* 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 ).

* February 3 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician ( d. 1978 )

When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.

* Julia Wilson ( born 1978 ), Australian rower

* Julia Rebekka Adler ( b. 1978 )

Jane Fonda who just finished Julia ( 1977 ) was soon going to star in Alan Pakula ’ s Comes a Horseman ( 1978 ).

* 1978 – Nominated – Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Julia

* Christian Louis, Baron de Massy ( Noghès ) ( born Monaco, 17 January 1949 ), married firstly in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, on 14 November 1970 and divorced in 1978 María Marta Quintana y del Carril ( born London, 17 June 1951 ) and had one daughter, Leticia ; married secondly in Ramatuelle on 11 September 1982 and divorced in 1987 Anne Michelle Lütken ( 28 November 1959-London, 25 November 2001 ), without issue ; married thirdly in Geneva Julia Lakschin ( born November 6 1968 ) on April 1992, without issue, and divorced in 1995 ; and married fourthly Cécile Gelabale ( born Guadeloupe ), and had one son, Antoine, and adopted another, Brice Gelabale:

Gaston Maurice Julia ( February 3, 1893 – March 19, 1978 ) was a French mathematician who devised the formula for the Julia set.

The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia ( née Anderson, divorced when Zoë was two ), Ball was educated at Heston Junior School in west London between 1975 and 1978.

Another biopic about her life, " Vida y poesía de Julia de Burgos ," was filmed and released in Puerto Rico in 1978.

* In 1978, Eugène Cremmer, Bernard Julia and Joël Scherk ( CJS ) found the classical action for an 11-dimensional supergravity theory.

* E. Cremmer, B. Julia and J. Scherk, " Supergravity theory in eleven dimensions ", Physics Letters B76 ( 1978 ) pp 409 – 412.

* February 3-Gaston Julia ( died 1978 ), French mathematician.

He was born 8 July 1955, educated at Gresham's School and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, married in 1978 Rachel Caroline Vincent Millett, and has one son and three daughters: Fiona Joan Margaret ( b. 1979 ), Sarah Barbara Sibell ( b. 1981 ), Charles Edward Millett ( b. 1983 ), and Julia Rachel Caroline ( b. 1984 ).

* Julia Duffy as Penny Davis ( 1973 – 1978 ), daughter of Althea.

* Julia Goldsworthy ( born 1978 ), British politician

* Julia Rebekka Adler ( 1978 -), German violist.

A six part television dramatisation of the book ( written by Julia Jones ) was featured as part of ITV's anthology series Armchair Thriller in 1978.

She would also appear in Maggie and Her ( 1978 ) opposite Julia McKenzie.

* Caves and Karst of the Muller Range-report of the 1978 Speleological Expedition to the Atea Kananda, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea, Ed Julia James and H Jane Dyson, 1980

Julia Anne Goldsworthy ( born 10 September 1978 ) is a Special Adviser in HM Treasury to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.

* Lady of the House ( 1978 ) ( Julia de Paulo )

He won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1978 for the film Julia and again in 1981 for Ordinary People.