Editing 1978 (section)

== Deaths ==
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=== January ===
[[File:Kurt gödel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kurt Gödel]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Cyril King]], [[Governor of the United States Virgin Islands]] (b. [[1921]])
*[[January 6]] – [[Burt Munro]], New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. [[1899]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Hubert Humphrey]], 38th [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[January 14]] 
** [[Harold Abrahams]], British athlete (b. [[1899]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68824 |title=Harold Abrahams |website=[[Olympedia]] |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref>
** [[Kurt Gödel]], Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 22]] – [[Herbert Sutcliffe]], English cricketer (b. [[1894]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Terry Kath]], American rock musician ([[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]) (b. [[1946]])
** [[Jack Oakie]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[January 26]] – [[Leo Genn]], English actor and barrister (b. [[1905]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Oscar Homolka]], Austrian actor (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Homolka Oscar Homolka Austrian actor]</ref>
* [[January 29]] – [[Tim McCoy]], American actor (b. [[1891]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Marie-Louise Damien]], French actress (b. [[1889]])

=== February ===
[[File:Phillip ahn as kan.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Philip Ahn]]]]
* [[February 9]] – [[Warren King (cartoonist)|Warren King]], American cartoonist (b. [[1916]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Redento Maria Gauci]], Maltese [[Carmelite]] bishop (b. [[1920]])
* [[February 11]] – [[James B. Conant]], American chemist (b. [[1893]])
*[[February 15]] – [[Ilka Chase]], American actress (b. [[1905]])<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/16/archives/ilka-chase-actress-and-author-72-is-dead-in-mexico-criticism-etched.html | title=Ilka Chase, Act'ress and Author, 72, is Dead in Mexico | newspaper=The New York Times | date=16 February 1978 }}</ref>
* [[February 17]] – [[Artemiy Artsikhovsky]], Soviet archaeologist and historian (b. [[1902]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Maggie McNamara]], American actress (b. [[1928]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Pankaj Mullick]], Indian composer and singer (b. [[1905]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Vitorino Nemesio]], Portuguese poet and author (b. [[1901]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vitorino-Nemesio Vitorino Nemésio Portuguese author]</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Alma Thomas]], African-American painter (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 28]] – [[Philip Ahn]], Korean-born American actor (b. [[1905]])

=== March ===
[[File:Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, 1975 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]]]]
* [[March 1]] – [[Paul Scott (novelist)|Paul Scott]], English writer (b. [[1920]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Claude François]], French entertainer (b. [[1939]])
* [[March 13]] – [[John Cazale]], American actor (b. [[1935]])
* [[March 17]]
** [[Eddie Aikau]], American lifeguard and surfer (b. [[1946]])
** [[Giacomo Violardo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1898]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Peggy Wood]], American actress (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wood-peggy-1892-1978 Wood, Peggy (1892–1978)]</ref>
* [[March 19]] – [[Gaston Julia]], French mathematician (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]], Irish barrister, judge and 5th [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 22]] – [[Isidro Ayora]], 22nd [[President of Ecuador]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[March 24]] – [[André Lallemand]], French astronomer (b. [[1904]])
* [[March 31]] 
** [[Astrid Allwyn]], American actress (b. [[1905]])
** [[Charles Best (medical scientist)|Charles Best]], Canadian medical scientist (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-H-Best Charles H. Best American physiologist]</ref>

=== April ===
[[File:Philibert Tsiranana 1962-08-29.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Philibert Tsiranana]]]]
* [[April 8]] – [[Lon L. Fuller]], American legal philosopher (b. [[1902]])
* [[April 9]] – [[Vivian McGrath]], Australian tennis player (b. [[1916]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti]], Nigerian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. [[1900]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Lucius D. Clay]], American military governor of Germany after [[World War II]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Philibert Tsiranana]], Malagasy leader and politician, 1st [[President of Madagascar]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Sandy Denny]], British singer-songwriter (b. [[1947]])
* [[April 22]] – [[Will Geer]], American actor (b. [[1902]])
* [[April 27]] – [[John Doeg]], American tennis player (b. [[1908]])

=== May ===
[[File:Aldo Moro 1968.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Aldo Moro]]]]
[[File:Portrait Menzies 1950s.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Robert Menzies]]]]
* [[May 1]] – [[Aram Khachaturian]], Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 6]] – [[Ethelda Bleibtrey]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1902]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Duncan Grant]], Scottish painter (b. [[1885]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Aldo Moro]], Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (assassinated) (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Alby Roberts]], New Zealand cricketer (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Robert Menzies|Sir Robert Menzies]], 12th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 16]] – [[William Steinberg]], German-American conductor (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Armin T. Wegner]], German human rights activist (b. [[1886]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd]], English politician (b. [[1904]])
* [[May 20]] 
** [[Ernest Cadine]], French weightlifter, Olympic champion ([[1920 Summer Olympics|1920]]) (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://olympics.com/en/athletes/ernest-cadine ERNEST CADINE]</ref>
** [[P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri]], Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://thecommunemag.com/p-s-subrahmanya-sastri-the-man-who-first-translated-ancient-tamil-text-tolkapiyam-to-english/ P.S. Subrahmanya Sastri, the man who first translated ancient Tamil text ‘Tolkapiyam’ to English]</ref>
* [[May 22]] 
** [[Joseph Colombo]], American gangster (b. [[1923]])
** [[Aubrey Fitch]], American admiral (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/aubrey-fitch.html|title=Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34)|website=NHHC}}</ref>
* [[May 26]] 
**[[Tamara Karsavina]], Soviet ballerina (b. [[1885]])
** [[Jorge Icaza Coronel]], Ecuadorean novelist (b. [[1906]])
* [[May 31]]
** [[József Bozsik]], Hungarian footballer (b. [[1925]])
** [[José Gonzalvo]], Spanish footballer and manager (b. [[1920]])

=== June ===
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[[File:Bob Crane Colonel Hogan 1969.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Bob Crane]]]]
* [[June 2]] – [[Santiago Bernabéu Yeste]], Spanish footballer, player and president of [[Real Madrid C.F.]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Jorge de Sena]], Portuguese novelist and poet (b. [[1919]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Ronald George Wreyford Norrish]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1897]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Guo Moruo]], Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician, and writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[June 17]] – [[Robert B. Williams (actor)|Robert B. Williams]], American actor (b. [[1904]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]], Canadian film director (b. [[1913]])
* [[June 21]] – [[Luther Youngdahl|Luther W. Youngdahl]], American politician, [[Governor of Minnesota]] from 1947 to 1951, and a United States district judge from 1951 to 1978 (b. [[1896]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Tom Gorman (rugby league)|Tom Gorman]], Australian rugby league footballer (b. [[1901]])<ref>[https://www.trshof.org.au/tomgorman Tom Gorman]</ref>
* [[June 24]] – [[Ahmad al-Ghashmi]], 4th [[President of the Yemen Arab Republic]] (b. [[1935]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Josette Day]], French actress (b. [[1914]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Clifford Dupont]], 1st [[President of Rhodesia]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Bob Crane]], American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (b. [[1928]])

=== July ===
[[File:ChicoMendes.tiff|thumb|100px|[[Francisco Mendes]]]]
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* [[July 1]] – [[Kurt Student]], Luftwaffe general and commander of the German airborne forces during World War II. (b. [[1890]])
* [[July 3]] – [[James Daly (actor)|James Daly]], American actor (b. [[1918]])
* [[July 6]] – [[Pietro Montana]], Italian-born American sculptor, painter and teacher (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/21/archives/pietro-montana-at-88-a-painter-and-sculptor.html Pietro Montana, at 88, A Painter and Sculptor]</ref>
* [[July 7]] – [[Francisco Mendes]], Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau]] (b. [[1939]])
* [[July 10]]
** [[Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif]], 31st [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] (b. [[1934]])
** [[Joe Davis]], English snooker and billiards player (b. [[1901]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joe-Davis Joe Davis British billiards and snooker player]</ref>
* [[July 14]] – [[Gaston Ragueneau]], French athlete (b. [[1881]])
* [[July 16]] – [[Howard Estabrook]], American actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Thayer David]], American actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Susana Calandrelli]], Argentine writer (b. [[1901]])<ref>[https://elenamorado.com/calandrelli-susana/ Artista Calandrelli, Susana] {{in lang|es}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] – [[Willem van Otterloo]], Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (b. [[1907]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Umberto Nobile]], Italian aviator and explorer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Umberto-Nobile|title=Umberto Nobile &#124; Italian explorer &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[July 31]] – [[Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia]] (b. [[1902]])

=== August ===
[[File:Paulus VI, by Fotografia Felici, 1969.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Pope Paul VI]]]]
[[File:Jomo Kenyatta 1966-06-15.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jomo Kenyatta]]]]
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Carlos Chávez]], Mexican composer (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-Chavez Carlos Chávez Mexican composer and conductor]</ref>
* [[August 6]]
** [[Pope Paul VI]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Edward Durell Stone]], American architect (b. [[1902]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Emilio Núñez Portuondo]], Cuban diplomat and politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Cuba]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 22]]
** [[Jomo Kenyatta]], Kenyan activist, politician and statesman, 1st [[Prime Minister of Kenya]] and 1st [[President of Kenya]] (b. c.[[1897]])
** [[Ignazio Silone]], Italian writer and politician (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ignazio-Silone Ignazio Silone Italian author]</ref>
* [[August 24]] – [[Louis Prima]], Italian-born American singer and actor (b. [[1910]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Olivier Hussenot]], French actor (b. [[1913]])
** [[George E. Jonas]], American philanthropist (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Charles Boyer]], French actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[José Manuel Moreno]], Argentine football player (b. [[1916]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Kofi Abrefa Busia]], Ghanese nationalist leader, 2nd [[Prime Minister of Ghana]] (b. [[1913]])
** [[Bruce Catton]], American Civil War historian, Pulitzer Prize winner (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bruce-Catton Bruce Catton American historian and journalist]</ref>
** [[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]], British actor (b. [[1927]])<ref>{{cite book|title=British Dramatists Since World War II: M-Z|publisher=Gale Research Company|year=1982|page=470}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] – [[Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer]], Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and humanitarian (b. [[1896]])<ref>[https://www.tracesofwar.nl/persons/89206/Wijsmuller-Meijer-Geertruida.htm Wijsmuller-Meijer, Geertruida]</ref>

=== September ===
[[File:Keith Moon 4 - The Who - 1975-2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Keith Moon]]]]
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* [[September 3]] – [[Karin Molander]], Swedish actress (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Leonora Cohen]], British suffragette and trade unionist (b. [[1873]])
* [[September 6]] – [[Adolf Dassler]], German founder of Adidas (b. [[1900]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Keith Moon]], English rock drummer ([[The Who]]) (b. [[1946]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Ricardo Zamora]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1901]])
* [[September 9]]
** [[Hugh MacDiarmid]], Scottish poet (b. [[1892]])
** [[Jack L. Warner]], Canadian-American film producer (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 11]]
** [[Valerian Gracias]], Indian [[Roman Catholic]] archbishop and cardinal (b. [[1900]])
** [[Georgi Markov]], Bulgarian playwright and writer (b. [[1929]])
** [[Ronnie Peterson]], Swedish Formula One driver (b. [[1944]])
** [[Curtis Shake]], American jurist (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.in.gov/library/collections-and-services/manuscripts/indiana-lawyers-and-judges/hoosier-legal-literaries/curtis-grover-shake/ Curtis Grover Shake]</ref>
* [[September 12]] – [[Frank Ferguson]], American actor (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Willy Messerschmitt]], German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. [[1898]])
* [[September 21]] – [[Peter Vogel (actor)|Peter Vogel]], German film actor (b. [[1937]])
* [[September 24]] 
** [[Lyman Bostock]], American baseball player (b. [[1950]])
** [[Hasso von Manteuffel]], German army general (b. [[1897]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Manne Siegbahn]], Swedish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1924/siegbahn/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 27]] 
** [[Sergei Aslamazyan]], Soviet composer (b. [[1897]])
** [[Dumitru Dămăceanu]], Romanian general and politician (b. [[1896]])<ref>[https://generals.dk/general/Dămăceanu/I._Dumitru/Romania.html Dămăceanu, I. Dumitru]</ref>
* [[September 28]] – [[Pope John Paul I]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[September 30]] – [[Edgar Bergen]], American actor and ventriloquist (b. [[1903]])

=== October ===
[[File:Jacques Brel (1962).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jacques Brel]]]]
[[File:RalphHMetcalfe1977.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ralph Metcalfe]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Alfredo Obviar]], Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. [[1889]])<ref>[https://herencialipena.com/2021/02/14/venerable-alfredo-ma-aranda-obviar/ Lipa’s Future Saint: Bishop Alfredo Ma. Aranda Obviar]</ref>
* [[October 4]] – [[Roy L. Dennis]], American teenager who had [[craniodiaphyseal dysplasia]] (b. [[1961]])
* [[October 8]] – 
**[[Karl Swenson]], American actor (b. [[1908]])
**[[Jim Gilliam]], American baseball player (b. [[1928]])
* [[October 9]] – [[Jacques Brel]], Belgian singer (b. [[1929]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Ralph Metcalfe]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1910]])
** [[Hermes Lima]], prime minister and foreign minister of Brazil (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Ruthven Todd]], Scottish poet, artist, and novelist (b. [[1914]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Nancy Spungen]], American groupie and girlfriend of [[Sid Vicious]] (b. [[1958]])
* [[October 15]] – [[W. Eugene Smith]], American photojournalist (b. [[1918]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Dan Dailey]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Giovanni Gronchi]], 3rd president of Italy (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giovanni-Gronchi Giovanni Gronchi president of Italy]</ref>
* [[October 19]] – [[Gig Young]], American actor (b. [[1913]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Anastas Mikoyan]], Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (b. [[1895]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Geoffrey Unsworth]], British cinematographer (b. [[1914]])

=== November ===
[[File:Margaret Mead (1901-1978).jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Margaret Mead]]]]
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<!--[[File:Harvey Milk at Gay Pride San Jose, June 1978 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|right|[[Harvey Milk]]]]-->
* [[November 4]] – [[Arshad al-Umari]], 15th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Norman Rockwell]], American artist (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Theo Lingen]], German actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Margaret Mead]], American anthropologist (b. [[1901]])
* [[November 18]]
** [[Leo Ryan]], American politician (b. [[1925]])
** [[Jim Jones]], American cult leader (b. [[1931]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Giorgio de Chirico]], Italian painter (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 24]] – [[Warren Weaver]], American scientist and mathematician (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 27]] – [[George Moscone]], American politician and then-mayor of [[San Francisco]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Harvey Milk]], American politician and activist (b. [[1930]])

=== December ===
[[File:Golda Meir 03265u.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Golda Meir]]]]
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* [[December 3]] – [[William Grant Still]], American composer (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 4]] - [[Goodie Reeve]], British born Australian radio host and musician (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Alexander Wetmore]], American ornithologist and avian palaeontologist (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 8]] – [[Golda Meir]], Israeli teacher, politician and stateswoman, 4th [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1898]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Golda Meir |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/golda-meir |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=29 July 2021 |language=en |date=16 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[December 10]]
** [[Emilio Portes Gil]], Acting president of Mexico, (1928–1930) (b. [[1890]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/emilio-portes-gil/|title=EMILIO PORTES GIL|publisher=residencia de la Republica de Mexico|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530013416/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/emilio-portes-gil/|archive-date=May 30, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Ed Wood]], American filmmaker, actor and author (b. [[1924]])
* [[December 11]] – [[Vincent du Vigneaud]], American biochemist (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Fay Compton]], English actress (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Salvador de Madariaga]], Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Chill Wills]], American actor (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 16]] – [[Blanche Calloway]], American jazz singer (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://www.blanchecalloway.com/about About - Blanche Calloway]</ref>
* [[December 17]] 
** [[Don Ellis]], American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader (b. [[1934]])
** [[Josef Frings]], German cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/josef-frings/?no_cache=1|title=German Resistance Memorial Center - Biographie|website=www.gdw-berlin.de|access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 27]]
** [[Houari Boumédiènne]], 2nd [[President of Algeria]] (b. [[1932]])
** [[Chris Bell (American musician)|Chris Bell]], American musician (b. [[1951]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Nicolau dos Reis Lobato]], East Timorese politician, acting [[President of East Timor]] (b. [[1946]])