1976: The Year in People

What happened in 1976

1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.

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Died in 1976

• Agatha Christie1890–1976 · English mystery and detective writer
• Anissa Jones1958–1976 · American child actress
• Dalton Trumbo1905–1976 · American screenwriter
• Fritz Lang1890–1976 · Austrian filmmaker
• Max Ernst1891–1976 · German artist
• Benjamin Britten1913–1976 · English composer and pianist
• Carol Reed1906–1976 · English film director
• Benjamin Graham1894–1976 · American financial analyst, investor, and professor
• Adolph Zukor1873–1976 · Hungarian-American film producer
• André Malraux1901–1976 · French novelist, art theorist, and statesman
• Busby Berkeley1895–1976 · American film director and musical choreographer
• Alastair Sim1900–1976 · Scottish actor