* 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 ).

* 1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist

* 1935 – John Cazale, American actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – John Gall, American baseball player

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

In October 1978, Yale presented a " chamber version " adapted and directed by Keith Hack, with John Glover as Jimmy and June Gable as Begbick.

* Big Dipper ( Elton John song ), a 1978 song by Elton John

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

* John Buffalo Mailer ( born 1978 ), author, playwright and journalist

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank, 223-90 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978 ).

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in November 1978, " Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called The Dead Kennedys, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Notable examples include Mike Oldfield's " Guilty " ( 1979 ) Blondie's " Heart of Glass " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Hell on Wheels " and " Take Me Home " ( both 1979 ), Barry Manilow ’ s " Copacabana " ( 1978 ), David Bowie's " John I'm Only Dancing ( Again )" ( 1975 ), Rod Stewart's " Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

* 1978 – John Oster, Welsh footballer

* 1978 – John Morris, Canadian Curler

* 1978 – John Nolan, American musician ( Straylight Run and Taking Back Sunday )

* 1978 – John Tartaglia, American broadway actor and Muppeteer

The acronym GUT was first coined in 1978 by CERN researchers John Ellis, Andrzej Buras, Mary K. Gaillard, and Dimitri Nanopoulos, however in the final version of their paper they opted for the less anatomical GUM ( Grand Unification Mass ).

* Sir Brian John Maynard Tovey ( 1978 – 1983 )

John Carpenter created Halloween ( 1978 ).

John Atkinson ( editor ), current editor of Stereophile, stated ( in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops ) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that " the magic was gone " until he replaced it with a tube amp.

* 1978 — John A. McCone ( Former Director of CIA and Former Chair of US Atomic Energy Commission )

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

* Sir John Ford ( born 1922 ), British Foreign Office official who served in Canada from 1978 to 1981 ( List of High Commissioners from the United Kingdom to Canada )