About the day » Monday February 23, 1976Calender converter

• Jacobus de Lijster († 2023)
• Yves Mathieu († 1980)
• Mort Né DE ROY († 1976)

• Ada Fowle (65), Sutton, Surrey, England
• Adrianus Laurentius van den Wassenberg (82)
• Antje Eelkes Bekkema (68), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Christina van Bemmel (90), Nijkerk
• Brendan Martin
• Beatrice di Saluzzo (87), Braunfels, Hessen, Allemagne
• Brechtje MULLER (71), Alkmaar, NH, Nederland
• Brechtje Muller (71), Alkmaar
• Cornelis Hendericus Van Smirren (66), Amsterdam
• August Bischoff (93), Goch, 47574, Duitsland

• 1974 » Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
• 1974 » Robbi Kempson, South African rugby player
• 1975 » Michael Cornacchia, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Ryan McCourt, Canadian artist
• 1976 » Jeff O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1976 » Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
• 1976 » Scott Elarton, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
• 1978 » Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player († 2003)
• 1978 » Residente, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter

• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• 1979 » W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1990 » José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
• 1995 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)

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

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 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
• February 19 » Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
• April 13 » 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.
• June 29 » The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
• July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
• September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.

The temperature on February 23, 1976 was between 0.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.