* 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 ).

* Gunnar Nilsson ( 1948 – 1978 ), a Swedish racing car driver

Gunnar Fant received honorary doctorates from the Grenoble University ( 1978 ) and from Stockholm University ( 1988 ), and several other awards, such as the Swedish Academy Margit Påhlson award, and the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award ( 2003 ).

The deaths in 1978 of both Ronnie Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson contributed to the demise of this round of the world championship, as interest for Formula One in Sweden fell following the death of the two Swedish racers.

Gunnar Nilsson ( 20 November 1948 – 20 October 1978 ) was a Swedish racing driver, born in Helsingborg.

When Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson died during the 1978 Formula One season, public support for the event dried up and the Swedish Grand Prix came to an end.

* Northern Lights ( 1978 film ), a 1979 movie directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson

* Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, ( b. May 5, 1924 d. September 8, 1978 )-acclaimed Argentine film director

* 1978 / 79: Erich Kühnhackl, Hardy Nilsson, Marcus Kuhl, Dick Decloe, Udo Kießling, Harald Krüll, Walter Stadler, Franz Hofherr, Henryk Jaworowski, Peter Schiller, D. Langemann, Vic Stanfield, Hans Rothkirch, Georg Kink, Miroslav Sikora, Christian Nikola, Siegfried Hardt, Claus Verleih, Rainer Makkatsch

The chairman of the Expo foundation is as of writing Per-Erik Nilsson, earlier head Parliamentary Ombudsman ( 1978 – 1987 ).

* 1978 – Kent Nilsson, Winnipeg Jets

Zarah Leander played Madame Armfeldt in the original Austrian staging ( in 1975 ) as well as in the original Swedish staging in Stockholm in 1978 ( here with Jan Malmsjö as Fredrik Egerman ), performing Send In The Clowns and Liaisons in both stagings.

This Swedish quartet — with such hits as " Waterloo " ( 1974 ), " Fernando " ( 1976 ), " Take a Chance on Me " ( 1978 ), and their signature smash " Dancing Queen " ( 1976 )— ranks as the eighth best-selling act of all time.

* 1944 – Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bassist ( The Hives )

* 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish author and poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Fredrick Federley, Swedish politician

* 1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer

* 1964 – Cécilia Rodhe, Swedish model, Miss Sweden 1978

* 1978 – Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman, co-founded Flattr and The Pirate Bay

Various objects and places have been named after Sigyn in modern times, including the Norwegian stiff-straw winter wheat varieties Sigyn I and Sigyn II, a Marvel Comics character ( 1978 ) of the same name the Swedish vessel MS Sigyn, which transports spent nuclear fuel in an allusion to Sigyn holding a bowl beneath the venom to spare Loki, and the arctic Sigyn Glacier.

** Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer ( d. 1978 )

** Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* December 3 – Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1978 )

* In 1972, Swedish composer Thorstein Bergman wrote " Om du någonsin kommer fram till Samarkand " (" If you ever reach Samarkand ") made notable by Swedish singer Lill Lindfors in 1978.

* Helena Josefsson ( born 1978 ), Swedish singer

A year later, Grip was appointed assistant manager of the Swedish national team, and Eriksson became Degerfors ' manager, winning promotion to Division 2 in 1978.

Swedish act Leather Nun, were signed to Industrial Records in 1978, being the first non-TG / Cazazza act to have an IR-release.

En levnadsteckning ( Stockholm, Sweden: Bonniers, 1978 ) Swedish

He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs ( 1978 – 1979 ).

Between 1962 and 1978 Blix was a member of the Swedish delegation at the Disarmament Conference in Geneva.

From 1978 to 1979, Blix was the Swedish Foreign Minister.

* May 6-Harry Martinson, Swedish author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature ( died 1978 )