1976 (MCMLXXVI ) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium , the 76th year of the 20th century , and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.
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Clockwise from top-left: the Argentine coup d'état overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina; VHS is released; an earthquake in Guatemala killed 23,000 people; a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa under apartheid takes place; the United States celebrates its bicentennial ; a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the IDF at Entebbe Airport in Uganda takes place; the 1976 Summer Olympics are held in Montreal , Quebec ; an earthquake hits Tangshan killing 242,769 people.
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April
April 1
April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man , representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me .
April 5
April 13
April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth , the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
April 19 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas , injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.[9] [10]
April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne : Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
April 25 – Portugal's new constitution is enacted.
April 29 – Sino-Soviet split : A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.[11] The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.[11]
May
May 1 – Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales .
May 4
The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
A train crash in Schiedam , the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
May 6 – An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
May 11
May 13 – The Atari video arcade game Breakout is released.
May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in four games to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey. Flyers forward Reggie Leach became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
May 21 – The Yuba City bus disaster , the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
May 24
Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
May 25 – U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky , Tennessee and Oregon .
May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi) .
May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization , which it has previously supported.
June
June 1 – The United Kingdom and Iceland end the Third Cod War , with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
June 2
June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association Finals at the Boston Garden . In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.
June 6 – The Double Six Crash , a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu , Malaysia , kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens .
June 12 – Alberto Demicheli , a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay after Juan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa , spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan .
June 14 – The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court in England of Donald Neilson , the multiple killer known as the Black Panther. He will be convicted and serve the remainder of his life in prison.
June 16 – The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.
June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA–NBA merger .
June 20
Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
General elections are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus , Radom , Płock ) after communists raise food prices ; they end on June 30 .
June 26 – The CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
June 27
June 28 – Inauguration of the north lane of the Rodovia dos Imigrantes .
June 29
July
Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.
July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam .
July 3
July 4
July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland .
July 7
German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin .
David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe .
July 10
Four mercenaries , three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola , following the Luanda Trial .
Seveso disaster : An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
July 12 – In the United States:
July 15
July 16 –20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice , France.
July 17
July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
July 20
July 21 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs , new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford .
July 27
July 28 – The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan , China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam " pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
July 30
July 31
August
Tsunami damage at barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao
August 1
August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas . T. Cullen Davis , Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
August 5 – The clock of "Big Ben " at the Palace of Westminster in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
August 7 – Viking program : Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars .
August 8 – As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger , a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.[16]
August 14
August 17 – The 8.0 M w Moro Gulf earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao , Philippines , triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.[17]
August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea , two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City .
August 24 – In Uruguay , the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
August 25
August 26
August 30 – James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands .
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February
Isla Fisher
Tony Jaa
Abhishek Bachchan
Charlie Day
Kelly Macdonald
Rashida Jones
February 1
February 2
February 3
February 4 – Cam'ron , African-American rapper
February 5
February 6 – Kim Zmeskal , American gymnast
February 9 – Charlie Day , American actor
February 10 – Lance Berkman , American baseball player
February 11 – Brice Beckham , American actor
February 12 – Silvia Saint , Czech actress
February 14 – Erica Leerhsen , American actress
February 15 – Brandon Boyd , American singer-songwriter and author
February 16
February 17 – Svein Berge , Norwegian musician (Röyksopp )
February 18 – Chanda Rubin , American tennis player[33]
February 20
February 21 – Michael McIntyre , British stand-up comedian
February 23
February 24 – Zach Johnson , American golfer
February 25 – Rashida Jones , American actress, writer, model and musician
February 27 – Sergei Semak , Russian football player and coach[34]
February 28
February 29
March
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Danny Masterson
Rachael MacFarlane
Reese Witherspoon
Peyton Manning
Wladimir Klitschko
Ayako Kawasumi
Vice Ganda
March 3
March 5 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Lithuanian basketball player
March 6 – Ken Anderson , American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
March 8
March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi , Argentinean model
March 10 – Miroslav Kostadinov , Bulgarian singer and songwriter
March 12 – Zhao Wei , Chinese singer and actress
March 13 – Danny Masterson , American actor
March 14 – Merlin Santana , American actor (d. 2002 )
March 16
March 17
March 18
March 19
March 20 – Chester Bennington , American singer (Linkin Park ) (d. 2017 )
March 21 – Rachael MacFarlane , American actress and singer, sister of Seth MacFarlane
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 26 – Amy Smart , American actress
March 27
March 29 – Jennifer Capriati , American tennis player[40]
March 30
April
David Oyelowo
Candace Cameron Bure
Melissa Joan Hart
Joey Lawrence
Sally Hawkins
April 1
April 2
April 3 – Will Mellor , English actor
April 4
April 5
April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure , American actress
April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen , Norwegian singer (d. 2006 )
April 12 – Andrei Lipanov , Russian ice skater
April 13
April 14 – Anna DeForge , American basketball player
April 15
April 16
April 18
April 19
April 20
April 21 – Rommel Adducul , Filipino basketball player
April 22 – Michał Żewłakow , Polish footballer
April 23 – Darren Huckerby , English footballer
April 25
April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu , Estonian actress
April 27 – Sally Hawkins , English actress
April 28 – Joseph N'Do , Cameroonian international footballer [45]
May
Anza
Michele Frangilli
Anže Logar
Ana Paula Valadão
Cillian Murphy
Colin Farrell
May 1
May 3
May 4 – Anza , Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical
May 5 – Juan Pablo Sorín , Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster[46]
May 7 – Michael P. Murphy , U.S. Navy SEAL, First recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Afghanistan War (d. 2005 )
May 8 – Martha Wainwright , Canadian-American folk-pop singer
May 10
May 14 – Martine McCutcheon , British actress and singer
May 15
May 17 – Mayte Martínez , Spanish athlete[47]
May 20 – Ramón Hernández , Venezuelan baseball player
May 23 – Ricardinho , Brazilian football player and coach[48]
May 25
May 26 – Paul Collingwood , English cricketer
May 28
May 31
June
'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
Alexei Navalny
Emilie-Claire Barlow
Lindsay Davenport
Blake Shelton
Ryan Hurst
Juliano Belletti
June 2
June 3 – Jamie McMurray , American race car driver
June 4
June 5
June 6
June 7
June 8 – Lindsay Davenport , American tennis player
June 10
June 12 – Thomas Sørensen , Danish football goalkeeper
June 13
June 14
June 16 – Tom Lenk , American actor
June 17
June 18
June 19 – Ryan Hurst , American actor
June 20 – Juliano Belletti , Brazilian footballer
June 21 – Antonio Cochran , American football player
June 22 – Mike O'Brien , American actor, writer and comedian
June 23
June 25 – Maurren Maggi , Brazilian athlete and politician[55]
June 26
June 27 – Joseph Sikora , American actor
June 28
June 29
June 30
September
Naomie Harris
Alison Sweeney
Jon Bernthal
Emma de Caunes
Ronaldo
September 1
September 3
September 4 – Brian Myrow , American baseball player
September 5 – Carice van Houten , Dutch actress
September 6
September 7 – Stevie Case , American video game celebrity
September 8 – Sjeng Schalken , Dutch tennis player
September 9
September 10 – Gustavo Kuerten , Brazilian tennis player
September 11 – Marco Rose , German football player and coach[76]
September 12 – Maciej Żurawski , Polish footballer
September 13 – Puma Swede , Swedish pornographic actress
September 15 – Rob Wiethoff , American actor
September 16 – Tina Barrett , English singer (S Club 7 )
September 17 – Nicole Reinhart , American track and road racing cyclist (d. 2000 )
September 18 – Ronaldo , Brazilian footballer
September 19
September 20
September 23 – Rob James-Collier , British actor and model
September 24 – Stephanie McMahon-Levesque , American professional wrestling promoter
September 25
September 26
September 27 – Francesco Totti , Italian footballer
September 28 – Fedor Emelianenko , Russian mixed martial arts fighter
September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian footballer
October
Seann William Scott
Alicia Silverstone
Ramzan Kadyrov
Emily Deschanel
Andrew Scott
Ryan Reynolds
Piper Perabo
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi , Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d. 2022 )
October 1 – Danielle Bisutti , American actress and singer
October 2 – Anita Kulcsár , Hungarian handball player (d. 2005 )
October 3 – Seann William Scott , American actor and producer
October 4
October 5 – Ramzan Kadyrov , Head of the Chechen Republic
October 6
October 7
October 9
October 10
October 11 – Emily Deschanel , American actress
October 12 – Kajsa Bergqvist , Swedish high jumper[77]
October 14 – Chang Chen , Taiwanese actor
October 15 – Yoon Son-ha , South Korean actress
October 18 – Galder , Norwegian musician
October 19
October 20
Dan Fogler , American actor, comedian and writer
Plamen Goranov , Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d. 2013 )
October 21
October 23
October 25
October 26
October 29
October 31
November
Chad Lindberg
Sebastian Arcelus
Jack Dorsey
Jaleel White
Chadwick Boseman
Anna Faris
November 1
November 2 – Thierry Omeyer , French handball goalkeeper
November 5
November 6
November 7 – Mark Philippoussis , Australian tennis player
November 8 – Brett Lee , Australian cricketer
November 9
November 11 – Mike Leon Grosch , German singer
November 12
November 13 – Janine Leal , Venezuelan nutritionist, television presenter and model.[80]
November 14 – František Čermák , Czech tennis player
November 15 – Virginie Ledoyen , French actress[81]
November 17 – Diane Neal , American actress
November 18 – Shagrath , Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir )
November 19
November 20
November 22
November 24
November 25
November 26 – Maia Campbell , American actress and singer
November 27 – Jaleel White , African-American actor
November 28 – Ryan Kwanten , Australian actor and comedian
November 29
December
Zoe Konstantopoulou
Armin van Buuren
Danny McBride
December 1
December 3
December 4 – Amie Comeaux , American country music singer (d. 1997 )
December 5
December 6 – Alicia Machado , Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Universe 1996
December 7
December 8
December 13
December 14 – Leland Chapman , American bail bondsman
December 17
December 18
December 21 – Mirela Maniani , Greek javelin thrower
December 23
December 24 – Ángel Matos , Cuban taekwondo athlete
December 25
December 26
December 27 – Fernando Pisani , Canadian ice-hockey player
December 28 – Joe Manganiello , American actor
December 29 – Danny McBride , American actor, comedian and writer
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January
Zhou Enlai
Dame Agatha Christie
Paul Robeson
January 3 – John Ainsworth-Davis , Welsh surgeon and athlete (b. 1895 )
January 5
January 8 – Zhou Enlai , 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898 )
January 10 – Howlin' Wolf , American blues singer (b. 1910 )
January 12 – Agatha Christie , English detective fiction writer (b. 1890 )[85]
January 13 – Margaret Leighton , English actress (b. 1922 )
January 14
January 15 – Gengo Hyakutake , Japanese admiral (b. 1882 )
January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886 )
January 22 – Hermann Jónasson , Icelandic politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1896 )
January 23 – Paul Robeson , American actor, singer, writer and activist (b. 1898 )
January 24 – Emil Bodnăraș , Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (b. 1904 )
January 26 – Gabriele Allegra , Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1907 )
January 29 – Jesse Fuller , American one-man band musician (b. 1896 )
January 31 – Ernesto Miranda , American criminal and namesake of the Miranda right (b. 1941 )
February
Sal Mineo
Florence Ballard
February 1
February 4 – Roger Livesey , Welsh actor (b. 1906 )
February 6 – Ritwik Ghatak , Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b. 1925 )
February 9 – Percy Faith , Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (b. 1908 )
February 11
February 12 – Sal Mineo , American actor (b. 1939 )
February 13
February 17 – Jean Servais , Belgian actor (b. 1910 )
February 20
February 22 – Florence Ballard , American singer (The Supremes ) (b. 1943 )
February 23 – L. S. Lowry , British artist (b. 1887 )
February 26 – Frieda Inescort , Scottish-born actress (b. 1901 )
March
Luchino Visconti
March 4 – Walter H. Schottky , German physicist (b. 1886 )
March 5 – Otto Tief , Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889 )
March 6 – Maxie Rosenbloom , American boxer and actor (b. 1907 )
March 8 – Alfons Rebane , Estonian military commander (b. 1908 )
March 10 – Haddon Sundblom , Swedish illustrator and American artist (b. 1899 )
March 14 – Busby Berkeley , American choreographer and director (b. 1895 )
March 17 – Luchino Visconti , Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906 )
March 19 – Paul Kossoff , British rock guitarist (Free ) (b. 1950 )
March 24
March 25 – Josef Albers , German-American artist (b. 1888 )
March 28 – Richard Arlen , American actor (b. 1899 )
March 31 – Paul Strand , American photographer (b. 1890 )
April
Max Ernst
Howard Hughes
April 1
April 4 – Harry Nyquist , American information theory pioneer (b. 1889 )
April 5 – Howard Hughes , American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b. 1905 )
April 8 – Renato Petronio , Italian rower (b. 1891 )
April 9 – Phil Ochs , American singer-songwriter (b. 1940 )
April 12 – Miriam Cooper , American actress (b. 1891 )
April 13 – Sabri al-Asali , Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1903 )
April 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez , Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (b. 1891 )
April 17 – Henrik Dam , Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895 )
April 25
April 26 – Andrei Grechko , Soviet general, Minister of Defence (b. 1903 )
May
Hugo Wieslander
May 9
May 11 – Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect (b. 1898 )
May 12 – Keith Relf , British rock musician (The Yardbirds ) (b. 1943 )
May 15 – Samuel Eliot Morison , American historian (b. 1887 )[87]
May 24 – Hugo Wieslander , Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1889 )
May 26
May 27 – Ruth McDevitt , American actress (b. 1895 )
May 28 – Zainul Abedin , Bangladeshi painter (b. 1914 )
May 30 – Mitsuo Fuchida , Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist (b. 1902 )
May 31 – Jacques Monod , French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1910 )
June
J. Paul Getty
Dame Sybil Thorndike
June 2
June 5 – Robert Wichard Pohl , German physicist (b. 1884 )
June 6
June 7
June 9 – Dame Sybil Thorndike , British actress (b. 1882 )
June 10 – Adolph Zukor , Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873 )
June 11 – Toots Mondt , American WWF promoter (b. 1894 )
June 12 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ , 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b. 1908 )
June 15 – Jimmy Dykes , American baseball player and manager (b. 1896 )[88]
June 16 – Hector Pieterson , South African activist (b. 1963 )
June 17 – Richard Casey , Australian statesman and diplomat (b. 1890 )
June 24 – Imogen Cunningham , American photographer (b. 1883 )
June 27 – C. Wade McClusky , United States Navy admiral (b. 1902 )
June 28 – Stanley Baker , Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1928 )
June 30 – Firpo Marberry , American baseball pitcher (b. 1898 )[89]
July
Joachim Peiper
Mickey Cohen
July 1
July 4 – Yonatan Netanyahu , Israeli commando leader (b. 1946 )
July 6 – Zhu De , Head of State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886 )
July 7
July 11 – León de Greiff , Colombian poet (b. 1895 )
July 12 – James Wong Howe , American cinematographer (b. 1899 )
July 14 – Joachim Peiper , German military leader (b. 1915 )
July 15 – Paul Gallico , American novelist, short story and sports writer (b. 1897 )[90]
July 16 – Wilhelmina von Bremen , American sprint runner (b. 1909 )
July 22 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler , British archaeologist (b. 1890 )
July 23 – Basil Hopko , Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b. 1904 )
July 24 – Afro Basaldella , Italian painter (b. 1912 )
July 28
July 29 – Mickey Cohen , American gangster (b. 1913 )
July 30 – Rudolf Bultmann , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1884 )
August
Fritz Lang
August 2 – Fritz Lang , Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890 )
August 4 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet , Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor (b. 1894 )[92]
August 6
August 9 – José Lezama Lima , Cuban writer and poet (b. 1910 )
August 10 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , German painter (b. 1884 )
August 11 – Omer Poos , American jurist and United States district judge from 1958 to 1976 (b. 1902 )
August 12 – Tom Driberg , British politician/journalist (b. 1905 )[94]
August 22 – Juscelino Kubitschek , 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902 )
August 25 – Eyvind Johnson , Swedish novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1900 )
August 26 – Lotte Lehmann , German soprano (b. 1888 )
August 28 – Anissa Jones , American actress and student (b. 1958 )
August 29
September
Mao Zedong
September 5 – Arthur Gilligan , English cricketer (b. 1894 )
September 9 – Mao Zedong , Chinese revolutionary and political theorist, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1893 )
September 10 – Dalton Trumbo , American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905 )[95]
September 13 – Camilo Ponce Enríquez , Ecuadorian political figure, 30th President of Ecuador (b. 1912 )
September 14 – Prince Paul of Yugoslavia , (b. 1893 )
September 15 – Josef Sudek , Czech photographer (b. 1896 )
September 16 – Bertha Lutz , Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist (b. 1894 )
September 19
September 21 – Orlando Letelier , Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1932 )
September 26 – Leopold Ružička , Yugoslav chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887 )
September 28 – Raymond Collishaw , Canadian World War I fighter ace (b. 1893 )
November
Rosalind Russell
November 3 – Solange d'Ayen , French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (b. 1898 )[98]
November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm , German tennis player (b. 1909 )
November 9 – Armas Taipale , Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1890 )
November 11 – Alexander Calder , American sculptor (b. 1898 )
November 12 – Walter Piston , American composer (b. 1894 )[99]
November 15 – Jean Gabin , French actor (b. 1904 )
November 18 – Man Ray , American artist (b. 1890 )
November 20 – Trofim Lysenko , Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin (b. 1898 )
November 23 – André Malraux , French novelist (b. 1901 )[100]
November 28 – Rosalind Russell , American actress (b. 1907 )
November 29 – Godfrey Cambridge , American comedian and actor (b. 1933 )
November 30 – Ivan Yakubovsky , Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1912 )
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