List of Famous people who died at 78

Florence Maud Broadhurst was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New South Wales and the perpetrator has not been apprehended.

Deddie Davies was a Welsh character actress.

John Russell Langley was an American television and film director, writer, and producer who was best known as the creator and executive producer of the television show Cops, which premiered on Fox in March 1989.

Kanso Yoshida was a Japanese-born British seaman who was related to Japanese Emperor Hirohito by marriage. He was a resident of England for most of his life, specifically in Liverpool from 1938.

Pierre Vaneck was a French actor. During his career, he won a Molière Award in 1988 and received a César Award nomination in 2009.

Hugo Princz was a Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.

Joãosinho Trinta was a Brazilian director of parades for Samba Schools in Rio de Janeiro Brazil during Carnival (carnavalesco).

Judith Appelbaum was an American editor, consultant and author. She was active in the publishing industry for 50 years and was awarded both the Publishers Marketing Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Book Industry Study Group Lifetime Service Award.

Prescott Townsend was an American cultural leader and gay rights activist, from the 1930s through the early 1970s.

Abraham Zabludovsky was a Mexican architect. He was the brother of the well known journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky.