List of Famous people who died in 1978

Franco "Kim" Arcalli was an Italian film editor and screenwriter best known for his work with Bernardo Bertolucci and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Junius Conyers Matthews was an American actor. He was the voice of Archimedes the Owl in Disney's The Sword in the Stone in 1963. He was also the original voice of Rabbit in the Winnie the Pooh franchise from 1966 to 1977.

Abdurrahman Melek, Prime Minister of the Republic of Hatay founded following the constitution approved by the league of Nations on 19 May 1937.

Clarence Norman Brunsdale was the 24th Governor of North Dakota and a United States Senator from the state of North Dakota.

Wallace Wesley LaViolette was an American musician who composed, conducted, lectured, and wrote about music. He was also a poet and music theorist. As an educator, he mentored Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, John Graas, George Perle, Florence Price, Bob Carter, Bob Florence and Robert Erickson and writer William Irwin Thompson. Laviolette was an important figure on the West coast jazz scene of the 1950s.

Nicolau dos Reis Lobato was an East Timorese politician who is considered a national hero.

Ford Christopher Frick was an American sportswriter and baseball executive. After working as a teacher and as a sportswriter for the New York American, he served as public relations director of the National League (NL), then as the league's president from 1934 to 1951. He was the third Commissioner of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1951 to 1965.

Sir Edmund Charles Acton Schreiber, was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First World War and the Second World War. In the latter he commanded the 45th Infantry Division, V Corps and the British First Army.