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• Emile Servaas Maria (Emile) VROEMEN, Heerlen (NL/LI) († 2012)
• Steven Kendrick de Vries († 1977)

• Cornelia Valk (96), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Matthijs Winder (84), Schoorl
• Dirkje de Bres (70), Brunssum
• Ebel Heinhuis (21)
• Adrianus Cornelis (Arie) Bocxe (83), Sassenheim
• Carel Frederik van der Mee (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Ebel Heinhuis (21)
• Bernard van de Wetering (82), Olst
• Boukje van der Meulen (92), -
• Arnold Algot Mann (61), South International Falls, Koochiching, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten

• 1974 » Garath Archer, English rugby player
• 1974 » P. J. Byrne American actor
• 1975 » Samira Saraya, Palestinian actor, filmmaker, poet and rapper
• 1976 » Aaron Miles, American baseball player and coach
• 1976 » Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Kim Eagles, Canadian sport shooter
• 1976 » Todd Tichenor, American baseball player and umpire
• 1977 » Geoff Stults, American actor and producer
• 1977 » Mehmet Aurélio, Brazilian-Turkish footballer and manager
• 1978 » Ned Brower, American drummer

• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)
• 1968 » Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (b. 1881)
• 1969 » Karl Theodor Bleek, German lawyer and politician, 12th Mayor of Marburg (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)
• 1974 » Anatole Litvak, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1977 » Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian physician and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Patrick
7. David
8. Peter
9. Michael
10. Robert
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. Jennifer
11. Saskia
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.
• February 19 » Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
• March 4 » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
• May 24 » The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
• June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
• 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 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.

The temperature on December 15, 1976 was between -4.1 and 1.9 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.