List of Famous people who died at 76

Julien Moineau was a French professional road bicycle racer, who won three stages in the Tour de France. Julien Moineau was the father of cyclist Alain Moineau.

Peter Celestine Elampassery OFM, Cap. was the 2nd Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jammu–Srinagar.

Pandit Raghunath Murmu was an Indian Santali writer and educator, best known as the inventor of the Ol Chiki script used in Santali language.

Reo Franklin Fortune was a New Zealand-born social anthropologist. Originally trained as a psychologist, Fortune was a student of some of the major theorists of British and American social anthropology including Alfred Cort Haddon, Bronislaw Malinowski and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown. He lived an international life, holding various academic and government positions: in China, at Lingnan University from 1937 to 1939; in Toledo, Ohio, USA from 1940 to 1941; in Toronto, Canada, from 1941 to 1943; in Burma, as government anthropologist, from 1946 to 1947; and finally, at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom from 1947 to 1971, as lecturer in social anthropology specialising in Melanesian language and culture.