Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1976

George Robert Groves was a film sound pioneer who played a significant role in developing the technology that brought sound to the silent screen. He is also credited as being Hollywood's first ‘sound man’; he was the recording engineer on the seminal Al Jolson picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), as well as many other early talkies. In a career with Warner Brothers that spanned 46 years, he rose to become their Director of Sound and won two Academy Awards.

Walter Hermann Schottky fue un físico alemán que desempeñó un papel importante en el desarrollo de la teoría de los fenómenos de emisión de iones y electrones, inventó la pantalla de la red de tubo de vacío en 1915 y la válvula termoiónica tetrodo en 1919 mientras trabajaba en Siemens.

Delbert Ray Fulkerson fue un matemático estadounidense que desarrolló como coautor, y junto con Lester Randolph Ford, Jr., el Algoritmo de Ford-Fulkerson, uno de los algoritmos más utilizados para computar el flujo máximo en una red de flujo.

William Zeckendorf Sr. was a prominent American real estate developer. Through his development company Webb and Knapp — for which he began working in 1938 and which he purchased in 1949 — he developed a significant portion of the New York City urban landscape. Architects I. M. Pei and Le Corbusier designed structures for Zeckendorf's development projects.

Basil Urwin Spence fue un arquitecto británico. Es conocido por haber diseñado la Catedral de Coventry en Inglaterra y el Beehive en Nueva Zelanda.

Fritz Winter was a German painter of the postwar period best known for his abstract works in the Art Informel style.

Hans Rothfels was a nationalist conservative German historian. He supported an idea of authoritarian German state, dominance of Germany over Europe and was hostile to Germany's eastern neighbours. After his applications for honorary Aryan status were rejected, due to his Jewish ancestry and increased persecution of Jewish people by Nazis, he was forced to emigrate to the United Kingdom and later to the United States during the Second World War, after which he became opposed to the Nazi regime. Rothfels returned to West Germany after 1945 where he continued to influence history teaching and became an influential figure among West German scholars.

Willi Hennig fue un biólogo y entomólogo alemán que a través de una obra singular puso en pie los principios del análisis filogenético y de la sistemática cladística. Hennig no aportó probablemente ningún concepto que no pueda rastrearse en la literatura científica anterior, pero tuvo el mérito de sistematizar e integrar las ideas esenciales en un todo riguroso y convincente.