Unusual Deaths in 1976

* Keith relf, former singer for british rhythm and blues band the yardbirds, died while practicing his electric guitar he was electrocuted because the guitar was not properly grounded.

Natural disasters in 1976

* Groundhog Day gale of 1976
* Hurricane Liza (1976)
* 1976 Tangshan earthquake

People who died on February 16 (various years)

* 2006 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player
* 2006 - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler
* 2005 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia)
* 2004 - Doris Troy, American singer
* 2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
* 2003 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley
* 2002 - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager
* 2001 - William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist
* 2001 - Howard W. Koch, American film director
* 2001 - Bob Buhl, baseball player
* 2000 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress
* 2000 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor
* 2000 - Marceline Day, American actress
* 1999 - Michael Larson, Press Your Luck Big-winning contestant
* 1997 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist
* 1996 - Brownie McGhee, American singer
* 1996 - Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California
* 1996 - Roger Bowen, American actor
* 1992 - Herman Wold, Swedish statistician (b. 1908
* 1992 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician
* 1992 - Angela Carter, English writer
* 1990 - Keith Haring, American artist
* 1988 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler
* 1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist
* 1978 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier
* 1977 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet
* 1975 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone
* 1975 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete
* 1974 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer
* 1967 - Smiley Burnette, American actor, singer and songwriter
* 1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor
* 1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate
* 1928 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer
* 1919 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star
* 1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer
* 1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest
* 1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
* 1899 - Félix Faure, President of France
* 1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet
* 1844 - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer
* 1754 - Richard Mead, English physician
* 1721 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician
* 1710 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes
* 1560 - Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
* 1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
* 1391 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
* 1279 - King Afonso III of Portugal
* 1247 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia