List of Famous people who died in 1976

Josef Mattauch was a nuclear physicist and chemist. He was known for the development of the Mattauch-Herzog double-focusing mass spectrometer, for his work on the investigation of isotopic abundances using mass spectrometry, and the determination of atomic weights. Much of his career was spent at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry.

Pinhas Lavon was an Israeli politician, minister and labor leader, best known for the Lavon Affair.

Warner Anderson was an American actor.

Eugene Oliver Edgar Stutenroth, best known as Gene Roth, was an American film actor and film manager.

John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight was an American film and television actor. He was also a singer, especially in his early career. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1928 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's comic sidekick.

Robert Denison Holmes was an American politician and journalist from the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of the state of New York, he worked in newspapers and radio before entering politics. Though a Republican early in his career, he served as a Democrat in the Oregon State Senate and as the 28th Governor of Oregon. He was governor from 1957 to 1959.

Franklyn Marks was an American composer and arranger, who worked principally in the idioms of film soundtracks and jazz.