IIRC, the post mentioned West Coast, and to look for info on deaths, mentioned in obscure sources.... May 14, 1978: William Powell Lear, inventor of Lear Jet, dies in Reno, Nevada.
May 17, 1978: John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies.
June 29, 1978: Death of Bob Crane at age 49, found murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; actor (Colonel Hogan - Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed Show). Including him because there's lots of sexual weirdness in this case that fits in a lot of our discussions.
June 30, 1978: Death of Bill Harrah, Las Vegas casino owner.
August 6, 1978: Pope Paul VI dies at age 80 of heart attack at summer residence in Castelgandolfo (born 1897).
August 22, 1978: Death of Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya, at age 83 (born 1894).
September 27, 1978: Pope John Paul I dies at age 65 after only 33 days as Pope (born 1912).
HERE'S A BIG ONE November 18, 1978: n Guyana, Jim Jones leads his People's Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, including Jim Jones, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. US Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others are assassinated by gunfire by members of People's Temple shortly beforehand.
ANOTHER BIG ONE November 27, 1978: In San Francisco, California, Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White.
December 8, 1978: Death of Golda Mabovitch AKA Golda Meir AKA Golda Meyerson at age 80 in Jerusalem, Israel; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-74).
Here is the list from 1978 Odd point about this list, I did not see an single American professional athlete listed - ie no baseball, basketball, football, or hockey players, and yet there are about a dozen cricket players listed. very strange.