About the day » Tuesday August 24, 1976Calender converter

• Mark Kaandorp († 1978)
• Mark Kaandorp († 1978)
• Walter Charles Pieper III, Iceland († 1978)
• Birgitte Huybregts, Gilze Rijen († 1988)

• Aaltje van der Wetering (79), Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Albert Pol (79), Winschoten
• Charlotte Karoline Bernhardine Meyerink (66), Brunssum Limburg Nederland
• Ebele De Vos (84), Enschede
• Cornelis Hoebe (98), Schagen (gem. Schagen, NH)
• Aaltje Wolters van de Wetering (82), Kampereiland, Overijssel Netherlands
• Anna Berendina Voortman (75), Rijssen, Overijssel, Nederland
• * Pieter Joseph (Zef) Creusen (81), Tilburg
• Cyriel Walleghem (89), Zarren
• Edward Haga (84), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1975 » Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
• 1975 » Roberto Colombo, Italian footballer
• 1976 » Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor, writer, director, and producer
• 1976 » Funke Akindele, Nigerian actress
• 1976 » Nordin Wooter, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
• 1976 » Simon Dennis, English rower and academic
• 1977 » Denílson de Oliveira Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » John Green, American author and vlogger
• 1977 » Per Gade, Danish footballer
• 1977 » Robert Enke, German footballer († 2009)

• 1967 » Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Patrick
7. David
8. Peter
9. Robert
10. Michael
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. Saskia
11. Jennifer
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 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
• 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 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
• May 6 » The 6.5 M_w  Friuli earthquake affected Northern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 900–978 dead and 1,700–2,400 injured.
• 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 7 » Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

The temperature on August 24, 1976 was between 9.8 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.