List of Famous people who died at 76

Eri Klas was an Estonian conductor. He was born in Tallinn.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah was the youngest son of the founder of the modern state of Kuwait Sheikh Mubarak Al-Kabir.

Henry Wessel was an American photographer and educator. He made "obdurately spare and often wry black-and-white pictures of vernacular scenes in the American West".

Ants Antson was an Estonian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.

Jacobo Timerman, was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a period of widespread repression in which an estimated 30,000 political prisoners were disappeared. He was persecuted, tortured and imprisoned by the Argentine junta in the late 1970s and was exiled in 1979 with his wife to Israel. He was widely honored for his work as a journalist and publisher.

Nikolaus Lehnhoff was a German opera director.

Grace Marion Frick was a translator and researcher for her lifelong partner French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Grace Frick taught languages at US colleges and was the second academic dean to be appointed to Hartford Junior College.

Arthur Murray Blythe was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was described by critic Chris Kelsey as displaying "one of the most easily recognizable alto sax sounds in jazz, big and round, with a fast, wide vibrato and an aggressive, precise manner of phrasing" and furthermore as straddling the avant garde and traditionalist jazz, often with bands featuring unusual instrumentation.

Thomas Liao was a Taiwanese independence activist and founding leader of the Republic of Taiwan Provisional Government.

Jean-Claude Fignolé was a Haitian author.