* 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player

* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model ( Hear ’ Say )

* 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 ).

* West, Martin Litchfield ( translator ), Hesiod Works & Days, Oxford University Press, 1978, ISBN 0-19-814005-3.

In 1978, Voight portrayed the paraplegic Vietnam veteran Luke Martin in Hal Ashby's film Coming Home.

* King ( TV miniseries ), a 1978 miniseries based on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

* 1978 – Martin Dossett, American football player

* 1978 – Martin Verkerk, Dutch tennis player

In 1978, he appeared on the comedy TV show The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, where Frank Sinatra was the evening's victim.

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

* Martin, David ( 1978 ).

This performance was immortalized in Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary The Last Waltz.

The Merkle – Hellman knapsack cryptosystem was one of the earliest public key cryptosystems invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978.

* Martin Turnell, The Rise of the French novel, New York: New Directions, 1978, ISBN 0-241-10181-6 ;

In 1978, Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird to campaign for Democratic U. S. Senate nominee Donald W. Stewart of Anniston, who defeated the Republican candidate, James D. Martin, a former U. S. representative from Gadsden.

They scrapped Martin's planned opening monologue and instead, Martin, in tears, introduced a video clip of a 1978 sketch in which he and Radner parodied an old Hollywood romantic couple's dance.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the Martin Hotel operates as a museum.

* Martin Verkerk ( born 1978 ), tennis player

The Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center, a community health center, was opened in 1968, and moved into a new building in 1978.

Martin Michael Charles Charteris, second son of the aforementioned Captain Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, eldest son of the eleventh Earl, was private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II and was created a life peer as Baron Charteris of Amisfield in 1978.

Guitarist Martin Rotsey joined in 1977 and Midnight Oil, with Morris, established their own record label Powderworks, which released their debut eponymous album in November 1978, and their first single " Run by Night " followed in December.

That stopped in November 1974, when Martin recorded his final Reprise album-Once In A While, released in 1978.

He also starred as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1978 miniseries King.

Martin turned over command of the ship to Commander Robert Leo Gillen on 30 June 1978.

She was a senior lecturer at St Martin ’ s School of Art, London, from 1965 to 1978 and became head of painting at Winchester School of Art in 1978.

Directors have included Philip S. Hopkins, 1958-1964, S. Paul Johnston, 1964-1969, Frank A. Taylor ( acting ), 1969-1971, Michael Collins, 1971 – 1978, Melvin B. Zisfein ( acting ), 1978-1979, Noel W. Hinners, 1979-1982, Walter J. Boyne ( acting 1982 – 1983, director 1983-1986 ), James C. Tyler ( acting ), 1986-1987, Martin O. Harwit, 1987-1995, Donald D. Engen, 1996-1999, and John R. Dailey, 2000 – present