1978 Deaths
- Crane, Bob (29 June)
- Ellis, Don (17 December)
- Gödel, Kurt (14 January)
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (13 January)
- Jones, Jim (18 November)
- Meir, Golda (8 December)
- Messerschmitt, Willy (15 September)
- Milk, Harvey (27 November)
- Pope John Paul I (28 September)
- Rockwell, Norman (8 November)
- Young, Gig (19 October)