List of Famous people who died at 76

Sydney Box was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.

Deba Wieland was a left-wing German journalist. Between 1952 and 1977 she was in charge at the (East) German News Service .

Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), Peter Pan in Peter Pan and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards, nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer and actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and he is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy (Jim) Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).

Jaba Ioseliani was a Georgian politician, writer, thief-in-law and leader of the paramilitary and criminal Mkhedrioni organisation.

Stanko Todorov Georgiev was a Bulgarian communist politician.