About the day » Tuesday May 11, 1976Calender converter

• Josine Martine Hofmeester, Ijlst, Friesland, Nederland († 2018)
• Suzanne Nicoline van der Kolk († 2005)
• Lucille Linterman, Haarlem

• Everardus Schilder (20), De Zijpe Verkeersongeval
• Dingenis Vermeulen (72), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland, Nederland
• Bertus de Jongste- (90), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Alfons Demuzere (83), Kortrijk
• Camiel Vandamme (73), Roeselare
• Ada Madeleine Johanna Geertruida Fokker (75), Sydney (New South Wales-Australia)
• Esther Best (75), Darlington, Durham, England
• Elisabeth Domburg (52), amsterdam, Nederland
• Fennechine G. van der Vegt (72), Huizen
• Alida van der Vaart (80), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1972 » Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach
• 1973 » Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner
• 1974 » Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach
• 1974 » Tony Warner, English born Trinidadian international footballer and coach
• 1975 » Francisco Cordero, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1976 » Kardinal Offishall, American rapper and record producer/executive
• 1977 » Bobby Roode, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1977 » Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer
• 1977 » Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1978 » Laetitia Casta, French model and actress

• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)
• 1979 » Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)

• 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.
• 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.
• July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
• August 18 » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
• September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
• October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

The temperature on May 11, 1976 was between 10.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.