List of Famous people who died at 76

Florelle was a French soprano singer and actress. She gained fame as Polly Peachum in the French film The Threepenny Opera, after which she had numerous other film roles. In the 1940s, she retired from the stage, but continued to make film appearances during the war.

Robert Wiemer was a film and television director, writer, producer and editor.

Yasuo Takei was the founder and former chairman of Takefuji (武富士), Japan's number one consumer finance group.

Matazō Kayama was a Japanese Nihonga painter of the 20th century, born in Kyoto in 1927.

John Henry Poelker was mayor of St. Louis from 1973 to 1977. He was a Democrat.

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Fedorovich Volchkov was a judge during the Nuremberg Trials after World War II. He was the alternate Soviet judge during the proceedings. Before taking up the practice of law he had worked in the film business.