About the day » Wednesday January 28, 1976Calender converter

• Jamie Leigh WISE, Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia († 1976)
• Manon Chantal Meijers, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Jitka Westgeest, Sint Oederode († 1997)
• Joseph J. Heeringa
• Albert Willem Fokkens, Beilen, Gemeente Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Nederland († 1976)

• Francina van Heijnsbergen (74), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina van Wijk (45)
• Cornelia Geertrda Brussee (79), Leiden
• Annie Dirkse (77), Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin
• Anthonius (Toon) van der Meer, Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Valeria Snyder (78), Titusville, Brevard County, Florida, United States
• Dorothy Etta Madonna Hilligoss (67), Greenfield, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Wilhelmus van Hoof (76), Tilburg
• Carel Bitter (63)
• Deliana de Leeuw (86), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1975 » Junior Spivey, American baseball player and coach
• 1975 » Pedro Pinto, Portuguese-American journalist
• 1976 » Mark Madsen, American basketball player and coach
• 1976 » Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
• 1976 » Rick Ross, American rapper and producer
• 1976 » Sireli Bobo, Fijian rugby player
• 1977 » Daunte Culpepper, American football player
• 1977 » Joey Fatone, American singer, dancer, and television personality
• 1977 » Sandis Buškevics, Latvian basketball player and coach
• 1977 » Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver

• 1965 » Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
• 1965 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1971 » Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
• 1973 » John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Billy Fury. English pop star (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
• 1986 » Space Shuttle Challenger crew
• 1988 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)

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. Ronald
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Wendy
5. Esther
6. Monique
7. Elisabeth
8. Miranda
9. Linda
10. Saskia
11. Jennifer
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 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.
• January 5 » The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
• April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
• May 15 » Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes in Viktorovka, Chernihiv Raion, killing all 52 people on board.
• 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.
• September 21 » Seychelles joins the United Nations.

The temperature on January 28, 1976 was between -10.1 °C and -4.3 °C and averaged -7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.