1978 deaths

Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (1939-1978)

Olympic wrestler (1900-1978)

American statistician (1900-1978)

American singer, vaudevillian, musical theatre performer and film actress (1897–1978)

New Zealand motorcycle racer (1899–1978)

Japanese ornithologist and mammalogist (1889–1978)

Latvian writer (1897–1978)

Argentine film director and screenwriter (1924-1978)

French fencer (1891–1977)

Ukrainian soviet sculptor, actor and film director (1887-1978)

Dutch equestrian (1892-1978)

American actress and novelist (1900–1978)

Catholic cardinal (1901–1978)

German film actor and director (1903–1978)

Soviet actor, theatre director (1904–1978)

Soviet actress (1906-1978)

British cinematographer (1914-1978)

Estonian writer (1898-1978)

Swedish photographer and inventor (1906–1978)

American lawyer and 37th Mayor of San Francisco from 1976 to 1978

English jazz and big band musician (1903–1978)

English writer, poet, activist (1893-1978)

American ornithologist and avian paleontologist (1886-1978)

American jazz pianist and composer (1919–1978)

Italian political activist murdered by the Mafia (1948-1978)

American tennis player (1908-1978)

German racing driver (1913–1978)

American actor and television host (1891–1978)

American novelist (1903-1978)

Polish artist (1898-1978)

Belgian road bicycle racer (1929–1978)

Boss of the Colombo Crime Family (1923–1978)

American figure skater

Hungarian rower (1885–1978)

African-American actor and film producer (1881–1978)

poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor (1919–1978)

Prime Minister of Iran (1919-1978)

American philosopher of law (1902-1978)

Czech footballer (1912-1978)

actor (1898-1978)

American record producer (1931–1978)

American guitarist and singer (1946–1978)

American folk singer (1900–1978)

American actress (1903-1978)

Australian tennis player (1916–1978)

Mexican chess player (1904-1978)

British literary critic (1895–1978)

Belgian francophone poet (1899–1978)

American actress (1895–1978)

Turkish businessperson (1912–1978)

Swiss rower (1893-1978)

Breton writer (1900–1978)

Olympic wrestler (1902-1978)

Soviet singer (1906-1978)

Swiss racing driver (1902-1978)

French actress (1914-1978)

Croatian footballer (1945–1978)

German World War II general (1909-1978)

Spanish historian (1903-1978)

writer, screenwriter (1914–1978)