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Rubén Morán
Uruguayan footballer (1930-1978)
Paul Yü Pin
Chinese cardinal (1901-1978)
Liane Augustin
German-Austrian singer
Wendy Barrie
British actress
Bob Crane
American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (1928–1978)
Carlos Riolfo
Uruguayan footballer (1905-1978)
Roy Harrod
English economist (1900–1978)
Fernando Peyroteo
Portuguese football player/manager (1918-1978)
Charles Eames
American designer (1907-1978)
Leo Genn
English actor (1905–1978)
Federico Chávez
President of Paraguay (1949-1954)
Wadie Haddad
politician (1927-1978)
Nicolau dos Reis Lobato
Prime Minister of East Timor (1946-1978)
Jan Parandowski
Polish writer (1895–1978)
Chill Wills
American actor (1902–1978)
Jean Nicolas
French footballer (1913-1978)
Gotthard Handrick
German flying ace (1908–1978)
Jacques Bergier
French writer and scientist (1912–1978)
Edward Lindberg
Track and field competitor (1886–1978)
Willy Hansen
Danish cyclist (1906-1978)
Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia
Russian prince (1896-1978)
Henryk Zygalski
Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1908–1978)
Greta Johansson
Swedish diver (1895–1978)
Ali Soilih
President of Comoros (1937-1978)
Rudolf Svensson
Swedish Olympic wrestler (1899–1978)
Roman Karmen
Soviet cameraman and film director (1906-1978)
Jerzy Kuryłowicz
Polish linguist (1895–1978)
Paul Yoshigorō Taguchi
Japanese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (1902–1978)
Georges Speicher
French road bicycle racer (1907–1978)
Nancy Spungen
American girlfriend of Sid Vicious
Edmundo Suárez
Spanish football manager (1916-1978)
Eric Frank Russell
English science fiction writer (1905–1978)
Diana Budisavljević
Austrian humanitarian (1891–1978)
Hanns Johst
German poet and playwright (1890–1978)
Josef Frings
archbishop and cardinal from Germany
Cyrille Adoula
Congolese Prime Minister, Ambassador (1921-1978)
Oliver Leese
British Army general (1894-1978)
Isidro Ayora
President of Ecuador (1926 - 1931)
Jorge Icaza Coronel
Ecuadorian writer (1906-1978)
Franz Bäke
German dentist and general (1898-1978)
Hans Stuck
German racecar driver (1900–1978)
Zivia Lubetkin
Polish Jewish underground leader (1914–1978)
Jesús Glaría
Footballer (1942-1978)
Oskar Homolka
Austrian actor (1898–1978)
Philip Khuri Hitti
Lebanese-American academic and authority on the Middle East (1886-1978)
Julio Jaramillo
Ecuadorian singer (1935–1978)
Will Geer
American actor and activist (1902–1978)
Herbert Kappler
Nazi war criminal (1907-1978)
Duncan Grant
British artist (1885-1978)
Luo Ruiqing
Chinese general, politician (1906-1978)
James Daly
American actor (1918–1978)
Karl Lennart Oesch
Finnish general and war criminal (1892-1978)
Selwyn Lloyd
politician (1904-1978)
José Gonzalvo
Spanish footballer (1920–1978)
Mária Mednyánszky
Hungarian table tennis player (1901-1978)
Burt Munro
New Zealand motorcycle racer (1899–1978)
George Maciunas
Lithuanian artist (1931–1978)
Claude Dauphin
French actor (1903-1978)
Mauk Weber
Dutch footballer (1914-1978)
Francisco Mendes
Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (1939-1978)