List of Famous people who died at 76

Alfredo Maria Garsia was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and bishop.

Ghulam Ahmed pronunciation (help·info) was an off spin bowler who captained India in Test cricket. After his retirement, he served for many years as the secretary of BCCI.

Takuya Fujioka was a Japanese actor. He is most famous for playing the role of Daikichi Okakura on the television drama series Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari.

Jorge Martínez de Hoyos was a Mexican actor. He died from lung cancer on May 6, 1997.

Virgil William Vogel was an American television and film director. His career spanned nearly sixty years directing episodes of Wagon Train, Bonanza, The Big Valley, and Mission: Impossible, among other series. He was earlier a film editor.

George Dekle Busbee Sr., was an American politician who served as the 77th Governor of the State of Georgia from 1975 to 1983, and a senior partner at King & Spalding thereafter.

Arie Jan Haagen-Smit was a Dutch chemist. He is best known for linking the smog in Southern California to automobiles and is therefore known by many as the "father" of air pollution control. After serving as an original board member of the Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board, formed in 1960 to combat the smog, Dr. Haagen-Smit became the California Air Resources Board's first chairman in 1968. Shortly before his death, of lung cancer, the Air Resources Board's El Monte Laboratory was named after him.