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 Hughes24 December 1905, American
Entrepreneur, Aerospace Engineer, Filmmaker,
Mao Zedong26 December 1893, Chinese
Communist Leader of China
Agatha Christie15 September 1890, British
J. Paul Getty15 December 1892, British, American
Businessman
Werner Heisenberg05 December 1901, German
Physicist
Paul Robeson09 April 1898, American
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Sal Mineo10 January 1939, American
Actor
Martin Heidegger26 September 1889, German
German Philosopher
Dalton Trumbo09 December 1905, American
Screenwriter, Novelist
Man Ray27 August 1890, American
Modernist Artist
Kazi Nazrul Islam24 May 1899, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Florence Ballard30 June 1943, American
Vocalist
Max Ernst02 April 1891, German
Painter, Sculptor
Benjamin Britten22 November 1913, British
Composer, conductor and pianist
Anissa Jones11 March 1958, American
Actress
Stanley Baker28 February 1928, Welsh
Actor
Rosalind Russell04 June 1907, American
Actress
Benjamin Graham09 May 1894, American
Economist, Investor
Alvar Aalto03 February 1898, Finnish
Architect
Trofim Lysenko29 September 1898, Russian
Experimenter
Carol Reed30 December 1906, British
Film Director
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein17 November 1887, British
Allied Commander in World War II
Godfrey Cambridge26 February 1933, American
Actor
Lin Yutang10 October 1895, Chinese
Writer
James Wong Howe28 August 1899, Chinese
Cinematographer
Jacques Monod09 February 1910, French
Biologist
René Cassin05 October 1887, French
French Jurist
Henrik Dam21 February 1895, Danish
Biochemist
Andre Malraux03 November 1901, French
French Novelist
Anneliese Michel21 September 1952
Student
Carlo Gambino24 August 1902, Italian
Criminal
Mickey Cohen04 September 1913, American
Organized Crime, Murderer, Boxer
Zhou Enlai05 March 1898, Chinese
Politician, Diplomat
Yonatan Netanyahu13 March 1946, Israeli, American
Paratrooper, Officer
Lee J. Cobb08 December 1911, American
Actor
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Fritz Lang05 December 1890, American
American-Austrian-German filmmaker
Kathryn Kuhlman09 May 1907, American
Preacher
Johnny Mercer18 November 1909, American
Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Film score composer
Alexander Calder22 July 1898, American
Sculptor, Painter
Joachim Peiper30 January 1915, German
Military personnel
Ernesto Miranda09 March 1941, American
Soldier
Tommy Bolin01 August 1951, American
Guitarist, Jazz musician, Jazz guitarist
L. S. Lowry01 November 1887, British
Painter
Luchino Visconti02 November 1906, Italian
Theatre director, Film director, Screenwriter,
Paul Kossoff14 September 1950, British
Guitarist, Songwriter, Record producer, Musician
Ulrike Meinhof07 October 1934, German
Journalist, Writer, Sociologist
Freddie King03 September 1934, American
Guitarist, Singer, Singer-songwriter
Josef Albers19 March 1888, German, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
Keith Relf22 March 1943, British
Singer, Singer-songwriter
Hector Pieterson1963 AD, South African
iconic image of the 1976 Soweto
Vince Guaraldi1928 AD, American
Pianist, Musician, Composer
Samuel Eliot Morison09 July 1887, American
Officer, Military historian, Historian, University
Busby Berkeley1895 AD, American
Theater Actor, Director, Choreographer
Jean Gabin17 May 1904, French
Film actor, Actor, Singer, Screenwriter
Alfred Lennon14 December 1912, British
Singer-songwriter
Zhu De01 December 1886
Politician
Oscar Bonavena25 September 1942, Argentinian
Boxer
Jimmy Reed06 September 1925, American
Guitarist, Singer
Adolph Zukor07 January 1873, American
Film producer
Hugh D. Auchincloss15 August 1897, American
Officer, Stockbroker, Lawyer
Ritwik Ghatak04 November 1925, Indian
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
Abdul Razak Hussein11 March 1922, Malaysian
Prime Minister
João Goulart01 March 1918, Brazilian
Lawyer, Politician
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia27 April 1893, Russian
Prince
Gilbert Ryle19 August 1900, British
Philosopher
E. H. Shepard10 December 1879, British
Artist, Illustrator, Painter
Juscelino Kubitschek12 September 1902, Brazilian
Physician, Politician
Michael Polanyi11 March 1891, Hungarian
Philosopher, Economist, Chemist
Wilder Penfield26 January 1891, Canadian
Surgeon, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, University
Jan Nisar Akhtar14 February 1914, Indian
author, poet, lyricist, songwriter
Rudolf Bultmann20 August 1884, German
Theologian, University teacher
Gottfried von Cramm07 July 1909, German
Tennis player
Orlando Letelier13 April 1932, Chilean
Politician, Diplomat
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé09 November 1903, American
Philanthropist
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889, Swedish, American
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Paul Strand16 October 1890, American
Photographer, Film director, Cinematographer
Paul Gallico26 July 1897, American
Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer,
Cecilia11 October 1948, Spanish
singer
Elmyr de Hory14 April 1905, Hungarian
art forger, painter
Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark27 July 1900, Danish
Lars Onsager27 November 1903, Norwegian
Physicist, Engineer, Professor, Chemist,
Raymond Queneau21 February 1903, French
Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza23 September 1907, Austrian
Gustav Heinemann23 July 1899, German
Politician, Lawyer
Mukesh22 July 1923, Indian
singer
Walter Warlimont03 October 1894, German
Military personnel
Mitsuyasu Maeno1947 AD, Japanese
actor, film actor
Andrei Grechko17 October 1903, Russian
General
Minor White09 July 1908, American
Photographer, University teacher
Evert Taube12 March 1890, Swedish
Singer, Composer, Musician, Writer, Poet,
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff01 December 1884, German
Sculptor, Painter, University teacher, Graphic
Marcel Broodthaers28 January 1924, Belgian
Poet, Sculptor, Painter
Arnold Gehlen29 January 1904, German
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Donald Byrne12 June 1930, American
Chess player
George Whipple28 August 1878, American
Physician
Eyvind Johnson29 July 1900, Swedish
Novelist