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• Anne Hopkins, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Amanda Lea Stahl, Marshalltown, IA († 1995)
• Gerhard Anton Staal, Den Helder († 2001)
• Monica Joy Kooiman, Rock County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Stacey M van Hofwegen († 1980)

• Antonius Franciscus van Riel (47)
• Aaltje de Boer (94), Veenwouden
• Bertha Sylvia Cornelia BOUTEN (63), Wijtschate,8953,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie
• Antonia Bernts (86), Driebergen
• Antonius F van Riel (47)
• Ameltien Santes (80), Tynaarlo
• Alice Helder (95), Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• clement den engelsman (52), noordgouwe
• Andreas Joseph van der Hoeven (63), Leiderdorp
• Alice Marie Javorski (58), Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio

• 1974 » Adel Ferdosipour, Iranian journalist and sportscaster
• 1974 » Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect
• 1974 » Brian Knight, American baseball player and umpire
• 1974 » Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver († 2006)
• 1974 » Matthew Nicholson, Australian cricketer
• 1974 » Michelle Krusiec, Taiwanese-American actress and producer
• 1975 » Baiba Broka, Latvian politician
• 1976 » John Thornton, American football player
• 1976 » Mark Chilton, English cricketer
• 1977 » Didier Défago, Swiss skier

• 1968 » Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1971 » Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
• 1973 » Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1973 » Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1975 » K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)

• 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.
• April 13 » The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
• July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
• September 3 » Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
• December 25 » EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.

The temperature on October 2, 1976 was between 11.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.