1976 in China

Events in the year 1976 in the People's Republic of China.

Incumbents

January 8 — Zhou Enlai, the 1st Premier of China dies at 78.
April 5 — A mass gathering and protest occurred on Qingming Festival after the Nanjing incident, was triggered by the death of Zhou Enlai. This was the 1976 Tiananmen incident.
April 7 — Due to the 1976 Tiananmen incident that occurred earlier, Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was removed from all his positions in the party.
April 29 — Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese. The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.
July 6 — Zhu De, the 2nd Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and a prominent figure in the founding of the People's Republic of China dies at 90.
July 28 — An earthquake hit the region of Tangshan, Hebei Province at 3:42am. This was the 1976 Tangshan earthquake.
September 9 — Mao Zedong, the 1st Paramount leader of China and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party dies at 82.
October 6 — A bloodless coup d'état occurred, leading to the arrest of the Gang of Four, which ended the Cultural Revolution.
October 12 — Premier Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.

January 8 — Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of China
January 16 — Fan Hanjie, military general in the National Revolutionary Army
January 31 — Feng Xuefeng, writer and activist
March 26 — Lin Yutang, inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher and translator
March 29 — Cao Diqiu, communist revolutionary and politician
April 19 — Shang Xiaoyun, Peking Opera performer
May 3 — Li Dazhang, 6th Head of the United Front Work Department
May 12 — Yu Jiaju, educator and social advocate
June 24 — Liu Wenhui, general and warlord of Sichuan clique during the Republican Era
June 26 — Gong Yinbing, banker and politician
July 1
*Zhang Wentian, 4th General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
*Kwang Pu Chen, banker
July 3 — Chen Zizhuang, artist
July 6 — Zhu De, 2nd Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
July 27 — Ma Ke, composer and musicologist
September 9 — Mao Zedong, 1st Paramount leader of China
September 29 — Feng Jinglan, mineralogist and geologist
October 18 — Guo Xiaochuan, poet
December 7 — Zheng Lücheng, composer
December 25 — Li Jinfa, poet, sculptor and diplomat