List of Famous people who died in 1976

Claire Merritt Hodgson Ruth, born Clara Mae Merritt, was a native of Athens, Georgia, United States, who is most famous for having been the second wife of Babe Ruth.

Archbishop Cyril Conrad Cowderoy was a priest for over 45 years and a bishop for over 26 years in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. In the 1930s, he helped found the Photo League. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Daniel Francis Galouye was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels.

Ivo Van Damme was a Belgian middle-distance runner.

Miriam Cooper was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D. W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1924 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films.

[[Image: (1941).jpg|210px|thumb|Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1941]] Charles Dean Dixon was an American conductor.