List of Famous people who died at 76
Dimitris Horn
Dimitris Horn was a Greek - Austrian theatrical and film performer of modern times.
Will Geer
Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist, who was active in labor organizing and other movements in New York and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California he befriended rising singer Woody Guthrie. They both lived in New York for a time in the 1940s. He was blacklisted in the 1950s, by Hollywood, after refusing, in testimony before Congress, to name persons who had joined the Communist Party.
Félix Malloum
Félix Malloum or Félix Malloum Ngakoutou Bey-Ndi was a Chadian politician, who served as President and Prime Minister of Chad from 1975 to 1978.
Victor Gruen
Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum, was an Austrian-born architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States. He is also noted for his urban revitalization proposals, described in his writings and applied in master plans such as for Fort Worth, Texas (1955), Kalamazoo, Michigan (1958) and Fresno, California (1965). An advocate of prioritizing pedestrians over cars in urban cores, he was also the designer of the first outdoor pedestrian mall in the United States, the Kalamazoo Mall.
Michel Billière
Michel Billière was a French rugby union player who played flanker.
Elvin Jones
Elvin Ray Jones was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed an interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 and subsequently played in a Detroit house band led by Billy Mitchell. He moved to New York City in 1955 and worked as a sideman for Charles Mingus, Teddy Charles, Bud Powell and Miles Davis.
Redha Hamiani
Redha Hamiani was the Algerian minister for small business in the 1995 government of Mokdad Sifi.
Humbert Camerlo
Humbert Camerlo was a French opera director.
Joseph Roduit
Joseph Roduit was a Roman Catholic priest and abbot.
Lennart Meri
Lennart Georg Meri was an Estonian politician, writer, and film director. He served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was among the leaders of the movement to restore Estonian independence from the Soviet Union.