About the day » Monday August 2, 1976Calender converter

• Arnaud Gérard Fagot, Châlons-en Champagne, 51 Marne, Grand Est, France († 1993)
• Wesley Clarkson Eaton, Tulsa, Tulsa County, Ok († 1976)
• Eva Somers, Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1993)

• Bertha Kugler (79)
• Dirkje Groeneveld (64), Bodegraven,, Nederland
• Albert Timmer (60), Hardenberg
• Anna Maria Catharina Heiligers (78), Heerlen
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Hendricus van Opzeeland (87), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnoldus Wilhelmus Hendricus van Opzeeland (86), De Bilt, UT, Nederland
• Alvin Andrew Michael Peter Lemmer (78), Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States
• Anje Helenius (80)
• Anna Duijn (82), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Roelfinus Bertus Uneken (64), Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande

• 1974 » Phil Williams, English journalist and radio host
• 1975 » Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 » Tamás Molnár, Hungarian water polo player
• 1975 » Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-German badminton player and coach
• 1976 » Jay Heaps, American soccer player and coach
• 1976 » Michael Weiss, American figure skater
• 1976 » Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
• 1976 » Reyes Estévez, Spanish runner
• 1976 » Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor and producer
• 1977 » Edward Furlong, American actor

• 1972 » Brian Cole, American bass player (b. 1942)
• 1972 » Helen Hoyt, American poet and author (b. 1887)
• 1972 » Paul Goodman, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1911)
• 1973 » Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1974 » Douglas Hawkes, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1890)
• 1976 » László Kalmár, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Antony Noghès, French businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Thurman Munson, American baseball player (b. 1947)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
• April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
• July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• July 29 » In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
• September 19 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal.

The temperature on August 2, 1976 was between 12.7 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.