1976
1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
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Georgia and decides that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment July 3 - The great heat wave in the United Kingdom , which is currently suffering from Drought conditions, reaches its peak. July 4 - United States Bicentennial July 4 - Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda 's Entebbe Airport; one Israeli and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in raid. July 4 - Tina Turner leaves Ike Turner 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 - Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan ,China , killing 242,769 people, and 164,851 people are heavily injured July 29 - In New York City , the "Son of Sam " pulls a gun from a paper bag killing one and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year. July 30 - In Santiago , capital of Chile , Cruzeiro from Brazil wins River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions. July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1 August September-October November-December Unknown dates Births January-March January 2 - Paz Vega , Spanish actress January 7 - Éric Gagné , Canadian Major League Baseball player January 7 - Alfonso Soriano , Dominican Major League Baseball player January 20 - Gretha Smit , Dutch speed skater January 21 - Emma Bunton , English musician (Spice Girls ) January 28 - Mark Madsen , American basketball player January 31 - Buddy Rice , American race car driver February 2 - James Hickman , British swimmer February 9 - Vladimir Guerrero , Dominican Major League Baseball player February 10 - Lance Berkman , baseball player February 12 - Silvia Saint , Czech actress February 15 - Brandon Boyd , American musician (Incubus ) February 20 - Ed Graham , British drummer (The Darkness ) February 28 - Ja Rule , American rapper March 5 - Sarunas Jasikevicius , Lithuanian basketball player March 8 - Freddie Prinze Jr. , American actor March 20 - Chester Bennington , American musician (Linkin Park ) March 22 - Reese Witherspoon , American actress March 23 - Keri Russell , American actress March 24 - Aaron Brooks , American football player March 24 - Peyton Manning , American football player March 25 - Juvenile , American rapper April-June April 6 - Candace Cameron , American actress April 13 - Jonathan Brandis , American actor (d. 2003 ) April 25 - Tim Duncan , West Indian basketball player April 25 - Rainer Schuettler , German tennis player May 3 - Beto , Portuguese footballer May 4 - Jason Michaels , baseball player May 15 - Tyler Walker , baseball player May 19 - Kevin Garnett , American basketball player May 20 - Ramón Hernández , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player May 25 - Miguel Tejada , Dominican Major League Baseball player May 31 - Colin Farrell , Irish actor June 8 - Lindsay Davenport , American tennis player June 10 - Freddy Garcia , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player June 13 - Jason 'J' Brown , English musician (5ive ) June 23 - Brandon Stokley , American football player July-September July 1 - Patrick Kluivert , Dutch footballer July 1 - Ruud van Nistelrooy , Dutch footballer July 3 - Andrea Barber , American actress July 4 - Daijiro Kato , Japanese motorcycle racer July 8 - Ellen MacArthur , English yachtswoman July 9 - Shelton Benjamin , American professional wrestler July 9 - Fred Savage , American actor July 11 - Eduardo Najera , Mexican basketball player July 23 - Judit Polgar , Hungarian chess player July 31 - Annie Parisse , American actress August 6 - Melissa George , Australian actress August 9 - Jessica Capshaw , American actress August 9 - Rhona Mitra , English actress August 12 - Antoine Walker , American basketball player August 14 - Alex Albrecht , American television personality August 15 - Boudewijn Zenden , Dutch football player August 27 - Carlos Moyà , Spanish tennis player August 27 - Mark Webber , Australian race car driver September 7 - Stevie Case (Killcreek), American video game celebrity September 7 - Shannon Elizabeth , American actress September 8 - Sjeng Schalken , Dutch tennis player September 10 - Gustavo Kuerten , Brazilian tennis player September 16 - Tina Barrett , English singer (S Club 7 ) September 22 - Ronaldo , Brazilian footballer September 25 - Chauncey Billups , American basketball player September 26 - Michael Ballack , German footballer September 29 - Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian footballer October-December October 1 - Blu Cantrell , American rapper October 4 - Alicia Silverstone , American actress October 10 - Bob Burnquist , Brazilian skateboarder October 19 - Michael Young , baseball player October 25 - Joona Palaste, Finnish computer programmer November 6 - Pat Tillman , American football player (d. 2004 ) November 7 - Mark Philippoussis , Australian tennis player November 19 - Jun Shibata , Japanese singer and songwriter November 24 - Chen Lu , Chinese figure skater December 1 - Matthew Shepard , American murder victim (d. 1998 ) December 12 - Dan Hawkins , British guitarist (The Darkness ) December 13 - Tom DeLonge , American musician (Blink-182 ) December 15 - Baichung Bhutia , Indian footballer December 17 - Takeo Spikes , American football player December 18 - Koyuki , Japanese actress and model Deaths January-March January 8 - Zhou Enlai , Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898 ) January 10 - Howlin' Wolf , American musician (b. 1910 ) January 12 - Agatha Christie , English writer (b. 1890 ) January 23 - Paul Robeson , American actor, singer, writer, and activist (b. 1898 ) January 30 - Mance Lipscomb , American singer (b. 1895 ) February 1 - Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 ) February 2 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev , Bulgarian painter (b. 1903 ) February 6 - Vince Guaraldi , American musician (b. 1928 ) February 9 - Percy Faith , Canadian-born musician and composer (b. 1908 ) February 11 - Lee J Cobb , American actor (b. 1911 ) February 11 - Alexander Lippisch , German aerodynamicist (b. 1894 ) February 11 - Charlie Naughton , Scottish actor (b. 1886 ) February 12 - Sal Mineo , American actor (b. 1939 ) February 13 - Lily Pons , American soprano (b. 1898 ) February 20 - René Cassin , French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887 ) February 22 - Florence Ballard , American singer (The Supremes ) (b. 1943 ) March 6 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom , American boxer and actor (b. 1903 ) March 7 - Wright Patman , American politician (b. 1893 ) March 14 - Busby Berkeley , American choreographer and director (b. 1895 ) March 17 - Luchino Visconti , Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906 ) March 19 - Paul Kossoff , British guitarist (Free ) (b. 1950 ) March 24 - Bernard Montgomery , British field marshal (b. 1897 ) April-June April 1 - Max Ernst , German artist (b. 1891 ) April 5 - Howard Hughes , American aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric (b. 1905 ) April 18 - Henrik Dam , Dutch biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895 ) April 26 - Sid James , South African actor (b. 1913 ) May 9 - Jens Bjørneboe , Norwegian author (b. 1920 ) May 9 - Ulrike Meinhof , German terrorist (b. 1934 ) May 11 - Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect (b. 1898 ) May 14 - Keith Relf , British musician (The Yardbirds ) (b. 1943 ) May 26 - Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (b. 1889 ) May 27 - Hilde Hildebrand , German actress, (b. 1897 ) June 10 - Adolph Zukor , Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1893 ) June 15 - Jimmy Dykes , baseball player and manager (b. 1896 ) June 25 - Johnny Mercer , American songwriter (b. 1909 ) June 30 - Firpo Marberry , baseball player (b. 1898 ) July-September July 1 - Zhang Mintian , General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1900 ) July 4 - Antoni Słonimski , Polish poet and writer (b. 1895 ) July 13 - Joachim Peiper , German military leader (b. 1915 ) August 6 - Gregor Piatigorsky , Russian cellist (b. 1903 ) August 22 - Juscelino Kubitschek , President of Brazil (b. 1902 ) August 25 - Eyvind Johnson , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900 ) August 26 - Lotte Lehmann , German soprano (b. 1888 ) August 27 - Mukesh , Indian singer (b. 1923 ) September 2 - Stanisław Grochowiak , Polish writer (b. 1934 ) September 9 - Mao Zedong , Chinese leader (b. 1893 ) September 26 - Lavoslav Ružička , Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887 ) October-December Nobel Prizes
