About the day » Friday January 23, 1976Calender converter

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

• Cleo Henry Wolfe, Mira Loma, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonetta Schoenmakers (59)
• Anna Boon (47), St-Pancras
• Arnoldus Jacobus Hogeboom (56)
• Andries Stoelwinder (75), Oudehorne Schoterland
• Adrianus VAN OORSCHOT (83), Helmond,,Noord-Brabant,PAYS BAS
• Dirk Postma (75), Augustinusga, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Dirkje Bosschaart (65), Beusichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bartel Jacob Boot (71)
• Clara Gertrude Kobes (76), Sunnyside, Yakima County, Washington

• 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)

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 1 » A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
• 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.
• April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
• July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
• September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
• 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 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.