Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1978
Albert Arnold Gillespie
Albert Arnold "Buddy" Gillespie was an American cinema special effects artist.
Raffaele Brignetti
Raffaello Brignetti was an Italian writer. He grew up on the island of Elba where his father was a lighthouse keeper. He moved to Rome in the middle of the Second World War, and spent a couple of years in German labour camps. He studied modern Italian literature at university, graduating in 1947. He was a disciple of Ungaretti, in common with other young idealistic intellectuals of his era such as Leone Piccioni, Silori Luigi, Mario Petrucciani, Elio Filippo Accrocca, etc.
Mamadou Ouédraogo
Mamadou Ouédraogo was a politician in the French Upper Volta.
François Varillon
François Varillon (1905–1978) was a French Jesuit and theologian. He was also a writer of some significance. He entered the Society of Jesus, as a novitiate, at 22 and was ordained in 1937. He won the Grand prix catholique de littérature in 1974 for L’humilité de Dieu.
Leone Minassian
Leone Minassian was an Italian painter and printmaker of Armenian descent. His work is an important representative of European post-war abstract painting. Minassian lived in Venice for more than 40 years.
Wim van Doorne
Jivraj Narayan Mehta
Jivraj Narayan Mehta was an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He served as the first "Dewan" of the erstwhile Baroda state, and Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1966.
Samuel Storey, Baron Buckton
Samuel Storey, Baron Buckton, known as Sir Samuel Storey, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1966, was a British Conservative politician.
Ida Noddack
Ida Noddack, cuyo nombre de soltera era Ida Eva Tacke, fue una química y física alemana. Fue la primera científica en mencionar la idea de la fisión nuclear, en 1934. Junto con su marido Walter Noddack, de quien tomó el apellido, descubrió el elemento renio, de número atómico 75. Fue nominada tres veces para el Premio Nobel de Química.
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh es un político irlandés, quinto Presidente de Irlanda, desde 1974 hasta 1976. Tiene una notable carrera legal, fue Juez Presidente de Irlanda.