List of Famous people who died at 76

Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin was a Soviet politician and security and intelligence officer. A long-time member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister, as a full member of the Politburo and as the Chairman of the KGB from December 1958 to November 1961. He continued to maintain decisive influence in the KGB until 1967; his successor as KGB Chairman, Vladimir Semichastny, was his client and protégé.

Adolf Rott was a German theatre director, theatre artistic director, and theatre manager. From 1954 to 1959, he was director of the Vienna Burgtheater.

Thomas Howard Stix was an American physicist. Stix performed seminal work in plasma physics and wrote the first mathematical treatment of the field in 1962's The Theory of Plasma Waves.

Claude Jacques Berge was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory.

Leslie Fenton was an American actor and film director. He appeared in 62 films between 1923 and 1945.

Katherine Cassavetes was a Greek American actress. She was the mother of actor-director John Cassavetes and mother-in-law of actress Gena Rowlands. Her grandchildren are actor-directors Nick Cassavetes, Zoe Cassavetes, and Alexandra Cassavetes. She appeared in four films, three of which were written and directed by her son, including Minnie and Moskowitz (1971).

Stanislav Vikentyevich Kalesnik was a Soviet glaciologist, physical geographer, and academician (1968).

Jennifer Holt was an American actress.

Petar Banićević was a Serbian actor.