List of Famous people who died at 76

Friedrich Pollock was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist theory.

Feridun Karakaya was a well-known Turkish comedy actor.

William George Linich, known professionally as Billy Name, was an American photographer, filmmaker, and lighting designer. He was the archivist of The Factory from 1964 to 1970. His brief romance and subsequent friendship with Andy Warhol led to substantial collaboration on Warhol's work, including his films, paintings, and sculptures. Linich became Billy Name among the clique known as the Warhol Superstars. He was responsible for "silverizing" Warhol's New York studio, the Factory, where he lived until 1970. His photographs of the scene at the Factory and of Warhol are important documents of the pop art era.

Jozef Adamec was a Slovak football forward and manager.

Thomas Elsaesser was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was also the writer and director of The Sun Island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser. He was married to scholar Silvia Vega-Llona.

William Michael Hardy Spicer, Baron Spicer, was a British politician and life peer who was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 2010. He served as Member of Parliament for West Worcestershire from 1974 to 2010 and was a minister from 1984 to 1990. He later served as chairman of the 1922 Committee from 2001 to 2010.

Chow Yam-nam was a Thai guru born in Pattaya to Chinese parents, better known publicly as Bak Lung-wong, literally the White dragon king. His ancestry was from Chaozhou, Guangdong. He was known for his legendary ability to bless people into becoming highly successful celebrities in Hong Kong.

Gelena Martselievna Velikanova was a Soviet traditional pop performer, popular in the 1950s and 1960s, best remembered for her 1959 hit "Landyshi". Honoured with the People's Artist of Russia title in 1992, Velikanova then lost her voice due to incompetent medical treatment and had to stop performing. She died in 1998, two hours before her farewell concert in Moscow.

Percy Lebaron Spencer was an American physicist and inventor. He became known as the inventor of the microwave oven.

Rodolfo José Fischer Eichler, nicknamed Lobo was an Argentine international association football player of German-Brazilian descent. His tenacity awarded the tall attacker with the nickname El Lobo, the "Wolf". With CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires he won three championships and he remained one of the foremost strikers in the club's history. Among others, he also played for Botafogo FR in Brazil and CD Once Caldas in Colombia.