About the day » Friday December 26, 1975Calender converter

• Kara Ann Slagter
• Fernando SMITHUIS, Adroqué, Argentinië
• Johannes Christiaan van der Marel, Leiderdorp († 2000)
• Maria Petronella van de Scheur, Elst, Nedeland († 1988)
• Gertjan Dirks Bloem, Driesum, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2011)

• *Joe (Angel) Olmos Torres (40), Mountain View, Santa Clara, California, Verenigde Staten
• Alberta Stuurman (75)
• Arthur Otis McLaughlin (55), Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Huismans (56), Hindeloopen
• Andreas Alphonsus JACOBS (71), Amsterdam (N-H)
• Andreas Alphonsus JACOBS (71)
• Delilah [Lila) Harrill (95), Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Alberdina Klein (93), Groningen
• Cornelis (Cor) Zeillemaker (72), Weesp
• Cornelis van Woerdekom (89), Rhenen, Nederland

• 1973 » Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player
• 1973 » Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 » Paulo Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer
• 1973 » Steve Prescott, English rugby player († 2013)
• 1974 » Joshua John Miller, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Chris Calaguio, Filipino basketball player
• 1975 » María Vasco, Spanish race walker
• 1975 » Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
• 1976 » Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and coach
• 1977 » Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer and manager

• 1970 » Lillian Board, South African-English runner (b. 1948)
• 1972 » Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (b. 1890)
• 1974 » Jack Benny, American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, and violinist (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)

• 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 13.6 million citizens.
• January 15 » The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
• August 15 » Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
• August 15 » Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
• August 20 » Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
• September 29 » WGPR becomes the first black-owned-and-operated television station in the US.
• October 10 » Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

The temperature on December 26, 1975 was between 2.0 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.