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• Sandrine GRILLOT, Köln,Regierungsbezirk Köln,North Rhine-Westphalia,GERMANY († 1977)
• Lodewijk Alfred HEEREN, Hofheim (DE) († 1981)
• Bjorn Schols, Heerlen (Heerlen) (Limburg) († 1976)

• Adrianus Petrus Paulus Maria Mutsaers (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Arnoldus van Nuland (59), Oss, Nederland
• Aaltje Plaggenborg (68)
• Anna Cornelia Timmermans (81), Ophoven, Limburg, 3640, België
• Cornelia Fontein (73), Velsen-Noord, Nederland
• AAFFIEN KOOPMAN (85), GRONINGEN
• Alphonsus Josephus Coolen (83), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Alphonsus Josephus Coolen (83), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Cornelis Petrus Moerkens (76), Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dorathea Johanna Dreyer (65), Rocklands, 42 Kingsley Fairbridge Umtali Rhodesia

• 1974 » Alan Morrison, British poet
• 1975 » Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 » M.I.A., English rapper and producer
• 1975 » Torii Hunter, American baseball player
• 1976 » Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
• 1976 » Go Soo-hee, South Korean actress
• 1977 » Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player and author
• 1978 » Adabel Guerrero, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1978 » Crystal Mangum, American murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case
• 1978 » Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player and sportscaster

• 1966 » Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1968 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)

• 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 19 » Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
• May 7 » The Honda Accord is officially launched.
• July 18 » Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
• September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
• November 23 » Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.

The temperature on July 18, 1976 was between 15.9 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.