List of Famous people who died at 78

Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev was a Russian Soviet composer.

Oswald Ashton Wentworth Dilke was a classical scholar and philologist from England.

Kurt Gscheidle was a German politician affiliated to the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Burton Raphael Kennedy was an American screenwriter and director known mainly for directing Westerns. Budd Boetticher called him "the best Western writer ever."

Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.

Miguel Ángel Tabet Balady was a Venezuelan theologian, Catholic priest, author, and exegete. Tábet, who was of Lebanese Venezuelan descent, lived and worked in Rome, Italy. He was a professor of biblical hermeneutics, the study of the principles of interpretation of the Bible, at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Günter Kuhnke was a Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and later a Konteradmiral with the Bundesmarine. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Vincenzo Consolo was an Italian writer.