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March 14, 1976Born on Monday March 15, 1976
- Leonie Winkens, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 2006)
- Ryan Alexis Dramalis **, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada († 1996)
- Andrew Scott Achterhof, Chicago
- Jonathan Forrest Stob
Died on Monday March 15, 1976
- Adriaan Maris (71), Rotterdam ((Z.H.))
- Aafke Hendrika KOK (81)
- Albert van Heinsberg (77), Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Antje Diederina van der Vaart (77), Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Nederland
- Alida van der Heijden (92), Delft, Nederland
- Anna Hilletje Geertruida Graftdijk (57)
- Adrianus Cornelis Klaassen (70), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Berendina Hoogeboom (84), Zwolle
- Augusta Raman (74), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België
- Antonius Waltherus Pigmans (72)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 15, 1976 at Delpher
- Amigoe di Curacao : weekblad voor de Curacaosche eilanden
- Leeuwarder courant : hoofdblad van Friesland
- Limburgsch dagblad
- De waarheid
- Nederlands dagblad : gereformeerd gezinsblad / hoofdred. P. Jongeling ... [et al.]
- De Telegraaf
- Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad
- Nieuwsblad van het Noorden
Born on March 15
- 1974 » Robert Fick, American baseball player
- 1975 » Darcy Tucker, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 » Eva Longoria, American actress and producer
- 1975 » Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
- 1975 » will.i.am, American rapper, producer, and actor
- 1976 » Abhay Deol, Indian actor
- 1976 » Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
- 1976 » Katherine Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1977 » Brian Tee, Japanese-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1977 » Joe Hahn, American DJ, producer, and director
Died on March 15
- 1969 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1888)
- 1969 » Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (b. 1909)
- 1970 » Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1897)
- 1971 » Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
- 1972 » Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1910)
- 1975 » Aristotle Onassis, Greek-Argentinian businessman (b. 1906)
- 1977 » Antonino Rocca, Italian-American wrestler and referee (b. 1921)
- 1977 » Hubert Aquin, Canadian author and activist (b. 1929)
- 1981 » René Clair, French director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
- 1983 » Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
Names that were popular for boys in 1976
Names that were popular for girls in 1976
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1976
- 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 15 » Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
- April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
- June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
- October 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
Weather March 15, 1976
The temperature on March 15, 1976 was between 0.9 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.