List of Famous people who died at 78

Georges Staquet was a French actor.

Vladan Radoman was a Serbian physician and writer. He grew up in his native country, with both his parents and his brother. He studied medicine in Belgrade.

Charles Sinclair Weeks, better known as Sinclair Weeks, served as United States Senator from Massachusetts (1944) and as United States Secretary of Commerce from 1953 until 1958, during President Eisenhower's administration.

Yasushi Nagao was a Japanese Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer.

Michel Martin Leon Fourquet, was a French soldier and administrator who served as the Chief of Staff of Armed Forces from 1968 to 1971.

Milton Gray Campbell was an American decathlete of the 1950s. In 1956, he became the first African American to win the gold medal in the decathlon of the Summer Olympic Games.

Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

Philip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.