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• Dini Maja Poot, Leidschendam († 1976)
• Egbert Jan van der Vosse, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2007)
• Michael John McKENZIE, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1994)
• Sander Bolhuis († 2009)
• Japke Niza Thorbecke († 1994)
• Hugo Fransen, Keulen, Duitsland († 1992)

• Adrianus Cornelis van RIJN (79), Leidschendam
• Alijda Antonia van de Veen (65)
• Albert Mulder (81)
• Arend Sybolts Veldstra (84), Sneek
• Alex Markowski (66), Alpena
• Arie Voerman (64), Vlaardingen
• Cecil Bertie Howard Knight (Rev.) (92), Nutley, Uckfield, Sussex, England (UK)
• Ada Constance Cream (83), Perth West Australia Australia
• Arina Jannigje Rietveld (61), Rotterdam
• Antonius Spaan (48), Bemmel, Nederland

• 1975 » Hal Gill, American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Zach Braff, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and talk show panelist
• 1976 » Chris Hoke, American football player
• 1976 » Georg Hólm, Icelandic bass player
• 1976 » Hirotada Ototake, Japanese author and educator
• 1976 » James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1977 » Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1978 » Imani Coppola, American singer-songwriter and violinist

• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)

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 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.
• June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
• August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
• 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 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
• 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 April 6, 1976 was between 1.7 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.