* 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 ).

* 1887 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Joe Absolom, English actor

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

* 1978 – Joe Marsala, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter ( b. 1907 )

* Tokyo Joe ( 1978, with Kazumi Watanabe, more a compilation than a proper album, featuring an odd mix of tracks from Thousand Knives and from the eponymous album by Watanabe's short lived Kylyn band )

From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell – when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979 – 80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home became a Redskins staple through 2007 – but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984.

* 1903 – Joe Venuti, Italian-American violinist ( The Dorsey Brothers ) ( d. 1978 )

He was also the fourth player, after Bart Starr ( 1966 ), Terry Bradshaw ( 1978 ), and Joe Montana ( 1989 ), to win both the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP during the same season.

* April 15 – Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player ( died 1978 )

* November 4 – Joe Dougherty, first voice of Porky Pig ( d. 1978 )

* " I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter " with Big Joe Turner on Spivey Records 1978

A comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, Albertson is perhaps best known for his roles as Manny Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ( 1971 ), Amos Slade in the 1981 animated film The Fox and the Hound ( 1981 ), and as Ed Brown in the 1974 – 1978 television sitcom Chico and the Man.

They would, however, through the draft acquire such standout players such as high-scoring forward Purvis Short ( 1978 ), former Georgetown Hoyas point guard Eric " Sleepy " Floyd ( 1982 ) ( who would later become an All-Star before being traded to the Houston Rockets ), and former Purdue University standout center Joe Barry Carroll, ( 1980 ) whose once promising career would be short-circuited because of injury, as well as center Robert Parish ( 1976 ).

Jennings and Joe Sample, the keyboard player for the Crusaders, go back to 1978 and began by writing the Midnight Believer album for B. B.

* Joe Pace ( born 1953 ), played for the NBA Washington Bullets from 1976 to 1978.

In 1978, while working on the hit track, " Heaven Knows " which featured Brooklyn Dreams member Joe " Bean " Esposito on vocals, Summer met fellow member Bruce Sudano.

The WBC responded on March 18, 1978, by retroactively giving title fight status to Norton's victory over Young the year before and awarded Norton their championship, which split the heavyweight championship for the first time since Jimmy Ellis and Joe Frazier were both recognized as champions in the early 1970s.

Her film appearances also include The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ( 1987 ), Stiff Upper Lips ( 1997 ), Howards End ( 1992 ), and BBC Theatre Night in Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw ( 1987 ) playing Mrs Prentice, where the cast included husband Timothy West with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones, as well as a cameo in The Boys From Brazil ( 1978 ).

In 1978, Robert Goralnick wrote and directed Mustang: The House That Joe Built.

In # 241 – 245 ( July – December 1978 ) Levitz and Sherman ( and then Joe Staton ) produced what was at that time the most ambitious Legion storyline: " Earthwar ", a galactic war between the United Planets and the Khunds, with several other villains lurking in the background.

In 1978 Pollard rejoined, this time replacing Eric Bell alongside Shiels, Bridgeman, Brady and Joe Staunton ( guitar, ex-Orphanage ).

( 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.

Fourteen of the fifteen tracks appeared on a series of coloured vinyl singles with picture sleeves, released in 1978 on the Deccagone label through Strawberry Fields Forever, Joe Pope's fanzine.