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Dead at age 78
1,597 Notable deaths
Stirling Silliphant
American screenwriter.
Born January 16th, 1918 in Detroit. [ref]
Died April 26th, 1996 at 78 years old in Bangkok. [ref]
Milena Dravić
Serbian actress (1940-2018).
Born October 5th, 1940 in Belgrade.
Died October 14th, 2018 at 78 years old in Belgrade (pancreatic cancer). [ref]
Mel Winkler
American actor (1941–2020).
Born October 23rd, 1941 in St. Louis.
Died June 11th, 2020 at 78 years old in Hollywood. [ref]
Winnaretta Singer
American socialite.
Born January 8th, 1865 in Yonkers. [ref]
Died November 26th, 1943 at 78 years old in London.
Stanley Anderson
American actor (1939–2018).
Born October 23rd, 1939 in Billings.
Died June 24th, 2018 at 78 years old in Santa Rosa (brain cancer). [ref]
Jack Twyman
American basketball player.
Born May 21st, 1934 in Pittsburgh.
Died May 30th, 2012 at 78 years old in Cincinnati (cancer). [ref]
Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist (1875-1953).
Born February 4th, 1875 in Freising. [ref]
Died August 15th, 1953 at 78 years old in Göttingen. [ref]
Eoin MacNeill
Irish politician and scholar (1867-1945).
Born May 15th, 1867 in Glenarm. [ref]
Died October 15th, 1945 at 78 years old in Dublin. [ref]
Milt Kahl
American animator (1909-1987).
Born March 22nd, 1909 in San Francisco.
Died April 19th, 1987 at 78 years old in Mill Valley (pneumonia).
Alfred Zech
German child soldier (1932–2011).
Born October 12th, 1932 in Złotniki.
Died June 13th, 2011 at 78 years old in Hückelhoven.
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner