List of Famous people who died at 76

Robert Barnard was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer. In addition to over 40 books published under his own name, he also published four books under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable.

Ja'afar Tuqan (also spelled Jafar Tukan; was a Palestinian-Jordanian architect.

Hyman Jack Averback was an American radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director.

Giovanni Spagnolli was an Italian Christian Democrat politician. He was a graduate of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. During World War II, he was a member of the Italian resistance movement. He was President of the Senate of Italy (1973–1976). He was a senator in Legislature II (1953–1958), Legislature III, Legislature IV, Legislature V and Legislature VI (1972–1976).

Robert Eugene Marshak was an American physicist, educator, and eighth president of the City College of New York.

Julian Seymour Schwinger was a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order. Schwinger was a physics professor at several universities.

Edgar Kant was Estonian geographer and economist. He laid foundation for Estonian urban geography.

Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won a total of 13 medals including seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He held the record for most Olympic medals by a male athlete record until gymnast Nikolai Andrianov won his 14th and 15th medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He also won 14 medals at the World Championships.