List of Famous people who are 78

Gary Rich Burghoff is an American actor who is known for originating the role of Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Reilly in the film MASH, as well as the TV series. He was a regular on television game show Match Game from 1974 to 1975 for 140 episodes, standing in for Charles Nelson Reilly, who was in New York doing a Broadway play, but continued to make recurring appearances afterwards.

Eumir Deodato de Almeida is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova.

Geoffrey Walter Edelsten was an Australian medical entrepreneur who founded Allied Medical Group.

Hiroshi Sekiguchi is a Japanese actor, tarento, television presenter, newscaster, businessman and manager. He is a representative of the talent agency Sankei. He lives in Setagaya, Tokyo. He is the eldest of two brothers.

Harald Jäger is a former East German Passport Control Unit (PKE), lieutenant colonel who was in charge of the passport control unit. On 9 November 1989, he disobeyed orders and opened the Bornholmer Straße border crossing of the Berlin Wall.

Joanna Shimkus Poitier is a Canadian retired actress. She is the wife of Bahamian-American actor and diplomat Sidney Poitier, and mother of actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.

Juan Ferrara is a Mexican telenovela and film actor.

Charles Richard Moll is an American actor and voice artist, best known for playing Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992. Moll has also done extensive work as a voice actor, typically using his deep voice to portray villainous characters in animation and video games.

Richard Peduzzi is a French scenographer. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008.

Müjdat Gezen is a Turkish theatre actor and writer.