The broadcasting of The Muppet Show by the British ITV kickstarts its success in its native USA.
In the year 1976, the first commercial Concorde flight takes off (Jan 21), Apple Computer Company is formed (Apr 1), the Soweto uprising in South Africa begins (Jun 16), the United States celebrates its Bicentennial, and in Uganda, the Entebbe Raid occurs (Jul 4), the Viking 1 Lander successfully lands on Mars (Jul 20), NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo (Jul 31), Trinidad and Tobago gains independence (Aug 1), the first outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in Zaire (Aug 26), the Muppet Show is broadcast for the first time in Britain (Sep 13), Hotel California by the Eagles is released (Dec 8) - and all these fine people were born:
1976-0101 Latasha Harlins* fatally shot high school student - East St. Louis, IL USA (1991/15)
1976-0103 Anna Granath* television host/actress - Helsingborg, Sweden
1976-0106 Daniel Tynell* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Grycksbo, Sweden
1976-0113 Toni Kohonen* baseball player/coach - Kitee, Finland
1976-0118 Yevgeni Pupkov* hockey player - Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union (2021/45)
1976-0120
1976-0121 Amin Asikainen* boxer - Kirkkonummi, Finland
1976-0121 Lars Eidinger* actor - Berlin, West Germany
1976-0123 Anne Margrethe Hausken* orienteer/WG - Haugesund, Norway
1976-0125
1976-0127 Clint Ford* screenwriter/ actor/novelist - Fort Worth, TX USA
1976-0130 Andy Milonakis* actor/ rapper//streamer - Katonah, NY USA
1976-0201 Katrín Jakobsdóttir* editor/politician/PM - Reykjavik, Iceland
1976-0203 Tim Heidecker* comedian/ director/musician - Allentown, PA USA
1976-0211 André Wickström* stand-up comedian/actor - Sipoo, Finland
1976-0215 Brandon Boyd* singer/ musician/visual artist - Van Nuys, CA USA
1976-0216 Tuomas Sammelvuo* volleyball player/coach - Pudasjärvi, Finland
1976-0218 Chanda Rubin* tennis player/commentator - Lafayette, LA USA
1976-0220 João Vieira* racewalker - Portimão, Portugal
1976-0221 Michael McIntyre* stand-up comedian/ TV presenter - Merton, London, England
1976-0223 Kelly Macdonald* actress - Glasgow, Scotland
1976-0224 Yuval Noah Harari* author - Kiryat Ata, Israel
1976-0224 Jan Koum* Ukrainian-American computer engineer/co-founder of WhatsApp/to U.S. at age 16 - Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1976-0225
1976-0228 Matti Keskinarkaus* ski-orienteering/ WG/commercial pilot - Rovaniemi, Finland
1976-0228 Ali Larter* actress - Cherry Hill, NJ USA
1976-0301
1976-0303 Megan Everett* film producer/m to Stellan Skarsgård - OH USA
1976-0310 Barbara Schett* tennis player/commentator/presenter - Innsbruck, Austria
1976-0314 Daniel Gillies* New Zealander actor/director/producer - Winnipeg, MB Canada
1976-0317 Jethro Rostedt* businessman/politician/television personality - Turku, Finland
1976-0320
1976-0321 Riku Koivunen* hockey player/equipment manager/OG- Espoo, Finland
1976-0321 Takuma Otoo* 音尾琢真 actor - Hokkaido, Japan - IMDb
1976-0322 Reese Witherspoon* actress - New Orleans, LA USA
1976-0323 Michelle Monaghan* actress - Winthrop, IA USA
1976-0323 Keri Russell* actress - Fountain Valley, CA USA
1976-0324 Peyton Manning* Am. football quarterback - New Orleans, LA USA
1976-0325 Wladimir Klitschko* Ukrainian boxer/OG– Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union
1976-0325 Domenick Lombardozzi* actor - The Bronx, NY USA
1976-0326 Amy Smart* actress - Topanga Canyon, CA USA
1976-0329 Jennifer Capriati* tennis player - Wesley Chapel, FL USA
1976-0401 David Oyelowo* actor/ producer - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
1976-0402 Samu Haber* singer/songwriter/ entrepreneur - Helsinki, Finland
1976-0410
1976-0416 Lukas Haas* actor/ musician - Hollywood, CA USA
1976-0416 David Lyons* actor - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1976-0417
1976-0418 Rodrigo de la Serna* actor (La casa de papel) - Buenos Aires, Argentina
1976-0418 Sean Maguire* British-American actor/singer - Ilford, Essex, England
1976-0420
1976-0427 Sally Hawkins* actress - Dulwich, London, England
1976-0429 Stephanie Aeffner* social worker/politician - Donaueschingen, West Germany (2025/48)
1976-0430
1976-0501 Anna Olsson* (b Dahlberg) cross-country skier/OGr - Kramfors, Sweden
1976-0505 Sage Stallone* actor/film director - Los Angeles, CA USA (2012/36)
1976-0507
1976-0508 Martha Wainwright* singer-songwriter/actress - Montreal, QC Canada
1976-0510
1976-0517 Daniel Komen* athlete/runner - Mwen, Kenya
1976-0520 Virpi Sarasvuo* (b Kuitunen) cross-country skier/WC/OB - Kangasniemi, Finland
1976-0524 Synnøve Macody Lund* journalist/ film critic/actress - Stord, Norway
1976-0525 Cillian Murphy* actor - Douglas, Cork, Ireland
1976-0525 Ethan Suplee* actor - Manhattan, NY USA
1976-0528 Krisse Salminen* stand-up comedian - Hollola, Finland
1976-0530 Magnus Norman* tennis player/entrepreneur - Filipstad, Sweden
1976-0531 Colin Farrell* actor - Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
1976-0604 Alexei Navalny*lawyer/ political activist - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
1976-0606 Jonathan Nolan* screenwriter/ director/ producer - London, England
1976-0606 Hamza Yerlikaya* wrestler/OG - Kadiköy, Istanbul, Turkey
1976-0607
1976-0608 Eion Bailey* actor - Santa Monica, CA USA
1976-0608 Lindsay Davenport* tennis player/OG/coach - Palos Verdes, CA USA
1976-0612 Katja Husen* German biologist/politician - Istanbul, Turkey (2022/46)
1976-0618 Maxim Galkin* singer/ stand-up comedian/m to Alla Pugacheva - Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1976-0619 Jussi Salonoja* heir/entrepreneur/investor - Kauniainen, Finland
1976-0623 Emmanuelle Vaugier* actress - Vancouver, BC Canada
1976-0630 Bashir Salahuddin* actor/ comedian/writer - Chicago, IL USA
1976-0701
1976-0702 Tomas Vokoun* hockey goalie - Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
1976-0710 Adrian Grenier* actor/ director/musician - Santa Fe, NM USA
1976-0713 Lisa Riley* actress (Emmerdale) - Bury, Greater Manchester, England
1976-0713 Oleg Sentsov* filmmaker/writer - Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1976-0720
1976-0721 Jalmari Helander* screenwriter/ film director - Helsinki, Finland
1976-0721 Claire Williams* motorsport executive - Windsor, Berkshire, England
1976-0724 Toni Piispanen* karateka/wheelchair rugby/paralympic athlete (wheelchair racer)/OG - Finland
1976-0725 Mike Holloway* oil driller/Survivor S30 Contestant - Odessa, TX USA
1976-0730 Ville Niinistö* politician - Turku, Finland
1976-0731
1976-0801
1976-0802 Sam Worthington* Australian actor/writer/to Australia as infant - Godalming, Surrey, England
1976-0805
1976-0808 Milauna Jackson* actress - Chicago, IL USA
1976-0809 Audrey Tautou* actress - Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme France
1976-0810
1976-0815 Abiy Ahmed* politician/PM/N - Beshasha, Ethiopia
1976-0816 Whitney Dylan* actress - Memphis, TN USA
1976-0818 Michael Greis* biathlete - Füssen, West Germany
1976-0823 Margaret Good* attorney (Ted Bundy trial)/politician - Georgia USA
1976-0825 Pedro Feliciano* baseball pitcher - Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (2021/45)
1976-0825 Alexander Skarsgård* actor - Stockholm, Sweden
1976-0826 Mike Colter* actor (Luke Cage) - Columbia, SC USA
1976-0827 Sarah Chalke* fashion model/actress/w German mother - Ottawa, ON Canada
1976-0827 Mark Webber* racing driver - Queanbeyan, NSW Australia
1976-0828 Clare Mackintosh* police officer/author - Bristol. England
1976-0831
1976-0901
1976-0905 Claire Hooper* stand-up comedian/ television and radio presenter/writer - Perth, WA Australia
1976-0906 Naomie Harris* actress - London, England
1976-0910 Linus Wahlgren* actor/ brother of Pernilla Wahlgren - Värmdö, Sweden
1976-0911 Masih Alinejad* Iranian-American journalist/author/women’s rights activist - Qomi Kola, Babol, Imperial State of Iran - opIndia
1976-0919 Oskar Svärd* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet) - Tvärred, Sweden
1976-0920 Jon Bernthal* actor - Washington, D.C. USA
1976-0923 Sanna-Leena Perunka* biathlete/color commentator - Rovaniemi, Finland
1976-0925 Patti Kim* journalist/ actress/filmmaker - Calgary, AB Canada
1976-0929 Andriy Shevchenko* football player/manager/politician - Dvirkivshchyna, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1976-0930
1976-1001 Danielle Bisutti* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1976-1004 Alicia Silverstone* actress/ environmental activist - San Francisco, CA USA
1976-1005
1976-1006 Barbie Hsu* 徐熙媛 actress/singer/television host - Taipei, Taiwan (2025/48)
1976-1007 Pekka Kuusisto* violinist/composer - Espoo, Finland
1976-1010
1976-1011 Emily Deschanel* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1976-1012 Kajsa Bergqvist* athlete/ high jump/OB - Sollentuna, Sweden
1976-1012 Simon Bridges* lawyer/politician - Auckland, New Zealand
1976-1019 Breaux Greer* athlete/ javelin - Houston, TX USA
1976-1021 Jani Mäkelä* politician - Joutseno, Finland
1976-1022
1976-1023 Cat Deeley* TV-host - Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England
1976-1023 Ryan Reynolds* actor/film producer/screenwriter - Vancouver, BC Canada
1976-1024 Taina Kolkkala* athlete/javelin/WJC/ police officer - Pori, Finland
1976-1025 Jarkko Saapunki* ski jumping coach - Oulu, Finland
1976-1026 Miikka** Kiprusoff*** hockey goalie - Turku, Finland
1976-1028 Luka Peroš* actor (La casa de papel) - Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
1976-1029 Hannes Veide* ultrarunner - Tartu, Estonia, Soviet Union
1976-1031
1976-1101 Logan Marshall-Green* actor/ director - Charleston, SC USA
1976-1102 Matt Cullen* hockey player/SC - Virginia, MN USA
1976-1117 Jacqueline Aguilera* Miss World 1995/model agency owner - Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
1976-1118 Ellen Jokikunnas* model/ television host - Janakkala, Finland
1976-1122 Ville Valo* singer/ musician - Helsinki, Finland
1976-1123 Cuneyt Cakir* football referee - Izmir, Anatolia, Turkey
1976-1124 Teemu Brunila* singer/ songwriter/producer - Turku, Finland
1976-1129 Chadwick Boseman* actor/ playwright/philanthropist - Anderson, SC USA (2020/43)
1976-1129 Anna Easteden* (b Shemeikka) Finnish American model/actress - Tohmajärvi, Finland
1976-1129 Julian Ovenden* actor/ singer - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
1976-1201 Konerak Sinthasomphone* Laotian-American victim of Jeffrey Dahmer - Laos (1981/14)
1976-1204 Joshua Waitzkin* chess player/martial arts competitor/ author - New York City, NY USA
1976-1207 Brent Johnson* Am. football player - Kingston, ON Canada
1976-1208 Dominic Monaghan* English actor/outdoors filmmaker - Berlin, West Germany
1976-1213 Paavo Arhinmäki* politician - Helsinki, Finland
1976-1216 Matt Kinney* baseball player/ - Bangor, ME USA
1976-1221 Mirela Maniani* athlete (javelin/OS)/to Greece at age 22/in the Greek Navy - Durrës, Albania
1976-1223 Mikael Samuelsson* hockey player/3GC - Mariefred, Sweden
1976-1225 Tuomas Holopainen* musician/songwriter (Nightwish)/record producer - Kitee, Finland
1976-1229 Dome Karukoski* Finnish film director/son of George Dickerson - Nicosia, Cyprus
1976-1230 Rhianna Pratchett* journalist/video game writer (Tomb Raider) - Rowberrow, Somerset, England
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