About the day » Tuesday January 27, 1976Calender converter

• Heidi Lenae Koerner
• Robert Laurence Hinrichs († 1976)
• Laurens Frans Josep\h Slabbers

• Angeline Julia Briers (65), Kortessem, België
• Bertus de Vries (65)
• Beatrix Peeters (82), Venlo
• Arend Hoogeveen (44), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje van Duijn (67), Katwijk
• Anna Maria van Gorp (91), Gilze en Rijen
• (1) Clara Balcaen (78), Moeskroen (HG) België
• Andries van Dijk (74), Leeuwarden, Nederland
• Adriana van Zoggel (86), Heeswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertus de Vries (65)

• 1973 » Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager († 2014)
• 1974 » Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player and coach
• 1974 » Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
• 1974 » Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian skier and biathlete
• 1976 » Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer
• 1976 » Clint Ford, American actor, voice actor and novelist
• 1976 » Danielle George MBE FIET, Professor of Radio frequency engineering at the University of Manchester
• 1976 » Fred Taylor, American football player
• 1976 » Michael K. Winder, American businessman and politician
• 1978 » Pete Laforest, Canadian-American baseball player and manager

• 1967 » Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (b. 1888)
• 1967 » crew of Apollo 1
• 1970 » Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1973 » William Nolde, American colonel (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b. 1914)

• 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.
• April 11 » The Apple I is created.
• 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.
• July 29 » In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
• September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
• September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

The temperature on January 27, 1976 was between -6.7 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.