1976 (people)


 * 6 January - Writer Guy Adams was born.
 * 28 January - Actor James Mellor died.
 * 28 January - Actor Lee Ingleby was born.
 * 29 January - Writer Mark Clapham was born.
 * 10 February - Actor Keeley Hawes was born.
 * 16 February - Actor Campbell Singer died.
 * 24 February - Actor Marnix Van Den Broeke was born.
 * 27 February - Actor Nikki Amuka-Bird was born.
 * 8 March - Actor Anna Madeley was born.
 * 17 March - Actor Stephen Gately was born.
 * 27 March - Actor Jasmine Breaks was born.
 * 4 April - Actor George Pastell died.
 * 10 April - Actors Clare Buckfield and Julie Buckfield were born as twin sisters.
 * 2 May - Editor Hunter M. Via was born.
 * 5 May - Artist Frank Bellamy died.
 * 6 May - Actor Alethea Charlton died.
 * 8 May - Actor Ian H Watkins was born.
 * 10 June - Director Lee Haven Jones was born.
 * 24 June - Writer Simon Guerrier was born.
 * 28 June - Composer Malcolm Lockyer died.
 * 9 July - Actor Elliot Cowan was born.
 * 13 July - Actor Frederick Schrecker died.
 * 19 July - Actor Benedict Cumberbatch was born.
 * 24 July - Actor Jack Tarlton was born.
 * 24 July - Actor Laura Fraser was born.
 * 6 August - Actor William Mervyn died.
 * 9 August - Actor Eva Alexander was born.
 * 24 September - Actor Matthew Gravelle was born.
 * 10 November - Actor Jeremy Radick was born.
 * 13 November - Actor Camilla Power was born.
 * 19 December - Actor Peter Ducrow died.
 * 4 December - Actor Jonathan Forbes was born.
 * 20 December - Actor Walter Fitzgerald died.
 * Unknown - Actor Shannon Murray was born.
 * Unknown - Actor Paul Phillips died.