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• Alexander Vogelpoel († 2002)
• Edith Heidy HOLTJER († 1982)
• Samanta Van Summeren, Nijmegen († 1989)

• Emma Elizabeth Infelt (81)
• Anna Maria Catharina Bartholomeus (56), Geel, België
• Edwin William Baker (79), Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States
• Earnest L Dayhuff (75), Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, The United States of America
• Chester Amos Gossett (90), Alameda, Alameda, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonie Arend Jan van MEETEREN (56), Utrecht
• cornelis VINGERLING (73), rotterdam
• Albert Dick (57), Roeselare, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Aartje van Masbergen (80), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Elina Been (83), Peize

• 1975 » Elijah Williams, American football player and coach
• 1975 » Marcin Adamski, Polish footballer and manager
• 1975 » Marko Martin, Estonian pianist and educator
• 1975 » Shaun Newton, English footballer
• 1976 » Chris Drury, American ice hockey player
• 1976 » Cornel Frăsineanu, Romanian footballer
• 1976 » Fabio Ulloa, Honduran footballer
• 1976 » Kristen Miller, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Marcel Podszus, German footballer
• 1976 » Tony Grant, Irish footballer

• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1982 » Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, German admiral (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian-Polish basketball player and coach (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.
• January 15 » Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
• July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
• July 10 » Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
• September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
• October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
• 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 20, 1976 was between 13.4 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.