Deaths Date 1976 | History by KabAstro

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Zhou Enlai (1898-1976)

Jan 8 Premier of the People's Republic of China, dies of bladder cancer at 77

Jan 10 Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], American blues musician (Smokestack Lightnin', Killing Floor), dies of complications during kidney surgery at 65
Jan 11 Mervyn Grell, cricketer (Test WI v England 1930, 21 & 13, 0-17), dies

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Jan 12 English crime writer (Murder on the Orient Express, Mousetrap), dies at 85

Jan 13 Margaret Leighton, British actress (The Go-Between, The Night of the Iguana), dies of multiple sclerosis at 53
Jan 14 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, Malaysian politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53
Jan 17 Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in a car crash [or 1/18]
Jan 18 Ad Verhoeven, Dutch soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in a car crash at 42 [or 1/17]
Jan 18 Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67
Jan 19 Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
Jan 19 Kevin Coughlin, American actor (T R Ryan-Mama), killed in a hit and run at 30
Jan 23 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44
Jan 23 Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (The Fortress; Passport to Pimlico), dies at 62

Paul Robeson (1898-1976)

Jan 23 American stage and screen bass-baritone singer ("Old Man River"), actor, and civil rights activist, dies of stroke complications in Philadelphia at 77

Jan 26 João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
Jan 28 Chris Kenner, American R&B singer-songwriter (I Like it Like That), dies at 46
Jan 29 Jesse Fuller, American one-man blues band ("San Francisco Bay Blues"), dies of heart disease at 80
Jan 29 Michael Gwynn, English actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra), dies of a heart attack at 59
Jan 30 Beau De Glen "Mance" Lipscomb, American blues singer and guitarist ("Shine On, Harvest Moon"), dies of a stroke at 80
Jan 30 Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis, South African cricketer (pair in only Test for South Africa), dies at 91
Jan 31 Buster Brown, American blues singer and harmonica player (Fannie Mae), dies at 64
Jan 31 Ernesto Miranda, American litigant, conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges, stabbed to death at 34
Jan 31 Evert Axel Taube, Swedish ballad singer and composer, dies at 85
Feb 1 Edgar Pangborn, American sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
Feb 1 George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 97

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

Feb 1 German physicist who discovered the uncertainty principle (Nobel 1932), dies of kidney cancer at 74

Feb 1 William Lawther, English union leader (National Union of Mine Workers 1939-54), dies at 86
Feb 2 Erling Kjellsby, Norwegian organist, educator and composer, dies at 75
Feb 2 Harry Elliott, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests, 11 dismissals; Derbyshire CCC), dies at 84
Feb 2 Johan Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
Feb 2 Maurice Jacobson, British concert pianist, composer, and music publisher, dies at 80
Feb 5 Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (Drum, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp), dies from bowel cancer at 69
Feb 5 Rudy Pompilli [Rudolph Pompilii], American jazz and rock saxophonist (Bill Haley and His Comets - "'Rudi's Rock"), dies of lung cancer at 51
Feb 6 Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker (Titash Ekti Nadir Naam), dies at 50
Feb 6 Vince Guaraldi, American jazz pianist and composer ("Cast Your Fate to the Wind"; Peanuts TV specials), dies of a heart attack at 47
Feb 9 Percy Faith, Canadian-American pop and easy listening composer and bandleader ("Theme from A Summer Place"), dies at 67
Feb 11 Alexander Lippisch, German scientist and pioneer of aerodynamics, dies at 81
Feb 11 Charles "Charlie" Naughton, Scottish actor (Frozen Limits), dies at 89
Feb 11 Frank Arnau [Heinrich Schmitt], German crime fiction writer, dies at 81
Feb 11 Lee J. Cobb [Leo Jacoby], American actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies from a heart attack at 64
Feb 12 Clifton Williams, American composer (The Ramparts; Sinfonians), dies from cancer at 52
Feb 12 Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37
Feb 13 Alice "Lily" Pons, French-American coloratura soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera, 1931-60) and actress (That Girl From Paris), dies of pancreatic cancer at 77
Feb 13 Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military ruler, assassinated at 37
Feb 17 Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Le Plaisir, Every Man is My Enemy), dies from heart failure at 65
Feb 18 Anton Betzner, writer, dies at 81
Feb 18 Eddie Dowling, American actor (Rainbow Man, Anywhere USA), dies at 80
Feb 18 Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88
Feb 20 Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies
Feb 20 René Cassin, French jurist and judge (Nobel Peace Prize 1968), dies at 88
Feb 22 Angela Baddeley, English actress (Speckled Band), dies at 71
Feb 22 Florence Ballard, American pop and R&B singer (The Supremes, 1959-67 - "Buttered Popcorn"; "Where Did Our Love Go"), dies of a heart attack at 32
Feb 22 Michael Polanyi, Hungarian-English chemist, economist and philosopher (claimed all knowledge relied on personal judgments), dies at 84
Feb 23 John Forest "Fuzzy" Knight, American stage and screen actor, noted as sidekick in Westerns (Oklahoma Annie; Cowboy & the Lady), dies at 74
Feb 23 L. S. Lowry, British painter of industrial scenes, dies at 88
Feb 24 Charles Wilfred Orr, English pianist and composer (settings of A.E. Housman poems), dies at 82
Feb 24 H. Allen Smith, American humorist and author (Low Man on Totem Pole), dies at 69
Feb 24 Julian Rivero, American actor (Son of Oklahoma, Via Pony Express), dies at 85
Feb 26 Frieda Inescort, Scottish-American stage and screen actress (Hay Fever; Pride and Prejudice (1940)), dies from complications of multiple sclerosis at 74
Mar 1 George "Rube" Foster, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1915, 16; no-hitter 1916; Boston Red Sox), dies at 88
Mar 1 Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer, dies at 66
Mar 3 Alfred Sendrey [Szendrei], Hungarian-American organist, conductor, musicologist, and composer, dies at 92
Mar 3 Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer, dies at 75
Mar 4 Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (Thermodynamik), dies at 89
Mar 6 Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer, actor (world light heavyweight champion 1932-34), dies of Paget's disease of bone at 68
Mar 7 Erwin Kroll, German composer, dies at 90
Mar 7 Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
Mar 8 Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer during WWII and MI6 intelligence officer, dies at 67
Mar 11 Louis Gesensway, Latvian-American violinist (Philadelphia Orchestra, 1926-71), and composer (Ode To Peace), dies at 70
Mar 13 Willy Alfredo [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/ and poet, dies at 77
Mar 14 Alberta Franklin, American silent screen actress, dies at 79
Mar 14 Busby Berkeley [Enos], American film choreographer (42nd Street) and director (Strike Up The Band: They Made Me A Criminal), dies at 80
Mar 14 Martha Saalfeldt German writer and poet, dies at 78
Mar 15 Jo Mielziner, American set designer on Broadway (Carousel, Death of a Salesman), dies at 74
Mar 17 Luchino Visconti, Italian director (The Leopard, Death in Venice), dies at 69
Mar 18 Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
Mar 18 James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
Mar 18 Robert de Roos, Dutch composer, dies at 69
Mar 19 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (Backbiters, Napoleon), dies at 86
Mar 19 George Sklavos, Greek composer, dies at 87
Mar 19 Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free - "All Right Now"), dies on flight from Los Angeles to New York of a pulmonary embolism at 25
Mar 20 Michael Goodliffe, British actor (A Night to Remember, Cromwell, 5th Day of Peace), commits suicide at 61
Mar 21 Spider Sabich, American alpine skier (Olympics 1968), dies when shot by actress Claudine Longet at 31

Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976)

Mar 24 1st Viscount Alamein, British WWII Field Marshal (African campaign, D-Day) and WWI officer, dies at 88

Mar 24 Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
Mar 26 Josef Albers, German-American artist, writer and teacher (Bauhaus professor, Homage to the Square), dies at 88
Mar 26 Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, dies at 80
Mar 28 Richard Arlen, American actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
Mar 30 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, Dutch actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
Mar 30 Reuben "Rube" Bloom, American pianist, arranger, bandleader (The Bayou Boys), songwriter ("Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)"; "Give Me the Simple Life"), dies at 73
Mar 31 Paul Strand, American photographer (Native Land-1942), dies at 85
Apr 1 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
Apr 1 Max Ernst, German-French surrealist painter and sculptor (founded surrealism), dies at 85
Apr 1 Miroslav Ponc, Czech composer, dies at 73
Apr 2 Ray Teal, American actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, Bonanza), dies at 74
Apr 3 Maurice Johnstone, English brass band composer, dies at 75
Apr 4 Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American physicist and electronic engineer who contributed to communication theory (Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem; Nyquist rate), dies at 87

Howard Hughes (1905-1976)

Apr 5 American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator, dies at 72

Wilder Penfield (1891-1976)

Apr 5 American-born Canadian neurosurgeon, dies at 85

Apr 6 Ruth Plumly Thomson, American children's writer (Oz series), dies at 84
Apr 6 Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter, 1st American Matador, dies at 72
Apr 7 Mary Margaret McBride, American radio personality (WOR-AM, NYC), dies at 76
Apr 9 Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, dies at 46
Apr 9 Phil Ochs, American anti-war folk singer ("I Ain't Marching Anymore"; "Draft Dodger Rag"), commits suicide at 35
Apr 11 Liam Dunn, American actor, dies at 59
Apr 12 Paul Ford, American actor (Phil Silvers Show), dies at 74
Apr 14 José Revueltas, Mexican write and political activist, dies after a heart attack at 61
Apr 14 Maudie Prickett [Doyle], American character actress (Harvey; Hazel - "Rosie"), dies of renal failure at 61
Apr 15 Gerald Smith, American antisemite (Nationalist Christian Crusade), dies at 78
Apr 17 Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist who discovered vitamin K and won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Medicine, dies at 81
Apr 17 Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85
Apr 18 Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization engineer, dies at 65
Apr 22 Frutuoso de Lima Viana, Brazilian pianist and composer, dies at 79
Apr 23 James Flavin, American actor (King Kong, In Cold Blood, Man With a Camera), dies from a ruptured aorta at 69
Apr 23 Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater (Olympic gold 1932, 36), dies at 66
Apr 23 Ronald Radd, British actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
Apr 23 Shimen Ruskin, Polish actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time), dies at 69
Apr 24 Mark Tobey, US abstract painter, (Broadway Norm), dies at 85
Apr 25 Alexander Brailowsky, Russian-French pianist (Chopin specialist), dies at 80
Apr 25 Carol Reed, English film director (Agony & Ecstasy, Oliver!), dies at 69
Apr 25 Margaret Bannerman, actress (Great Defender), dies at 79
Apr 26 Allan Jackson, American newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60
Apr 26 Neil McCallum, British-Canadian actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45
Apr 26 Sid James [Solomon Joel Cohen], South African-born British character & comedy actor (Hancock's Half Hour, Carry On), dies from a heart attack at 62
Apr 28 Eugen Roth, German poet, dies at 81
Apr 28 Richard Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth), dies at 76
Apr 29 Wilhelm Maler, German composer, dies at 73
Apr 30 Edvard Fliflet Braein, Norwegian composer (Ut mot havet (Out To Sea); Anne Pedersdotter), dies at 51
May 1 Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet and politician who fought the military junta in Greece, dies in a car accident at 36
May 1 Rex O'Malley, British actor (Camille, Zara, Midnight, Thief), dies at 75
May 1 T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
May 3 David Bruce [Marden Andrew McBroom], American actor (The Mad Ghoul, Flying Tigers), dies from a heart attack at 60
May 3 Ernie Nevers, American College, Pro Football Hall of Fame fullback, coach (Stanford, Chicago Cardinals), dies of heart & kidney ailments at 72
May 4 Henri Bosco, French author and poet (Gogol), dies at 87
May 5 Thomas Burnett Swann, American sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies of cancer at 47
May 6 Karel Cruysberghs, Flemish religious writer (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
May 7 Alan Baxter, American actor (Big Town Girl,;Rags to Riches), dies at 67

Fred McLeod (1882-1976)

May 8 Scottish golfer (US Open 1908), dies at 94

May 8 Ulrike Meinhof, German journalist who lead Germany Red Army Faction ("Baader-Meinhof gang"), dies in uncertain circumstances in prison at 41
May 9 Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian poet and writer (Dikt, Jonas), dies at 55
May 9 Raymond Chevreuille, Belgian composer, dies at 74
May 9 Valentino Bucchi, Italian composer, dies at 59
May 10 Elias Aslaksen, Leader of Smith's Friends (b. 1888)
May 10 George Curzon, dies at 77
May 11 Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (Finlandia House) and designer, dies at 78
May 11 Camille Schmit, Belgian composer, dies at 68
May 12 Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72), dies at 65
May 14 Keith Relf, British blues-rock singer and harmonica player (The Yardbirds - "For Your Love"; Renaissance, 1969-71), electrocuted while playing an improperly earthed electric guitar at 33
May 15 Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), dies at 88
May 17 Charles Stepney, American pianist, arranger, and record producer (Chess Records; Minnie Riperton; Ramsey Lewis; Earth, Wind & Fire), dies of a heart attack at 45
May 20 Syd Howe, Canadian Hockey HOF left wing (Stanley Cup 1936, 37, 43 Detroit Red Wings), dies from throat cancer at 64
May 20 Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
May 21 Harold Blair, Australian tenor and Aboriginal activist, dies at 51
May 21 Sulo Nikolai Salonen, Finnish composer, dies at 77
May 24 Melle Oldeboerrigter, Dutch painter and cartoonist, dies at 65
May 26 Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player (Australian C'ships 1930), dies at 71
May 26 Juan Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

May 26 German philosopher (Being & Time), dies at 86

May 27 Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
May 28 Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter, mostly of local landscapes, dies at 53
May 30 Max Carey, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (World Series 1925; 10 × NL stolen base leader; Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Robins) and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies at 86
May 30 Vic Ghezzi, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1941), dies of cancer at 65
May 31 Jacques Monod, French biochemist (1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis), dies at 66
May 31 Martha Mitchell [nee Beall], American wife of US Attorney General John Mitchell (who was kidnapped so she wouldn't talk), dies of multiple myeloma at 57
Jun 1 Pierre Balledux, Dutch actor, theatre director (The Hague Players), and resistance fighter, dies at 89
Jun 2 Alan Dewitt, American actor (It's About Time), dies at 55
Jun 2 Bartoes [Albertus J Wijstma], cabaret performer, dies at 73
Jun 2 Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
Jun 5 Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
Jun 5 Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101

J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

Jun 6 American oil magnate and billionaire (Getty Oil), dies at 83

Jun 6 Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (Divine Lady; King of Kings; Big City), dies at 85
Jun 7 Bobby Hackett, American jazz cornetist, trumpeter (Glenn Miller; Benny Goodman; Jackie Gleason), and orchestra leader (Air Time '57), dies at 61
Jun 9 Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain), dies at 67
Jun 9 James A. Farley, American politician (ran Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign, US Postmaster General 1932-38), dies at 88
Jun 9 Paul Rodenko, Dutch poet and writer (Never Marry a Witch), dies at 55
Jun 9 Sybil Thorndike, English actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93
Jun 10 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American fur trader and movie producer, dies at 103
Jun 11 Folke Eriksberg [Eriksberger], Swedish jazz and session guitarist and composer, dies at 65
Jun 11 Jim Konstanty, American MLB relief pitcher (MLB All Star 1950; NL MVP 1950; Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 59
Jun 12 Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Prime Minister of South Vietnam, dies at 68
Jun 13 Don Bolles, American journalist (against Arizona), dies
Jun 14 Géza Anda, Hungarian-Swiss pianist (Mozart; Bartók), dies at 54
Jun 15 Jimmy Dykes, American MLB infielder (MLB All Star 1933-34 Chicago WS; World Series 1929-30 Philadelphia A's) and manager (Chicago White Sox, 1934-46), dies at 79
Jun 16 Francis E. Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed at 59
Jun 16 Victor Lord, American fictional character on TV soap opera "One Life to Live", dies at 59
Jun 20 Lou Klein, American baseball infielder (St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia A's) and manager (Chicago Cubs), dies from a stroke at 57
Jun 21 Margaret Herrick, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences director (b. 1902)
Jun 23 Dehart Hubbard, American athlete (Olympic gold -long jump,1924; first African American to win individual event; WR 7.89m 1925), dies at 72
Jun 23 Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (1965 ASMP award), dies at 93

Jun 25 American singer, Academy Award-winning lyricist ("Moon River"; "That Old Black Magic"; "And the Angels Sing": Come Rain Or Come Shine"), and record label executive (Capitol Records), dies from an inoperable brain tumor at 66 [1]