List of Famous people who died at 76

Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel Catch-22, a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.

Jack Cheatham was an American character actor of the 1930s and 1940s. During his career he appeared in almost 200 films, with 100 of them being features.

Kazumasa Hirai was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer from Yokosuka, Kanagawa. He graduated from Yokosuka Industrial High School and the law department of Chuo University. Hirai is well known for his SF-manga work. He is the creator of 8 Man and was well known as the story creator of the 1960s manga series "Genma Taisen" about a hero with psychokinetic powers and his battle against a space villain called Genma. Hirai wrote stories for the Wolf Guy comic series, and also published comics co-authored with cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori that were later adapted into an animated film in 1983.

Robert Iskandar Ghanem was a Lebanese lawyer and politician.

Robert Burnier (1897–1974) was a French film actor.