* 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player

* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 1978 – Martin Mendez, Uruguayan bassist ( Opeth )

* 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player

* 1978 – Igor Semshov, Russian footballer

* 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author

* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Guy Berryman, Scottish musician and businessman ( Coldplay and Apparatjik )

* 1978 – Riley Smith, American actor

* 1978 – Tom Fulp, American video game programmer

* 1978 – Brian Maillard, Swiss guitarist ( Dominici )

* 1978 – Marisa Miller, American model and actress

* 1978 – Reuben Rox, American actor, director, and producer

* 1978 – Marvel Smith, American football player

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress

* 1978 – Ana Serradilla, Mexican actress

* 1978 – 150 Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

Allan Border made his Test debut for Australia in 1978 – 79.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* Audrey Williamson-The Mystery of the Princes ( 1978 )

* Audrey Tautou ( 9 August 1976 / 1978 – ) actress

Pierre Berton, in The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama ( 1978 ), offers this example of a Little Audrey joke as was in fashion around the time of the Dionne Quintuplets birth in 1934:

* Audrey Tennyson's Vice-Regal Days ( 1978 )

In 1973, Alfred Marie-Jeanne, along with Garcin Malsa, Lucien Veilleur, and Marc Pulvar ( father of Audrey Pulvar ), founded an organization called " La Parole au Peuple " ( Word of the People ), which in 1978 became the Martinican Independence Movement.

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* 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer

* 1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1903 – Henry Corbin, French philosopher and iranologist ( d. 1978 )

* 1909 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( d. 1978 )

A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

Many practitioners take Edward Saïd's book Orientalism ( 1978 ) as the theory's founding work ( although French theorists such as Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon made similar claims decades before Said ).

Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.

* 1978 – Philippe Jaroussky, French sopranist countertenor

* 1978 – Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

A French adaptation for television, translated and written by Jean-Claude Carrière, appeared in 1978.

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* 1978 – Isabelle Delobel, French ice dancer

* 1884 – Étienne Gilson, French philosopher ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist

* 1978 – Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer

* 1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player

* 1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress

* 1978 – Jérôme Rothen, French footballer

* Karine Ruby ( 1978 – 2009 ), French snowboarder

* 1882 – Max Decugis, French tennis player ( d. 1978 )

A new Spanish edition, Investigación y Ciencia was launched in Spain in 1976, followed by a French edition, Pour la Science, in France in 1977, and a German edition, Spektrum der Wissenschaft, in Germany in 1978.