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• Maria Eveline van den Pol, Amersfoort
• Bart Flinterman, Soest († 2005)
• Audrey Hendriks, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Anna Catharina Klinkert (79), Benningbroek, Sijbekarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Augusta Maria Zeebregts (74), Eindhoven (Eindhoven) (Noord-Brabant)
• Arnoldus Jacobus Geutjes (72), Tolkamer, Nederland
• Carl William Harrelson (55), South Carolina
• Cornelia Johanna Demandt (67), Urmond, Limburg, Nederland
• Aliye Melek Nazliyar (83), Ankara
• Barbara Christina van der Kroft (73), Berkel en Rodenrijs, Nederland
• Alphonse Jozef Maria Sterneberg (74)
• anna Van Laere (68), gent, België
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Bardie (65), Trier (Dld)

• 1974 » Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian-Monégasque tennis player
• 1975 » Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
• 1975 » John Grahame, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1976 » Radek Martínek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 » Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1976 » Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1977 » Arzu Yanardağ, Turkish actress and model
• 1977 » Craig Nicholls, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 » Ian Harte, Irish footballer
• 1977 » Jeff Hardy, American wrestler and singer

• 1967 » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author (b. 1891)
• 1968 » John Hartle, English motorcycle racer (b. 1933)
• 1969 » Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
• 1973 » John Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
• 1974 » William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1886)
• 1984 » Audrey Wagner, American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist (b. 1927)

• 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.
• June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
• July 17 » East Timor is annexed, and becomes the 27th province of Indonesia.
• July 18 » Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• July 25 » Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
• October 22 » Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.

The temperature on August 31, 1976 was between 9.0 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.