About the day » Thursday April 29, 1976Calender converter

• Jacob Jan Lodewijk van Lynden, Utrecht († 2020)
• Michiel Christiaan Gorter, Apeldoorn
• Corey Scott Statzer, Farmville, Prince Edward, Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Inge Van Eynde

• Aartje Pater (87), Nunspeet, Ermelo
• Alida Catharina Heijneman (74), Amsterdam
• Antje Anna Posthumus (90), Groningen
• Beulah Elizabeth Hamilton (80)
• Adrianus Klerkx (84), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Baukje Jacobs Knol, Tzummarum,, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia HUIJBERS (84), Erp, 3557, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoon Schutte (60), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Barbara Nancy Krause (87), Fremont, Alameda, California, United States
• Albertus Veenendaal (66)

• 1974 » Anggun, Diva Indonesia
• 1974 » Jasper Wood, Canadian violinist and educator
• 1975 » Artem Yashkin, Ukrainian footballer
• 1975 » Rafael Betancourt, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1976 » Chiyotaikai Ryūji, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1976 » Fabio Liverani, Italian footballer and manager
• 1977 » Attila Zsivoczky, Hungarian decathlete and high jumper
• 1977 » Claus Jensen, Danish international footballer and manager
• 1977 » Titus O'Neil, American football player and wrestler
• 1977 » Zuzana Hejdová, Czech tennis player

• 1966 » Paula Strasberg, American actress, acting coach, and member of the Communist Party (b. 1909)
• 1966 » William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1967 » J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)

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 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
• February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
• April 13 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
• 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 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.

The temperature on April 29, 1976 was between -4.8 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.