November 20, 1976

1976Mohamed Barakat, Egyptian footballer^[†]

Mohamed Barakat Ahmed Bastamy is an Egyptian former professional footballer. A right-footed playmaker, he usually played as an right winger or attacking midfielder for Egyptian club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team.

1976Beto, Brazilian footballer^[†]

Gilberto Galdino dos Santos, known as Beto, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

1976DeJuan Collins, American basketball player^[†]

DeJuan Collins is an American former professional basketball player. He was listed at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) in height, and 190 pounds (86 kg) in weight. Collins was best known as a scorer, and also for organizing and leading his team's game on offense.

1976Dominique Dawes, American gymnast and actress^[†]

Dominique Margaux Dawes is a retired American artistic gymnast. Known in the gymnastics community as 'Awesome Dawesome', she was a 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, the 1994 U.S. all-around senior National Champion, a three-time Olympian, a World Championship silver and bronze medalist, and a member of the gold-medal-winning "Magnificent Seven" team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She is also the Olympic bronze medalist on floor exercise from the Atlanta games.

1976Laura Harris, Canadian actress^[†]

Laura Elizabeth Harris is a Canadian actress who has appeared in a variety of roles in movies and on television. She may be best known for playing Marybeth Louise Hutchinson in The Faculty, Daisy Adair in the Showtime series Dead Like Me, and Marie Warner in Season 2 of 24. She is sometimes credited as Elizabeth Harris or Laura E. Harris.

1976Adrián Hernán González, Argentine footballer^[†]

Adrián Hernán González is an Argentine footballer who last played for Club Atlético Platense. He is noted as a free kick specialist who can play as either a right back or right midfielder.

1976Harold Jamison, American basketball player^[†]

Harold Sherill Jamison is an American former professional basketball player. Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, he is 6'8" and played at power forward.

1976Tusshar Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor and producer^[†]

Tusshar Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who works in Hindi films.

1976Pascal Roller, German basketball player^[†]

Pascal Roller is a German former professional basketball player. At a height of 1.80 m, and a weight of 81 kg (179 lb), he played at the point guard position.

1976Francisco Rufete, Spanish footballer^[†]

Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete is a Spanish former footballer, and a manager. He played predominantly as a right winger with good dribbling ability, also being a player with a good workrate.

1976Nebojša Stefanović, Serbian politician^[†]

Nebojša Stefanović is a Serbian politician who served as deputy prime minister of Serbia from 2016 to 2022 and as minister of defence from 2020 to 2022. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as president of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2012 to 2014 and as minister of internal affairs from 2014 to 2020.

1976Doug Viney, New Zealand boxer^[†]

Douglas Ma'afu Hawke, better known as Doug "Vicious" Viney is a Tongan-New Zealander heavyweight boxer and kickboxer. He is the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas champion, who also represented Tonga as a super heavyweight boxer under the name of Ma'afu Hawke at 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

1976Atsushi Yoneyama, Japanese footballer^[†]

Atsushi Yoneyama is a former Japanese football player and manager who played once for the Japan national team. He is currently the manager of Kamatamare Sanuki.

1976Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer^[†]

Ji Yun-Nam is a North Korean former professional footballer who played for April 25 in the DPR Korea League.

1976Martin D'Arcy, English Jesuit priest (born 1888)^[†]

Martin Cyril D'Arcy was an English Jesuit priest, philosopher of love, and a correspondent, friend, and adviser to a range of literary and artistic figures including Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy L. Sayers, W. H. Auden, Eric Gill and Sir Edwin Lutyens. He has been described as "perhaps England's foremost Catholic public intellectual from the 1930s until his death".

1976Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (born 1898)^[†]

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a Soviet agronomist and scientist. He was a proponent of Lamarckism, and rejected Mendelian genetics in favour of his own idiosyncratic, pseudoscientific ideas later termed Lysenkoism.