About the day » Tuesday December 7, 1976Calender converter

• Michelle G. Kleikamp, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)

• aart van LEENEN (90), vlaardingen
• Albertus Theodorus Cornelis Boots (85), Beverwijk,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus theodorus conelis Boots (85), Beverwijk, Nederland
• Antonius Plas (51)
• Adrianus Pronk (63), Sint Maarten
• Cornelis Jahannes van ZETTEN (68), heerewaarden
• Amalia GOB (71)
• "Geneviève" Marie Josèphe Symonet (76), Paris
• Anne Marie (Anne) Leenen (83), Sint-Truiden, België
• Albert Bussching (63), Rotterdam

• 1975 » Jamie Clapham, English footballer and coach
• 1976 » Alan Faneca, American football player
• 1976 » Benoît Tréluyer, French race car driver
• 1976 » Derek Ramsay, Filipino-British actor, model and television personality
• 1976 » Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
• 1976 » Ivan Franceschini, Italian footballer
• 1976 » Sunny Sweeney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 » Dominic Howard, English drummer and producer
• 1977 » Eric Chavez, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Luke Donald, English golfer

• 1969 » Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)
• 1975 » Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (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.
• January 1 » A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
• April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
• July 17 » East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• 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.
• August 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
• September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.

The temperature on December 7, 1976 was between 4.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.