About the day » Sunday November 21, 1976Calender converter

• Johny Kruidbos
• Darren William Bohlsen, Anoka, MN

• Cornelia Christina Theodora Maas (76)
• ADRIANUS MOERMAN (62), VOORBURG
• Earl B Young (39), Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Christine Hermine Josephine Lapré (85), 's-Gravenhage
• Elisabeth Huiskamp (90), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonij Priem (92), Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antonius Joannes Wilhelmus Voskens (68), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafien Kamphuis (84), Appingedam, Groningen, Nederland
• Alberto Oreste Luigi Russo (57), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Count Gabriel of Marenzi-Tagliuno-Talgate (79), Wien, Wien, Austria

• 1976 » Daniel Whiston, English figure skater
• 1976 » Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer
• 1976 » Michael Wilson, Australian footballer
• 1976 » Mihaela Botezan, Romanian long-distance runner
• 1976 » Saleem Elahi, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 » Jonas Jennings, American football player
• 1977 » Michael Batiste, American former professional basketball player
• 1977 » Yolande James, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1978 » Daniel Bradshaw, Australian footballer
• 1978 » Lucía Jiménez, Spanish actress and singer

• 1970 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Newsy Lalonde, Canadian lacrosse and ice hockey player (b. 1887)
• 1973 » Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (b. 1890)
• 1974 » John B. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic author (b. 1889)
• 1980 » Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Harry von Zell, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
• 1982 » John Hargrave, English activist and author (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Ben Wilson, American basketball player (b. 1967)

• 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.
• May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
• June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• 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 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.
• October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
• October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.

The temperature on November 21, 1976 was between 2.2 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.