Famous People Who Died at Age 78

From the Who2 database of 4,809 musicians, actors, historical figures, and other celebrities:

• Mach, Ernst (at 78 years and a day on February 19, 1916)

• Roosevelt, Eleanor (died of cancer at 78 years 27 days on November 7, 1962)

• Ibsen, Henrik (at 78 years 64 days on May 23, 1906)

• Pinter, Harold (died of esophageal cancer at 78 years 76 days on December 25, 2008)

• Patten, Gilbert (at 78 years 83 days on January 16, 1945)

• Jackson, Andrew (at 78 years 85 days on June 8, 1845)

• Forster, Robert (at 78 years 90 days on October 11, 2019)

• Nabokov, Vladimir (at 78 years 92 days on July 2, 1977)

• Reno, Janet (complications from Parkinson's Disease at 78 years 109 days on November 7, 2016)

• Calder, Alexander (at 78 years 112 days on November 11, 1976)

• Gandhi, Mohandas (was assassinated at 78 years 120 days on January 30, 1948)

• Schwarzkopf, H. Norman (at 78 years 127 days on December 27, 2012)

• Ballard, J.G. (died of prostate cancer at 78 years 155 days on April 19, 2009)

• Barkley, Alben W. (died of a heart attack at 78 years 158 days on April 30, 1956)

• Eisenhower, Dwight (died of heart failure at 78 years 165 days on March 28, 1969)

• Atchison, David Rice (at 78 years 168 days on January 26, 1886)

• Novak, Robert (died of brain cancer at 78 years 173 days on August 18, 2009)

• Bernhardt, Sarah (at 78 years 176 days on March 26, 1923)

• Coolidge, Grace (at 78 years 186 days on July 8, 1957)

• Martin, Dean (at 78 years 201 days on December 25, 1995)

• Begin, Menachem (at 78 years 206 days on March 9, 1992)

• Amin, Idi (at 78 years 227 days on August 16, 2003)

• Hines, Connie (died of complications from heart failure at 78 years 269 days on December 18, 2009)

• Durst, Robert (died of heart failure at 78 years 273 days on January 10, 2022)

• King, Coretta Scott (died of ovarian cancer at 78 years 278 days on January 30, 2006)

• Marshall, George C. (at 78 years 289 days on October 16, 1959)

• Babbage, Charles (at 78 years 296 days on October 18, 1871)

• Barnard, Christiaan (asthma at 78 years 298 days on September 2, 2001)

• Moore, Garry (died of emphysema at 78 years 301 days on November 28, 1993)

• Allen, Steve (died of heart failure at 78 years 309 days on October 30, 2000)

• Uris, Leon (at 78 years 322 days on June 21, 2003)

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (at 78 years 337 days on April 27, 1882)

• Reddy, Helen (at 78 years 340 days on September 29, 2020)

• Niebuhr, Reinhold (at 78 years 345 days on June 1, 1971)

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