List of Famous people who died at 76

Konstantinos "Kostas" Politis was a Greek professional basketball player and coach.

Ding-Shinn Chen was a Taiwanese hepatologist.

Hon. Sir Maurice Richard Bridgeman was a British businessman and civil servant.

Peter Anton Orlovsky was an American poet and actor. He was the long-time partner of Allen Ginsberg.

Arman was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using them as the painting itself. He is best known for his "accumulations" and destruction/recomposition of objects.

Sir Robert John Southey was an Australian businessman, who was president of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1970 to 1975, and chairman of The Australian Ballet Foundation from 1980 to 1990.

Ernest Fredric Morrison was an American child actor, comedian, vaudevillian and dancer who also performed under the stage name Sunshine Sammy Morrison and was the only black member of the East Side Kids, and also was an original performer in the Our Gang short film series franchise.

Luis Balagué Carreño was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer.

Su Yu, Courtesy name Yu (裕) was a Chinese military commander, general of the People's Liberation Army. He was considered by Mao Zedong to be among the best commanders of the PLA, only next to Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng. Su Yu fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War. He commanded the East China Field Army during the Chinese Civil War. One of his most notable accomplishments was the capture of Shanghai.

Michael Francis A'Hearn was an American astronomer and astronomy professor at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He was also the principal investigator for NASA's EPOXI mission.