About the day » Tuesday April 6, 1976Calender converter

• Japke Niza Thorbecke († 1994)
• Michael John McKENZIE, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1994)
• Dini Maja Poot, Leidschendam († 1976)
• Hugo Fransen, Keulen, Duitsland († 1992)
• Egbert Jan van der Vosse, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland († 2007)
• Sander Bolhuis († 2009)

• Albert Mulder (81)
• Antje Broekema (83), Groningen
• Alice Eugenia Maria Verbist (62), Nieuw-Namen,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis (Arie) van Rijn (79), Leidschendam, ZH, Nederland
• Antonetta van Loon (94), Zevenbergen
• Anna Maria Heylen (75)
• Ada Constance Cream (83), Perth West Australia Australia
• Alex Markowski (66), Alpena
• Arie Van Der Starre (78), Reeuwijk
• Beulah Estell Beason (72)

• 1975 » Hal Gill, American ice hockey player
• 1975 » Zach Braff, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Candace Cameron Bure, American actress and talk show panelist
• 1976 » Chris Hoke, American football player
• 1976 » Georg Hólm, Icelandic bass player
• 1976 » Hirotada Ototake, Japanese author and educator
• 1976 » James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1977 » Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1978 » Imani Coppola, American singer-songwriter and violinist

• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)

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 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
• March 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: in the first organized response against Israeli policies by a Palestinian collective since 1948, Palestinians create the first Land Day.
• June 5 » The Teton Dam in Idaho, United States, collapses.
• July 2 » End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
• July 17 » The opening of the Summer Olympics in Montreal is marred by 25 African teams boycotting the games because of New Zealand's participation. Contrary to rulings by other international sports organizations, the IOC had declined to exclude New Zealand because of their participation in South African sporting events during apartheid.
• July 19 » Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

The temperature on April 6, 1976 was between 1.7 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.