About the day » Saturday August 14, 1976Calender converter

• Marc ZANDBERGEN, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Steven Darlan Ostrom, Bakerfield, Kern, CA (USA) († 1981)
• Wipkje Tjitske Miedema, Harlingen († 1976)
• Kylie Elizabeth HADLEY, Blackburn, Victoria, Australia († 1999)
• Leland CHRISTIE († 1994)
• Helena Maria Antionetta Mur († 2015)
• Wiepkje Tjitske Miedema, Harlingen, fr.nld († 1976)

• Cecília Blömer (1), Rio Fortuna, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Albertus van Eijk (87)
• Adrianus Akkermans (66), Oud Gastel
• Antonia Maria Hurk, van den (94), Tiel
• Alphons Joannes Baptist van Erven (81), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Arkes (79), Slagharen, Nederland
• Annie Zonneveld (42), Amsterdam
• Anna knippschild (63), amsterdam
• Clasina van den Dungen (67), Boxtel (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Antonia Maria van den Hurk (94), Tiel

• 1973 » Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
• 1974 » Chucky Atkins, American basketball player and coach
• 1975 » Mike Vrabel, American football player and coach
• 1976 » Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
• 1977 » Ed Harcourt, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1977 » Juan Pierre, American baseball player
• 1978 » Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
• 1978 » Greg Rawlinson, South African-New Zealand rugby player
• 1978 » Kate Ritchie, Australian actress
• 1978 » Randika Galhenage, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1972 » Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
• 1972 » Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
• 1973 » Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1978 » Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)
• 1981 » Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894)
• 1982 » Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1984 » J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)

• 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.
• April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
• April 13 » The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
• July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
• September 16 » Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
• September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
• November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock

The temperature on August 14, 1976 was between 14.4 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.