About the day » Friday December 17, 1976Calender converter

• Heidi Sue Bouwma, Amboy, IL
• Radja (Susairaj) Petitjean († 2001)
• James Edgar Mellott, McConnellsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 1998)
• Amber Juliet Sherren, Owatonna Co., Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Mirjam Vos

• Alida Johanna Steenbergen (61), Leiden
• Albertus Dekker (90), Den Helder
• Anna Watson (86)
• Dena Huisinga (79), Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, Blackhawk County, Iowa
• Douwe Dijkstra (91), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Annigje Lena Esveldt (77), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna van der Stoop (62), Harenkarspel
• Antonius Adrianus Mulder (69)
• Adrianus Maas (83), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Douwe de Koe (80), Groningen

• 1975 » Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress
• 1975 » Nick Dinsmore, American wrestler and trainer
• 1975 » Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan sprinter
• 1976 » Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater and coach
• 1976 » Andrew Simpson, English sailor († 2013)
• 1976 » Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer and manager
• 1976 » Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
• 1976 » Takeo Spikes, American football player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Arnaud Clément, French tennis player
• 1977 » Samuel Påhlsson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1962 » Thomas Mitchell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1964 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1970 » Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1978 » Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1981 » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889)
• 1986 » Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951)
• 1987 » Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903)

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 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.
• February 24 » The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
• May 6 » The 6.5 M_w  Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.
• September 19 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.
• October 6 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
• October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

The temperature on December 17, 1976 was between -1.8 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.