* 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 – 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 – Reuben Droughns, American football player

Hal Foster was recognized for his work on the strip with the Banshees ' Silver Lady award in 1952, followed by the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1957, their Story Comic Strip Award in 1964, their Special Features Award in 1966 and 1967, the Gold Key award in 1977, and the Elzie Segar Award in 1978.

Patrick Garland also directed his adaption of Under the Greenwood Tree at Salisbury Playhouse in 1978. This transferred to the West End Vaudeville theatre in 1979, with Frank Shelley as Geoffrey Day, Charmian May as Mrs Dewy, Geoffrey Kirkness as Dick Dewy, David Bacon as Reuben Dewy, Suzan Crowley as Fancy Day and Gilbert Wynne as Parson Maybold, George gabriel as Leaf.

MacNelly won his second Pulitzer and a Reuben Award in 1978, and then a second Reuben in 1979.

Brad Anderson won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Newspaper Panel Cartoon in 1978,

The Clamshell Alliance is humorously referenced in Arlo Guthrie's song " The Story of Reuben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of A " released in 1978 on the album One Night as an organization of citizens fighting off invasions of gigantic walking clams in Colonial America.

She and her husband moved to Utah in 1973, where she became an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brigham Young University ’ s J. Reuben Clark Law School until 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 – Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player

* 1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball player

* 1978 – Kel Mitchell, American actor