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• Joep Werkhoven

• Aart Hooijer (78)
• Anne Jonkman (66), Hoogkerk
• Arjen Aukes van der Wal (87), Minnertsga
• Ben Schuurman (28), Eemnes
• Adriana Johanna Colijn (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Vlap (74)
• Baukje Pieters Hoogland (91), Bolsward
• Arendje den Dulk (84)
• Annie Mary A Scott (89), Newsham, Blyth, Northumberland
• Aalbert Doornekamp (81), Hoevelaken

• 1975 » Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman
• 1975 » Joyce Giraud, Puerto Rican-American model, television actress and producer, Miss Puerto Rico 1994
• 1975 » Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter
• 1975 » Pamela Ribon, American actress, screenwriter, and author
• 1975 » Scott Rolen, American baseball player
• 1975 » Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish skier
• 1976 » Emerson Ferreira da Rosa, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 » James Roday, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Nathan Blacklock, Australian rugby player
• 1976 » Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver († 1997)

• 1968 » Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated)(b. 1929)
• 1972 » Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American pastor and politician (b. 1908)
• 1972 » Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and academic (b. 1902)
• 1976 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish engineer and theorist (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Andrey Dikiy, Ukrainian-American journalist, historian, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan (b. 1928)
• 1980 » Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Bernard Vukas, Croatian football player, played for 1953 FIFA's "Rest of the World" team against England at Wembley (b. 1927)
• 1983 » Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Patrick
7. David
8. Peter
9. Robert
10. Michael
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. Saskia
11. Jennifer
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 2 » The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
• 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 11 » The Apple I is created.
• May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
• June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• July 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

The temperature on April 4, 1976 was between -1.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.