Famous People Who Died In 1976
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1976. This list includes people like Howard Hughes, J. Paul Getty, Mao Zedong, Agatha Christie, Werner Heisenberg and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include artists, political leaders, directors and poets who died in 1976. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
Howard Hughes(Entrepreneur, Aerospace Engineer, Filmmaker, Inventor, Aviator, Philanthropist)
24 December 1905
American
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein(Allied Commander in World War II)
17 November 1887
British
Carlo Gambino(Criminal)
24 August 1902
Italian
Anneliese Michel(Student)
21 September 1952
Mickey Cohen(Organized Crime, Murderer, Boxer)
04 September 1913
American
Yonatan Netanyahu(Paratrooper, Officer)
13 March 1946
Israeli,American
Zhou Enlai(Politician, Diplomat)
05 March 1898
Chinese
Alexander Calder(Sculptor, Painter)
22 July 1898
American
Fritz Lang(American-Austrian-German filmmaker)
05 December 1890
American
Kathryn Kuhlman(Preacher)
09 May 1907
American
Johnny Mercer(Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Film score composer)
18 November 1909
American
Joachim Peiper(Military personnel)
30 January 1915
German
Ernesto Miranda(Soldier)
09 March 1941
American
L. S. Lowry(Painter)
01 November 1887
British
Ulrike Meinhof(Journalist, Writer, Sociologist)
07 October 1934
German
Paul Kossoff(Guitarist, Songwriter, Record producer, Musician)
14 September 1950
British
Tommy Bolin(Guitarist, Jazz musician, Jazz guitarist)
01 August 1951
American
Freddie King(Guitarist, Singer, Singer-songwriter)
03 September 1934
American
Alfred Lennon(Singer-songwriter)
14 December 1912
British
Luchino Visconti(Theatre director, Film director, Screenwriter, Writer)
02 November 1906
Italian
Hugh D. Auchincloss(Officer, Stockbroker, Lawyer)
15 August 1897
American
Keith Relf(Singer, Singer-songwriter)
22 March 1943
British
Josef Albers(Painter, Artist, University teacher)
19 March 1888
German,American
Busby Berkeley(Theater Actor, Director, Choreographer)
1895 AD
American
Samuel Eliot Morison(Officer, Military historian, Historian, University teacher, Professor, Author, Writer)
09 July 1887
American
João Goulart(Lawyer, Politician)
01 March 1918
Brazilian
Jean Gabin(Film actor, Actor, Singer, Screenwriter)
17 May 1904
French
Abdul Razak Hussein(Prime Minister)
11 March 1922
Malaysian
Zhu De(Politician)
01 December 1886
Vince Guaraldi(Pianist, Musician, Composer)
1928 AD
American
Ritwik Ghatak(Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer, Composer, Writer)
04 November 1925
Indian
E. H. Shepard(Artist, Illustrator, Painter)
10 December 1879
British
Jimmy Reed(Guitarist, Singer)
06 September 1925
American
Adolph Zukor(Film producer)
07 January 1873
American
Jan Nisar Akhtar(author, poet, lyricist, songwriter)
14 February 1914
Indian
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia(Prince)
27 April 1893
Russian
Wilder Penfield(Surgeon, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, University teacher, Neurologist)
26 January 1891
Canadian
Michael Polanyi(Philosopher, Economist, Chemist)
11 March 1891
Hungarian
Juscelino Kubitschek(Physician, Politician)
12 September 1902
Brazilian
Hector Pieterson(iconic image of the 1976 Soweto)
1963 AD
South African
Gilbert Ryle(Philosopher)
19 August 1900
British
Oscar Bonavena(Boxer)
25 September 1942
Argentinian
Rudolf Bultmann(Theologian, University teacher)
20 August 1884
German
Elmyr de Hory(art forger, painter)
14 April 1905
Hungarian
Paul Strand(Photographer, Film director, Cinematographer)
16 October 1890
American
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé(Philanthropist)
09 November 1903
American
Orlando Letelier(Politician, Diplomat)
13 April 1932
Chilean
Harry Nyquist(Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer, Statistician, Mathematician)
07 February 1889
Swedish,American
Paul Gallico(Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer, Children's writer)
26 July 1897
American