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.

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.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1976 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1976
MCMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2729
Armenian calendar1425
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6726
Baháʼí calendar132–133
Balinese saka calendar1897–1898
Bengali calendar1383
Berber calendar2926
British Regnal year24 Eliz. 2 – 25 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2520
Burmese calendar1338
Byzantine calendar7484–7485
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4673 or 4466
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4674 or 4467
Coptic calendar1692–1693
Discordian calendar3142
Ethiopian calendar1968–1969
Hebrew calendar5736–5737
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2032–2033
 - Shaka Samvat1897–1898
 - Kali Yuga5076–5077
Holocene calendar11976
Igbo calendar976–977
Iranian calendar1354–1355
Islamic calendar1395–1397
Japanese calendarShōwa 51
(昭和51年)
Javanese calendar1907–1908
Juche calendar65
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4309
Minguo calendarROC 65
民國65年
Nanakshahi calendar508
Thai solar calendar2519
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2102 or 1721 or 949
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
2103 or 1722 or 950
Unix time189302400 – 220924799

Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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June

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July

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Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.

August

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Tsunami damage at barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao

September

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October

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October 4: The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.

November

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December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Paz Vega
 
Johnny Yong Bosch
 
Michael Peña
 
Emma Bunton

February

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Isla Fisher
 
Tony Jaa
 
Abhishek Bachchan
 
Charlie Day
 
Kelly Macdonald
 
Rashida Jones

March

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Freddie Prinze Jr.
 
Danny Masterson
 
Rachael MacFarlane
 
Reese Witherspoon
 
Peyton Manning
 
Wladimir Klitschko
 
Ayako Kawasumi
 
Vice Ganda

April

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David Oyelowo
 
Candace Cameron Bure
 
Melissa Joan Hart
 
Joey Lawrence
 
Sally Hawkins
 
Anza
 
Michele Frangilli
 
Anže Logar
 
Ana Paula Valadão
 
Cillian Murphy
 
Colin Farrell

June

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'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
 
Alexei Navalny
 
Emilie-Claire Barlow
 
Lindsay Davenport
 
Blake Shelton
 
Ryan Hurst
 
Juliano Belletti

July

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Gino D'Acampo
 
Bérénice Bejo
 
Adrian Grenier
 
Diane Kruger
 
Gabriel Iglesias
 
Luke Bryan
 
Benedict Cumberbatch

August

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Iván Duque
 
Sam Worthington
 
Alexander Skarsgård
 
Alex O'Loughlin
 
Sarah Chalke

September

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Naomie Harris
 
Alison Sweeney
 
Jon Bernthal
 
Emma de Caunes
 
Ronaldo

October

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Seann William Scott
 
Alicia Silverstone
 
Ramzan Kadyrov
 
Emily Deschanel
 
Andrew Scott
 
Ryan Reynolds
 
Piper Perabo

November

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Chad Lindberg
 
Sebastian Arcelus
 
Jack Dorsey
 
Jaleel White
 
Chadwick Boseman
 
Anna Faris

December

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Zoe Konstantopoulou
 
Armin van Buuren
 
Danny McBride

Date unknown

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Deaths

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Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Zhou Enlai
 
Dame Agatha Christie
 
Paul Robeson

February

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Sal Mineo
 
Florence Ballard

March

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Luchino Visconti

April

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Max Ernst
 
Howard Hughes
 
Hugo Wieslander

June

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J. Paul Getty
 
Dame Sybil Thorndike

July

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Joachim Peiper
 
Mickey Cohen

August

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Fritz Lang

September

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Mao Zedong

October

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Barbara Nichols

November

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Rosalind Russell

December

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Benjamin Britten
 
João Goulart

Nobel Prizes

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