Famous People Who Died At 78
The list of famous people who died at 78 includes Mahatma Gandhi, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dean Martin, Andrew Jackson, Idi Amin. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, artists, actors and poets and from other domains of life. This list of celebrities who died at 78 includes people from United States, United Kingdom, France & Germany and many more countries.
Mahatma Gandhi02 October 1869, Indian
Leader of Indian Independence Movement
Dwight D. Eisenhower14 October 1890, American
34th U.S. President
Andrew Jackson15 March 1767, American
7th President of the United States
Dean Martin07 June 1917, American
Actor, Comedian, Singer
Idi Amin1925 AD, Ugandan
Eleanor Roosevelt11 October 1884, American
Wife of American President Franklin Delano
Kublai Khan23 September 1215, Mongolian
Founder of the Yuan dynasty in Mongolia and China,
Tiberius16 November 0042, Ancient Roman
Roman Emperor
Ralph Waldo Emerson25 May 1803, American
American Lecturer, Philosopher, Essayist & Poet
Martin D. Ginsburg10 June 1932, American
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Husband
Rajendra Prasad03 December 1884, Indian
Former President of India
Robert Forster13 July 1941, American
Actor
Simone de Beauvoir09 January 1908, French
Writer
Kabir1440 AD, Indian
Saint and Mystic Poet
Juan Perón08 October 1895, Argentinian
President of Argentina
Roy O. Disney24 June 1893, American
Co-Founder of Walt Disney Company
Jagadish Chandra Bose30 November 1858, Indian
Physicist
Vladimir Nabokov22 April 1899, Swiss, American, Russian
Novelist
Sri Aurobindo15 August 1872, Indian
Political and Spiritual Leader
Diane Cilento05 October 1933, Australian
Actress
Coretta Scott King27 April 1927, American
Civil Rights Activist, Author
Louise Brooks14 November 1906, American
Actress
Henrik Ibsen20 March 1828, Norwegian
Playwright, Poet.
George Marshall31 December 1880, American
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Pierre-Auguste Renoir25 February 1841, French
Painter
Janet Reno21 July 1938, American
78th Attorney General of the United States
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy11 November 1869, Italian
King of Italy
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Sarah Bernhardt22 October 1844, French
Actress
Menachem Begin16 August 1913, Israeli
Former Prime Minister of Israel
Buddy Hackett31 August 1924, American
Comedian
Mario Puzo15 October 1920, American
Novelist, Screenwriter
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Steve Allen26 December 1921, American
James Naismith06 November 1861, Canadian, American
Invented Basketball
Willy Brandt18 December 1913, German
Former Chancellor of Germany
Christiaan Barnard08 November 1922, South African
Cardiac Surgeon
Peter Kropotkin09 December 1842, Russian
Philosopher & Activist
Roy Bean1825 AD, American
Justice of the Peace & Saloonkeeper
Zeppo Marx25 February 1901, American
Comedian
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax16 April 1881, British
Former Viceroy of India
Jeanne Crain25 May 1925, American
Actress
Charles Boyer28 August 1899, French
Actor
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis29 June 1893, Indian
Statistician
Ruth Williams Khama09 December 1923, Botswanan
Former First Lady of Botswana
Reinhold Niebuhr21 June 1892, American
Theologian
Zail Singh05 May 1916, Indian
President of India
William Wyler01 July 1902, American
Film director
V. K. Krishna Menon03 May 1896, Indian
Indian Politician
Pat Buttram19 June 1915, American
Actor
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia13 June 1882, Canadian, Russian
Daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia
Johns Hopkins19 May 1795, American
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist
Alvar Aalto03 February 1898, Finnish
Architect
Buster Merryfield27 November 1920, British
Actor
Henry Cavendish10 October 1731, British
Chemist
David Brenner04 February 1936, American
Stand-up Comedian, Actor
Thales0624 BC, Greek
Philosopher
Alben W. Barkley24 November 1877, American
35th Vice President of the U.S
Burt Munro25 March 1899, New Zealander
Motorcycle Racer
Camille Claudel08 December 1864, French
Sculptor
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky17 September 1857, Russian
Russian-Soviet Rocket Scientist
Trofim Lysenko29 September 1898, Russian
Experimenter
Percy Grainger08 July 1882, Australian, American
Musician, Composer, arranger and pianist
Joseph Joffre12 January 1852, French
French general
Ernst Mach18 February 1838, Austrian
Physicist
Van Cliburn12 July 1934, American
American pianist
Adlai Stevenson I23 October 1835, American
23rd Vice President of the United States
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852, American
Physicist
Patrick White28 May 1912, Australian
Australian Writer
Alan Vega23 June 1938, American
Vocalist
Alphonse de Lamartine21 October 1790, French
Writer
Elizabeth David26 December 1913, British
British writer
Pierre Corneille06 June 1606, French
Tragedian
Gustáv Husák10 January 1913, Slovak
Slovak Politician
John Hersey17 June 1914, American
American writer
Cheddi Jagan22 March 1918, Guyanese
Guyana's Father of Nation
Emile Berliner20 May 1851, American
Inventor
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
Salvador Luria13 August 1912, Italian
Microbiologist
Ivan Meštrović15 August 1883, Croatian, American
Sculptor
Claudius Ptolemy0090 AD, Ancient Roman
Astronomer, Cartographer & Mathematician
William James Mayo29 June 1861, American
Physician and Surgeon
Wilhelm Ostwald02 September 1853, German
Chemist
Josephine Butler13 April 1828, British
Social Worker
Pieter Zeeman25 May 1865, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Luther Martin20 February 1748, American
Politician
Assia Djebar30 June 1936, Algerian
Author
Charles Hermite24 December 1822, French
Mathematician
Ulf von Euler07 February 1905, Swedish
Physiologist and Pharmacologist
Roy Harrod13 February 1900, British
Economist
F. H. Bradley30 January 1846, British
Philosopher
Nikolay Basov14 December 1922, Russian
Physicist
Michael Ancher09 June 1849, Danish
Painter
Otto Diels23 January 1876, German
Chemist
Franklin Pierce Adams15 November 1881, American
Journalist
Robert Z. Leonard07 October 1889, American
Film Director, Actor, Producer
Camille Corot16 July 1796, French
French painter