About the day » Tuesday June 1, 1976Calender converter

• Sonya Louise BARKER, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia († 2001)
• Abdulhadi Tukur, Kaduna, Nigeria († 2020)
• Carla Vos, Klazienaveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Carrie Ann Harris, Trenton, Michigan

• Anna Barbara van Hoorn (79)
• Albert Visser (78), Hattem, Nederland
• Christian Alberts Krull (81), Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa
• Cornelis (Crelis) Molenaar (57), Edam Volendam
• Charlotte Christina Prins (89), Oldenzaal, Overijssel (NL.)
• Charlotta Christina Prins (89), Oldenzaal
• Anna Leentje Bijl (64)
• Aalt Cornelis van 't Land (82), Haarlemmermeer
• Catharina Niemann (78), Meggerdorf, Schleswig-Holstein
• Antonius Adrianus Nuiten (61), Breda, Gemeente Breda, North Brabant, Niederlande

• 1975 » Ēriks Rags, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1975 » Frauke Petry, German politician
• 1975 » Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player and coach
• 1976 » Kōhei Murakami, Japanese actor
• 1976 » Marlon Devonish, English sprinter and coach
• 1977 » Andrea Bogart, American actress
• 1977 » Arsen Gitinov, Russian and Kyrgyzstani freestyle wrestler
• 1977 » Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Danielle Harris, American actress
• 1977 » Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress

• 1966 » Papa Jack Laine, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1873)
• 1968 » André Laurendeau, Canadian playwright, journalist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 1968 » Helen Keller, American author and activist (b. 1880)
• 1969 » Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1979 » Werner Forssmann, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Arthur Nielsen, American businessman, founded the ACNielsen company (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Carl Vinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1883)
• 1983 » Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Richard Greene, English actor and soldier (b. 1918)

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 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.
• January 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
• April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
• June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
• August 18 » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
• September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.

The temperature on June 1, 1976 was between 10.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 12.1 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.