In the year 1978
480 Notable deaths
Atanas Dalchev
Bulgarian writer (1904-1978).
Born June 12th, 1904 in Thessaloniki. [ref]
Died January 17th, 1978 at 73 years old in Sofia. [ref]
Robert Heger
German composer and conductor.
Born August 19th, 1886 in Strasbourg. [ref]
Died January 15th, 1978 at 91 years old in Munich. [ref]
Artyom Alikhanian
Soviet armenian physicist (1908-1978).
Born June 24th, 1908 in Tbilisi.
Died February 25th, 1978 at 69 years old in Moscow.
Viggo Brun
Norwegian mathematician.
Born October 13th, 1885 in Lier.
Died August 15th, 1978 at 92 years old in Drøbak.
Georg Morgenstierne
Norwegian linguist.
Born January 2nd, 1892 in Christiania.
Died March 3rd, 1978 at 86 years old in Christiania.
Giuseppe Berto
Writer, screenwriter.
Born December 27th, 1914 in Mogliano Veneto. [ref]
Died November 2nd, 1978 at 63 years old in Rome (cancer). [ref]
Jorge de Sena
Poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor (1919-1978).
Born November 2nd, 1919 in Lisbon.
Died June 4th, 1978 at 58 years old in Santa Barbara.
Ieva Simonaitytė
Lithuanian writer (1897-1978).
Born January 23rd, 1897 in Vanagai. [ref]
Died August 27th, 1978 at 81 years old in Vilnius. [ref]
Mario Varglien
Italian footballer and manager (1905-1978).
Born December 26th, 1905 in Rijeka.
Died August 11th, 1978 at 72 years old in Rome.
Mark Naimark
Russian mathematician (1909-1978).
Born December 5th, 1909 in Odesa.
Died December 30th, 1978 at 69 years old in Moscow.
Deaths 321 to 330 of 480
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot