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• Jacobus de Lijster († 2023)
• Yves Mathieu († 1980)
• Mort Né DE ROY († 1976)

• Aleida Berendina van Wessel (71)
• Aafke Jacobus Boorsma (86), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Christina van Bemmel (90), Nijkerk
• Antje Eelkes (68), Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands
• Arie Tiele (91), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Béatrice Saluzzo (87), Braunfels, 06532, Allemagne
• Aafke BOORSMA (86)
• Arie Hoeke (77), Rotterdam
• Beatrice di Saluzzo (87), Braunfels, Hessen, Allemagne
• Aleida Johanna Maria Spit (65), Oldenzaal

• 1974 » Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
• 1974 » Robbi Kempson, South African rugby player
• 1975 » Michael Cornacchia, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 » Ryan McCourt, Canadian artist
• 1976 » Jeff O'Neill, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1976 » Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
• 1976 » Scott Elarton, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
• 1978 » Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player († 2003)
• 1978 » Residente, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter

• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
• 1969 » Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
• 1973 » Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1976 » L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
• 1979 » W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1990 » José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
• 1995 » James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)

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 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.
• February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
• February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
• April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
• September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
• November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.

The temperature on February 23, 1976 was between 0.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.