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1976
1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January-February
March
April-May
June
July
- July 2 - North Vietnam and South Vietnam united to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam - a Communist country
- July 3 - Supreme Court of the United States rules on Gregg v. Georgia and decides that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment
- July 4 - United States Bicentennial
- July 4 - Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in raid.
- July 7 - German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich , Gabriella Rollnick , Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from Lehrterstrasse maximum security prison in West Berlin
- July 10 - Explosion in Seveso, Italy, kills a large number of people
- July 16-20 - Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Societe Generale Bank in Nice, France
- July 17 - The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Canada.
- July 17 – East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia
- July 19 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- July 20 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars
- July 21 - A bomb kills Christopher Ewart , British ambassador to the Irish Republic
- July 27 - United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda
- July 28 - Earthquake flattens Tangshan, China , killing 242,769 people, and 164,851 people are heavily injured
- July 29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag killing one and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
- July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
August
September-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
January-March
- January 1 - Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq, first Yemeni female airline pilot
- January 3 - Jason Marsden, actor
- January 6 - Danny Pintauro, actor
- January 7:
- January 21 - Emma Bunton, Spice Girl
- January 28 - Mark Madsen, NBA basketball player
- January 31 - Buddy Rice, race car driver, winner of the 2004 Indianapolis 500
- February 9 - Vladimir Guerrero, Major League Baseball All-Star
- February 10 - Lance Berkman, Major League Baseball All-Star
- February 11 - Brice Beckham, actor
- February 15 - Brandon Boyd, Incubus
- February 28 - Ja Rule, rapper
- March 5 - Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
- March 8 - Freddie Prinze Jr., actor
- March 12 - Sylvia Saint, porn star
- March 20 - Chester Bennington, Linkin Park
- March 21:
- March 22 - Reese Witherspoon, actress
- March 23 - Keri Russell, actress
- March 24 - Peyton Manning, NFL star, league co-MVP in 2003
- March 25 - Juvenile, singer
- March 31 - Josh Saviano, actor (The Wonder Years)
April-June
July-September
- July 1:
- July 3 - Andrea Barber, actress (Full House)
- July 4 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer
- July 6 - 50 Cent, rapper
- July 9:
- July 11:
- July 23 - Judit Polgar, best woman chess player in history
- July 24 - Laura Fraser,Scottish actress
- August 6
- August 9:
- August 12 - Antoine Walker, basketball player
- August 14 - Alex Albrecht, former co-host of The Screen Savers
- August 27:
- September 7:
- September 10 - Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis star
- September 11 - Ludacris, rapper
- September 14 - Chauncey Billups, basketball player
- September 16 - Tina Barrett, singer (S Club 7)
- September 22 - Ronaldo, Brazilian football player
- September 25 - Chauncey Billups, basketball player
- September 26 - Michael Ballack, German football player
- September 27 - Jari Lindgren
- September 29 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
October-December
- October 1 - Blu Cantrell, rapper
- October 4 - Alicia Silverstone, actress
- October 10 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
- October 18 - Azlea Antistia, erotic actress
- October 19 - Michael Young, baseball player
- November 6 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
- November 7 - Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
- November 12 - Tevin Campbell
- November 19 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
- November 22 - Ken Mondschein, writer
- November 24 - Chen Lu, figure skater
- December 13 - Tom Delonge, Blink-182
- December 15 - Baichung Bhutia, football player
- December 17 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
- December 26 - Lea De Mae, Czech pornographic actress (d. 2004)
Unknown dates
Deaths
January-March
- January 5 - Mal Evans, Beatles roadie
- January 8 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China
- January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, musician
- January 12 - Agatha Christie, English mystery writer
- January 23 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and political and civil rights activist
- January 30 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer
- February 1 - Werner Heisenberg, physicist
- February 2 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b. 1903)
- February 6 - Vince Guaraldi, musician
- February 9 - Percy Faith, musician, composer
- February 11:
- February 12 - Sal Mineo, actor
- February 13 - Lily Pons, opera singer
- February 22 - Florence Ballard, singer with The Supremes
- March 6 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, boxer, actor
- March 7 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
- March 14 - Busby Berkeley, choreographer, director (b. 1895)
- March 17 - Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and cinema director
- March 24 - Bernard Montgomery, British Field Marshal
April-June
- April 1 - Max Ernst, artist
- April 5 - Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer, film director, eccentric
- April 26 - Sid James, actor
- May 9:
- May 11 - Alvar Aalto, architect
- May 26 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
- May 27 - Hilde Hildebrand, German actress, (b. 1897)
- June 10 - Adolph Zukor, producer
- June 15 - Jimmy Dykes, Major League Baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
- June 25 - Johnny Mercer, songwriter
July-September
October-December
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