1978 deaths

German SS officer, concentration camp guard and convicted war criminal (1911-1978)

German stunt performer (1905-1978)

American boy with a rare disorder

Indian politician (1887–1978)

poet (1903-1978)

Turkish association football player (1912–1978)

1st First Lady of Afghanistan

President of Rhodesia (1913-1978)

Venezuelan producer and entertainer (1928–1978)

British academic (1931–1978)

Hungarian pair skater (1901–1978)

Russian composer (1909–1978)

French astronomer (1904–1978)

Polish politician (1895-1978)

French politician (1940–1978)

gymnast

Italian bicycle racer

Algerian musicians (1907-1978)

Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama

American historian and journalist (1899-1978)

Soviet handball player (1949–1978)

American politician (1891–1978)

Film actress (1922-1978)

Australian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist (1938–1978)

American singer, bandleader and composer

sailor (1894-1978)

Israeli politician (1899-1978)

Canadian actress (1898-1978)

Indian politician (1891–1978)

Jewish-Egyptian communist (1914-1978)

British athlete

Japanese Mashiko ware Potter (1894-1978)

Japanese musician (1904–1978)

Australian actress

American cinematographer (1906-1978)

Japanese politician (1892-1978)

Uzbekistani film director and actor (1903-1978)

American politician (1908-1978)

English cricketer (1894-1978)

British actor (1892-1978)

Egyptian association football player (1934–1978)

British astronomer and historian of science (1890–1978)

Dutch painter (1895-1978)

Hungarian opera singer and actress (1893–1978)

Luxembourgish bicycle racer (1915-1978)

Hungarian historian and politician (1891-1978)

Italian-American jazz clarinetist and songwriter

Soviet actor (1914–1978)

British Army general (1906–1978)

French writer, pseudohistorian and white supremacist (1909-1978)

Japanese tennis player (1899–1978)

Italian mathematician (1922-1978)

American entomologist (1884-1978)

Czech academic, lexicographer, linguist, literature historian, professor, publicist, translator, university educator and science writer (1893-1978)

Austrian film director (1899-1978)

Malagasy writer (1913-1978)

Hungarian noble; wife and biographer of dancer-choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky

American diplomat (1894–1978)

Italian democratic socialist politician and journalist (1903-1978)

Cuban singer (1912-1978)