List of Famous people who died at 76

Wilhelm Gefeller was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and member of the German Bundestag.

John Stoll was a British art director. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Lawrence of Arabia. During the 1950s, he worked largely on low-budget British feature films.

Valery Yakovlevich Levental was a Russian theatrical scenic designer. He was named People's Artist of the USSR and was a member-correspondent of the Academy of Art.

William Prager, Willy Prager, was a German-born US applied mathematician. In the field of mechanics he is well known for the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.

Richard Dagobert Brauer was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.

Robert MacDonald was an American special effects artist who won two Academy Awards.