About the day » Tuesday October 5, 1976Calender converter

• Pradeep Stuurman, Bombay, Bombay, India († 2011)
• Françoise Stephanie d'Harvant, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Rene Soolsma († 2000)
• Frank Johannes Cornelis van Dissel, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland

• Adelaïde Marie Dhont (70), Hulst
• Arie Zandbergen (90), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Blanche Alberta Todd **** (90), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
• Claus Kühl (72)
• Diemer van der Veen (77)
• Brigitta Agatha Labree (87)
• Alfred John Victor Ash (60), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Charles Mari Corporaal (72), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Alida Geertruida Helena Rooth (81), Amsterdam
• Diemer van der Veen (77)

• 1975 » Bobo Baldé, French-Guinean footballer
• 1975 » Carson Ellis, American painter and illustrator
• 1975 » Kate Winslet, English actress
• 1975 » Monica Rial, American voice actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Parminder Nagra, English actress
• 1976 » J. J. Yeley, American race car driver
• 1976 » Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian-Chechen general and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic
• 1976 » Royston Tan, Singaporean director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 » Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic author, illustrator, and critic
• 1977 » Vinnie Paz, Italian-American rapper and producer

• 1967 » Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1976 » Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1983 » Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded the Tupperware Corporation (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)
• 1986 » James H. Wilkinson, English mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
• 1986 » Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver and accountant (b. 1947)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
• July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

The temperature on October 5, 1976 was between 8.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.