* 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 – Audrey Tautou, French 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 ).

In 1978, the first of four Superman films was made in which Clark Kent and Superman were portrayed by Christopher Reeve ( with teenage Kent played by Jeff East in the first film ).

* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

The book was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978, and received dozens of positive book reviews, including those by well-known critics such as John Updike in The New Yorker, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in the New York Times, and Marshall McLuhan in the Toronto Globe and Mail.

In the 1970s, former CIA man Charles McCarry began the Paul Christopher series with The Tears of Autumn ( 1978 ), which was well-written, with believable tradecraft.

* Prendergast, Christopher ( 1978 ).

In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published Mommie Dearest, which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher.

* Peek a Boo ( 1978 ), alternative name The One and Only Phyllis Dixey, stars Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Murney, Michael Elphick, Elaine Paige and Patricia Hodge.

* Christopher Herrick 1967 – 1978 ( subsequently Sub-Organist Westminster Abbey )

Dooley and Christopher also played father and son in the 1978 film A Wedding and in the 2003 Law & Order: Criminal Intent television episode " Cherry Red ".

Mingo Junction served as the Pennsylvania steel mill town in the 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and starred Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, and John Cazale.

Hanson wrote and directed his next feature Sweet Kill in 1973, then in 1978 wrote and produced The Silent Partner, starring Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer.

* Pennington, D. H. & Thomas, Keith ( editors ) Puritans and Revolutionaries: essays in seventeenth-century history presented to Christopher Hill, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

** Air America: The Story of the CIA's Secret Airlines by Christopher Robbins ( Hardcover – Jan 1, 1978 )

* “ On ‘ The Reality of the Past ’”, in Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation ( CUP, Cambridge, 1978 ), pp. 127-44

Christopher Ashton Kutcher (; born February 7, 1978 ), best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model, and comedian, known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That ' 70s Show.

Ford Christopher Frick ( December 19, 1894 – April 8, 1978 ) was an American sportswriter and executive who served as president of the National League from to and as the third Commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1951 to.

Citizen Smith, a novelisation of the first series written by Christopher Kenworthy, was published by Universal books, London in 1978.

Christopher Foyle was also, from 1978 until 2008, the Chairman and CEO of aviation companies Air Foyle & Air Foyle HeavyLift, was Chairman and later Deputy President of the Air League, was a Trustee of the Foyle Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Essex.

In 1978, Richard Donner directed the film Superman: The Movie, starring a then-unknown Christopher Reeve.

He remains one of the youngest governors elected to date in U. S. history, along with Harold Stassen in Minnesota ( 1938 ), Bill Clinton in Arkansas ( 1978 ), Christopher " Kit " Bond and Matt Blunt in Missouri ( 1972 ) and ( 2004 ), respectively, and Bobby Jindal in Louisiana ( 2007 ).

One of the last foreign prisoners to die was twenty-nine-year old American Michael S. Deeds, who was captured with his friend Christopher E. DeLance on November 24, 1978 while sailing from Singapore to Hawaii.

Christopher Theodore Ruben Studdard ( born September 12, 1978 ), best known as Ruben Studdard, is an American R & B, pop, and gospel singer.

Christopher John " Topher " Grace (; born July 12, 1978 )

Previous winners of the Harrison-Meldola Prize ( known as the Meldola Medal and Prize prior to its merger in 2008 with the Edward Harrison prize ) include Christopher Kelk Ingold ( 1921, 1922 ), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood ( 1923 ), R. H. Stokes ( 1946 ), D. H. Williams ( 1966 ) and J. Evans ( 1978 ).