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• Esther Mathilde Maria Hoesen, Heerlen
• Joris David Anthony (Joris) GIJSBERTI HODENPIJL, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Ivonne DE WAEL, Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, BELGIË († 1976)
• Joris David Anthony GIJSBERTI HODENPIJL, Haarlem Noord-Holland Netherlands († 1993)
• Joris David Anthony Hodenpijl, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)

• Clara Gertrude Kobes (76), Sunnyside, Yakima County, Washington
• Andries Stoelwinder (75), Oudehorne Schoterland
• Bartel Jacob Boot (71)
• Cornelia Catharina Maria Leurs (84), Heilo
• André Marie Joseph RENAUD (75), st.georges d'oléron(17)
• Arie Jan Vonk (65), Den Burg
• Alphonsus Engelbertus De Wilde (82), Gentbrugge
• Arend Tiemens (89), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Bartelds Stoelwinder (75), Oudehorne
• Adrianus van Oorschot (83), Helmond

• 1974 » Glen Chapple, English cricketer
• 1974 » Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
• 1974 » Richard T. Slone, English painter
• 1974 » Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
• 1974 » Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
• 1975 » Nick Harmer, German musician
• 1975 » Phil Dawson, American football player
• 1976 » Alex Shaffer, American skier
• 1976 » Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteering competitor
• 1976 » Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player and scout

• 1971 » Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (b. 1871)
• 1973 » Alexander Onassis, American-Greek businessman (b. 1948)
• 1973 » Kid Ory, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1886)
• 1976 » Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and activist (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Terry Kath, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1980 » Giovanni Michelotti, Italian engineer (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Fred Bakewell, English cricketer and coach (b. 1908)

• 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 1 » A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
• 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.
• June 29 » The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
• August 12 » Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.
• September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.

The temperature on January 23, 1976 was between 0.8 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.