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 HughesAmerican
Entrepreneur, Investor
Mao ZedongChinese
Communist Leader of China
Agatha ChristieBritish
J. Paul GettyBritish, American
Businessman
L. S. LowryBritish
Artist
Carlo GambinoItalian, American
Criminal
Werner HeisenbergGerman
Physicist
Joachim PeiperGerman
Military Personnel
Martin HeideggerGerman
German Philosopher
Sal MineoAmerican
Actor
Paul RobesonAmerican
Singer, Actor & Civil Rights Activist
Mickey CohenAmerican
Gangster
Dalton TrumboAmerican
Screenwriter, Novelist
Man RayAmerican
Modernist Artist
Zhou EnlaiChinese
First Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of
Florence BallardAmerican
Vocalist
Benjamin BrittenBritish
Composer, conductor and pianist
Anissa JonesAmerican
Actress
Benjamin GrahamAmerican
Economist, Investor
Kazi Nazrul IslamBangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Max ErnstGerman
Painter, Sculptor
Kathryn KuhlmanAmerican
Evangelist
Rosalind RussellAmerican
Actress
Stanley BakerWelsh
Actor
Alvar AaltoFinnish
Architect
Carol ReedBritish
Film Director
Trofim LysenkoRussian
Experimenter
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of AlameinBritish
Allied Commander in World War II
Lin YutangChinese
Writer
James Wong HoweChinese
Cinematographer
Godfrey CambridgeAmerican
Actor
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Jacques MonodFrench
Biologist
René CassinFrench
French Jurist
Henrik DamDanish
Biochemist
Andre MalrauxFrench
French Novelist
Anneliese MichelStudent
Jack CassidyAmerican
Actor
Alastair SimBritish, Scottish
Actor
Lee J. CobbAmerican
Actor
Howlin' WolfAmerican
Singer
Paul GilbertAmerican
Actor
Fritz LangAmerican
American-Austrian-German filmmaker
Johnny MercerAmerican
Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Film score composer
Martha MitchellAmerican
Political Activists
Alexander CalderAmerican
Sculptor, Painter
Phil OchsAmerican
Singer
Yonatan NetanyahuIsraeli, American
Paratrooper, Officer
Tommy BolinAmerican
Guitarist, Jazz musician, Jazz guitarist
Richard J. DaleyAmerican
Former Mayor of Chicago
Ernesto MirandaAmerican
Soldier
Ulrike MeinhofGerman
Journalist, Writer, Sociologist
Freddie KingAmerican
Guitarist, Singer, Singer-songwriter
Luchino ViscontiItalian
Theatre director, Film director, Screenwriter,
Paul KossoffBritish
Guitarist, Songwriter, Record producer, Musician
Alfred LennonBritish
Singer-songwriter
Ritwik GhatakIndian
Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Film producer,
Margaret LeightonBritish
Actress
Samuel Eliot MorisonAmerican
Officer, Military historian, Historian, University
Josef AlbersGerman, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
Vince GuaraldiAmerican
Pianist, Musician, Composer
Adolph ZukorAmerican
Film producer
Jan Nisar AkhtarIndian
author, poet, lyricist, songwriter
Károly TakácsHungarian
Olympic shooter
Jean GabinFrench
Film actor, Actor, Singer, Screenwriter
Busby BerkeleyAmerican
Theater Actor, Director, Choreographer
Keith RelfBritish
Singer, Singer-songwriter
Zhu DePolitician
Gilbert RyleBritish
Philosopher
Jimmy ReedAmerican
Guitarist, Singer
Oscar BonavenaArgentinian
Boxer
Abdul Razak HusseinMalaysian
Prime Minister
Michael PolanyiHungarian
Philosopher, Economist, Chemist
Prince Paul of YugoslaviaRussian
Prince
Juscelino KubitschekBrazilian
Physician, Politician
Hector PietersonSouth African
iconic image of the 1976 Soweto
João GoulartBrazilian
Lawyer, Politician
Wilder PenfieldCanadian
Surgeon, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, University
E. H. ShepardBritish
Artist, Illustrator, Painter
Sybil ThorndikeBritish
Actress
Rudolf BultmannGerman
Theologian, University teacher
Lily PonsFrench
American-French operatic soprano
Hugh D. AuchinclossAmerican
Officer, Stockbroker, Lawyer
Knud, Hereditary Prince of DenmarkDanish
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of FleetCanadian
Media Proprietor
Abby Rockefeller MauzéAmerican
Philanthropist
Lars OnsagerNorwegian
Physicist, Engineer, Professor, Chemist,
Orlando LetelierChilean
Politician, Diplomat
James FarleyAmerican
Politician
Imogen CunninghamAmerican
Photographer
Harry NyquistSwedish, American
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Raymond QueneauFrench
Poet, Playwright, Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter,
Elmyr de HoryHungarian
art forger, painter
Paul GallicoAmerican
Journalist, Screenwriter, Novelist, Writer,
Duarte Nuno, Duke of BraganzaAustrian