People who died at the age of 78

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Kublai Khan
• Dean Martin
• Vladimir Nabokov
• James Naismith
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow
• Auguste Piccard
• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy
• Joseph Chamberlain
• David Rice Atchison
• Auguste Marmont
• Emperor Reigen of Japan
• Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria
• Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana
• Jose Azcona del Hoyo
• Charles McClendon
• Johnny Klein
• Leon Day
• Emil Gilels