leader, 50thPresident of Bolivia(b.1920)
• June 6
  • J. Paul Getty,American industrialist, founder ofGetty Oil(b.1892)
  • David Jacobs,Welsh Olympic athlete (b.1888)
  • Fuad Stephens,Malaysian politician (b.1920)
  • Victor Varconi,Hungarian actor (b.1891)
• June 7
  • Bobby Hackett,American jazz musician (b.1915)
  • Shigetarō Shimada,Japanese admiral during World War II (b.1883)
• June 9–Dame Sybil Thorndike,British actress (b.1882)
• June 10–Adolph Zukor,Hungarian-born film producer (b.1873)
• June 11–Toots Mondt,American WWF promoter (b.1894)
• June 12–Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ,1stPrime Minister of South Vietnamand 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b.1908)
• June 15–Jimmy Dykes,American baseball player and manager (b.1896)
• June 16–Hector Pieterson,South African activist (b.1963)
• June 17–Richard Casey,Australian statesman and diplomat (b.1890)
• June 24–Imogen Cunningham,American photographer (b.1883)
• June 27–C. Wade McClusky,United States Navy admiral (b.1902)
• June 28–Stanley Baker,Welsh actor and film producer (b.1928)
• June 30–Firpo Marberry,American baseball pitcher (b.1898)

July

Joachim Peiper

Mickey Cohen

• July 1
  • Anneliese Michel,GermanRoman Catholicwoman who was believed to be possessed by demons (b.1952)
  • Zhang Wentian,General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party(b.1900)
• July 4–Yonatan Netanyahu,Israeli commando leader (b.1946)
• July 6–Zhu De,Head of Stateof China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b.1886)
• July 7
  • Norman Foster,American film director (b.1903)
  • Gustav Heinemann,6thPresident of the Federal Republic of Germany(b.1899)
• July 11–León de Greiff,Colombian poet (b.1895)
• July 12–James Wong Howe,American cinematographer (b.1899)
• July 14–Joachim Peiper,German military leader (b.1915)
• July 15–Paul Gallico,American novelist, short story and sports writer (b.1897)
• July 16–Wilhelmina von Bremen,American sprint runner (b.1909)
• July 22– SirMortimer Wheeler,British archaeologist (b.1890)
• July 23–Basil Hopko,CzechoslovakRoman Catholicbishop and saint (b.1904)
• July 24–Afro Basaldella,Italian painter (b.1912)
• July 28
  • Maggie Gripenberg,Finnish dancer and choreographer (b.1881)
  • Lucie Mannheim,German singer and actress (b.1899)
• July 29–Mickey Cohen,American gangster (b.1913)
• July 30–Rudolf Bultmann,German Lutheran theologian (b.1884)

August

Fritz Lang

• August 2–Fritz Lang,Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b.1890)
• August 4–Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet,Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor (b.1894)
• August 6
  • Gregor Piatigorsky,Russian cellist (b.1903)
  • Maria Klenova,Russian marine geologist (b.1898)
• August 9–José Lezama Lima,Cuban writer and poet (b.1910)
• August 10–Karl Schmidt-Rottluff,German painter (b.1884)
• August 11–Omer Poos,American jurist and United States district judge from 1958 to 1976 (b.1902)
• August 12–Tom Driberg,British politician/journalist (b.1905)
• August 22–Juscelino Kubitschek,21stPresident of Brazil(b.1902)
• August 25–Eyvind Johnson,Swedish novelist, recipient of theNobel Prize in Literature(b.1900)
• August 26–Lotte Lehmann,German soprano (b.1888)
• August 28–Anissa Jones,American actress and student (b.1958)
• August 29
  • Kazi Nazrul Islam,Bangladeshinational poet (b.1899)
  • Jimmy Reed,American blues musician (b.1925)

September

Mao Zedong

• September 5–Arthur Gilligan,English cricketer (b.1894)
• September 9–Mao Zedong,Chinese revolutionary and political theorist,Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party(b.1893)
• September 10–Dalton Trumbo,American screenwriter and novelist (b.1905)
• September 13–Camilo Ponce Enríquez,Ecuadorian political figure, 30thPresident of Ecuador(b.1912)
• September 14–Prince Paul of Yugoslavia,(b.1893)
• September 15–Josef Sudek,Czech photographer (b.1896)
• September 16–Bertha Lutz,Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist (b.1894)
• September 19
  • Yehezkel Abramsky,Russian-born British rabbi (b.1886)
  • Robert Mellard,American US Army soldier (b.1919)
• September 21–Orlando Letelier,Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (assassinated) (b.1932)
• September 26–Leopold Ružička,Yugoslav chemist,Nobel Prizelaureate (b.1887)
• September 28–Raymond Collishaw,Canadian World War I fighter ace (b.1893)

October

Barbara Nichols

• October 5
  • Lars Onsager,Norwegian-born American physical theoretical physicist, 1968 Nobel Prize laureate (b.1903)
  • Barbara Nichols,American actress (b.1928)
• October 9–Troy H. Middleton,American general and educator (b.1889)
• October 10–Silvana Armenulić,Yugoslav singer (b.1939)
• October 14
  • Dame Edith Evans,British actress (b.1888)
  • Suleiman Nabulsi,Prime Minister of Jordan(b.1908)
• October 15–Carlo Gambino,Italian-American mobster (b.1902)
• October 18–Giacomo Lercaro,ItalianRoman Catholiccardinal (b.1891)
• October 31–Eileen Gray,Irish furniture designer (b.1878)

November

Rosalind Russell

• November 3–Solange d'Ayen,French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (b.1898)
• November 8–Gottfried von Cramm,German tennis player (b.1909)
• November 9–Armas Taipale,Finnish Olympic athlete (b.1890)
• November 11–Alexander Calder,American sculptor (b.1898)
• November 12–Walter Piston,American composer (b.1894)
• November 15–Jean Gabin,French actor (b.1904)
• November 18–Man Ray,American artist (b.1890)
• November 20–Trofim Lysenko,Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin (b.1898)
• November 23–André Malraux,French novelist (b.1901)
• November 28–Rosalind Russell,American actress (b.1907)
• November 29–Godfrey Cambridge,American comedian and actor (b.1933)
• November 30–Ivan Yakubovsky,Marshal of the Soviet Union (b.1912)

December

Benjamin Britten

João Goulart

• December 2–Danny Murtaugh,Pittsburgh Piratesbaseball player and manager (b.1917)
• December 3
  • Alfredo Dinale,Italian Olympic cyclist (b.1900)
  • Angelo Iachino,Italian admiral (b.1889)
  • Mary Nash,American actress (b.1884)
• December 4
  • Tommy Bolin,American guitarist (b.1951)
  • Benjamin Britten,English composer (b.1913)
• December 6–João Goulart,Brazilian politician, 24thPresident of Brazil(b.1918)
• December 12–Jack Cassidy,American actor (b.1927)
• December 15–Grégoire Kayibanda,Rwandan politician, 2ndPresident of Rwanda(b.1924)
• December 20
  • Richard J. Daley,American politician (b.1902)
  • Ned Washington,American lyricist (b.1901)
• December 28–Freddie King,American rock guitarist (b.1934)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics–Burton Richter,Samuel Chao Chung Ting
• Chemistry–William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr
• Physiology or Medicine–Baruch S. Blumberg,D Carleton Gajdusek
• Literature–Saul Bellow
• Peace–Betty WilliamsandMairead Corrigan
• Economics–Milton Friedman