List of Famous people who died in 1978

Hridya Nath Kunzru was an Indian freedom fighter and public figure. He was a long-time Parliamentarian, serving in various legislative bodies at the Provincial and Central level for nearly four decades. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946–50) that drew up the Constitution of India. He was also keenly interested in international affairs and co-founded the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Indian School of International Studies.

Margarete Bieber was a Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor. She became the second woman university professor in Germany in 1919 when she took a position at the University of Giessen. She studied the theatre of ancient Greece and Rome as well as the sculpture and clothing in ancient Rome and Greece.

Haravu Venkatanarasingha Verada Raj "H. V. R." Iengar CIE, ICS was the sixth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 March 1957 to 28 February 1962.

John Randolph Bray was an American animator, cartoonist, and film producer.

Wallace Archibald MacDonald was a Canadian silent film actor and film producer.

Stephen Ferrando was an Italian Roman Catholic priest belonging to the Salesians of Don Bosco – an order that Saint John Bosco established. He served in the missions in Asia once he was ordained and was stationed in India where he led a diocese of his own. He also established his own religious congregation.