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• Antonio (Tony) OVERHOFF, (SAMOA) († 2021)
• Lance Jason Reisma, Sioux Center-Iowa (USA) († 2020)
• Kristopher Jack Richter, Sheldon, Iowa († 1994)
• Nicholas Christopher BURGESS, Cuckfield, Haywards Heath, Sussex († 1976)
• Jessica Tot, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland

• Anny Janssen (75)
• Cornelia Pieternella van de Ruit (54), Leidschendam
• Cleo Darrell HEINRICHS (63), Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, United States Of America
• Aaltje de Vries (82), -
• Bernardus Lambertus Arrnoldus Lourens (81), Emmen
• Ross (16), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Lambertus Lourens (81), Emmen
• Anna Maria Adriana Kessen (56), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• adriaan ROLAND HOLST (88), bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Roland Holst (88), Bergen

• 1975 » Jason Crump, English-Australian motorcycle racer
• 1975 » Renate Götschl, Austrian skier
• 1975 » Víctor Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1976 » Adam Ritson, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 » Melissa George, Australian-American actress
• 1976 » Shaun Timmins, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 » Soleil Moon Frye, American actress and producer
• 1977 » Jimmy Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1977 » Leandro Amaral, Brazilian footballer
• 1977 » Rebecca Maddern, Australian journalist and television host

• 1969 » Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Nikos Tsiforos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1973 » Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-American cellist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1978 » Edward Durell Stone, American architect, designed Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1983 » Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 » Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)

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 5 » The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.
• February 6 » In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
• March 4 » The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
• May 21 » Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
• October 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
• December 2 » Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

The temperature on August 6, 1976 was between 11.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.