List of Famous people who died at 78

Ásgeir Ásgeirsson was the second President of Iceland, from 1952 to 1968. He was a Freemason and served as Grandmaster of the Icelandic Order of Freemasons.

Servando Cano Rodríguez was a Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and impresario. He helped launch the careers of Cornelio Reyna and Ramón Ayala, as well as the groups Los Tigres del Norte, La Mafia, Intocable, and Grupo Pesado.

Peter John Landin was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.

Isaac Stanford Jolley was an American character actor of film and television, primarily in Western roles as cowboys, law-enforcement officers, or villains. Recognized by his slight build, narrow face, and pencil-thin moustache, Jolley appeared some 500 times on the large or small screen.

Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the compositions he penned for the film Black Orpheus.

Rufino Inglés was a Spanish actor.