Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1978

Ralph Metcalfe fue un atleta estadounidense, especialista en la prueba de 4 x 100 m en la que llegó a ser campeón olímpico en 1936.

Karl Paul Gerhard Link was an American biochemist best known for his discovery of the anticoagulant warfarin.

The Kate Sharpley Library is a library dedicated to anarchist texts and history. Started in 1979 and reorganized in 1991, it currently holds around ten thousand English language volumes, pamphlets and periodicals.

Baron Leo Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger, also Leo Friedrich Alfred Baron von Erlanger was an English merchant banker and air transport promoter, Chairman of the Erlanger Bank and of the Channel Tunnel Company.

Herbert Dingle was an English physicist and philosopher of science, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953. He is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.

Claude A. Watson was an American politician, lawyer, businessman, and minister from Hermon, who was nationally active in the temperance movement and the Prohibition Party. He is currently the most recent presidential nominee of the Prohibition party to have received over 100,000 votes.

Naoki Hoshino was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo.

Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld was an Austrian-American physicist.

Milton de Oliveira Ismael Silva, known as Ismael Silva, was a Brazilian samba musician. In 1925 he had his first recorded his samba. His best-known compositions were Me faz carinhos, Se você jurar, Antonico, Para me livrar do mal, Novo amor, Ao romper da aurora, Tristezas não pagam dívidas, Me diga o teu nome, among others.