* 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 – 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 – Igor Tudor, Croatian footballer

In 1978, the ASO became the first American orchestra to make a digital recording intended for commercial release, when it played Igor Stravinsky's Firebird suite and excerpts from Alexander Borodin's opera, Prince Igor for the Telarc label.

* Igor Starygin, in D ' Artanyan i Tri Mushketyora ( 1978 ), Mushketyory 20 let spustya ( 1992 ), and Tayna Korolevy Anny ili Mushketyory 30 Let Spustya ( 1993 )

He received his Ph. D. degree at the University of Helsinki in 1978, writing his dissertation Myth and Music on Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius, and Igor Stravinsky.

Igor Bišćan (; born 4 May 1978 ) is a Croatian professional footballer, currently a free agent after terminating his contract with Dinamo Zagreb in April 2012.

Igor Liba played for ZPA Prešov ( 1970 – 1978 ), HC Košice ( 1978 – 1982, 1984 – 1988, 1991 – 1992, 1997 – 1998 and 1998 – 1999 ) and HC Dukla Jihlava ( 1982 – 1984 ) in Czechoslovakia, after 1993 in Slovakia mostly for HK VTJ Spišská Nová Ves.

* 1978 – Ivan Urgant, Russian television host and actor

* 1903 – Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer and writer ( d. 1978 )

* Vasili Kuznetsov ( footballer ) ( born 1978 ), Russian footballer

* 1978 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder

* 1912 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player

* 1978 – Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer

This event marked the end of Russia's first constitutional period, which was defined by the much-amended constitution adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1978.

185 of the 1978 Constitution ( Basic Law ) of the Russian Federation ).

* November 4 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer ( d. 1978 )

It was directly subordinate to the central Russian SFSR authorities rather than the local oblast and later ( after 1978 ) to the Ukrainian SSR administration.

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film directed and co-written by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War.

* The Russian War, 1978.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Berlin is also well known for his writings on Russian intellectual history, most of which are collected in Russian Thinkers ( 1978 ; 2nd ed.

* Russian Thinkers ( co-edited with Aileen Kelly ), Hogarth Press, 1978.

The " COCOM restrictions " theory, though, while popular in the West, is challenged by some Russian computer historians on the basis of the fact that development for the Iskra-226 started in 1978, two years before the Afghan war.

From September 23 ( given actual effect from October 4, after the armed disbanding of the Supreme Soviet ) to December 12, 1993, rule by decree ( ukases ) was imposed in Russia by President Boris Yeltsin, during transition from the Russian Constitution of 1978 ( which was modelled after the obsolete Soviet Constitution of 1977 ) to the current 1993 Constitution

The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War, 1978, 2000.

* The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet: War and Politics, Evan Mawdsley, London, 1978

* Sailors in Revolt: The Russian Baltic Fleet in 1917, Norman Saul, Kansas, 1978

Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río ( 7 February 1913 — 18 October 1978 ) was a Spanish communist who became famous as the murderer of the Russian Marxist Leon Trotsky in 1940, in Mexico.

Alexander Gerschenkron ( in Russian Александр Гершенкрон, * 1904 in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Ukraine, † 26 October 1978 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a Russian-born American Jewish economic historian and professor in Harvard, trained in the Austrian School of economics.