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In the year 1978
503 Notable deaths
Winifred Westover
American actress (1899–1978).
Born November 9th, 1899 in San Francisco.
Died March 19th, 1978 at 78 years old in Los Angeles.
Masao Koga
Japanese musician (1904–1978).
Born November 18th, 1904 in Okawa.
Died July 25th, 1978 at 73 years old
Edith Jacobson
American german-born md & psychoanalyst.
Born September 10th, 1897 in Chojnów.
Died December 8th, 1978 at 81 years old in Rochester.
Mir Jalal Pashayev
Azerbaijani writer.
Born April 26th, 1908 in Ardabil. [ref]
Died September 28th, 1978 at 70 years old in Baku. [ref]
Kathryn McGuire
American actress (1903-1978).
Born December 6th, 1903 in Peoria.
Died October 10th, 1978 at 74 years old in Los Angeles (cancer).
Hanna Ralph
German actress (1888-1978).
Born September 25th, 1885 in Bad Kissingen.
Died March 25th, 1978 at 92 years old in Berlin.
Valentine Penrose
French writer and artist (1898–1978).
Born January 1st, 1898 in Mont-de-Marsan. [ref]
Died August 7th, 1978 at 80 years old in Chiddingly. [ref]
Werner Finck
German actor (1902-1978).
Born May 2nd, 1902 in Görlitz. [ref]
Died July 31st, 1978 at 76 years old in Munich. [ref]
Philip Khuri Hitti
Lebanese-american academic and authority on the middle east (1886-1978).
Born June 22nd, 1886 in Shemlan.
Died December 24th, 1978 at 92 years old in Princeton.
Kiyoshi Oka
Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978).
Born April 19th, 1901 in Osaka. [ref]
Died March 1st, 1978 at 76 years old in Nara. [ref]
Deaths 271 to 280 of 503
When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. Ovid