List of Famous people who died at 78

Walter Zerlett-Olfenius was a German screenwriter, who worked on films for UFA, from 1936 until 1945. His most notable project was the 1943 Nazi film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The film cost four million Reichsmarks.

Domingos António da Silva, known as Mascarenhas, was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.

Ismail Fahd Ismail or Ismāʿīl Fahd Ismāʿīl. was a Kuwaiti novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. He was acclaimed as the finest and most prolific writer in the history of Kuwait, with over twenty novels and numerous short story collections and publications.

Adolf Endler was a lyric poet, essayist and prose author who played a central role in subcultural activities that attacked and challenged an outdated model of socialist realism in the German Democratic Republic up until the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. Endler drew attention to himself as the "father of the oppositional literary scene" at Prenzlauer Berg in the eastern part of Berlin. In 2005 he was made a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt.

Norbert George Moutier was a French publisher, writer, director, and actor.

Gabriel Montcharmont was a French politician.

Itaru Oki was a Japanese jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.

Petrus Johannes Maria (Peer) Mascini was a Dutch actor.

Ryszard Parulski was a Polish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.