List of Famous people who died at 76

Joseph Laurence Lynch was an Irish actor who had a long career in both drama and comedy. He provided voice work for children's animated series, in particular Chorlton and the Wheelies.

Joan Gerber was an American voice actress who provided voices for a variety of cartoons.

Christian Fette was a German trade unionist.

David Bernard Gaiman was head of the UK branch of Church of Scientology. He and his wife Sheila joined Scientology in the early 1960s and Gaiman served as public relations director and was commonly in the media during the British controversies over Scientology in the 1960s and 1970s.

Kenneth Claiborne Royall, Sr. was a United States Army general and the last person to hold the office of Secretary of War, as that position was abolished in 1947. Royall served as the first Secretary of the Army from 1947 to 1949, until he was forced into retirement for refusing to follow President Harry Truman’s order to desegregate the United States military.