* 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 ).

Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ( named after Davis's grandfather ); his owner, Jon Arbuckle ; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie.

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate.

* W. Garfield Weston ( 1898 – 1978 ), businessman

Escalante actually first began teaching at Garfield High School in 1974 and taught his first AP Calculus course in 1978 with a group of 14 students.

On June 19, 1978, Garfield started syndication in 41 newspapers.

* Wild Times by Brian Garfield, copyright 1978 ISBN 978-0-671-24374-6

Jim Davis, who created Garfield, was Ryan's assistant ( from 1969 to 1978 ) while developing another strip, Gnorm Gnat.

In 1978, a station was added in Edmonton under station manager / news director Garfield Chesson.

Since Garfield Weston's death in 1978, the store has been run by his granddaughters, Jana Khayat and Kate Weston Hobhouse and the Managing Director is Beverley Aspinall.

*" Garfield " ( directed by Phil Roman, John Sparey and Bob Nesler ): Dating back to 1978, Garfield is born and soon taken in by Jon, who then buys Odie.

In 1978 Mehta became the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the New York Philharmonic and remained there until his resignation in 1991, becoming the longest holder of the post.

Minden, a small city, produced other successful athletes too, including David Allen Lee ( born 1943 ), the punter for the Baltimore Colts from 1966 – 1978, and Fred Haynes ( 1946 – 2006 ), the holder of many football records as the quarterback at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge during the late 1960s.

The larger holder, originally the largest in the world, was reduced to 8. 9 million ft < sup > 3 </ sup > ( 250, 000m < sup > 3 </ sup >) when it was damaged in the Silvertown explosion in 1917, but was still the largest in England until it was damaged again by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb in 1978.

Noah Kiprono Ngeny ( born November 2, 1978 ) is a former Kenyan athlete, Olympic gold medalist at 1500 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and world record holder in the 1000 m.

From 1976 to 1978, Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress ( the first African-American holder of that post ), the position that in 1985 became the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

He also had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, 1978 edition, for brewing the strongest commercially brewed beer.

* Guinness Sports Record Book ( 1977 – 1978 )

On August 2, 1978, a Guinness Book World Record category for the most ears of corn eaten in five minutes was established, when Luis Pirada of Eden devoured 18 ears.

Commencing with the 1979 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records said " new research released by A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1978 has shown him to be 17 years younger than the age shown on his gravestone.

* McKnight, Hugh, The Guinness Guide to Waterways of Western Europe, Guinness ( 1978 )

His other books since 1978 include Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950 ( 1983 ), and bio-critical studies of Ingrid Bergman ( 1983 ), Alec Guinness ( 1984 ), Vivien Leigh ( 1984 ), Orson Welles ( 1986 ), Elizabeth Taylor ( 1991 ), film historian John Kobal ( 2008 ) and the artists Edward Wolfe ( 1986 ), Bernard Meninsky ( 1990 ), Muriel Pemberton ( 1993 ), Ricardo Cinalli ( 1993 ), Claude Monet ( 1995 ), Bill Jacklin ( 1997 ), Cyril Mann ( 1997 ) Peter Coker ( 2002 ), Zsuzsi Roboz ( 2005 ), Carl Laubin ( 2007 ), Philip Sutton ( 2008 ) and Paul Day ( 2010 ).