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Lee Metcalf
American politician (1911-1978)
Giacomo Violardo
Catholic cardinal (1898-1978)
Louis Zukofsky
American poet (1904–1978)
Abraham Kovoor
Sri Lankan rationalist and professor (1898–1978)
Robert Debré
French physician (1882-1978)
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian
Russian inventor (1898–1978)
George Scratchley Brown
US Air Force general (1918-1978)
Makhosini Dlamini
Prime Minister of Swaziland (1914-1978)
Robert Heger
German composer and conductor (1886–1978)
Dimitrie Cuclin
Romanian composer and philosopher (1885-1978)
Anders Nygren
Swedish bishop (1890–1978)
Ralston Crawford
American artist (1906-1978)
Archibald Clark Robertson
Scottish footballer and manager (1929-1978)
Gluck
British painter (1895–1978)
Oleg Karavayev
Olympic wrestler (1936–1978)
John Brisker
American basketball player (1947–1985)
Edith Jacobson
American German-born MD & psychoanalyst
Thayer David
American actor (1927-1978)
Margarete Bieber
German-American art historian (1879–1978)
Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola
Spanish philosopher (1917–1978)
Bruno Bušić
Croatian writer (1939–1978)
Bhim Sen Sachar
Indian politician (1894-1978)
Lola Cueto
Mexican artist (1897-1978)
Sigurd Evensmo
Norwegian writer (1912-1978)
Jean Gounot
gymnast
Ammu Swaminathan
Indian politician (1894-1978)
Cesare Andrea Bixio
Italian composer (1896-1978)
Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz
German General and Knight's Cross recipient
Karl Eliasberg
conductor (1907–1978)
Jackie Scott
Northern Irish footballer (1933-1978)
Romain Gijssels
Belgian cyclist
Ford Beebe
American screenwriter, film director (1888–1978)
Clarence Dill
American politician (1884-1978)
Ian MacDonald
American actor (1914-1978)
Julio Bracho
Mexican film director and screenwriter (1909-1978)
Chris Bell
American singer
Kiyoshi Oka
Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978)
Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock
SS officer (1897–1978)
Wilhelm Adam
German politician (1893–1978)
Adil Isgandarov
Azerbaijani actor and film director (1912-1978)
Xhafer Deva
Albanian politician (1904-1978)
Janet Flanner
American journalist (1892–1978)
Vitorino Nemésio
Portuguese writer (1901–1978)
Georges Perros
French writer (1923-1978)
Johannes Herbert
German wrestler
Basil Dean
British actor and filmmaker
Georges Prud'Homme
Canadian boxer
Harry Bertoia
Italian-American artist and designer (1915–1978)
Joe Marsala
Italian-American jazz clarinetist and songwriter
Mary Lines
British athlete
Sait Altınordu
Turkish association football player (1912–1978)
Joe Gordon
American baseball player and coach (1915–1978)
Henri Curiel
Jewish-Egyptian communist (1914-1978)
Roy L. Dennis
American boy with a rare disorder
Lilly Becher
German writer (1901–1978)
Karel Hromádka
Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1905–1978)
Robert Charroux
French writer, pseudohistorian and white supremacist (1909-1978)
Hanna Honthy
Hungarian opera singer and actress (1893–1978)
Guido Stampacchia
Italian mathematician (1922-1978)
Gustav Sorge
German SS officer, concentration camp guard and convicted war criminal (1911-1978)