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1978 (MCMLXXVIII )
was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1978th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 2nd millennium , the 78th year of the 20th century , and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.
Events January January 1 - Air India Flight 855 , a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay , killing 213.[ 1] January 5 – Bülent Ecevit , of CHP , forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government).January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II .January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal , a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza 's government.January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland , but not guilty of torture.January 19 – Federal Appeals Court Judge William H. Webster is appointed FBI Director.January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany persona non grata January 24
January 25 –27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes , killing 70.January 28 – Richard Chase , the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.February February 1 – Film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.[ 2] February 5 –7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area , killing about 100, and causing over US$520 million in damage.February 6 – King Dragon operation in Arakan : Burmese General Ne Win targets Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara.February 8 – United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time.[ 3] February 9 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States.[ 4] February 11
February 13 – Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing : A bomb explodes outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing a policeman and two civilians, and injuring several other people.February 15 – Rhodesia , one of only two remaining white-ruled African nations (the other being South Africa), announces that it will accept multiracial democracy within 2 years.February 19 – Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport : Egyptian Special Forces attempt to rescue several hostages in Larnaca, Cyprus; 20 Egyptian commandos are injured or killed.February 21 – Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan , in the middle of the city.February 25 – The first Legislative Assembly election is held in Arunachal Pradesh , India.February 27 – The first global positioning satellite , the Rockwell International -built Navstar 1 , is launched by the United States.[ 6] March March 1 – Charlie Chaplin 's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.[ 7] March 2 – Soyuz 28 Aleksei Gubarev , Vladimír Remek ) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6 March 3
March 5 – Wuthering Heights Kate Bush , charts at #1 in the United Kingdom, making her the first woman to have a self-penned number one single.March 8 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams , is transmitted on BBC Radio 4 .March 10 – Soyuz 28 lands.March 11 – Coastal Road massacre : Palestinian terrorists kill 34 Israelis .March 14 – Operation Litani : Israeli forces invade Lebanon .March 15 – Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War .March 16 – Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades ; 5 bodyguards are killed.March 17 – An oil tanker, Amoco Cadiz Brittany .March 18
March 22 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies, after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico .March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport , which were scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by New Left activists, forcing a rescheduling of its opening date to May 20.March 28
April April 1
April 2 – Dallas CBS , and gives birth to the modern day primetime soap opera.[ 10] April 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles , with Annie Hall Best Picture .[ 11] April 7 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb , a weapon that kills people with radiation, but leaves buildings relatively intact.[ 12] April 9 – Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre ; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.[ 13] [ 14] April 14 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations : Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against an attempt by Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language .[ 15] April 18 – The U.S. Senate votes, 68–32, to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999 .[ 16] April 20 – A Soviet air defense plane shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902 ; the plane makes an emergency landing on a frozen lake.[ 17] [ 18] April 22
April 25 – St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance, after Anita Bryant 's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida .April 27
April 30 – The Marxist "Democratic Republic of Afghanistan " is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader Nur Muhammad Taraki.[ 25] May May 4
May 5 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.May 8
May 9 – In Rome, the corpse of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, is found in a red Renault 4 .May 12 – In Zaire , rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi , the mining centre of the province of Shaba . The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.May 12–13 – A group of mercenaries , led by Bob Denard , oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros ; ten local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government.
May 15 – Students of the University of Tehran riot in Tabriz ; the army stops the riot.May 17 – Charlie Chaplin's coffin is found some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.[ 7] May 18
May 18–19 – Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire, to aid the fight against the rebels.
May 19–20 – French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.
May 20 – Mavis Hutchinson , 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.
May 22 – Exiled leaders Ahmed Abdallah and Muhammad Ahmad return to the Comoros.May 25
May 26 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey , Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.May 28 – Indianapolis 500 : Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall .May 29 – Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.June July August September File:Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978.gif September 6 : Anwar Sadat , Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Cabin patio at Camp David .September 5 – Camp David Accords : Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.September 7 – In London, England , a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov ; he dies four days later.September 8 – Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Tehran , killing 122, wounding 4,000.September 12 – The Declaration of Alma Ata is signed and released in the Capital City of Kazakh, USSR. Known as the core document on Primary Health Care Practices and Equity in Healthcare, it paved the way for the modern-day State-sponsored Healthcare System.September 16
September 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.September 19
Police in the West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.
The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.[ 27] September 20 – General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan .September 23 – California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in Gary, Indiana during an Angels' road trip in Chicago, Illinois .September 24
September 27 – The last Forest Brother guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia .September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.September 30 – Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu , Finland .[ 28] September – The African National Congress attempts to kill about 500 of its own cadres by poisoning their food because an infiltrated enemy agent cannot be identified.[ 29] October November November 2 : 8:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland's second television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988 ; RTÉ Network Two, 1995 ; N2, 1997 ; and RTÉ Two in 2004 ).November 3 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.November 7 – Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.November 18 – Jonestown incident: In Guyana , Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder–suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.November 19 – The first U.S. Take Back the Night march occurs in San Francisco.November 26 – Two British commercial divers , Michael Ward and Tony Prangley, die of hypothermia and drowning in the East Shetland Basin after their diving bell plunges to the seabed at a depth of over 100 metres (330 ft).[ 34] [ 35] November 30 – Publication of The Times December Date unknown Births
January File:Karina Smirnoff Get Smart premiere arrival.jpg Karina Smirnoff File:Mad Men at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards - January Jones.jpg January Jones File:AJ Malibu 003.jpg AJ McLean File:Kristen Schaal Wondercon 2016.jpg Kristen Schaal File:Volodymyr Zelensky Official portrait.jpg Volodymyr Zelensky File:Sheamus March 2018.jpg Sheamus January 1 – Philip Mulryne , Northern Irish footballer
January 2 – Karina Smirnoff , Ukrainian-American dancerJanuary 3
January 4 – Karine Ruby , French snowboarder (d. 2009 )January 5
January 7 – Emilio Palma , Argentine citizen, first human born in AntarcticaJanuary 9
January 10 – Kanako Mitsuhashi , Japanese voice actress
January 11 – Emile Heskey , English footballerJanuary 12 – Hannah Gadsby , Australian comedianJanuary 13
January 14 – Shawn Crawford , American sprinterJanuary 15
January 17 – Ricky Wilson , British vocalist (Kaiser Chiefs )January 18
January 20 – Omar Sy , French actor and comedianJanuary 24
January 25 – Volodymyr Zelensky , Ukrainian politician and comedian, President of Ukraine
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February File:Kelly Sullivan at the Oscars.jpg Kelly Sullivan File:Ashton Kutcher by David Shankbone.jpg Ashton Kutcher File:Omotola Jalade Ekeinde WEF 2015.png Omotola Jalade Ekeinde File:Danai Gurira (48411663897) (cropped).jpg Danai Gurira File:170107 여교사 무대인사 김하늘 유인영 이원근 (4).jpg Kim Ha-neul File:Kumail Nanjiani by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Kumail Nanjiani March File:Jensen Ackles (35444313103).jpg Jensen Ackles File:10.9.10ClaudioSanchezByLuigiNovi1.jpg Claudio Sanchez File:Fernandão 2011.jpg Fernandão File:Tony Margarito.JPG Antonio Margarito File:Rani Mukerji promoting Hichki in 2018 (cropped).jpg Rani Mukerji April File:Lauren Ridloff by Gage Skidmore.jpg Lauren Ridloff File:Duncan James 2011 cropped.jpg Duncan James File:James Franco 4, 2013.jpg James Franco File:Stana Katic at Paleyfest 2012.jpg Stana Katic May File:Kenan Thompson 2019.png Kenan Thompson File:Judy Ann Santos (2008).jpg Judy Ann Santos File:Jason Biggs at Paley Fest Orange Is The New Black.jpg Jason Biggs File:Adrienne Shelly as Dannie.jpg Adrienne Shelly June File:Antonietta Di Martino Berlin 2010.jpg Antonietta Di Martino File:Nikki Cox.jpg Nikki Cox File:Justin Long TIFF 2011.jpg Justin Long File:Joshua Jackson 2012.jpg Joshua Jackson File:Daniel Brühl February 2015.jpg Daniel Brühl File:Mia Maestro by Gage Skidmore.jpg Mía Maestro File:Zoe Saldana (28584925641) (cropped 2).jpg Zoe Saldana File:Frank Lampard 2017.jpg Frank Lampard File:Erica Durance 2010 (2).jpg Erica Durance File:Nicole Scherzinger 2012.jpg Nicole Scherzinger June 1 – Antonietta Di Martino , Italian high-jumper
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June 4 – Simone Maludrottu , Italian boxerJune 5 – Nick Kroll , American actor and comedian[ 49] June 6
June 7 – Bill Hader , American actor and comedian[ 50] June 8
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June 11 – Joshua Jackson , Canadian actorJune 13 – Faizal Yusof , Malaysian actor (d. 2011 )June 14 - Nikola Vujčić , Croatian basketball player and team manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv [ 53] June 15
June 16 – Daniel Brühl , German actorJune 19
June 20 – Frank Lampard , English footballer
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June 28 - Ha Ji-won , South Korean actress and singerJune 29
July File:RK Jüri Ratas.jpg Jüri Ratas File:Tia Mowry on Sidewalks.jpg Tia Mowry File:Tamera Mowry-Housley.jpg Tamera Mowry File:Topher Grace 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg Topher Grace File:Michelle Rodriguez by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg Michelle Rodriguez File:Pavel Datsyuk exercising, 2015 — Cropping.jpg Pavel Datsyuk File:Josh Hartnett SDCC 2014.jpg Josh Hartnett August File:Kurt busch (47029499454) (cropped).jpg Kurt Busch File:Andy Samberg.png Andy Samberg File:Noah Bean 2013 (cropped).jpg Noah Bean File:Kobe Bryant 2015 (cropped).jpg Kobe Bryant File:Kel Mitchell Photo Op GalaxyCon Richmond 2019.jpg Kel Mitchell File:Amanda Schull 2015 TCA (cropped).jpg Amanda Schull August 3
August 4 – Kurt Busch , American race car driverAugust 5
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August 9 – Daniela Denby-Ashe , English actressAugust 10 – Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono , Indonesian politician and former military officerAugust 15
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August 18 – Andy Samberg , American actor and comedianAugust 19
August 20 – Noah Bean , American actorAugust 21
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August 24 – Rafael Furcal , Dominican baseball playerAugust 25 – Kel Mitchell , American actor, stand-up comedian, musician, singer, and rapperAugust 26 – Amanda Schull , American actress
August 27 – Suranne Jones , English actressAugust 28
August 29 – Danielle Hampton , Canadian actressAugust 31 – Ido Pariente , Israeli mixed martial artistSeptember File:Gina Gogean 2.jpg Gina Gogean File:WW Chicago 2015 - Ben McKenzie 01 (20861231919).jpg Ben McKenzie File:Ron DeSantis, Official Portrait, 113th Congress.jpg Ron DeSantis File:Sarit Hadad 13 cropped.JPG Sarit Hadad File:Anthony Mackie by Gage Skidmore.jpg Anthony Mackie File:Ani Lorak ESC Party 2009 8.jpg Ani Lorak September 1 – Max Vieri , Italian Australian footballerSeptember 3 – Tinkara Kovač , Slovenian singer and musicianSeptember 4
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September 7 – Devon Sawa , Canadian actor
September 9 – Gina Gogean , Romania artistic gymnastSeptember 11
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September 18 – Billy Eichner , American actor and comedianSeptember 20
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September 22 – Harry Kewell , Australian footballerSeptember 23
September 24 – Wietse van Alten , Dutch archer
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September 27 - Ani Lorak , Ukrainian singer
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September 29 – Kurt Nilsen , Norwegian singerSeptember 30 – Candice Michelle , American professional wrestler and model October File:Pizarro training FC Bayern (cropped).jpg Claudio Pizarro File:James valentine 2007.11.29.jpg James Valentine File:Omar Benson Miller cropped.jpg Omar Benson Miller File:Usher Cannes 2016 retusche.jpg Usher File:CM Punk 2.jpg CM Punk File:Matthew Morrison Peabody 2010 (cropped).jpg Matthew Morrison October 1 – Katie Aselton , American actress
October 2 – Ayumi Hamasaki , Japanese singerOctober 3
October 4
October 5
October 7 – Omar Benson Miller , American actor
October 9 – Nicky Byrne , Irish musician (Westlife )
October 10 – QBoy , UK-based rapper, producer, DJ, writer and presenter
October 14
Paul Hunter , English snooker player (d. 2006 )Usher, American singer and actor, is born.
October 17 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión , Spanish politicianOctober 18
October 20
October 21 – Joey Harrington , American football player
October 23 – John Lackey , American baseball playerOctober 24 – Carlos Edwards , Trinidadian footballerOctober 25
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October 29 – Travis Henry , American football playerOctober 30 – Matthew Morrison , American actor and singerNovember File:Eve 2011 cropped.jpg Eve File:Rachel McAdams, 2016 (cropped).jpg Rachel McAdams File:Tom Ellis (2016).jpg Tom Ellis File:Robert Kirkman by Gage Skidmore 4.jpg Robert Kirkman November 1
November 3 – Tim McIlrath , American singer
November 4 – Shaun Berrigan , Australian rugby league playerNovember 5
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November 8 – Ali Karimi , Iranian football playerNovember 9 – Sisqó , American actor and singerNovember 10
November 12 – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy , Pakistani journalist, activist and filmmakerNovember 13 – Hsu Wei Lun , Taiwanese actress (d. 2007 )November 14
November 17
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November 22 – Karen O , American singer-songwriter and musicianNovember 23 – Destin Daniel Cretton , American film directorNovember 24 – Katherine Heigl , American actressNovember 25 – Shiina Ringo , Japanese singer and musicianNovember 26 – Jun Fukuyama , Japanese voice actor
November 27 – Mike Skinner , English musicianNovember 28 – Aimee Garcia , American actressNovember 29 – Lauren German , American actressNovember 30
December File:Ian Somerhalder Cannes 2015.jpg Ian Somerhalder File:Pacquiao and Didal (cropped).jpg Manny Pacquiao File:Katie Holmes, 2009.jpg Katie Holmes File:John Legend by Sachyn Mital.jpg John Legend Leslie Carter File:Tyrese Gibson (21479937550) (cropped).jpg Tyrese Gibson December 1 – Stefan Kapičić , Serbian actorDecember 2
December 4 – Lars Bystøl , Norwegian ski jumper
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December 6 – Leslie Carter , American pop singer
December 7 – Shiri Appleby , American actress
December 8 – Ian Somerhalder , American actor[ 58] December 9 – Gastón Gaudio , Argentine tennis playerDecember 10 – Summer Phoenix , American actressDecember 12 – Monica Bîrlădeanu , Romanian actressDecember 17
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December 19 – Patrick Casey , American screenwriter and actor
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December 21 – Shaun Morgan , South African musician and singer-songwriterDecember 22
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December 24 – Yıldıray Baştürk , Turkish footballerDecember 25
December 26 – Kaoru Sugayama , Japanese volleyball playerDecember 28 – John Legend , African-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor[ 60] December 29
December 30
Tyrese Gibson , African-American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, model, and screenwriterInferno , Polish musicianDecember 31 – Yulia Barsukova , Russian rhythmic gymnastDeaths
January File:1925 kurt gödel (cropped).png Kurt Gödel February File:Phillip ahn as kan.JPG Philip Ahn March April File:Sandy Denny - Fairport Convention (1974).jpg Sandy Denny May File:Aldo Moro headshot.jpg Aldo Moro File:Portrait Menzies 1950s.jpg Sir Robert Menzies May 1 – Aram Khachaturian , Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)May 6 – Ethelda Bleibtrey , American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902)
May 8 – Duncan Grant , Scottish painter (b. 1885 )
May 9 – Aldo Moro, Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1916)
May 13 – Alby Roberts , New Zealander cricketer (b. 1909 )
May 15 – Sir Robert Menzies , 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
May 16 – William Steinberg , German-American conductor (b. 1899)May 17
May 22 – Joseph Colombo , American gangster (b. 1923 )
May 26 – Tamara Karsavina , Soviet ballerina (b. 1885)
May 27 – Jorge Icyaza , Ecuadorean novelist (b. 1906)May 31
June File:Ahmad al-Ghashmi.jpg Ahmad al-Ghashmi June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu , Spanish footballer, player and president of Real Madrid C.F. (b. 1906)
June 4 – Jorge de Sena , Portuguese novelist and poet (b. 1919 )
June 7 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
June 12 – Guo Moruo , Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician, and writer (b. 1892 )June 17 – Robert Williams , American actor (b. 1904)June 20 – Mark Robson , Canadian film director (b. 1913 )
June 24 – Ahmad al-Ghashmi , 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1935)
June 27 – Josette Day , French actress (b. 1914 )June 28 – Clifford Dupont , 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
June 29 – Bob Crane , American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (b. 1928) July File:ChicoMendes.tiff Francisco Mendes July 1 – Kurt Student , Luftwaffe general and commander of the German airborne forces during World War II. (b. 1890 )
July 3 – James Daly , American actor (b. 1918 )
July 7 – Francisco Mendes , Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939 )
July 10 – Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif , 31st Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1934 )
July 14 – Gaston Ragueneau , French athlete (b. 1881 )July 16 – Howard Estabrook , American actor (b. 1884 )
July 17 – Thayer David , American actor (b. 1927 )
July 27 – Willem van Otterloo , Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (b. 1907 )July 31 – Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902) August File:Paulaudenece1977.jpg Pope Paul VI File:Jomo Kenyatta 1966-06-15.jpg Jomo Kenyatta September File:Keith Moon 1967.jpg Keith Moon File:Ioannes Paulus I, at the window, 1978 (retouched) (cropped).jpg Pope John Paul I September 3 – Karin Molander , Swedish actress (b. 1906)
September 4 – Leonora Cohen , British suffragette and trade unionist (b. 1873 )
September 6 – Adolf Dassler – Founder of Adidas (b. 1900)
September 7 – Keith Moon , English rock drummer (The Who ) (b. 1946)
September 8 – Ricardo Zamora , Spanish footballer (b. 1901 )
September 9
September 11
September 12 – Frank Ferguson , American actor (b. 1899)
September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt , German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1898)
September 21 – Peter Vogel , German film actor (b. 1937 )
September 23 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950 )
September 24 – Hasso von Manteuffel , German army general (b. 1897)
September 27 – Sergei Aslamazyan , Soviet composer (b. 1897)
September 28 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
September 30 – Edgar Bergen , American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) October File:Jacques Brel 1963.jpg Jacques Brel October 4 - Rocky Dennis , American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (b. 1961 )
October 8 – Karl Swenson , American actor (b. 1908)
October 9 – Jacques Brel , Belgian singer (b. 1929)
October 10
Ralph Metcalfe , American Olympic athlete (b. 1910)Hermes Lima , former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Brazil (b. 1902)
October 11 – Ruthven Todd , Scottish poet, artist, and novelist (b. 1914)October 12 – Nancy Spungen , American groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958 )October 15 - W. Eugene Smith , American photojournalist (b. 1918)October 16 – Dan Dailey , American actor (b. 1915 )
October 19 – Gig Young , American actor (b. 1913)October 21 – Anastas Mikoyan , Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (b. 1895)
October 23 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896 )
October 28 – Geoffrey Unsworth , British cinematographer (b. 1914) November File:Margaret Mead (1901-1978).jpg Margaret Mead December File:Golda Meir 03265u.jpg Golda Meir December 3 – William Grant Still , American composer (b. 1895)December 7 – Alexander Wetmore , American ornithologist and avian palaeontologist (b. 1886)
December 8 – Golda Meir , Israeli teacher, politician and stateswoman, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)[ 62]
December 10
December 11 – Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist (b. 1901)
December 12 – Fay Compton , English actress (b. 1894)
December 14 – Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist (b. 1886)December 17 – Don Ellis , American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
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December 31 – Nicolau dos Reis Lobato , East Timorese politician, acting President of East Timor (b. 1946) Nobel Prizes File:Nobel medal.png References
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