List of Famous people who died at 76

Alan Edgar Stratford Johns, known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the innovative and long-running BBC police series Z-Cars.

Alain Terrane was a French actor.

André Godinat was a French professional road bicycle racer. He became French national road race champion in 1931. In 1932, he won a stage in the 1932 Tour de France.

André Lussier, physician, rheumatologist, and Professor Emeritus of the School of Medicine of the Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He was born in 1933 in Sherbrooke and died in 2009 in Sherbrooke. He completed his classical studies and Baccalauréat ès-art at the Séminaire Oblat de Chambly and at the Collège de Montréal. He then completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hôpital Notre-Dame de Montréal. From 1963 to 1964, he pursued a "clinical and research fellowship" in rheumatology at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Hollander. In 1969, he joined the founding clinicians and researchers of the School of Medicine of the Université de Sherbrooke and he established the first Section of Rheumatology officially recognized in Québec. In 1970, he wrote the white paper upon which the specialty of rheumatology is recognized in Québec, two years before its recognition as a specialty elsewhere in North America. In 1975, he co-founded The Journal of Rheumatology, of which he remained the co-Editor until his death. He was the first Director of the Clinical Research Center. of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) from 1980 to 1984. During his career, he was President of several scientific meetings and conferences. He has published over 230 scientific articles and is the author of three books.

George Louis Schaefer was an American director of television and Broadway theatre, who was active from the 1950s to the 1990s.