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1976 the band 1976 (band) the film 1976 (film) August 2019 1976 border:none;b 3/3/3 China 1976-026 Beijing.jpg Tangshan earthquake.jpg Stephane Prefontaine, Sandra Henderson 1976b.jpg Jorge Rafael Videla Oath.PNG Luling Ferry Accident 1976.jpg Mbuyisa Makhubu carries Hector Pieterson at Soweto Uprising.jpg Cermis disaster 1976 d.jpg Day 231 Cy365 Not Necessary (80764875) (cropped).jpeg President Gerald Ford speaks at Independence Hall.jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: Mao Zedong dies, ending a political era in China; the 1976 Tangshan earthquake kills over 240,000 people; the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal face boycotts and controversy; the 1976 Argentine coup d'état topples Isabel Perón; the MV George Prince ferry disaster kills 78 people in Louisiana; the Soweto uprising erupts against apartheid in South Africa; the 1976 Cavalese cable car crash in Italy kills 43; the debut of VHS transforms home video; and the U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial. 1976 1976 2 Events January January 1976 January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b36c0.html Refworld International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Refworld December 16, 1966 April 15, 2023 January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) https://d.dccam.org/Archives/Documents/DK_Policy/DK_Policy_DK_Constitution.htm 2023-09-21 d.dccam.org January 16 – A locomotive crashes into the rear of a commuter train in Glenbrook, Australia, killing one person onboard and injuring ten others in the 1976 Glenbrook rail accident.Pollard Neville Harper Graham December 2009 Conquering Lapstone Hill https://arhsnsw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1806lapstone.pdf Australian Railway History Australian Railway Historical Society 28 (414) 23 May 2025 January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War.Bangladesh - Pakistan https://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/107.htm 2023-09-21 Country Studies January 27 The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state.Palestine question/Palestine question core of conflict - Vetoed draft resolution https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-189673/ 2023-09-21 United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine en-US Western Sahara War: The First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.János Besenyő Besenyő János 2017 Guerrilla Operations in Western Sahara: The Polisario versus Morocco and Mauritania https://connections-qj.org/article/guerrilla-operations-western-sahara-polisario-versus-morocco-and-mauritania Connections: The Quarterly Journal en 16 3 23–45 10.11610/Connections.16.3.02 free February February 1976 February 4 The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.Olympic Winter Games Innsbruck 1976 https://www.olympics.com/en/olympic-games/innsbruck-1976 The 7.5 w y Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured. 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 13 – General Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria is assassinated in a military coup. February 24 – Cuba's constitution of 1976 is enacted.Proclamation of the Constitution of 1976 https://www.tsp.gob.cu/en/our-history/proclamation-constitution-1976 https://web.archive.org/web/20220810144543/https://www.tsp.gob.cu/en/our-history/proclamation-constitution-1976 2022-08-10 2025-09-07 Tribunal Supremo Popular de la República de Cuba en 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". March March 1976 March – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico."100 Million Computations Each Second", AP report in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 20, 1976, p. 17 March 1 U.K. Home 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. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. March 4 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in Direct rule over Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom in London. The Maguire Seven are 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 disaster occurs when a supporting cable breaks in Cavalese, Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.42 Skiers Are Killed in Italy When Cable Car Falls 200 Feet The New York Times March 10, 1976 March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky. March 16 – Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.2024-06-12 BBC Archive 1976: Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns https://www.bbc.com/videos/c87713y3nlmo 2025-09-27 BBC en-GB March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974. 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 Body Shop, the retail chain for skin care products and cosmetics founded by Anita Roddick, opens its first branch in Brighton, England.http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/services/aboutus_history.aspx Our History The Body Shop 2009 2010-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100814132117/http://www.thebodyshop.com/_en/_ww/services/aboutus_history.aspx 14 August 2010 dead March 27 The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah. The first 7.4 km mi of the Washington Metro subway system opens. March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael 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. April April 1976 April 1 Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 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 until 1986, when it is sold to the public. The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. April 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. April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me. April 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 Four 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. April 12 The 1976 West Bank local elections were held. April 13 The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion in Lapua, Finland kills 40.2023-04-13 In memoriam: The victims of 1976 explosion https://www.lapua.com/in-our-memories/ 2025-09-28 Lapua en-US The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. April 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. April 19 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1000 yd m by the tornado and survived uninjured.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service National Climatic Data Center Potter Thomas D. Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena Storm Data April 1976 18 4 14 United States Department of Commerce English April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne, Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne. April 25 – Portugal's new constitution is enacted. April 29 – Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.http://old.konkurent.ru/print.php?id=3691 ru:"Красный" Китай против советских ревизионистов Юрий Уфимцев Конкурент.Ru ru July 10, 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140714143640/http://old.konkurent.ru/print.php?id=3691 July 14, 2014 The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier. May 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 another 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.http://blog.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2011/05/35-years-later-houstons-deadly-ammonia-truck-disaster 35 years later: Houston's deadly ammonia truck disaster 2011-05-27 2011-05-26 Houston Chronicle May 13 – The Atari video arcade game Breakout is released. May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in four games to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey. May 21 – The Yuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher 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 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 km mi. May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported. June June 1976 thumb|200px| June 27: A cotton factory in Nzara, Sudan (now South Sudan) which is suspected to be the source of the 1976 Ebola outbreak in Sudan June 1 – The United Kingdom and Iceland end the Third 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 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 National Basketball Association 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 11 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh gathers 126 of the UK's leading engineers at Buckingham Palace to form the Fellowship of Engineering, later to be known as the Royal Academy of Engineering. 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. June 16 – The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins. 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, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election. Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 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 opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public. June 27 G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada. Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda. The world's first known case of Ebola is recorded in Nzara, Sudan (now South Sudan)."Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Sudan, 1976", Bulletin of the World Health Organization 56:247-270 at 248 June 29 Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom. The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin. July July 1976 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 – Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid. The United States Bicentennial is celebrated with fireworks, parades, and the arrival of the Tall Ships on the Eastern Seaboard. 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 West Berlin. David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe. July 10 Four mercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola, following the Luanda Trial. Seveso disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant 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 a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton. Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California.Magill Frank N. Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Business and Commerce: Volume II 23 April 2014 Routledge 978-1-134-26462-9 1135 https://books.google.com/books?id=ySJpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1135 en 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 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast 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. American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah. July 21 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills Christopher 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 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 Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139. Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, US, begin falling ill 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 another, 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. Tony Giardina Olympic Track & Field: Decathlete Ashton Eaton Is Next American Star https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1288133-olympic-track-field-decathlete-ashton-eaton-is-next-american-star August 7, 2012 Bleacher Report June 6, 2016 live https://web.archive.org/web/20150712223115/http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1288133-olympic-track-field-decathlete-ashton-eaton-is-next-american-star July 12, 2015 mdy-all In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions in Association football. July 31 NASA releases the famous 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 August 1976 150px|left|thumbnail|Tsunami damage at barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao August 1 The 1976 Summer Olympics ends in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II as its head of state with President Ellis Clarke. Defending F1 World Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix after a huge accident that nearly cost him his life. 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 judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards. August 5 – The clock of "Big Ben" at the Palace of Westminster in 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 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 American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded. August 9 – The Selous Scouts of the Rhodesian Army conduct a cross-border raid into Nyadzonya, Mozambique in Operation Eland, an action that led to severe political and diplomatic consequences on Rhodesia. August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7561672.html Holiday Inn Sniper Up for Parole May 17, 2007April 2026 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 17 – The 8.0 w Moro Gulf earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.Catalog of Tsunamis in the Pacific 1969–1982 https://books.google.com/books?id=umZ--INFYEEC&pg=PA103 Staff of the Academy of Sciences of the USS Diane Pub 978-0-7881393-1-4 103, 104 1997 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 has 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 second 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 29 – The first Women in Print Conference is held in Omaha, Nebraska. Over 130 women from 80 feminist organizations and collectives attend the gathering, which was associated with the women in print movement.Travis Trysh 2008 The Women in Print Movement: History and Implications https://www.jstor.org/stable/30227421 Book History 11 275–300 30227421 1098-7371 10.1353/bh.0.0001Cassell Kay September 1976 Women in Print Conference http://www.ala.org/rt/sites/ala.org.rt/files/content/SRRT/FTF/WiL/v6n1%20sep1976.pdf Women in Libraries: Newsletter of the ALA/SRRT Task Force on Women 6 1 6 March 21, 2021 August 30 – James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands. September September 1976 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 in the Republic of Ireland legally still in force since 1939 is lifted.Greene Alan https://books.google.com/books?id=PRZRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 Permanent States of Emergency and the Rule of Law: Constitutions in an Age of Crisis 2018-04-05 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-5099-0617-8 en September 3 Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface. A Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Venezuelan Air Force crashed near Lajes Field, Azores Islands, Portugal, killing all 68 occupants on board.Accident Lockheed C-130H Hercules 7772, Friday 3 September 1976 https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/329328 2024-11-05 asn.flightsafety.org September 6 Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, 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 9 – Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong dies in Beijing after a series of heart attacks. September 10 – Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (modern-day Zagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard. 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 in ice hockey. 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 space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a hangar in Palmdale, California, United States. September 21 The Seychelles join the United Nations. Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by Michael Townley, an agent linked with the National Intelligence Directorate of Chile. September 24 – Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974 (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months). October October 1976 thumb|200px| 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.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4535661.stm BBC News Cuba 'plane bomber' was CIA agent May 11, 2005 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 incorrectly 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 Four. October 8 – Thorbjörn Fälldin replaces Olof Palme as Prime Minister of Sweden. 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 Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a heart attack. 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 (up 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 19 The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon. The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States. 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 26 – Transkei gains "independence" from South Africa. November November 1976 November 2 – 1976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War. November 3 – Carrie, an American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma, is premiered in 17 theaters in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area.Variety November 24, 1976 'Carrie' $3,882,827, in 60, So Far: U.A. 5 November 6 - Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.Ghosh Avijit Nasbandi with handcuffs on... The Times of India 21 June 2015 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/deep-focus/nasbandi-with-handcuffs-on-/articleshow/47750238.cms 1 July 2025 November 12 – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.The bone detective https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/30/women.gender 2009-05-13 2008-04-30 The Guardian London Julie Bindel Julie Bindel 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 24 – 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3 s y earthquake at Van and Muradiye in eastern Turkey. 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. December December 1976 December 1 Angola joins the United Nations. José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico. Sir Douglas Nicholls is appointed the 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office. December 3 – Patrick Hillery is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland. December 5 – The Japanese general election takes place, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses its majority in the 511-member House of Representatives but remains the largest party with 249 seats. 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. December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. 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 23 – A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire. Date unknown Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia). The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800). The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada. Marc Brown's Arthur's Nose is published. 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Chris Hoy https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/athletes/_/athlete/6887 ESPN February 25, 2020 Keri Russell, American actress Sa Beining, Chinese host March 24 Aaron Brooks, American football player Peyton Manning, American football playerPeyton Manning Stats https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/1428/peyton-manning ESPN February 25, 2021 March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress March 27 Brandon Johnson, American politician, mayor-elect of Chicagohttps://www.chicagotribune.com/voter-guide/ct-brandon-johnson-chicago-mayor-bio-20230131-j3c2c24dlvednbpqql7nny5vuy-story.html Chicago mayoral candidate profile: Brandon Johnson Chicago Tribune January 31, 2023 April 15, 2023 Liu Limin, Chinese swimmerLiu Limin https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/46090 Olympedia March 29 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis playerhttps://www.wtatennis.com/players/30200/jennifer-capriati Jennifer Capriati wtatennis.com Women's Tennis Association March 30 Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer Ty Conklin, American ice-hockey player Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress April thumb|100px|David Oyelowo thumb|100px|Candace Cameron Bure thumb|100px|Melissa Joan Hart thumb|100px|Joey Lawrence thumb|100px|Sally Hawkins April 1 Troy Baker, American actor and musician David Oyelowo, English-American actor Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player 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 Rodriguez, American actor, director and screenwriter Paula Yacoubian, Lebanese politician and journalistPAULA YACOUBIAN https://paulayacoubian.com/page.php?id=9 Paula Yacoubian April 5 Sterling K. Brown, African-American actor Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer Chandana Sooriyaarachchi, Sri Lankan politicianHon. Chandana Sooriyaarachchi, M.P. https://www.parliament.lk/en/members-of-parliament/mp-profile/3469 2026-10-08 Parliament of Sri Lanka en Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer21528 April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress April 7 – Eric Wareheim, American comedianhttps://books.google.com/books?id=td8lAAAAQBAJ&dq=eric+wareheim+april+7&pg=PA190 Comic Genius: Portraits of Funny People 2013-10-15 Chronicle Books 978-1-4521-3195-5 en April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006) April 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater April 13 Glenn Howerton, American actor, producer and writer Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)Laurie Lanzen Harris Biography Today, Annual Cumulation 1995: Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers Omnigraphics, Incorporated 1995 9780780800632 55 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 playerhttps://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0050322023.html Novosibirsk Sibir 2022-23 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com www.hockeydb.com 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 Joseph Ndo - Sligo Rovers Sky Sports Football https://www.skysports.com/football/player/8685/joseph-ndo https://web.archive.org/web/20230228195452/https://www.skysports.com/football/player/8685/joseph-ndo 2023-02-28 live April 29 – Kanaka Herath, Sri Lankan politician May thumb|100px|Anza thumb|100px|Michele Frangilli thumb|100px|Anže Logar thumb|100px|Ana Paula Valadão thumb|100px|Cillian Murphy thumb|100px|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 of Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical May 5 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&dq=Juan+Pablo+Sor%C3%ADn++5+May+1976&pg=PA126 Day by Day in Jewish Sports History 2008 KTAV Publishing House 9781602800137 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 athleteMayte MARTÍNEZ https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/spain/mayte-martinez-14261047 worldathletics.org May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player May 23 – Ricardinho, Brazilian football player and coachRicardinho https://int.soccerway.com/players/ricardo-ribeiro-de-lima/101379/ soccerway.com May 25 Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumperhttps://www.olympic.org/stefan-holm Stefan Holm IOC 6 December 2020 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 actorJames Michael Welsh Donald M. Whaley The Oliver Stone Encyclopedia Scarecrow Press 2013 9780810883529 79 Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumper June thumb|100px|'Masenate Mohato Seeiso thumb|100px|Alexei Navalny thumb|100px|Emilie-Claire Barlow thumb|100px|Lindsay Davenport thumb|100px|Blake Shelton thumb|100px|Ryan Hurst thumb|100px|Juliano Belletti 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, American race car driver June 4 Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist (d. 2024) Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis playerNenad Zimonjic https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/Z072/overview Association of Tennis Professionals 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 playerMirsad Türkcan https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/turkcmi01.html basketball-reference.com June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player June 10 Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party 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 politiciannationale Assemblée Mme Estelle Folest - Val-d'Oise (6e circonscription) https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/deputes/PA795604 2024-06-06 Assemblée nationale fr Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster June 18 Petri Haapimaa, Finnish footballer and coach Brady Haran, Australian-British founder and cast of Numberphile channel 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 playerPaola Suárez https://www.wtatennis.com/players/190360/name wtatennis.com Women's Tennis Association Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress Patrick Vieira, French footballer Gavin Williamson, British politician, Secretary of State for Education June 25 – Maurren Maggi, Brazilian athlete and politicianMaurren Higa MAGGI https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/brazil/maurren-higa-maggi-14268979 worldathletics.org 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 Hesha Withanage, Sri Lankan politician 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 thumb|100px|Gino D'Acampo thumb|100px|Bérénice Bejo thumb|100px|Adrian Grenier thumb|100px|Diane Kruger thumb|100px|Gabriel Iglesias thumb|100px|Luke Bryan thumb|100px|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 modelLas Noticias Mexico.com Grettell Valdez es Aug 24, 2019 http://www.lasnoticiasmexico.com/117292.html August 21, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190821101640/http://www.lasnoticiasmexico.com/117292.html dead July 9 Fred Savage, American actor and director Arturo Carmona, Mexican actor Elliot Cowan, English actor July 10 Edmílson, Brazilian footballerEdmílson https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j1422.html bdfutbol.com Ludovic Giuly, French footballer Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician and director Elissa Slotkin, American politicianSLOTKIN, Elissa https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S001208 bioguide.congress.gov July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player July 12 Anna Friel, English actress Tracie Spencer, American R&B singer Kyrsten Sinema, American politicianSINEMA, Kyrsten https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S001191 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 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 Benedict Cumberbatch, English actorBenedict Cumberbatch https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc66eef1f https://web.archive.org/web/20160624181006/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc66eef1f dead June 24, 2016 BFI 8 January 2022 en Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer July 20 – Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver July 21 Cori Bush, American politicianBUSH, Cori https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/B001224 bioguide.congress.gov David Eby, Canadian politician, 37th Premier of British ColumbiaBlock Niko 2025-09-19 David Eby https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/david-eby 2026-08-25 The Canadian Encyclopedia Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian long jumperTatyana LEBEDEVA https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/russia/tatyana-lebedeva-14298427 worldathletics.org Jaime Murray, English actress July 23 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player July 25 – Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen bard July 26 – Pável Pardo, Mexican footballerPável Pardo https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/pavel-pardo/ Major League Soccer July 28 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer July 31 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballerPaulo Wanchope https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=10430 soccerbase.com August thumb|100px|Iván Duque thumb|100px|Pritam Singh thumb|100px|JC Chasez thumb|100px|Alexander Skarsgård thumb|100px|Alex O'Loughlin thumb|100px|Sarah Chalke August 1 Iván Duque, Colombian politician, 33rd President of Colombiahttps://www.concordia.net/community/ivan-duque-marquez/ Iván Duque Marquez Concordia 10 July 2024 Don Hertzfeldt, American animator Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer Hasan Şaş, Turkish football player and coachŞaş, Hasan https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6821/Hasan_Sas.html national-football-teams.com Amar Upadhyay, Indian television actor and model August 2 Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor and producer Kati Wilhelm, German biathleteKati Wilhelm https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/100035 Olympedia Pritam Singh, Singaporean lawyer and politicianWho is Pritam Singh? The Indian origin politician taking charge of Singapore's opposition https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/who-is-pritam-singh-the-indian-origin-politician-taking-charge-of-singapores-opposition/articleshow/120894674.cms?from=mdr The Economic Times 5 May 2025 5 May 2025 August 4 Paul Goldstein, American tennis playerhttps://www.atptour.com/en/players/paul-goldstein/g333/overview Paul Goldstein Overview ATP Tour 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 of Uber 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 managerI. Córdoba https://ca.soccerway.com/players/ivan-ramiro-cordoba/3974/ soccerway.com Will Friedle, American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian Jhong Hilario, Filipino actor, dancer, television host, and politician 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 the Nobel Peace Prizehttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2019/abiy/facts/ Abiy Ahmed Ali Nobelprize.org 10 July 2024 Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player August 18 Lee Seung-yeop, South Korean baseball player Bryan Volpenhein, American rower http://www.usrowing.org/News_Media/AthleteBios/volpenhein.aspx USRowing Biography https://web.archive.org/web/20080803044742/http://www.usrowing.org/News_Media/AthleteBios/volpenhein.aspx 3 August 2008 dead August 21 – Liezel Huber, South African born-American tennis playerLiezel Huber https://www.wtatennis.com/players/80258/name Women's Tennis Association 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 footballerJ. Tomasson https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/1941/ soccerway.com August 30 – Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer August 31 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer September thumb|100px|Carice van Houten thumb|100px|Naomie Harris thumb|100px|Alison Sweeney thumb|100px|Jon Bernthal thumb|100px|Emma de Caunes thumb|100px|Ronaldo September 1 Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballerBob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history September 3 Jevon Kearse, American football player Samuel Kuffour, Ghanaian footballerS. Kuffour https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/608/ soccerway.com 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 coachM. Rose https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/1688/ soccerway.com 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 Contest 2005 runner-up 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 thumb|100px|Seann William Scott thumb|100px|Alicia Silverstone thumb|100px|Ramzan Kadyrov thumb|100px|Sam Riegel thumb|100px|Bob Burnquist thumb|100px|Emily Deschanel thumb|100px|Andrew Scott thumb|100px|Ryan Reynolds thumb|100px|Piper Perabo October 1 – Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer October 2 Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005) Mandisa, American singer (d. 2024) 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 Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d. 2022) October 6 Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer (d. 2025) 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 jumperKajsa Bergqvist http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/kajsa-bergqvist-1.html sports-reference.com Sports Reference https://web.archive.org/web/20161202222906/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/kajsa-bergqvist-1.html December 2, 2016 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)The Script co-founder and guitarist Mark Sheehan dies at 46 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-04-14/script-mark-sheehan-dead-guitarist-co-founder Los Angeles Times April 14, 2023 October 31 Guti, Spanish football player and coachGuti https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j1527.html bdfutbol.com Piper Perabo, American actress November thumb|100px|Chad Lindberg thumb|100px|Sebastian Arcelus thumb|100px|Jack Dorsey thumb|100px|Jaleel White thumb|100px|Chadwick Boseman thumb|100px|Anna Faris November 1 Chad Lindberg, American actor Sam Presti, American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 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 of The Voice season 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.2020-08-03 Janine Leal a más de tres años lejos de la televisión: "La extraño mucho... Feliz haría mi programa, me gusta mucho" https://glamorama.latercera.com/noticias/2020/08/janine-leal-a-mas-de-tres-anos-lejos-de-la-television-la-extrano-mucho-feliz-haria-mi-programa-me-gusta-mucho.shtml/ 2022-02-02 Glamorama November 15 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actressVirginie Ledoyen Biography https://www.fandango.com/people/virginie-ledoyen-384482/biography fandango.com Fandango 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 of Twitter 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)2020-08-19 Сьледчы камітэт апісаў абставіны забойства берасьцейца падчас акцыі пратэсту Радыё Свабода https://www.svaboda.org/a/30792603.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20200910151007/https://www.svaboda.org/a/30792603.html 2020-09-10 2020-09-10 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty be Свабода Радыё 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 thumb|100px|Zoe Konstantopoulou thumb|100px|Armin van Buuren thumb|100px|Danny McBride December 1 Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998) Laura Ling, American journalist imprisoned by North Korea in 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 16 – Osamu Sato, Japanese former professional boxer 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, 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, American actor December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer Date unknown Pedro X. Molina, Nicaraguan caricaturist2021-04-30 Pedro Molina: "Humor should always be challenging" https://www.confidencial.com.ni/english/pedro-molina-humor-should-always-be-challenging/ 2021-07-09 Confidencial en Deaths October 2022 deaths :Category:1976 deaths January thumb|100px|Zhou Enlai thumb|100px|Paul Robeson January 3 – John Ainsworth-Davis, Welsh surgeon and athlete (b. 1895) January 5 John A. Costello, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (b. 1891) Mal Evans, English road manager to the Beatles (b. 1935)Miles Barry Barry Miles Many Years From Now Vintage-Random House 1997 978-0-7493-8658-0 600–02 Károly Takács, Hungarian Olympic shooter (b. 1910) January 8 Georges Stuttler, French footballer (b. 1897) Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of China (b. 1898) January 10 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer (b. 1910) January 12 – Agatha Christie, English detective fiction writer (b. 1890)Agatha Christie Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agatha-Christie/additional-info#More-Articles www.britannica.com 18 February 2022 en January 13 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922) January 14 Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922) Muhammad Sakizli, 2nd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1892) January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886) January 22 – Hermann Jónasson, Icelandic politician, 7th Prime 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 25 – Konstantin Anisimovich Pavlov, Latvian iconographer (b. 1907)Konstantin Pavlov January 26 – Gabriele Allegra, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1907) January 29 – Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician (b. 1896) January 30 – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher (b. 1904)https://books.google.com/books?id=UZQqBgAAQBAJ Lange Bettina Gehlen, Arnold Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers Brown Stuart Collinson Diané Wilkinson Robert London and New York Routledge Reference 1996 269–270 0-415-06043-5 15 December 2021 Google Books January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal and namesake of the Miranda right (b. 1941) February thumb|100px|Sal Mineo thumb|100px|Florence Ballard February 1 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) Hans Richter, German artist and filmmaker (b. 1888)https://www.theartstory.org/artist/richter-hans/ Hans Richter Films, Bio, Ideas The Art Story April 15, 2023 George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel 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 the Nobel 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 thumb|100px|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, American illustrator and artist (b. 1899) March 14 Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895) Jasimuddin, Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer (b. 1903)A tribute to Jasimuddin March 17 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906) March 19 – Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (b. 1950) March 20 – Wilhelm Marschall, German admiral (b. 1886) Marschall, Wilhelm (Generaladmiral) https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/14932/Marschall-Wilhelm-Generaladmiral.htm Traces of War 8 September 2025 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 100px|thumb|Max Ernst 100px|thumb|Howard Hughes April 1 Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891) Alfred Lennon, father of musician John Lennon (b. 1912) April 4 – Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer (b. 1889) April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b. 1905) April 9 Margaret Brundage, American illustrator (Weird Tales) (b. 1900)http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret Authors : Brundage, Margaret : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia sf-encyclopedia.com en 2017-10-21 October 22, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171022085100/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brundage_margaret live Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940) Renato Petronio, Italian rower, Olympic champion (1928) (b. 1891) April 12 – Miriam Cooper, American actress (b. 1891) April 13 – Sabri al-Asali, Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1903) April 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (b. 1891) April 17 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895) April 23 – Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (b. 1909)Karl Schäfer Austrian figure skater April 25 Sir Carol Reed, English film director (b. 1906) Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886) April 26 Andrei Grechko, Soviet general, Minister of Defence (b. 1903) Sid James, South African-born British actor and comedian (b. 1913)The obituary notice of SID JAMES May thumb|100px|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)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Eliot-Morison Samuel Eliot Morison American historian and biographer Britannica www.britannica.com April 15, 2023 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 29 – Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, Bulgarian‑American philosopher and author (b. 1887) 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 thumb|100px|J. Paul Getty thumb|100px|Dame Sybil Thorndike thumb|100px|Juliette Elmir June 2 Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the Arab League (b. 1893) Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 50th President of Bolivia (b. 1920) June 6 J. Paul Getty, American 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, 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 American film producer (b. 1873) June 11 – Toots Mondt, American WWF promoter (b. 1894) June 12 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b. 1908) June 15 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)JIMMY DYKES STATS June 16 – Hector Pieterson, South African activist (b. 1963) June 17 – Richard Casey, Baron Casey, Australian statesman and diplomat (b. 1890) June 23 – DeHart Hubbard, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)DeHart Hubbard June 24 Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883) Juliette Elmir, Lebanese-Argentine nurse and political activist (b. 1909) June 25 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)Johnny Mercer American composer, vocalist, and businessman June 27 – C. Wade McClusky, United States Navy admiral (b. 1902) June 28 Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1928) Ruby McKim, American quilt designer (b. 1891)Fullerton Jones Christina Ruby Short McKim https://quiltershalloffame.net/ruby-short-mckim/ 2025-07-05 Quilters Hall of Fame en-US June 30 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball pitcher (b. 1898)Firpo Marberry July thumb|100px|Joachim Peiper thumb|100px|Mickey Cohen July 1 Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic woman 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 State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886) July 7 Norman Foster, American film director (b. 1903) Gustav Heinemann, 6th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1899) July 8 – Gaston Marie Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop in Algeria (b. 1904)http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjacquier.html Bishop Gaston-Marie Jacquier Catholic-Hierarchy 18 November 2020 David M. Cheney 26 December 2021 December 26, 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211226065913/http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjacquier.html live December 2021 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)Molly Ivins https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/17/archives/paul-gallico-sportswriter-and-author-is-dead-at-78-founded-golden.html Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78 The New York Times July 17, 1976 October 25, 2020 July 16 – Wilhelmina von Bremen, American sprint runner (b. 1909) July 22 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (b. 1890) July 23 – Basil Hopko, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b. 1904) July 24 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912) July 28 Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (b. 1881)Tammikuu: Maggie Gripenbergin muistikirjat – Teatterimuseo (in Finnish) 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 thumb|100px|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)Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson British publisher August 6 Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-born American cellist (b. 1903) Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898)https://www.peoples.ru/science/geologist/maria_klenova/ Биография Мария Клёнова www.peoples.ru Betty Clooney, American singer (b. 1931), sister of singer Rosemary Clooney August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (b. 1910) August 10 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (b. 1884) August 12 – Tom Driberg, British politician and journalist (b. 1905)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31047 Tom Driberg Davenport-Hines Richard 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/31047 12 February 2010 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, American actress and student (b. 1958) August 29 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi national poet (b. 1899)bdnews24.com Kazi Nazrul Islam to be officially recognised as Bangladesh's national poet https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/ed5655d26e1f 2025-04-03 Nazrul to be recognised as national poet finally December 5, 2024 en Jimmy Reed, American blues musician (b. 1925) September 100px|thumb|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)Dalton Trumbo, Film Writer, Dies. Oscar Winner Had Been Blacklisted https://www.nytimes.com/1976/09/11/archives/dalton-trumbo-film-writer-dies-oscar-winner-had-been-blacklisted.html The New York Times September 11, 1976 June 18, 2008 Jon Nordheimer September 13 – Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Ecuadorian politician, 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 19 Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born British rabbi (b. 1886)https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/abramsky-yehezkel Abramsky, Yeḥezkel Encyclopedia.com www.encyclopedia.com April 15, 2023 Choi Yong-kun, North Korean general and defence minister (b. 1900)Choe, Yong-gon (Choe Yong-geon) 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 Prize laureate (b. 1887) September 28 – Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (b. 1893) October 100px|thumb|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 6 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)Gilbert Ryle British philosopher October 9 – Troy H. Middleton, American general and educator (b. 1889) October 10 – Silvana Armenulić, Yugoslav singer (b. 1939) October 11 - Connee Boswell, American popular and jazz singer (b. 1907) October 14 Dame Edith Evans, British actress (b. 1888) Suleiman Nabulsi, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1908)https://www.rulers.org/indexn1.html Index Na-Ne www.rulers.org October 15 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster (b. 1902) October 18 – Giacomo Lercaro, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1891) October 25 – Raymond Queneau, French writer (b. 1903)Raymond Queneau French author October 31 – Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer (b. 1878) November 100px|thumb|Trofim Lysenko thumb|100px|Rosalind Russell November 3 – Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (b. 1898)1976 Fichier des personnes décédées - DE LABRIFFE Solange Marie Christine Louise Amiens 05/04/1898 - Paris 03/11/1976 https://deces.matchid.io/id/ZaMQ-EaLrz9A 2024-02-22 matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (b. 1909) November 9 Helen Palmatary, American anthropologist (b. 1884) Armas Taipale, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1890) November 11 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898) November 12 – Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)Walter Piston American composer 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)https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/24/archives/andre-malraux-75-dies-in-paris-writer-war-hero-de-gaulle-aide-andre.html Andre Malraux, 75, Dies in Paris; Writer, War Hero, de Gaulle Aide The New York Times November 24, 1976 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 thumb|100px|Benjamin Britten thumb|100px|João Goulart December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball 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, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918) December 12 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927) December 15 – Grégoire Kayibanda, Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda (b. 1924) December 20 Richard J. Daley, American politician (b. 1902) Ned Washington, American lyricist (b. 1901) December 24 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, pretender to the Portuguese throne (b. 1907)Duke of Braganza, Claimant to Throne, Is Dead in Portugal December 28 – Freddie King, American blues guitarist (b. 1934) Date unknown Aleksander Wachniewski, Polish engineer and politician (b. 1891)Andrzej Jochelson: Kronika: Semipałatyńsk–Wrocław. Wrocław: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Polonistyki Wrocławskiej, 1997, p. 220. (in Polish)Halina Okólska: Władze miejskie Wrocławia w latach 1945–1948. Wrocław: Wrocław City Council, 2005, p. 13. ISBN 83-919528-4-3. (in Polish) Nobel Prizes right|100px 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 Williams and Mairead Corrigan Economics – Milton Friedman See also 1976 in the environment References 30em Further reading 1976 news dictionary (1977) online Category:Leap years in the Gregorian calendar