Discover what happened on 1 April 1978 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- József Abád (Hungarian mathematics teacher, volleyball coach (1910-1978))
- Pál Ignotus (Hungarian journalist)
- Erwin Damerow (German sculptor)
- Friedrich Knorr (German librarian and politician (1904-1978))
- Jak Ihmalyan (Armenian painter and journalist (1922-1978))
- Elmer Woggon (American cartoonist (1898-1978))
- Pietro Degano (Italian association football player (1919-1978))
- Vasily Beskrovny (Soviet indologist (1908-1978))
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- Addie Graham (American musician (1890–1978))
- Dinty Moore (American football player)
- Emmett Grogan (American anarchist (1944-1978))
- İsmail Hakkı Baltacıoğlu (Turkish politician (1886-1978))
- Mel Lyman (American cult leader)
- Bohumír Kozák (Czech architect (1885-1978))
- Augusto García Sánchez (Spanish politician)
- Lynne Roberts (Film actress (1922-1978))
- Olaf Nygaard (cyclist)
- Georg Daßler (German jurist and lawyer)
- Harry White (English cricketer (1897-1978))
- Grigory Yefremov
- A. M. Sakharov
- Alastair Wicks
- Sándor Burger (Olympic sailor (1899-1978))
- Cándido Viñas Calvo
- Mariya Benderskaya (Soviet animation director, artist, puppeteer)
- Adalbert Colsman
- Mirdza Šmithene (Latvian actor (1887-1978))
- Claire-Lise Monnier (Swiss painter (1894-1978))
- Agide Simonazzi (Italian sprinter)
- Edgar Smithurst (association football player (1895-1978))
- Edith Hyde Robbins Macartney (miss America pageant holder)
- Lionel Fox (New Zealand long-distance runner)
- Adderley Edward Wilkinson (Irish cricketer (1887-1978))
- Mihail Straje (Publicist, literary historian, writer, poet and Romanian translator)
- Vilém Lorenc
- Bill MacLean (American comic strip author)
- Charlie Currie ((1920-1978))
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- Wenceslao Hinostroza (Peruvian painter)
- Jesús Puche (actor (died 1978))
- Zofia Czajkowska (Polish musician)
- Virginia Carrington-Thomas (American composer and organist)
- Anna Drexler
- Manfred Schäffer
- August Schmidt (mayor)
- Josef Jaroš
- František Mašek
- Michał Sadowski
- Robert Heinrich Fritzsche ((1891-1978))
- Margarete Moses (writer)
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- Matt S. Szymczak (American government official, member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System)