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April 7, 1976Born on Thursday April 8, 1976
- carla m.m. quicken, helden-dorp († 1996)
- Robert Wayne Tiemens Jr.
- Carla Quicken, Helden († 1996)
- Marie Louise Zuijderduijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
- Levenloos van Wel, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1976)
Died on Thursday April 8, 1976
- Andreas Johannes Bernardus Franke (20), Tubbergen
- Agatha (Aag) Hogeveen (92), Naaldwijk
- Anna Apolonia Vreeken (70), Amsterdam, Nederland
- Arthur Lenaers (70), Oostende
- Anna Louise Louw (81), Montfermeil
- Arthur Cleveland Clark (59), Geauga County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
- Anna Sophia Berkhout (94)
- Aag (Agatha) Hogeveen (92), Naaldwijk, ZH, Nederland
- Aaltje Montenij (67), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Alida Cornelia van Mourik (58), Soest
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 8, 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 April 8
- 1974 » Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian-American author and educator
- 1974 » Toutai Kefu, Tongan-Australian rugby player
- 1975 » Anouk, Dutch singer
- 1975 » Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer
- 1975 » Funda Arar, Turkish singer
- 1975 » Timo Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
- 1977 » Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
- 1977 » Mark Spencer, American computer programmer and engineer
- 1977 » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author († 2008)
- 1978 » Daigo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
Died on April 8
- 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
- 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
- 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
- 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
- 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
- 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
- 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
- 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
- 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
- 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
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.
- February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
- April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
- June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
- September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
- October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
- December 3 » An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley in Kingston, Jamaica just two days before the "Smile Jamaica", a free concert.
Weather April 8, 1976
The temperature on April 8, 1976 was between 0.2 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.