* 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 ).

One way around this was to use a ' hybrid system ', most notably the Roland MC-8 Microcomposer, where a microprocessor-based system controls an analog synthesizer, released in 1978.

* 1895 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Roland CR-78: A user-programmable drum machine.

* Prof Roland Dobbs, Professor of Physics from 1973 to 1990 at the University of London, and President from 1976 to 1978 of the Institute of Acoustics

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

His best-known compositions include " Werewolves of London ", " Lawyers, Guns and Money ", " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner " and " Johnny Strikes Up The Band ", all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy ( 1978 ).

Abercrombie ( May 13, 1975-November 14, 2000 ) was a bay Standardbred world-record-holding pacer and winner of the E. Roland Harriman Award for Harness Horse of the Year in 1978, who went on to become one of the sport's leading sires.

Edward Roland Noel Harriman ( December 24, 1895 in New York City-February 16, 1978 in Arden, New York ) was a financier and philanthropist.

* Abercrombie ( horse ) ( 1975 – 2000 ), a bay harness racing horse, won the 1978 E. Roland Harriman Award for harness horse of the year

Roland " Champ " Bailey ( born June 22, 1978 ) is an American football cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League ( NFL ).

# " Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner " ( David Lindell, Zevon ) ( from Excitable Boy, 1978 ) – 3: 47

In 1978, Saul Swimmer produced and directed a film version of The Black Pearl with Gilbert Roland and Mario Custodio.

The Roland CompuRhythm CR-78 is a drum machine launched in 1978.

* June 10, 1978: Roland Young, 23.

* Ana non, 1977 ; won the 1977 Livre Inter prize, the 1978 Roland Dorgelès Prize and the Thyde Monnier Prize

The Roland Jupiter-4 ( JP-4 ) was an analog synthesizer manufactured by the Roland Corporation between 1978 and 1981.

The Boss DS-1 is a distortion pedal for guitar, manufactured by the Roland Corporation under the brand name Boss since 1978.

The test and evaluation phase took much longer than originally anticipated with the clear-weather Roland I finally entering operational service with the French Army in April 1977, while the all-weather Roland II was first fielded by the German Army in 1978 followed by the French Army in 1981.

1978: Chestnutwood 5204 Roland Avenue:

Roland Bainton in " Here I Stand after a Quarter of a Century ," his preface for the 1978 edition of his Luther biography, concludes: " I am happy that the Church of Rome has allowed some talk of removing the excommunication of Luther.