List of Famous people who died in 1978

Vladimir Petrovich Vajnshtok was a Soviet film director and, under the name Vladimir Vladimirov, screenwriter.

Mortimer Weisinger was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features as Aquaman, Green Arrow, Johnny Quick, and the original Vigilante, served as story editor for the Adventures of Superman television series, and compiled the often-revised paperback 1001 Valuable Things You Can Get Free.

Anthony John King Mussio was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Steubenville, Ohio (1945–1977).

Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.