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• Emily Wynn, Birmingham, Alabama, Verenigde Staten († 1976)
• Martha Maria Baak, Den Haag, Nederland († 2020)
• Kathleen Nijssen († 1976)

• Albertus Beekhuis (49), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elje Kor (81)
• Anna Gijsbertha Luijten (78)
• Aaltje Kuijer (91)
• Emily Wynn (0), Birmingham, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Winter (73), Oak Lawn,, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• (Renee) Irene May Boobyer (73), Rotorua, Rotorua District, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand
• Albert Mulderij (86), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adam (2) Fievet (71), Breda
• Albert Mulderij (86), Apeldoorn

• 1975 » Mahesh Babu, Indian actor and producer
• 1975 » Mike Lamb, American baseball player
• 1975 » Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
• 1975 » Valentin Kovalenko, Uzbek football referee
• 1976 » Audrey Tautou, French model and actress
• 1976 » Jessica Capshaw, American actress
• 1976 » Rhona Mitra, English actress and singer
• 1977 » Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
• 1977 » Jason Frasor, American baseball player
• 1977 » Ravshan Irmatov, Uzbek football referee

• 1969 » Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943)
• 1969 » Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936)
• 1972 » Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1975 » Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (b. 1953)
• 1979 » Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (b. 1904)

• 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.
• February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
• April 11 » The Apple I is created.
• 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 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
• September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
• October 6 » Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.

The temperature on August 9, 1976 was between 13.2 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 20.0 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.