A list of events in 1976 related to serial killers.
January[]
- 7 — Sebastião Antônio de Oliveira died.
- 22 — Kiyoshi Ōkubo died.
February[]
- 12 — Colin Norris is born.
- 15 — Michael Gargiulo is born.
- 27 — Petr Zelenka is born.
March[]
- 11 — Vladimir Sarenpya is apprehended.
- 17 — Angelo Howard is born.
- 26 — Mariusz Sowiński is born.
April[]
- 6 — Darrell Samson is murdered by John Wayne Gacy.
- 14 — Ynobe Matthews is born.
- 14 — Jiří Straka is born.
- 28 — Jürgen Bartsch died.
May[]
- 6 — Mirosława Sarnowska is murdered by Joachim Knychała.
- 10 — Charles Duffy is born.
- 14 — Randall Reffett and Sam Stapleton are murdered by John Wayne Gacy.
- 30 — Robert Carr is apprehended.
June[]
- 3 — Michael Bonnin is murdered by John Wayne Gacy.
- 13 — William Carroll is murdered by John Wayne Gacy.
July[]
- 30 — Bernard Pesquet is apprehended.
August[]
- 8 — Shawn Michael Grate is born.
- 22 — Patricia Allanson is apprehended.
- 25 — Fredric Manalli died.
- 29 — Elias Abuelazam is born.
- ? — Trevor Hardy is apprehended.
September[]
- 15 — Tony Amati is born.
- ? — John Edward Swindler is apprehended.
October[]
- 14 — Fyodor Prodan is born.
- 17 — Thomas Whisenhant is apprehended.
- 19 — Michaiah Shobek died.
- 20 — Joël Matencio is apprehended.
- 22 — Shojiro Nishimoto is born.
November[]
- 4 — James Dale Ritchie is born.
- 14 — Gregory McKnight is born.
- 30 — Abraão José Bueno is born.
- ? — Ángel Díaz Balbín is apprehended (first time).
December[]
- 14 — Marcel Barbeault is apprehended.
- 30 — Niels Högel is born.
Unknown[]
- ? — Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez is born.
- ? — Djamla Campos Figueiredo is born.
- ? — William Cosden is apprehended.
- ? — Benedito Moreira de Carvalho died.
- ? — Sipho Dube is born.
- ? — Igor Dvornikov is born.
- ? — Yahya Farhan is born.
- ? — Fyodor Kozlov is sentenced to 10 years in prison.
- ? — Nikolai Kudryavtsev is born.
- ? — Mariusz G. is born.
- ? — Ramati Sathyanarayana is born.
- ? — Vladimir Sarenpya died.
- ? — Antti Taskinen is born.