1978 deaths

Italian footballer (1903-1978)

Prime Minister of Laos (1907-1978)

American novelist and screenwriter (1915–1978)

Danish politician (1914-1978)

English snooker and billiards player (1901–1978)

Irish judge and 5th President of Ireland (1911-1978)

American film executive (1892–1978)

President of Mexico (1928-1930)

24th Prime Minister of Norway (1905–1978)

British sprinter (1899–1978)

American actress (1928-1978)

French mathematician

Austrian-born essayist and Holocaust survivor (1912-1978)

Argentine association football player (1905-1978)

American actress (1893–1978)

President of Madagascar (1906-1979)

American chemist (1893–1978)

medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin (1899-1978)

American actor, singer and dancer (1915–1978)

American actress of stage, film and television (1892-1978)

Argentine footballer and manager (1916-1978)

Norwegian mathematician (1885–1978)

Nazi physician (1911–1978)

President of Argentina (1915-1978)

American athlete and politician (1910–1978)

American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist (1903-1978)

Italian footballer and manager (1905-1978)

German pacifist, writer and poet (1886–1978)

Mexican composer (1899-1978)

Soviet basketball player (1951–1978)

French author and philosopher (1913-1978)

French tennis player (1895-1978)

film director, producer, and editor from Canada (1913-1978)

American boxer (1897-1978)

American politician (1925–1978)

Italian architect and designer (1906–1978)

Romanian Royal (1903–1978), prince regent of Romania from 1927 to 1930

French tennis player (1882-1978)

Latvian athletics competitor (1904–1978)

Swedish racing driver

British archaeologist (1906-1978)

Hungarian art historian (1892-1978)

Swedish sinologist and linguist (1889–1978)

American actor (1903–1978)

South African politician (1903-1978)

Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)

American photojournalist (1918–1978)

British archaeologist (1904-1978)

Argentine footballer (1902-1978)

British singer (1947–1978)

United States general (1897–1978)

American mathematician (1894–1978)

American swimmer

Prime Minister of Ghana (1969-1972)

French poet and politician (1912–1978)

Soviet general (1892-1978)

South African teacher, Pan-Africanist, and anti-apartheid activist (1924-1978)

Soviet Armenian physicist (1908-1978)

Korean-American actor (1905–1978)

Italian racing cyclist (1893–1978)