List of Famous people who died at 78

Jack Francis "Junior" Stephens was an American basketball player. He played one season in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Paulo Lopes de Faria was the Brazilian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Diamantina from May 14, 1997 until his retirement on May 30, 2007. He was succeeded by Archbishop João Bosco Oliver de Faria, but remained Archbishop Emeritus of the diocese until his death in 2009.

Giorgio Ceragioli was an Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-Third World movement in Italy.

Joseph Patrick Teasdale was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 48th Governor of Missouri from 1977 to 1981.

Kurt Ferdinand Roesch (1905–1984) was a German born American painter.

Anna-Eva Bergman was a Norwegian abstract expressionist artist. She was a modernist artist and part of the School of Paris. Her abstract paintings were often inspired by nature and based on abstracted motifs.

Bruce Doolin Henderson was an American businessman and management expert. He founded Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts and headed the firm as the president and CEO until 1980. He continued to serve as chairman of BCG until 1985.