List of Famous people who died at 76

Mirjana "Mira" Marković was a Serbian politician, academic and the wife of Yugoslav and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević.

Vladimir Afanasyevich Lyakhov was a Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut.

Yueh Hua was a Shanghai-born Hong Kong actor, later based in Canada, with Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB. Yueh is one of the most versatile and prolific leading actors of Shaw Brothers. Yueh starred in five to ten films per year in his heyday, playing roles ranging from foolish drunks to scholarly warriors. Yueh died of cancer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, aged 76.

Kang Sok-ju was a North Korean diplomat and politician.

Arto Tapio Paasilinna was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists, he won a broad readership outside of Finland in a way few other Finnish authors have before. Translated into 27 languages, over seven million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, and he has been claimed as "instrumental in generating the current level of interest in books from Finland".

Rutherford "Gus" Aris was a chemical engineer, control theorist, applied mathematician, and a Regents Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota (1958–2005).

Ida Philippine Eleanor Rosa Schick, married name Philippine von Waltershausen, (1893–1970) was a German composer, pianist, conductor and university lecturer. She was one of the few female composers whose works were performed in Nazi Germany.

Lin Rong-san was a Taiwanese politician, publisher and businessman. He was the founder of Union Bank of Taiwan, and the publisher of Liberty Times and Taipei Times.

İnal Batu was a Turkish diplomat, politician and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

Charles Edward Haden was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking Ornette Coleman Quartet.