About the day » Wednesday February 18, 1976Calender converter

• Hans Maarten Bais, Den Helder († 1978)
• Tom Hens, Herentals, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2011)

• Kornelis Hornstra (74), Joure
• Albert Valere DURNEZ (65), Beselare
• Aaltje Kingma * (80)
• ANNA FREDERIKA SCHINKEL (80), AMSTERDAM
• Cornelia Maria Adrdr Straathof (77), Den Haag
• Adriana Pieternella Monster (85), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Claud Lansford Ellis (87), West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina
• Adrianus van Lingen (68), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Allan VanMeter Broun (89), Lordsburg, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico, Verenigde Staten
• Anje Sinning (89), Kantens, Groningen, Nederland

• 1974 » Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic
• 1974 » Jamey Carroll, American baseball player
• 1974 » Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author
• 1974 » Radek Černý, Czech international footballer, goalkeeper
• 1974 » Ruby Dhalla, Canadian chiropractor and politician
• 1974 » Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
• 1975 » Gary Neville, English footballer and coach
• 1976 » Bernadette Sembrano, Filipino journalist
• 1976 » Chanda Rubin, American tennis player
• 1976 » Leilani Munter, American race car driver and environmentalist

• 1964 » Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1967 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1969 » Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1977 » Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)

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. Jennifer
11. Saskia
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.
• January 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
• May 24 » The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
• June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• July 17 » The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
• July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
• September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.

The temperature on February 18, 1976 was between 1.0 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.