List: 1978 deaths

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•  Edward D. Wood, Jr.

  

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•  Kurt Gödel

  Kurt Gödel was an Austrian-American logician, mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead and David Hilbert, were pioneering the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics.

  

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•  Kathleen Kenyon

  Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978), was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958.

  

  31.0%
  

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  27.6%
  
•  Keith Moon

  Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained acclaim for his exuberant and innovative drumming style and notoriety for his eccentric and often self destructive behavior, earning him the nickname "Moon the Loon. " Moon joined The Who in 1964. He played on all albums and singles from their debut, 1964's "Zoot Suit", to 1978's Who Are You, which was released three weeks before his death.

  

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•  Margaret Mead

  Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

  

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•  Pope John Paul I

  Pope John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, (17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes. John Paul I was the first Pope born in the 20th century. In Italy he is remembered with the appellatives of "Il Papa del sorriso" ("The smiling Pope") and "Il sorriso di Dio" ("God's smile").

  

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•  Pope Paul VI

  Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it. He fostered improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox, Anglicans and Protestants, which resulted in a number of historic meetings and agreements.

  

  42.9%
  

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  33.3%
  
•  Robert Menzies

  Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), Australian politician, was the 12th Prime Minister of Australia. Menzies is to date the longest serving Prime Minister of Australia and founder and first leader of the current day Liberal Party of Australia. Menzies's first term as Prime Minister commenced at the 1940 election, which his party narrowly won. A year later, his government was brought down by MPs crossing the floor.

  

  29.6%
  

  22.2%
  

  48.1%
  
•  Norman Rockwell

  Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades.

  

  30.4%
  

  30.4%
  

  39.1%
  
•  Viggo Brun

  Viggo Brun (13 October 1885, Lier – 15 August 1978, Drøbak) was a Norwegian mathematician. He studied at the University of Oslo and began research at the University of Göttingen in 1910. In 1923, Brun became a professor at the Technical University in Trondheim and in 1946 a professor at the University of Oslo. He retired in 1955 at the age of 70.

  

  43.5%
  

  30.4%
  

  26.1%
  
•  Leigh Brackett

  Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and '.

  

  40.0%
  

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•  Hubert Humphrey

  Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949.

  

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  22.2%
  
•  Mohammed Daoud Khan

  Mohammed Daoud (Daud) Khan or Muḥammad Dāwud Ḫān (July 18, 1909 – April 28, 1978) was an Afghan prince and politician in Afghanistan who overthrew the monarchy of his first cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah and became the first President of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of the Saur Revolution led by the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

  

  33.3%
  

  16.7%
  

  50.0%
  
•  Aldo Moro

  Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 – May 9, 1978) was an Italian politician and two-time Prime Minister of Italy, from 1963 to 1968, and then from 1974 to 1976. He was one of Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Ministers, holding power for a combined total of more than six years. One of the most important leaders of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy, DC), Moro was considered an intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his party.

  

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•  Edward Durell Stone

  Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 - August 6, 1978) was a twentieth century American architect.

  

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•  Ferdinand Peroutka

  Ferdinand Peroutka (February 6, 1895 – April 20, 1978) was a Czech journalist and writer.

  

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•  Golda Meir

  Golda Meir was the fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on 17 March 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third female to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

  

  41.7%
  

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•  Harold Abrahams

  Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was a Jewish British athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metre sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.

  

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•  Herbert Dingle

  Herbert Dingle (2 August 1890–4 September 1978), an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.

  

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•  Eli Siegel

  Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902–November 8, 1978) was a poet and critic who founded the philosophy Aesthetic Realism in 1941. He wrote an award-winning poem, "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana", in 1925.

  

  33.3%
  

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•  Charles Best

  Charles Herbert Best foi um fisiologista canadense. Foi figura de destaque nas pesquisas sobre sangue e diabetes, assistente de Frederick Grant Banting na descoberta da insulina, em 1921.

  

  14.3%
  

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•  Marie-Louise Damien

  Marie-Louise Damien (December 5, 1889 – January 31, 1978) was a French singer and actress better known by the stage name Damia.

  

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•  Pedro del Valle

  Lieutenant General Pedro Augusto del Valle (August 28, 1893 – April 28, 1978) was a United States Marine Corps officer who became the first Hispanic to reach the rank of Lieutenant General. His military career included service in World War I, Haiti and Nicaragua during the so-called Banana Wars of the 1920s, and in the seizure of Guadalcanal and later as Commanding General of the U.S. 1st Marine Division during World War ll.

  

  40.0%
  

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•  Jack Warner

  Jack Leonard "J.L. " Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, Canada, was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Warner's 45-year career was longer than that of any other traditional Hollywood studio mogul. As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture.

  

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•  Jacques Brel

  Jacques Romain Georges Brel (in French) (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French. Brel's songs are not especially well known in the English-speaking world except in translation and through the interpretations of other singers, most famously Scott Walker and Judy Collins.

  

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