* 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 ).

* 1899 – Harold Abrahams, English sprinter ( d. 1978 )

Roughly half of these advisors have since died, including some of the Outline's chief architects: Rene Dubos ( d. 1982 ), Loren Eiseley ( d. 1977 ), Harold D. Lasswell ( d. 1978 ), Mark Van Doren ( d. 1972 ), Peter Ritchie Calder ( d. 1982 ) and Mortimer J. Adler ( d. 2001 ).

* 1891 – Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player ( d. 1978 )

* 1902 – Harold Lasswell, American political scientist ( d. 1978 )

* Dotto, Lydia and Harold Schiff ( 1978 ).

She had a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down ( 1978 ), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside.

Harold Dwight Lasswell ( February 13, 1902 — December 18, 1978 ) was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

* Harold Harby ( 1894 – 1978 ), Los Angeles, California, City Council member, born in Gjøvik

* In 1978, incoming U. S. senator from Alabama, Howell Heflin referred to a political rival, James D. Martin, as " the Harold Stassen of Alabama.

The Duke of Westminster married Natalia Ayesha Phillips, the daughter of Lt Col. Harold Pedro Joseph Phillips and his wife Georgina Wernher, in 1978.

On March 4, 1978, he disposed of Harold Weston in the ninth round after Weston also sustained a broken jaw like Cuevas ' previous challenger.

Harold Lasswell ( 1902 – 1978 ), a political scientist and communication theorist, was a member of the Chicago school of sociology.

Tom Lysiak ( l .) celebrates with David Shand | Dave Shand and Harold Phillipoff after a goal against the Colorado Rockies ( NHL ) | Colorado Rockies in 1978

Harold " Harry " Kewell ( born 22 September 1978 ) is an Australian football ( soccer ) player, who is currently a free agent.

Born Again, Colson's personal memoir reflecting on his religious conversion and prison term, was made into a 1978 dramatic film starring Dean Jones as Colson, Anne Francis as his wife Patty, and Harold Hughes as himself.

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 ).

* Harold Hayes ( 1978 )

* Harold Ballard – builder, 1987 ( Hamilton Tiger-Cats as owner and president 1978 – 89 ).

Britain's most prolific serial killer, Dr Harold Shipman, had his doctor's surgery in the town where he murdered most of his several hundred victims-the first known victim being 86-year-old Sarah Hannah Marsland of Ashton House in Victoria Street on 7 August 1978, the last being Kathleen Grundy of Joel Lane on 24 June 1998.

After four consecutive election wins, Dunstan's administration began to falter in 1978 following his dismissal of Police Commissioner Harold Salisbury, as controversy broke out over whether he had improperly interfered into a judicial investigation ; the police had been systematically keeping dossiers on left-wing politicians.

Apart from Brenman-Gibson's work, six critical biographies have appeared by the following authors: R. Baird Shuman ( 1962 ); Edward Murray ( 1968 ); Michael Mendelsohn ( 1969 ); Gerald Weales ( 1971 ); Harold Cantor ( 1978 ); and Christopher J. Herr ( 2003 ).

( 1970 ) as Admiral Harold R. Stark ; How to Frame a Figg ( 1971 ); Charley and the Angel ( 1973 ); and The Seniors ( 1978 ).