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• Taco Friso Nijenhuis, Leeuwarden
• Jacqueline Leonie Vader, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 2019)
• Sander Veltman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Pieter Johannes Verschoor († 1976)
• Paula Faith Gregory, Bethesda, Montgomery County, MD († 1976)

• Dirk van Dam (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria de Rooij (88), Roosendaal
• Anna Klasen (81), Erm, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Theresia Schoffelen (48), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• * Josephina Maria van Vugt (89), Alkmaar
• Celesta Maria Rootsaert (94), Sijsele-Damme
• Dietje Jans Wormmeester (79), Surhuisterveen
• Antonius Adrianus Bastiaansen (79), Tilburg
• Celesta Maria Rootsaert (94), Sijsele
• Anna Klasen (81), Erm, Nederland

• 1974 » Danny Pino, American actor and screenwriter
• 1974 » Kim Min-kyo, South Korean actor and director
• 1974 » Mike Quinn, American football player
• 1975 » Sarah Teichmann, German-American biophysicist and immunologist
• 1976 » Darius Regelskis, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 » Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1976 » Kęstutis Šeštokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1976 » Steve Williams, English rower
• 1977 » Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
• 1977 » Sudarsan Pattnaik, Indian sculptor

• 1966 » Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan
• 1967 » Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)

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 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
• 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.
• July 20 » The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.

The temperature on April 15, 1976 was between 1.8 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.