About the day » Tuesday December 7, 1976Calender converter

• Michelle G. Kleikamp, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)

• Cornelis Jahannes van ZETTEN (68), heerewaarden
• Ruizendaal (79), begr.eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dieuwke Sybes Krol (55), Menaldum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes van Zetten (68), Heerewaarden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Plas (55), Klazienaveen, Emmen
• Amalia GOB (71)
• Dieudonné (Ventie) lans (77), Den Haag, S-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Pronk (63), Sint Maarten
• Cornelis Jacobus Keij (82), Oudenbosch (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Bernardus Gerardus (Bernard) Alsemgeest (68), Naaldwijk, Nederland

• 1975 » Jamie Clapham, English footballer and coach
• 1976 » Alan Faneca, American football player
• 1976 » Benoît Tréluyer, French race car driver
• 1976 » Derek Ramsay, Filipino-British actor, model and television personality
• 1976 » Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
• 1976 » Ivan Franceschini, Italian footballer
• 1976 » Sunny Sweeney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 » Dominic Howard, English drummer and producer
• 1977 » Eric Chavez, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Luke Donald, English golfer

• 1969 » Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)
• 1975 » Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Patrick
7. David
8. Peter
9. Robert
10. Michael
11. Dennis
12. Hendrik
13. Pieter
14. Richard
15. Bart
16. Ronald

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Wendy
5. Esther
6. Monique
7. Elisabeth
8. Miranda
9. Linda
10. Saskia
11. Jennifer
12. Bianca
13. Cindy
14. Judith
15. Tamara
16. Patricia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
• May 15 » Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes in Viktorovka, Chernihiv Raion, killing all 52 people on board.
• June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
• September 19 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
• October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
• October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
• November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock

The temperature on December 7, 1976 was between 4.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.