* 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 ).

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

* 1978 — John A. McCone ( Former Director of CIA and Former Chair of US Atomic Energy Commission )

Former British Intelligence officer Graham Greene examined the morality of espionage in left-wing, anti-imperialist novels such as The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ) set in Sierra Leone, the seriocomic Our Man in Havana ( 1959 ) occurring in the Cuba of dictator Fulgencio Batista before his deposition by Fidel Castro's popular Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 59 ), and The Human Factor ( 1978 ) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace.

Former Carlton logoCarlton continued to play finals through the 1970s without premiership success, and went through several coaches in a short period of time: Nicholls ( until 1975 ), Ian Thorogood ( 1976 – 1977 ), Ian Stewart ( for only three matches in 1978 ), and Alex Jesaulenko as playing coach after Stewart's departure.

File: Former Kershaw County Courthouse, Camden, South Carolina. jpg | Original Kershaw County Courthouse in 1978

Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi claimed under oath that, in a séance held in 1978 with other professors at the University of Bologna, the " ghost " of Giorgio La Pira spelled the name of the street where Aldo Moro was being held by the Red Brigades in a Ouija.

* Kent Rominger, 1978, Former NASA astronaut and shuttle commander

Former rolling stock once used on Tokyo Monorail include the 100 / 200 / 300 / 350 series ( from 1964 until 1978 ), 500 series ( from 1969 until 1991 ), 600 series ( from 1977 until 1997 ), and 700 / 800 series ( from 1982 until 1998 ).

Former New England Patriots running back and current ESPN sports commentator, Craig James, was a member of the 1978 Class 4A State Champion Spartan football team.

* Former Deputy Director, Pan American Health Organization ( 1978 – 1983 )

Former directors include Francis Scarfe ( 1959 – 1978 ) and Harley Granville Barker ( 1937 – 1939 ).

James " Jamie " Cyrus Stewart ( born March 2, 1978 ) is the front-man of the American musical group Xiu Xiu ( singer / guitarist / programmer ), a former front-man of IBOPA and Ten in the Swear Jar and a current member of Former Ghosts.

Former Crest of SAJC 1978 to 1992

Former city commissioner of consumer affairs Jane Byrne announced her challenge to Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic on April 24, 1978, describing herself as an alternative to a " cabal of evil men has fastened onto the government of the City of Chicago ," and, when pressed to name them, singled out Burke and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.

Former Triple A member José María Boccardo also participated with Jean Pierre Cherid and others in the 1978 assassination of Argala, the etarra who had participated in the 1973 assassination of Franco's Prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco.

As District Engineer for La Union, he was then tapped by Former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and Former Tourism Secretary Jose D. Aspiras to lead the Philippine Tourism Authority which he served as General Manager from 1978 to 1986.

Former students of the early Deng Xiaoping era in China ( 1978 to the early 1990s ), report taking this slogan literally and making ' hot milk ' in their dormitory cooking rings by dissolving the candies in a pan of hot water.

He recently released a book, My Time with Prince-Confessions of a Former Revolutionary, which tells of his time with Prince and the Revolution from his first audition in 1978 until his departure in 1983.

* Nicolas Sarkozy, Former President of France, former President of the Union for a Popular Movement, and former Interior Minister ( Master in law in 1978 );

Former presidents of the DAYL include retired federal district judge Jerry L. Buchmeyer ( president in the fall of 1965 ), federal district judge Barbara G. Lynn ( president in 1985 ), state appellate justice Douglas Lang ( president in 1978 ), and prominent Dallas attorneys such as Robert H. Mow, Jr. ( president in the fall of 1969 ), Beverly Bell Godbey ( president in 1993 ), Michael Kevin Hurst ( president in 1999 ), Christina Melton Crain ( president in 2002 ).