List of Famous people who are 78

Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov is a former Soviet cosmonaut and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

Francis Silvestri Rizzo is an American politician. He is the son of former Philadlephia Mayor Frank Rizzo and served as a Republican and Independent member of the Philadelphia City Council for sixteen years.

Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, author, and screenwriter. He specializes in the history of early rock and roll and has written on Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke.

Brit Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, former County Governor of Buskerud. She was Minister of Education and Church Affairs from 1986 to 1988 and Minister of International Development from 1988 to 1989.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist and convicted felon who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. During a short-lived alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice.

Finn Erling Kydland is a Norwegian economist known for his contributions to business cycle theory. He is the Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds the Richard P. Simmons Distinguished Professorship at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his Ph.D., and a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). Kydland was a co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, with Edward C. Prescott, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles."