* 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 ).

* Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Michael, and Moffatt, Ann, Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17 – 19 May 1978 ( Australian National University, Canberra, 1979 ).

Wood and Leif Andersson, New Morphometric Data for Fresh Lunar Craters, 1978, Proceedings 9th Lunar and Planet.

* Lawrence Roberts, The Evolution of Packet Switching ( Proceedings of the IEEE, November, 1978 )

* Thomas DeFanti, Jay Fenton and Nola Donato, " BASIC Zgrass — a sophisticated graphics language for the Bally Home Library Computer ", Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 12 Issue 3 ( August 1978 ), pp. 33 – 37

* Williams, Ann, " Some Notes and Considerations on Problems Connected with the English Royal Succession, 860 – 1066 ", Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1978, R. Allen Brown, ed., Boydell & Brewer, 1979, 144 – 167.

* The RBK Stevenson Award-This award of £ 50 is offered annually in recognition of the article published in the Proceedings on a topic that best reflects the scholarship and high standards of this distinguished individual, who was for many years the Keeper of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and was President of the Society between 1975 and 1978.

The laws governing wills, administration of estates and family provisions also applies to civil partners as to spouses ; thus, provisions governing financial relief under Part 2 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( MCA ) and the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates ' Court Act 1978 also apply to civil partnerships.

Riemann surfaces and related topics: Proceedings of the 1978 Stony Brook Conference ( State Univ.

In Proceedings of the 1978 Annual Conference ( Washington, D. C., United States, December 04-06, 1978 ), 111-115.

David Simms has been a member of the Royal Irish Academy since 1978 and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.

Proceedings: Voices of the Wilderness, edited by Ian Player and published by Jonathan Ball, 1978.

Kingman, " Random partitions in population genetics ", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, volume 361, number 1704, 1978.

# Integration, variation and differentiation in division spaces, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series A ( 10 ) 78 ( 1978 ) 69-85.

Helmut Wolf ( 1910 – 1994 ) published his direct semianalytic solution based on ordinary Gaussian elimination in matrix form in his paper " The Helmert block method, its origin and development ", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Problems Related to the Redefinition of North American Geodetic Networks, Arlington, Va. April 24 – April 28, 1978, pages 319 – 326.

* Wolf, H. ( 1978 ): " The Helmert block method, its origin and development ", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Problems Related to the Redefinition of North American Geodetic Networks, Arlington, Va. April 24 – 28, pp. 319 – 326.

* Moduli of Stability and Bifurcation Theory, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, 1978 ( 835-839 ).

* " Weakness of Will Commensurability, and the Objects of Deliberation and Desire " ( Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1978 )

# The Chinese-American Literary Scene: A Galaxy of Poets and a Lone Playwright By: Wand, David Hsin-Fu ; Proceedings of the Comparative Literature Symposium, 1978 ; 9: 121-46.

* “ A Family of Pass-Oriented Attribute Grammar Evaluators ”, with M. Jazayeri, Proceedings of the ACM 1978 Annual Conference, pp. 261 – 270, December 1978.