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• Jenna Elise Draper, St Hillier Hospital, Sutton († 1976)
• Renske Bloemzaad
• Tara Jean Olson, Stearns, MN
• Travis Wayne Johnnie († 1976)
• Senia Amy Swift, Washington, Washington, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Fredericus Johannes van der Laan, Groningen
• Sage Stoney Moonblood Stallone, Los Angeles, Californie, Verenigde Staten († 2012)

• Alfred Hoekstra (56), Douglas County, South Dakota, VS
• Adrianus Augustinus Hendricus Jongewaard (72), Blaricum
• Catharina Hermina Zegers (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Zummer (81), Mount Pocono, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Baars (80), 's-Gravenhage,Zuid Holland,Netherlands
• Célia Bartholomei de Salles Oliveira (51), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Andries Baars (80), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Aaltje Schuiring (85), Groningen
• Berend Willem Konings (73), Winterswijk
• Adolf Gerard Van den Eynde (62), Lommel (B), België

• 1972 » Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
• 1972 » James Cracknell, English rower
• 1972 » Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1975 » Meb Keflezighi, American runner
• 1976 » Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer
• 1976 » Dieter Brummer, Australian actor
• 1976 » Jean-François Dumoulin, Canadian race car driver
• 1976 » Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster
• 1978 » Morgan Pehme, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Vincent Kartheiser, American actor

• 1965 » John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1965 » Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
• 1971 » Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)
• 1983 » Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)
• 1983 » John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)
• 1988 » Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928)

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.
• February 6 » In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
• June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
• July 4 » The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
• July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
• October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

The temperature on May 5, 1976 was between 2.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.