About the day » Saturday May 22, 1976Calender converter

• Sheila Westgeest († 2014)
• Hugo Harold Castel Cárdenas, La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia († 1991)
• Bernard Beunke († 1976)
• Sander Norbert Hendriksma, Alkmaar, NoordHolland, Nederland († 1990)
• Jolene Winter Clark († 1976)

• Bonne (Ben) EUWEMA (72)
• Artje Blanken (84), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelus Johannes Pijnenburg (69), Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Desiderius Joseph Alexander van de Walle (81), Hulst
• baart jansz jongejans (84), schagen 83 jaar oud
• Artje Blanken (84), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertha van de Meeberg (75), Oldenzaal,Gemeente Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Nederland
• Engelbertus Petrus van de Pas (82), Tilburg
• Elsie Arlene White (65), Bakersfield, Kern County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antoon Christiaan Spijker (66), Dedemsvaart, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1973 » Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
• 1974 » Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician
• 1974 » Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
• 1974 » Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
• 1975 » Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1976 » Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist
• 1978 » Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
• 1978 » Katie Price, English television personality and glamour model
• 1979 » Maggie Q, American actress
• 1979 » Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress

• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)

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.
• February 24 » The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
• March 24 » In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
• April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
• May 8 » The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
• September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
• October 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.

The temperature on May 22, 1976 was between 3.2 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.