List of Famous people who died at 78

Rita Renoir was a French strip-teaser and actress.

Jessica Lucy "Decca" Freeman-Mitford was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.

Semyon Moiseevich Krivoshein was a Soviet tank commander, who played a vital part in the World War II reform of the Red Army tank forces and in the momentous clash between German and Soviet tanks in the Battle of Kursk.

Peter Huchel, born Hellmut Huchel, was a German poet.

Consuelo, comtesse de Saint-Exupéry, was a Salvadoran-French writer and artist, and was married to the French aristocrat, writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Peter Kuiper was a German actor of film, theatre and television.

Noemí Laserre was an Argentine actress.

Fatima Grimm was a German translator, author and speaker on the subject of Islam. She gained prominence as a Muslim convert in Germany and as a functionary in the German Muslim League in Hamburg.

Véronique Silver was a French actress.

Buddy Hackett was an American actor and comedian. His best remembered roles include Marcellus Washburn in The Music Man (1962), Benjy Benjamin in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Tennessee Steinmetz in The Love Bug (1968), and the voice of Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).