List of Famous people who died at 78

Yang Kui was a prominent writer in Japanese Taiwan. Raised in Japanese-language schools, he went to the Japanese mainland, where he experienced both persecution and acceptance, especially by Japanese communists. Under these influences he became a proletarian novelist. After World War II, he was imprisoned by the Kuomintang government from 1949 to 1961. After being released from prison, he had to learn the Chinese language from his granddaughter Yang Tsui, as Japanese had been the common language of Taiwan until the time of his imprisonment.

Gershom Gustav Schocken was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959.

(Henry) George Nelson, 2nd Baron Nelson of Stafford was an English engineer who made a notable contribution to the development of civil nuclear power.

David James George Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham and Baron Hennessy,, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who held visiting professorships at various universities.

Ernest Corominas i Vigneaux was a Spanish-French mathematician.

Nicolas Ghosn was a Lebanese politician and lawyer.

Nadia Khodasevich (Grabowski) Léger was a French artist. She was the first wife of Polish painter Stanisław Grabowski and the second wife of French artist Fernand Léger. The Russian form of her name can be transliterated as Nadezhda Khodasevich or Khodassevich or Khodasievitch; and from the Polish form, Wanda Chodasiewicz.