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1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.

January 1976
January – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray’s Cray Research.
January 3 – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force.
January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union.
January 12 – Crime author Agatha Christie dies aged 85 in Oxfordshire, UK
January 14 – The Lutz family flees from 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island, New York, in the United States, 28 days after having moved in on December 18, 1975, leading to the story of The Amityville Horror.
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, westward Germany.
January 18
Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Scottish Labour Party is formed.
Super Bowl X: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami.
January 19 – Jimmy Carter wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus.
January 21 – The first commercial Concorde flight takes off.
January 27
The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state.
The First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.
January 29 – Twelve Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs explode in the westward End of London.
January 30 – Live from Lincoln Center debuts on PBS.
February[edit]
Main article: February 1976
The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.
The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
February 5 – Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged riot at Eplaybia High School in Pensacola, Florida; 30 students are injured in the 4-hour fray.
February 9 – The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
February 11 – Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African Worldwide Secretary of the United States Army.
February 12 – Actor Sal Mineo is fatally stabbed in the alley behind his apartment building in westward Hollywood, California.
February 13
General Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria is assassinated in a military coup.
Dorothy Hamill wins the gold medal in ladies figure skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
February 15 – The 1976 Constitution of Cuba is adopted by national referendum.
February 19 – Former Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens is arrested for murdering three men during a botched drug deal. He ultimately serves 36 years of a life sentence.
February 22 – Former Supremes singer Florence Ballard dies of heart failure at 32 in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan.
February 24 – Cuba’s current constitution is enacted.
February 26 – The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.
February 27 – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara’s national liberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic".
February 28 – Madagascar becomes the first country to recognise the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
March[edit]
Main article: March 1976
March 1
U.K. house Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. In 2014, he is placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
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 – A cable automobile disaster in Cavalese, Italy leaves 43 dead.
March 9 – March 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky.
March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain until 1999, setting what was likely then a record for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. That record is broken by The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973 and is still (as of 2019) telecast by that network.
March 16 – Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
March 17 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried in New Jersey.
March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
March 22 – Star Wars begins filming in Tunisia.
March 24
Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
A general strike takes place in the People’s Republic of the Congo.
March 26 – The Toronto Blue Jays are created.
March 27
The South African Defence Force withdraws from Republic of Angola and concludes Operation Savannah.
The first 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.
March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in a persistent vegetative state in the Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.
Apr[edit]
Main article: Apr 1976
Apr 1
Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by astronomer Patrick Moore.
Apr 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
Apr 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
Apr 5
James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing’s Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of iv are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
Segovia prison break: in Spain’s largest prison break since the Spanish civil war, 29 political prisoners escape from Segovia prison.
Howard Hughes, Millionaire man of affairs and aviator dies at age 70.
Apr 10 – Frampton Comes Alive!, the multi-platinum selling live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton hits #1 in the Billboard 200 and remains there for 10 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of the year.
Apr 13
The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion in Lapua, Finland kills 40.
The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar banker’s bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson’s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
Apr 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.
Apr 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers’ settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
Apr 23
The punk rock group the Ramones release their first album, Ramones.
Jethro Tull release their album Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young to Die!.
Apr 25 – Portugal’s new constitution is enacted.
Apr 29 – Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing iv Chinese.[1] The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on that day they returned to the embassy earlier.[1]
May[edit]
Main article: May 1976
May 1 – Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales.
May 4
The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
May 6 – An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making some other 100,000 homeless.
May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide, in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
May 11
U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.
An accident involving a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia takes place in Houston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.[2][3]
May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in iv games to win the Stanley Cup. Flyers’ forward Reggie Leach became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
May 21 – The Yuba City bus disaster, the worst bus crash in U.S. history to day of the month, with 28 students and one instructor killed.
May 24
Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
The Judgment of Paris pits 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. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
May 30 – Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to day of the month, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi).
May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, whom it had previously supported.
June[edit]
Main article: June 1976
June 1 – The UK and Iceland end the Cod War.
June 2
A automobile bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.
June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA’s first 50 years.
June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.
June 6 – The Double Six Crash, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
June 12 – Alberto Demicheli, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay after Juan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa.
June 14 – The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court of Donald Neilson, the killer known as the Black Panther.
June 16
The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.
Francis E. Meloy Jr., newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, and two others are kidnapped in Beirut and killed.
June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the Worldwide Basketball Association concur on the ABA–NBA merger.
June 20
Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
General elections are held in Italy.
Czechoslovakia beats westward Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76, when the game had ended 2–2 after extra time.
June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
June 26 – The CN Tower is built in Toronto; the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
June 27
G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" (G-7).
Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Republic of Uganda.
June 29
Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.
The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
July[edit]

Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.
July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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 overturning the Furman v. Georgia case of 1972.
The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
July 4
The United States celebrates the United States Bicentennial in memory for the 200th anniversary of the Worldwide Revolution.
Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Republic of Uganda’s Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu 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, 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 in westward Berlin.
David Steel becomes leader of the UK’s Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe.
July 10
iv mercenaries, three British and one Worldwide, are shot by firing squad in Republic of Angola.
An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milano, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
July 12
Barbara Jordan is the first African-Worldwide to keynote a political convention.
Family Feud debuts on Television
California State University, Fullerton massacre: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton.
July 15
Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in 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 Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice, France.
July 17
The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia.
July 18 – Nadia Comăneci 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.
Worldwide niaganis Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
July 21 – An IRA bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary; two others are seriously wounded but hold up.
July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
July 27
The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Republic of Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.
Delegates attending an Worldwide Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, US, begin falling sick with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
July 28 – The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding some other, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
July 30
Bruce Jenner wins the gold medal in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions.
July 31
NASA releases the famous human face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.
August[edit]
August 1
The 1976 Summer Olympics ends in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II with President Ellis Clarke as its head of state.
The Seattle Seahawks play their first football game.
Racing Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix.
August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla’s mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla’s husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea’s murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a justice), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
August 5 – The Great Clock of Westminster (or Big Ben) suffers internal damage and stops running for over 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.
August 8 – As part of the Worldwide Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.[4]
August 14
Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
August 16 – The Ramones create their first "professional" performance at CBGB.
August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea, two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which had obscured their view.
August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
August 24 – In Uruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
August 25
Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre.
Landslide disaster in Sau Mau Ping, Hong Kong.
August 26
The first known outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in Yambuku, Zaire.
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.
August 28 – Actress Anissa Jones, famous for playing Buffy Davis in the TV series Family Affair, was found dead of an accidental overdose in Oceanside, California.
August 30 – James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
September[edit]
September 1
Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.
Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship.
The state of emergency, being in force since 1939, is lifted in the Republic of Ireland.
September 3 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-upwards color photos of the planet’s surface.
September 6
Cold War: Soviet Air Force airplane pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Nippon, and requests political asylum in the United States.
Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis’s former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
September 10
Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (present-day Zagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.
September 13 – The Muppet Show is broadcast for the first time on ITV.
September 15 – Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup, which stayed in Canada.
September 16
Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.
September 17 – The interplanetary space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar.
September 20 – The International Organization of interplanetary space Communications (Intersputnik) is founded.
September 20 – 21 – The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Festival ignites the careers of several influential punk and post-punk bands, arguably sparking the punk movement’s introduction into mainstream civilisation.
September 21
The Seychelles join the United Nations.
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
September 24 – Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).
September 25 – 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.
September 28 – Worldwide singer Stevie Wonder releases his hit album Songs in the Key of Life.
October[edit]

October 4: The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.
October 4 – The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
October 6
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.[5]
Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of iv.
October 8 – Thorbjörn Fälldin replaces Olof Palme as Prime Minister of Sweden.
October 9 – Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bob Moose is killed in a automobile crash on his 29th birthday in Ohio.
October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
October 12 – The People’s Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong, as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (upwards 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 18 – Ford officially launches volume production of the Fiesta automobile at its Valencia plant.
October 19
The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.
The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
October 22 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
October 24 – James Hunt wins a very political Formula One World Championship by just 1 point driving a McLaren M23-D as rival Niki Lauda retires from the Japanese Grand Prix due to heavy rain.
October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.
October 26 – Transkei gains independence from South Africa.
November[edit]
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 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 22 – John Robert Hill was murdered by a 25-caliber pistol and 21 stab wounds.
November 24 – 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000–5,000 are killed in a 7.3 Ms earthquake at Van and Muradiye in eastern 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.
The Warsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat is established.
November 29 – The New York Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to a five-year $3 million contract setting the precedence for lucrative multi-year contracts for Major League Baseball players in years to come.
December[edit]
December 1
Republic of Angola joins the United Nations.
José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico.
The Sex Pistols achieve public notoriety, as they unleash several iv-letter words live on banker’s bill Grundy’s early evening TV show.
Sir Douglas Nicholls is appointed the 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.
December 2 – Former player and Pittsburgh Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh dies at age 59.
December 3
Bob Marley and his manager Don Taylor are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica.
Patrick Hillery is elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland.
December 6 – The Viet Cong is disbanded, and its former members become a part of the Vietnam People’s Army.
December 8
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five 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 Río.
Hotel California by the Eagles is released.
December 10
The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or whatsoever Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
The 9th Congress of the Sammarinese Communist Party convenes.
December 15
Samoa joins the United Nations.
Denis Healey announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from the International Monetary Fund.
December 20 – Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies.
December 23 – A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire.
December 28 – Legendary guitarist Freddie King dies.
day of the month unknown[edit]
In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U.S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell. The orchestra is the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel.
Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).
California’s sodomy law is repealed.
The term memetics is first proposed by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.
Diffie–Hellman key exchange cryptography is proposed.
Plans to move the Nigerian capital from Lagos to Abuja are approved.
The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing Canadian Online Casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the banker’s bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia’s influence at Canadian Online Casinos in Nevada.
The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is established by the University of California (UC) in response to the State Legislature’s recommendation to expand post-secondary opportunities to all of California’s students including those who are first-generation, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and English-language learners.[6]
Marc Brown’s Arthur’s Nose is published
Universe, a public domain film produced by Lester Novros for NASA, is released.
Births[edit]
Births
January · February · March · Apr · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
January[edit]

Paz Vega

Johnny Yong Bosch

Jenny Lewis

Emma Bunton

Andy Milonakis
January 1 – Chai Jing, Chinese former host and reporter
January 2
Cletidus Hunt, Worldwide football player
Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
Phil Radford, Worldwide environmental, clean free energy and democracy leader, Greenpeace Executive Director
Paz Vega, Spanish actress
January 4 – Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist/writer
January 5 – Shintarō Asanuma, Japanese voice actor
January 6
Johnny Yong Bosch, Worldwide actor
Judith Rakers, German journalist and television presenter
January 7
Nilton Pereira Mendes, Brazilian professional footballer. (d. 2006)
Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
January 8
Jenny Lewis, Worldwide actress and singer (Rilo Kiley)
Josh Meyers, Worldwide actor and comedian, brother of Seth Meyers
January 10
Adam Kennedy, Worldwide baseball player
Eduardo Garza, Mexican actor and voice actor
January 13
Ross McCall, Scottish actor
Michael Peña, Worldwide actor
Bic Runga, New Zealand singer-songwriter
Mario Yepes, Colombian football player
January 15
Meredith Bishop, Worldwide actress
Dorian Missick, Worldwide actor
January 16 – Carrie Keranen, Worldwide voice actress
January 19 – Marsha Thomason, English actress
January 20
Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish TV presenter
Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
Anastasia Volochkova, Russian prima ballerina
Michael Myers, former NFL defensive tackle
January 21 – Emma Bunton, English musician (Spice Girls)
January 22
James Dearth, Worldwide football player
TJ Trinidad, Filipino actor
January 23
Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteer (world champion 2008)
Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
January 26 – Yasmine Belmadi, French actor (d. 2009)
January 27 – Clint Ford, Worldwide actor and writer
January 28
Lee Ingleby, British Voice Artist
grade Madsen, Worldwide basketball player
January 30 – Andy Milonakis, Worldwide Internet and MTV star
January 31
Buddy Rice, Worldwide race automobile driver
Paul Scheer, Worldwide actor and comedian
February[edit]

Isla Fisher

Tony Jaa

Charlie Day

Janet Varney

Kelly Macdonald

Rashida Jones
February 1
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland
Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
February 2
Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
Lori Beth Denberg, Worldwide comedian
James Hickman, British swimmer
February 3
Isla Fisher, Oman-born British-Australian actress
Tim Heidecker, Worldwide comedian
Tijana, Macedonian singer
February 4 – Cam’ron, African-Worldwide rapper
February 5
Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
Brian Moorman, Worldwide football player
February 6
Umer Rashid, English first class cricketer (d. 2002)
Kim Zmeskal, Worldwide gymnast
February 9 – Charlie Day, Worldwide actor
February 10 – Lance Berkman, Worldwide baseball player
February 11 – Brice Beckham, Worldwide actor
February 12
Jenni Falconer, British TV presenter
Silvia Saint, Czech actress
February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, Worldwide actress
February 15 – Brandon Boyd, Worldwide singer-songwriter and author
February 16
Adam Simpson, Australian rules footballer
Kyo, Japanese rock musician (Dir En Grey)
Janet Varney, Worldwide actress and comedian
February 17 – Svein Berge, Norwegian musician (Röyksopp)
February 20
Johanna Beisteiner, Austrian guitarist
Chris Cillizza, Worldwide journalist
February 21 – Michael McIntyre, British stand-upwards comedian
February 23
Jeff O’Neill, Canadian hockey player
Aaron Aziz, Singaporean-born Malaysian actor
Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
February 24
Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian
Zach Johnson, Worldwide golfer
February 25 – Rashida Jones, Worldwide actress, writer, model and musician
February 27 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and songwriter
February 28
Ali Larter, Worldwide actress and model
Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
February 29
Ja Rule, Worldwide hip-hop rapper
grade Pollock, blind Irish adventurer and author
March[edit]

Freddie Prinze Jr.

Danny Masterson

Corey Stoll

Chester Bennington

Rachael MacFarlane

Reese Witherspoon

Peyton Manning

Ayako Kawasumi
March 1 – Luke Mably, British actor
March 3
Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
Isabel Granada, Filipino actress and singer (d. 2017)
March 4
Robbie Blake, English footballer
Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
Sean Covel, Worldwide film producer
Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
Thierry Renaer, Belgian land hockey player
March 5 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
March 6 – Ken Anderson, Worldwide professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
March 8
Sergej Ćetković, Montenegrin singer
Gaz Coombes, English musician and singer-songwriter (Supergrass)
Freddie Prinze Jr., Worldwide actor
March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinean model
March 10
Miroslav Kostadinov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese model, actress and singer
March 12 – Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress
March 13
Danny Masterson, Worldwide actor
Jamie Pressnall, Worldwide tap dancer and musician
March 14
Corey Stoll, Worldwide actor
Merlin Santana, Worldwide actor (d. 2002)
March 15 – Abhay Deol, Indian actor
March 16
Nick Spano, Worldwide actor
Blu Cantrell, Worldwide 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, Worldwide-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
March 19
Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
Andre Miller, Worldwide basketball player
Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
March 20 – Chester Bennington, Worldwide singer (Linkin Park) (d. 2017)
March 21
Rachael MacFarlane, Worldwide actress and singer, sister of Seth MacFarlane
Dariush Ramezani, Iranian cartoonist
March 22
Teun de Nooijer, Dutch land hockey player
Shawty Lo, Worldwide rapper (d. 2016)
Wayne Turner, Worldwide basketball player
Kellie Shanygne Williams, Worldwide actress
Reese Witherspoon, Worldwide actress
March 23
Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
Keri Russell, Worldwide actress
Sa Beining, Chinese host
March 24
Aaron Brooks, Worldwide football player
Peyton Manning, former Worldwide football player (1998–2016)
March 26
Blaise Alexander, Worldwide automobile racing driver (d. 2001)
Amy Smart, Worldwide actress
March 27 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
March 29 – Jennifer Capriati, Worldwide tennis player
March 30
Jessica Cauffiel, Worldwide actress and singer
Ty Conklin, Worldwide ice-hockey player
Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress
March 31
Josh Saviano, Worldwide actor and lawyer
Murad Mirzayev, Azerbaijani officer (d. 2016)
Apr[edit]

Troy Baker

David Oyelowo

Candace Cameron Bure

Glenn Howerton

Jonathan Brandis

Melissa Joan Hart

Wyatt Cenac

Joey Lawrence
Apr 1
Troy Baker, Worldwide actor and musician
David Oyelowo, English-Worldwide actor
Apr 2
Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor
Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
Apr 3 – Will Mellor, English actor
Apr 4 – James Roday, Worldwide actor, director and screenwriter
Apr 5
Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
Sterling K. Brown, African-Worldwide actor
Apr 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, Worldwide actress
Apr 7 – Eric Wareheim, Worldwide comedian
Apr 9 – Kris Radlinski, English rugby league player
Apr 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006)
Apr 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
Apr 13
Glenn Howerton, Worldwide actor
Jonathan Brandis, Worldwide actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
Apr 14 – Anna DeForge, Worldwide basketball player
Apr 15
Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player
Brock Huard, former Worldwide football player
Steve Williams, British rower
Apr 16
David Lyons, Australian actor
Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (d. 2017)
Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
Apr 18
Melissa Joan Hart, Worldwide actress
Sean Maguire, British actor and singer
Apr 19
Wyatt Cenac, Worldwide actor, writer and director
Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
Apr 20
Joey Lawrence, Worldwide actor
Shay Given, Irish football goalkeeper
Apr 21 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
Apr 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
Apr 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer
Apr 24 – George P. Bush, Worldwide attorney and politician
Apr 25
Tim Duncan, Worldwide basketball player
Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer, TV personality
Apr 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
Apr 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
Apr 29
Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and record producer
Shiho Kawaragi, Japanese voice actress
May[edit]

Anza

Michele Frangilli

Nadine Heredia

Colin Farrell
May 1
Darius McCrary, Worldwide actor
Michele Frangilli, Italian archer
May 3
Beto, Portuguese footballer
Jeff Halpern, Worldwide ice hockey player
May 4
Jason Michaels, Worldwide baseball player
Anza, Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical
May 5 – Sage Stallone, Worldwide actor, film director, producer, and distributor (d. 2012)
May 7 – Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL, First recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Afghanistan War (d. 2005)
May 8
Martha Wainwright, Canadian-Worldwide folk-pop singer
Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Steps) and actor
May 10
Rhona Bennett, Worldwide actress, singer and model
Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football (soccer) striker (d. 2006)
May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
May 15
Tyler Walker, Worldwide baseball player
grade Kennedy, Irish footballer
Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
Ryan Leaf, Worldwide former football quarterback
May 19 – Kevin Garnett, African-Worldwide basketball player
May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
May 22
Chris Brazzell, Canadian and Worldwide Football player
Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress
May 25
Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
J. Michael Tatum, Worldwide voice actor
Erinn Hayes, Worldwide actress
Nadine Heredia, Peruvian politician, First Lady of Peru
May 26 – Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
May 28
Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
Liam O’Brien, Worldwide actor
May 31
Tony Hopper, English footballer (d. 2018)
Colin Farrell, Irish actor
Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumper
June[edit]

Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso

Alexei Navalny

Emilie-Claire Barlow

Lindsay Davenport

Blake Shelton

Ryan Hurst

Juliano Belletti

Alexander Zakharchenko
June 1 – Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss Worldwide 2001
June 2
Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane)
Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
June 3 – Jamie McMurray, Worldwide race automobile driver
June 4 – Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist
June 5
Ian Bavitz (Aesop Rock), Worldwide hip-hop artist
Marc Worden, Canadian actor and voice actor
Joe Gatto, Worldwide Comedian
June 6
Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian actress and singer
Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
June 7 – Nora Salinas, Mexican actress and model
June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, Worldwide tennis player
June 9
Ameesha Patel, Indian actress
June 10
Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress
June 13
Kym Marsh, British singer (Hear’Say) and actress
Jason "J" Brown, British singer (5ive)
June 14 – Alan Carr, English comedian
June 17
Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
Scott Adkins, English actor
June 18 – Blake Shelton, Worldwide singer
June 19
Anar Baghirov, Azerbaijani lawyer
Ryan Hurst, Worldwide actor
June 20 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
June 21 – Antonio Cochran, Worldwide football player
June 22
Mike O’Brien, Worldwide actor, writer, and comedian
Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice-hockey player
June 23
Brandon Stokley, Worldwide football player
Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
Patrick Vieira, French footballer
June 24 – Suhaimi Mat Hassan, Malaysian football referee
June 25 – Hennie Otto, South African professional golfer
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, Worldwide actor
June 28
Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player
Jason J. Lewis, Worldwide voice actor
David Palmer, Australian squash player
June 29
Annette Beutler, Swiss professional racing cyclist
Katsutoshi Domori, Japanese football player
Takahiro Mazuka, Japanese sprinter
Omar Doom, Worldwide actor, musician and artist
Ma Yili, Chinese actress
Angelo Lekkas, Australian rules footballer
Soni Pabla, Indian-born musician (d. 2006)
June 30
Tamara Sedmak, Swiss television presenter, model and actress
Kazumasa Shimizu, Japanese football player
Jason Bostic, Worldwide football defensive back
Christine Schürrer, German serial killer
Gilbert Yvel, Dutch mixed martial artist
July[edit]

Gino D’Acampo

Bérénice Bejo

Fred Savage

Adrian Grenier

Diane Kruger

Gabriel Iglesias

Luke Bryan

Elsa Pataky

Benedict Cumberbatch

Fernando Ricksen
Gino D’Acampo, Italian celebrity chef
July 1
Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor
Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
U. K. Shyam, Singaporean athlete
Haaz Sleiman, Lebanese-Worldwide actor
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
Kellie Bright, English actress
July 2
Kon Arimura, Malaysian-Japanese radio personality, film critic, and film commentator
Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
Tommy Pistol, Worldwide actor and director
July 3
Shane Lynch, Irish singer
Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean rugby union player
Andrea Barber, Worldwide actress
Henry Olonga, Zambian-Zimbabwean cricketer
July 4
Rohan Nichol, Australian actor
Aryan Vaid, Indian male model
Jo Chen, Worldwide-Taiwanese comic book artist and writer
Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
July 5
Jamie Elman, Canadian-Worldwide actor
Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
Liberty Phoenix, Venezuelan actress
Rufus Johnson, Worldwide rapper also known as Bizarre
July 6 – Dimitrije Banjac, Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter
July 7
Kim Jong-chun, South Korean football player
Lina Teoh, Malaysian actress, TV Host and model
Bérénice Bejo, Argentine actress
Hamish Linklater, Worldwide actor and playwright
Natasha Collins, English actress and model (d. 2008)
July 8
Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman
Josh Taumalolo, Tongan rugby union player
Grettell Valdez, Mexican television and film actress and former fashion model[7]
July 9
Fred Savage, Worldwide actor and director
Arturo Carmona, Mexican actor
Elliot Cowan, English actor
July 10
Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
Adrian Grenier, Worldwide actor, musician, and director
July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player
July 12
Anna Friel, English actress
Tracie Spencer, Worldwide R&B singer
July 13 – Lisa Riley, British actress and presenter
July 14 – Geraint Jones, Papua New Guinea cricketer
July 15
Diane Kruger, German actress
Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist
Gabriel Iglesias, Worldwide actor, voice actor and comedian
Leslie Mahaffy, Canadian murder victim (d. 1991)
July 16
John Ovia, Papua New Guinean cricketer
Zak Smith, Worldwide artist and adult film performer
Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
Bobby Lashley, Worldwide professional wrestler
July 17
Luke Bryan, Worldwide country music singer-songwriter
Marcos Senna, Brazilian footballer
Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-Worldwide actress and author
Matt Holmes, Australian actor
Eric Winter, Worldwide actor and fashion model
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 race automobile driver
Annie Man, Hong Kong actress
Florian Panzner, German actor
July 21
Jaime Murray, English actress
Kang Sung-yeon, South Korean actress
July 23 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
July 25
Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen bard
Stéphane Rideau, French actor
Tera Patrick, Worldwide pornographic actress and model
July 24 – Laura Fraser, Scottish actress
July 26 – Martha Roby, Worldwide politician
July 27
Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2019)
July 28 – Jacoby Shaddix, Worldwide singer
July 31 – Rod Monroe, Worldwide football player (d. 2017)
August[edit]

Iván Duque Márquez

Sam Worthington

Soleil Moon Frye

Will Friedle

Scott Halberstadt

Alexander Skarsgård

Sarah Chalke
August 1
Don Hertzfeldt, Worldwide animator
Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian Football player
Iván Duque Márquez, Colombian politician, 33rd President of Colombia
Amar Upadhyay, Indian television actor and model
August 2 – Sam Worthington, English-born Australian actor
August 4 – David Lewis, Canadian actor
August 5 – Napoleon Beazley, convicted juvenile offender, executed by lethal injection in Texas. (d. 2002)
August 6
Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
Soleil Moon Frye, Worldwide actress, director and screenwriter
Melissa George, Australian actress
Travis Kalanick, Worldwide man of affairs and computer programmer; co-founder of Uber
August 8
JC Chasez, Worldwide singer (‘N Sync)
Drew Lachey, Worldwide singer (98 Degrees)
August 9
Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio producer and presenter
grade Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
Audrey Tautou, French actress
August 11 – Will Friedle, Worldwide actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
August 12
Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist
Lina Rafn, Danish singer
Antoine Walker, Worldwide basketball player
Wednesday 13, Worldwide rock musician
August 14
Alex Albrecht, Worldwide television personality
Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
August 15
Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player
August 16 – Kadri Rämmeld, Estonian actress
August 17 – Scott Halberstadt, Worldwide actor
August 18
Bryan Volpenhein, Worldwide rower
Lee Seung-yeop, South Korean baseball player
August 19 – Michael M. Wartella, Worldwide underground cartoonist
August 24 – Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater
August 25 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
August 27
Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player
grade Webber, Australian race automobile driver
August 29 – Luana Piovani, Brazilian actress and model
August 30
Lillo Brancato, Jr., Worldwide actor
Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer
September[edit]

Vivek Oberoi

Naomie Harris

Robin Atkin Downes

Alison Sweeney

Jon Bernthal

Emma de Caunes

Ronaldo
September 1
Marcos Ambrose, Australian race automobile driver
Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
September 3
Jevon Kearse, Worldwide football player
Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
September 4 – Brian Myrow, Worldwide baseball player
September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
September 6
Naomie Harris, British actress
grade Wilkerson, Worldwide musician
Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
September 7 – Stevie Case, Worldwide 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 12 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
September 13 – Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress
September 15 – Rob Wiethoff, Worldwide actor
September 16 – Tina Barrett, English singer (S Club 7)
September 17 – Nicole Reinhart, Worldwide professional track and road racing cyclist (d. 2000)
September 18 – Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
September 19
Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
Alison Sweeney, Worldwide actress
Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee
September 20
Jon Bernthal, Worldwide actor
Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress
Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
September 23 – Rob James-Collier, British actor and model
September 24 – Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, Worldwide wrestling promoter
September 25
Chauncey Billups, Worldwide basketball player
Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2005 runner-upwards
September 26
Michael Ballack, German footballer
Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
September 27 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
September 28 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer
October[edit]

Seann William Scott

Alicia Silverstone

Sam Riegel

Emily Deschanel

Ryan Reynolds
October 1
Danielle Bisutti, Worldwide actress and singer
Giuliana Jakobeit, German voice actress
October 2 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
October 3 – Seann William Scott, Worldwide actor and producer
October 4
Mauro Camoranesi, Italian footballer
Alicia Silverstone, Worldwide actress
Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2017)
October 5 – Mauro Colagreco, Italian Argentine chef
October 6
Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
Barbie Shu, Taiwanese actress and singer
October 7
Taylor Hicks, Worldwide singer
Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish violinist
Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football player
October 9
Sam Riegel, Worldwide voice actor and director
Nick Swardson, Worldwide actor, stand-upwards comedian and screenwriter
October 10
Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
October 11 – Emily Deschanel, Worldwide actress
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
Ryuji Imada, Japanese golfer
Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey player
Michael Young, Worldwide baseball player
Desmond Harrington, Worldwide actor
Omar Gooding, Worldwide actor
October 20
Dan Fogler, Worldwide actor, comedian and writer
Plamen Goranov, Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d. 2013)
October 21
Jeremy Miller, Worldwide actor
Lavinia Miloșovici, Romanian artistic gymnast
October 23
Cat Deeley, British television presenter
Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
October 25 – Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
October 26
Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player (1994–2013)
Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater
Thurop Van Orman, Worldwide animator and voice actor
October 29 – Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
October 31 – Piper Perabo, Worldwide actress
November[edit]

Chad Lindberg

Sebastian Arcelus

Jaleel White

Ryan Kwanten

Anna Faris
November 1
Chad Lindberg, Worldwide actor
Sam Presti, Worldwide basketball executive
November 5
Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player
Sebastian Arcelus, Worldwide actor
November 6
Pat Tillman, Worldwide footballer (d. 2004)
Troy Hambrick, Worldwide football player
Wiley Wiggins, Worldwide actor
Sal Vulcano, Worldwide Comedian
November 7 – grade Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
November 8 – Brett Lee, Australian cricket player
November 9 – Josh Kaufman, Worldwide singer-songwriter; winner of The Voice season 6
November 11
Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
November 12 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
November 15 – Sule, Indonesian comedian and actor
November 16 – Mario Barravecchia, Italian singer
November 17 – Diane Neal, Worldwide actress
November 18
Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir)
Dominic Armato, Worldwide voice actor, journalist and food critic
November 19
Jack Dorsey, Worldwide software architect, man of affairs, co-founder of Twitter
Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
November 20
Laura Harris, Canadian actress
Dominique Dawes, African-Worldwide Olympic gymnast
November 22
Torsten Frings, German footballer
Ville Valo, Finnish rock singer (HIM)
November 23 – Tony Renna, Worldwide race automobile driver (d. 2003)
November 24
Michael Roof, Worldwide comedian and actor (d. 2009)
Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey player
November 25
Grégory Havret, French golfer
Donovan McNabb, Worldwide football player
November 26
Maia Campbell, Worldwide actress and singer
Tanel Ingi, Estonian actor
November 27 – Jaleel White, African-Worldwide actor
November 28
Monster, guitarist (Mayday)
Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and comedian
November 29
Anna Faris, Worldwide actress
November 30 – Marco Castro, Peruvian-Worldwide director and cinematographer
December[edit]

Zoe Konstantopoulou

Dominic Monaghan

Armin van Buuren

Joe Manganiello

Danny McBride
December 1
Matthew Shepard, Worldwide murder victim (d. 1998)
Laura Ling, Worldwide journalist imprisoned by North Korea in 2009
December 3
Cornelius Griffin, Worldwide football player
Marcos Denner, Brazilian footballer
December 4 – Amie Comeaux, Worldwide country music singer (d. 1997)
December 5
Amy Acker, Worldwide actress
Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
December 6 – Alicia Machado, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Universe 1996
December 7
grade Duplass, Worldwide 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 – Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
December 14 – Leland Chapman, Worldwide bail bondsman
December 15 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
December 17 – Takeo Spikes, Worldwide football player
December 18
Antti Koivumäki, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko) (d. 2002)
Koyuki, Japanese actress
December 21 – Mirela Maniani, Greek javelin thrower
December 23
Jamie Noble, Worldwide professional wrestler
Amjad Sabri, Pakistani Qawwali singer (d. 2016)
Christopher Pizzey, English actor and comedian
December 24 – Ángel Matos, Cuban taekwondo athlete
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, Worldwide actor
December 29
Marla Ruzicka, Worldwide activist-turned-aid worker (d. 2005)
Danny McBride, Worldwide actor, comedian, and writer
day of the month unknown[edit]
Bozorgmehr Hosseinpour, Iranian cartoonist
José López Rosario, Puerto Rican drug dealer (d. 2006)
Deaths[edit]
Deaths
January · February · March · Apr · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
Further information: Category:1976 deaths
January[edit]

Agatha Christie

Paul Robeson
January 5
John A. Costello, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (b. 1891)
Mal Evans, English road manager to The Beatles (b. 1935)[8]
Károly Takács, Hungarian Olympic shooter (b. 1910)
January 6
Óscar Esplá, Spanish composer (b. 1886)[importance?]
Martha Walter, Worldwide impressionist painter (b. 1875)[importance?]
January 8 – Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of the People’s Republic of China (b. 1898)
January 10 – Howlin’ Wolf, Worldwide blues singer (b. 1910)
January 12 – Agatha Christie, English detective fiction writer (b. 1890)
January 14 – Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
January 15 – Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1882)[importance?]
January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
January 21 – John Gould Moyer, Worldwide naval officer, 31st Governor of Worldwide Samoa (b. 1893)[importance?]
January 22 – Hermann Jónasson, Icelandic politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1896)
January 23 – Paul Robeson, Worldwide actor, singer, writer and activist (b. 1898)
January 26 – Gabriele Allegra, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1907)
January 27 – Kaneko Daiei, Japanese Buddhist philosopher of the early 20th century (b. 1881)[importance?]
January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, Worldwide defendant in the court case Miranda v. Arizona (b. 1941; stabbed in fight)[importance?]
February[edit]

Sal Mineo

Florence Ballard
February 1
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
Hans Hofmann, German artist (b. 1880)
George Whipple, Worldwide scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd – English children’s book author (b. 1890)[importance?]
February 11 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Mathematician and biochemical theorist (b. 1894)
February 12 – Sal Mineo, Worldwide actor (b. 1939)
February 13 – Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general (b. 1938)
February 15 – María Corda, Hungarian actress (b. 1898)
February 18 – Joseph Henabery, Worldwide actor (b. 1888)[importance?]
February 20
René Cassin, French justice, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
Kathryn Kuhlman, Worldwide evangelist and faith healer (b. 1907)
February 22 – Florence Ballard, Worldwide singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
February 23 – L. S. Lowry, British artist (b. 1887)
February 26 – Joseph Weil, Worldwide con man; nicknamed the "Yellow Kid" (b. 1875)[importance?]
February 29 – Grover Loening, Worldwide aircraft manufacturer (b.1888)[importance?]
March[edit]

Luchino Visconti
March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
March 5 – Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889)
March 6 – Max ‘Slapsie Maxie’ Rosenbloom, Worldwide boxer and actor (b. 1907)
March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
March 10 – Haddon Sundblom, Swedish illustrator and Worldwide artist (b. 1899)
March 14 – Busby Berkeley, Worldwide 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 land marshal (b. 1887)
E. H. Shepard, English artist and book illustrator (b. 1879)
March 25 – Josef Albers, German-Worldwide artist (b. 1888)
March 28 – Richard Arlen, Worldwide actor (b. 1899)
March 31 – Paul Strand, Worldwide photographer (b. 1890)
Apr[edit]

Howard Hughes

Phil Ochs
Apr 1
Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
Alfred Lennon, father of John Lennon, lead singer and guitarist of The Beatles, legendary artist of the 20th Century (b. 1912)
Apr 4 – Harry Nyquist, Worldwide information theory pioneer (b. 1889)
Apr 5 – Howard Hughes, Worldwide aviation pioneer, film director and eccentric (b. 1905)
Apr 8 – Renato Petronio, Italian rower (b. 1891)
Apr 9 – Phil Ochs, Worldwide singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
Apr 12 – Miriam Cooper, Worldwide actress (b. 1891)
Apr 13 – Sabri al-Asali, Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1903)
Apr 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (b. 1891)
Apr 18 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
Apr 25
Carol Reed, English film director (b. 1906)
Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886)
Apr 26 – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general, Minister of Defence (b. 1903)
May[edit]

Martin Heidegger
May 3 – Ernie Nevers, Worldwide football player (b. 1902)
May 9
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (b. 1934)
May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
May 14 – Keith Relf, British rock musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
May 24 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1889)
May 26 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889)
May 27 – Ruth McDevitt, Worldwide 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 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1910)
June[edit]

J. Paul Getty

Sybil Thorndike
June 2
Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 61st President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the Arab League (b. 1893)
June 6
J. Paul Getty, Worldwide industrialist, founder of Getty 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, Worldwide jazz musician (b. 1915)
Shigetarō Shimada, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (b. 1883)
June 9 – Sybil Thorndike, British actress (b. 1882)
June 10 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
June 11 – Toots Mondt, Worldwide WWF promoter (b. 1886)
June 16 – Hector Pieterson, South African activist (b. 1963)
June 17 – Richard Casey, Australian statesman and diplomat (b. 1890)
June 24 – Imogen Cunningham, Worldwide photographer (b. 1883)
July[edit]

Zhu De

Gustav Heinemann
July 1
Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic woman who was believed to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
Zhang Wentian, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1900)
July 4 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli commando leader (b. 1946)
July 6 – Zhu De, Head of State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886)
July 7
Norman Foster, Worldwide film director (b. 1903)
Gustav Heinemann, 6th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1899)
July 11 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895)
July 12 – James Wong Howe, Worldwide cinematographer (b. 1899)
July 14 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915)
July 15 – Paul Gallico, Worldwide novelist, short story and sports writer (b. 1897)
July 20 – Tom Lowry, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1898)
July 21 – Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British diplomat, ambassador to Ireland (b. 1921; assassinated)
July 22 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (b. 1890)
July 23
Basil Hopko, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b. 1904)
Wilhelmina von Bremen, Worldwide sprint runner (b. 1909)
July 24 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912)
July 28 – Lucie Mannheim, German singer and actress (b. 1899)
July 29 – Mickey Cohen, Worldwide gangster (b. 1913)
July 30 – Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1884)
August[edit]

Fritz Lang
August 2 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-Worldwide filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890)
August 6
Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903)
Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898)[9]
August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (b. 1910)
August 10 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (b. 1884)
August 22 – Juscelino Kubitschek, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
August 25 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1900)
August 26 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
August 28 – Anissa Jones, Worldwide actress and student (b. 1958)
August 29
Einar Jolin, Swedish painter (b. 1890)
Jimmy Reed, Worldwide blues musician (b. 1925)
September[edit]

Mao Zedong
September 5 – Arthur Gilligan, English cricket captain (b. 1894)
September 9 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and political theorist, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (b. 1893)
September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, Worldwide screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
September 13 – Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Ecuadorian political figure, 30th President 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 26 – Leopold Ružička, Yugoslav chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
September 28 – Raymond