List of Famous people who died at 76

Simon George Michael Relph, CBE was a British film producer and assistant film director.

Louis Pauwels was a French journalist and writer.

Marcel Duhamel was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.

Tullio Carminati, Count Tullio Caminati de Brambilla, was an Italian actor noted for roles in The Cardinal, One Night of Love, Music in the Air and El Cid. He also appeared in the movie Roman Holiday.

Victor Jean Perrin was a 20th-century Bishop of Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer.

Luther Hartwell Hodges was a businessman and American politician. After a career in textile manufacturing, he entered public service, gaining some state appointments. Elected as lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 1952, he succeeded to the Governor's office in 1954 after the death of the incumbent. He was elected in 1956 to a full four-year term, serving in total as the 64th Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1954 to 1961.

Paavo Juho Talvela was a Finnish soldier and a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross. He volunteered in the Jäger Movement in Germany from 1916 until 1917. He was then a battalion commander in the Finnish Civil War. Afterwards Talvela was promoted to the rank of major, and was at the time the youngest major in Finland. In accordance with his nationalistic views, Talvela temporarily resigned from the Finnish Army to act as a leading figurehead for the Kinship Wars of the 1920s. He served as the Commander in Chief of the 1919 Aunus expedition.

Richard Hubert Bruck was an American mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics.