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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jay Adler
Actor
26-Sep-1896 23-Sep-1978 The Family Jewels
Philip Ahn
Actor
29-Mar-1905 28-Feb-1978 Early Korean-American actor
James B. Allen
Politician
28-Dec-1912 1-Jun-1978 US Senator from Alabama, 1969-78
John M. Allison
Diplomat
7-Apr-1905 28-Oct-1978 US Ambassador to Japan, 1953-57
Astrid Allwyn
Actor
27-Nov-1905 31-Mar-1978 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
J. Hugo Aronson
Politician
1-Sep-1891 25-Feb-1978 Governor of Montana, 1953-61
Barry Atwater
Actor
16-May-1918 24-May-1978 The Night Stalker
Wendy Barrie
Actor
18-Apr-1912 2-Feb-1978 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Michael Bates
Actor
4-Dec-1920 11-Jan-1978 A Clockwork Orange
Edgar Bergen
Actor
16-Feb-1903 30-Sep-1978 Radio's greatest ventriloquist
Carl Betz
Actor
9-Mar-1921 18-Jan-1978 The Donna Reed Show
George Blaisdell
Inventor
5-Jun-1895 3-Oct-1978 Zippo cigarette lighter
Marie Blake
Actor
21-Aug-1895 14-Jan-1978 Grandmama on The Addams Family
Wesley Bolin
Politician
1-Jul-1909 4-Mar-1978 Governor of Arizona, 1977-78
Johnny Bond
Country Musician
1-Jun-1915 12-Jun-1978 Hot Rod Lincoln
Houari Boumédienne
Head of State
23-Aug-1932 27-Dec-1978 Algerian Dictator, 1965-78
Charles Boyer
Actor
28-Aug-1899 26-Aug-1978 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Jacques Brel
Singer/Songwriter
8-Apr-1929 9-Oct-1978 Legendary chanson singer and songwriter
George S. Brown
Military
17-Aug-1918 5-Dec-1978 Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974-78
C. Norman Brunsdale
Politician
9-Jul-1891 27-Jan-1978 Governor of North Dakota, 1951-57
John Burroughs
Politician
7-Apr-1907 21-May-1978 Governor of New Mexico, 1959-61
John Marshall Butler
Politician
21-Jul-1897 14-Mar-1978 US Senator from Maryland, 1951-63
Robert Cantwell
Novelist
31-Jan-1908 8-Dec-1978 Laugh and Lie Down
John Cazale
Actor
12-Aug-1935 12-Mar-1978 Fredo in The Godfather
Oscar L. Chapman
Government
22-Oct-1896 8-Feb-1978 US Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53
Ilka Chase
Actor
8-Apr-1900 15-Feb-1978 Now, Voyager
Carlos Chávez
Composer
13-Jun-1899 2-Aug-1978 Sinfonía de Antígona
Giorgio de Chirico
Painter
10-Jul-1888 20-Nov-1978 Metaphysical surrealist painter
Dutch Clark
Football
11-Oct-1906 5-Aug-1978 NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback, Tailback
James B. Conant
Educator
26-Mar-1893 11-Feb-1978 President of Harvard, 1933-53
James Gould Cozzens
Novelist
19-Aug-1903 9-Aug-1978 Guard of Honor
Bob Crane
Actor
13-Jul-1928 29-Jun-1978 Hogan on Hogan's Heroes
Zara Cully
Actor
26-Jan-1892 28-Feb-1978 Mother Jefferson on The Jeffersons
Dan Dailey
Actor
14-Dec-1913 16-Oct-1978 When My Baby Smiles at Me
Charles M. Dale
Politician
8-Mar-1893 28-Sep-1978 Governor of New Hampshire, 1945-49
James Daly
Actor
23-Oct-1918 3-Jul-1978 Dr. Paul Lochner on Medical Center
Adi Dassler
Business
3-Nov-1900 6-Sep-1978 Founder of Adidas
Claude Dauphin
Actor
19-Aug-1903 16-Nov-1978 Barbarella
Thayer David
Actor
4-Mar-1927 17-Jul-1978 Jergens in Rocky
Clarence C. Dill
Politician
21-Sep-1884 14-Jan-1978 US Senator from Washington, 1923-35
Sally Eilers
Actor
11-Dec-1908 5-Jan-1978 Coroner Creek
Ruth Etting
Singer
23-Nov-1896 24-Sep-1978 Love Me or Leave Me
Frank Ferguson
Actor
25-Dec-1899 12-Sep-1978 Eli Carson on Peyton Place
Totie Fields
Comic
7-May-1930 2-Aug-1978 Weight-conscious comedienne
John S. Fine
Politician
10-Apr-1893 21-May-1978 Governor of Pennsylvania, 1951-55
Janet Flanner
Journalist
13-Mar-1892 7-Nov-1978 The New Yorker
Frank Fontaine
Actor
19-Apr-1920 4-Aug-1978 Crazy Guggenheim
Thomas King Forcade
Journalist
11-Sep-1945 17-Nov-1978 Founder of High Times
Ralph F. Gates
Politician
24-Feb-1893 28-Jul-1978 Governor of Indiana, 1945-49
Will Geer
Actor
9-Mar-1902 22-Apr-1978 Zebulon Walton in The Waltons
Leo Genn
Actor
9-Aug-1905 26-Jan-1978 Quo Vadis
Kurt Gödel
Mathematician
28-Apr-1906 14-Jan-1978 Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
Samuel Goudsmit
Physicist
11-Jul-1902 4-Dec-1978 Conceived idea of Quantum Spin
William F. Harrah
Business
2-Sep-1911 30-Jun-1978 Founder of Harrah's Casino
Robert Harrison
Publisher
14-Apr-1904 17-Feb-1978 Publisher of tabloid Confidential
Roy Harrod
Economist
13-Feb-1900 9-Mar-1978 Towards a Dynamic Economics
Ed Healey
Football
28-Dec-1894 9-Dec-1978 Hall of Fame Tackle, Chicago Bears
Mayo D. Hersey
Engineer
30-Aug-1886 5-Sep-1978 Tribology
Robert C. Hill
Diplomat
30-Sep-1917 28-Nov-1978 US Ambassador to Argentina, 1974-77
Oskar Homolka
Actor
12-Aug-1898 27-Jan-1978 Sabotage
Hubert Humphrey
Politician
27-May-1911 13-Jan-1978 US Vice President, 1965-69
Pope John Paul I
Religion
17-Oct-1912 28-Sep-1978 Pope for 33 days, in summer 1978
Jim Jones
Religion
13-May-1931 18-Nov-1978 Led mass People's Temple suicide
Matthew Josephson
Historian
15-Feb-1899 13-Mar-1978 The Robber Barons
Gaston Julia
Mathematician
3-Feb-1893 19-Mar-1978 Creator of the Julia Sets
Jomo Kenyatta
Head of State
20-Oct-1892 22-Aug-1978 President of Kenya, 1964-78
William M. Ketchum
Politician
2-Sep-1921 24-Jun-1978 Congressman from California, 1973-78
Aram Khachaturian
Composer
24-May-1903 1-May-1978 Gayane
Duncan Lamont
Actor
17-Jun-1918 19-Dec-1978 The Golden Coach
William P. Lear
Inventor
26-Jun-1902 14-May-1978 Lear Jet, Inc.
Theo Lingen
Actor
10-Jun-1903 10-Nov-1978 German-Austrian comedian
Selwyn Lloyd
Politician
28-Jul-1904 18-May-1978 Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76
Karl Lohmann
Chemist
10-Apr-1898 22-Apr-1978 Discovered ATP
John D. MacArthur
Philanthropist
6-Mar-1897 6-Jan-1978 Philanthropist, MacArthur Foundation
Hugh MacDiarmid
Poet
11-Aug-1892 9-Sep-1978 A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
Ian MacDonald
Actor
28-Jun-1914 11-Apr-1978 High Noon
George Maciunas
Artist
8-Nov-1931 9-May-1978 Founder of Fluxus
Salvador de Madariaga
Author
23-Jul-1886 14-Dec-1978 Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards
Georgi Markov
Victim
1-Mar-1929 11-Sep-1978 Killed with a ricin-tipped umbrella
Harry Martinson
Poet
6-May-1904 11-Feb-1978 Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Joe McCarthy
Baseball
21-Apr-1887 13-Jan-1978 Yankees manager for 15 years
Phyllis McGinley
Poet
21-Mar-1905 22-Feb-1978 A Pocketful of Wry
Maggie McNamara
Actor
18-Feb-1928 18-Feb-1978 Three Coins in the Fountain
Margaret Mead
Anthropologist
16-Dec-1901 15-Nov-1978 Coming of Age in Samoa
Golda Meir
Head of State
3-May-1898 8-Dec-1978 Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
Robert Menzies
Head of State
20-Dec-1894 15-May-1978 Twice Prime Minister of Australia
Willy Messerschmitt
Engineer
26-Jun-1898 17-Sep-1978 Designer of Nazi fighter planes
Anastas Mikoyan
Politician
25-Nov-1895 21-Oct-1978 Knew where the shrimps stay in winter
Harvey Milk
Politician
22-May-1930 27-Nov-1978 Openly gay SF city supervisor
Joseph Montoya
Politician
24-Sep-1915 8-Jun-1978 US Senator from New Mexico, 1964-77
Keith Moon
Drummer
23-Aug-1946 7-Sep-1978 Drummer for The Who
Aldo Moro
Head of State
23-Sep-1916 9-May-1978 Kidnapped and murdered PM of Italy
George Moscone
Politician
24-Nov-1929 27-Nov-1978 Mayor of San Francisco, 1976-78
Burt Munro
Engineer
25-Mar-1899 6-Jan-1978 Subject of biopic The World's Fastest Indian
Robert D. Murphy
Diplomat
28-Oct-1894 9-Jan-1978 Envoy in French North Africa, 1940-42
Odette Myrtil
Actor
28-Jun-1898 18-Nov-1978 Out of the Fog
Ronald G. W. Norrish
Chemist
9-Nov-1897 7-Jun-1978 Rapid chemical processes
Johnny O'Keefe
Musician
6-Jan-1935 6-Oct-1978 King of Australian rock and roll
C. William O'Neill
Politician
14-Feb-1916 20-Aug-1978 Governor of Ohio, 1957-59
Jack Oakie
Actor
12-Nov-1903 23-Jan-1978 The Great Dictator
Pope Paul VI
Religion
26-Sep-1897 6-Aug-1978 The pilgrim pope
Louis Prima
Singer
7-Dec-1910 24-Aug-1978 King of the Swingers
Malvina Reynolds
Singer/Songwriter
23-Aug-1900 17-Mar-1978 Little Boxes
Lynne Roberts
Actor
22-Nov-1919 1-Apr-1978 American character actress
Mark Robson
Film Director
4-Dec-1913 20-Jun-1978 Valley of the Dolls
John D. Rockefeller III
Philanthropist
21-Mar-1906 10-Jul-1978 Lincoln Center for Performing Arts
Norman Rockwell
Painter
3-Feb-1894 8-Nov-1978 Saturday Evening Post artist
Willard Rockwell
Business
31-Mar-1888 16-Oct-1978 Founder of Rockwell Automation
Frank Rosolino
Jazz Musician
20-Aug-1926 26-Nov-1978 Jazz trombonist, Turn Me Loose!
Raymond Rubicam
Business
16-Jun-1892 8-May-1978 Co-Founder, Young and Rubicam
Samuel Rubin
Business
1901 21-Dec-1978 Founder of Fabergé Cosmetics
Leo Ryan
Politician
5-May-1925 18-Nov-1978 Congressman assassinated in Guyana
Paul Scott
Novelist
25-Mar-1920 1-Mar-1978 The Jewel in the Crown
Robert Shaw
Actor
9-Aug-1927 28-Aug-1978 Quint in Jaws
Manne Siegbahn
Physicist
3-Dec-1886 26-Sep-1978 X-Ray spectroscopy
Ignazio Silone
Novelist
1-May-1900 22-Aug-1978 Anti-Fascist novelist, Pro-Fascist informant
Philip Sporn
Engineer
25-Nov-1896 23-Jan-1978 American Electric Power Company
Nancy Spungen
Victim
27-Feb-1958 12-Oct-1978 Sid Vicious's girlfriend
William A. Steiger
Politician
15-May-1938 4-Dec-1978 Congressman from Wisconsin, 1967-78
William Steinberg
Conductor
1-Aug-1899 16-May-1978 Music Director, Pittsburgh Symphony, 1952-76
Kurt Student
Military
12-May-1890 1-Jul-1978 Luftwaffe General
Charles Tandy
Business
15-May-1918 4-Nov-1978 Radio Shack
Gene Tunney
Boxing
25-May-1897 7-Nov-1978 Heavyweight Boxing Champion, 1926-28
Robert C. Turner
Economist
2-Mar-1908 5-Dec-1978 Council of Economic Advisers, 1952-53
Vincent du Vigneaud
Chemist
18-May-1901 11-Dec-1978 Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Jack L. Warner
Business
2-Aug-1892 9-Sep-1978 Co-Founder, Warner Bros.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Author
6-Dec-1893 1-May-1978 Lolly Willowes
Chill Wills
Actor
18-Jul-1903 15-Dec-1978 The Alamo
Henry Willson
Business
31-Jul-1911 2-Nov-1978 Talent agent, cultivated gay clientele
Basil Wolverton
Artist
9-Jul-1909 31-Dec-1978 Mad magazine artist
Ed Wood
Film Director
10-Oct-1924 10-Dec-1978 Plan 9 From Outer Space
Peggy Wood
Actor
9-Feb-1892 18-Mar-1978 The Sound of Music
Henry M. Wriston
Educator
4-Jul-1889 7-Mar-1978 President of Brown University, 1937-55
Gig Young
Actor
4-Nov-1913 19-Oct-1978 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Luther W. Youngdahl
Politician
29-May-1896 21-Jun-1978 Governor of Minnesota, 1947-51
Louis Zukofsky
Poet
23-Jan-1904 12-May-1978 Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement


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