* 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

* 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 ).

* Sweeney Todd ( 1978 – 79, Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Music, Outstanding Lyrics )

* 1963 – 1978 Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd

After a stint between 1974 and 1978 as the host of the Thames Television murder-mystery game show Whodunnit !, Pertwee took the starring role in Worzel Gummidge, based on the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd.

* Todd Urban ( born 1978 ), professional pianist and orchestral educator ; bassist of the Steve Young Trio.

The Tubes ' third album gave way to thematic experimentation with Now ( 1977 ) and after their live record What Do You Want from Live ( 1978 ), recorded during their record breaking run at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, the fourth album for A & M, Remote Control ( 1979 ) was a concept album produced by Todd Rundgren about a television-addicted idiot-savant.

From 1978 to 1981 the name was changed to the Central Robbery Squad, but still known as the Flying Squad, they are often referred to by the nicknames the " Heavy Mob " or " the Sweeney ", which is a shortened version of the rhyming slang, Sweeney Todd.

The term toxic shock syndrome was first used in 1978 by a Denver pediatrician, Dr. James K. Todd, to describe the staphylococcal illness in three boys and four girls aged 8 – 17 years.

That includes players like Ron Washington ( 1977 ), Bob Welch ( 1977 ), Ron Roenicke ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mike Scioscia ( 1978 ), Dave Stewart ( 1978 ), Orel Hershiser ( 1980 – 1981, 1991 ), Fernando Valenzuela ( 1980 ), Steve Sax ( 1981 ), Sid Bream ( 1982 ), Sid Fernandez ( 1983 ), Franklin Stubbs ( 1983 ), Ramon Martinez ( 1988, 1996 ), John Wetteland ( 1988 ), Eric Karros ( 1990 ), Pedro Martinez ( 1991 ), Raul Mondesi ( 1991 – 1992 ), Eric Young ( 1991 ), Mike Piazza ( 1992 ), Henry Blanco ( 1993 – 1996 ), Todd Hollandsworth ( 1993 ), Chan Ho Park ( 1994 ), Miguel Cairo ( 1995 ), Paul LoDuca ( 1995, 1997 ), Paul Konerko ( 1996 ), Alex Cora ( 1997 ), Dennys Reyes ( 1997 ), Adrian Beltre ( 1998 ) and Eric Gagne ( 1999 ).

In 1978, she played Miss Hannigan in the original London cast of the musical Annie and two years later, she played Mrs Lovett in the original London production of the musical Sweeney Todd.

Tim Gooding and Johanna Pigott were members of Sydney post-punk band, XL Capris ( 1978 – 1982 ), record producer Todd Hunter later joined them on guitar.

Ruthven Campbell Todd ( Pronounced ' riven ') ( 14 June 1914 – 11 October 1978 ) was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, best known as an editor of the works of William Blake, and as a writer of children's books.

Hermit of Mink Hollow is Todd Rundgren's eighth solo album, released in 1978.

Todd Allen Wellemeyer ( born August 30, 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky ) is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Todd Alan Kluever ( pronounced KLEE-ver ) ( born July 6, 1978 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin ) is a NASCAR driver.

The first U. S. Women's National Physique Championship, promoted by Henry McGhee and held in Canton, Ohio in 1978, is generally regarded as the first true female bodybuilding contest-that is, the first contest where the entrants were judged solely on muscularity ( Todd, 1999 ).

The comic book version, Harlan Ellison's Chocolate Alphabet, with cover and art by Larry Todd, appeared in 1978.

* 1978 – Matt Guerrier, American baseball player

* 1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player

* 1978 – Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer

* 1978 – Jody Marie Gnant, American singer-songwriter and pianist

* 1978 – Nikki Griffin, American actress

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

* 1978 – Tim Foreman, American bass player ( Switchfoot )

* 1978 – Kerri Walsh Jennings, American volleyball player

* 1978 – Eddie Gill, American basketball player

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

* 1978 – Chris Chambers, American football player

* 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Chris Capuano, American baseball player

* 1978 – Reuben Droughns, American football player

* 1978 – Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player

* 1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball player

* 1978 – Kel Mitchell, American actor