* 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 ).

After years of toiling in the Top Ten, the group finally reached No. 1 in 1978 with the sweet " Three Times a Lady.

* Steinmetz in Schenectady-A Picture History of Three Memorable Decades, Larry Hart, Old Dorp Books, 1978.

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

* Begley, W, The Symbolic Role of Calligraphy on Three Imperial Mosques of Shah Jahan, Kaladarsana, 1978, pp. 7 – 18

* 1978 would become known as the " Year of Three Popes ".

* May 16 – Pope Paul V succeeds Pope Leo XI as the 233rd pope, making 1605 the last Year of Three Popes until 1978.

* त ी न प ै श ां च ा तम ा श ा ( Teen Paishancha Tamasha ) – 1978 ... based on Bertolt Brecht's The Three Penny Opera '

The first CCI held outside of Britain on an annual basis is the Rolex Kentucky Three Day, held each year in Lexington since 1978.

*... And Then There Were Three ... ( 1978 )

McLean Stevenson, who had done so once in September 1978 and twice near the end of the second year of this version, appeared in nearly all of Season Three ( 1981 – 1982 ) and became a regular from the eleventh taped week through the end of the run.

Three of the four musicians who had created the soundtrack for the 1978 film — Innes, Halsey and Fataar — reunited in 1996 and recorded a second album, Archaeology, a send-up of The Beatles Anthology albums.

Three of James's novels were filmed by the team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory: The Europeans ( 1978 ), The Bostonians ( 1984 ) and The Golden Bowl ( 2000 ).

* Aleksander Trofimov in D ' Artagnan and Three Musketeers ( 1978 )

After the cancellation of My Three Sons in 1972, MacMurray made only a few more film appearances before retiring in 1978.

Three books by Gurdjieff were published in the English language in the United States after his death: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson published in 1950 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., Meetings with Remarkable Men, published in 1963 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., and Life is Real Only Then, When ' I Am ', printed privately by E. P. Dutton & Co. and published in 1978 by Triangle Editions Inc. for private distribution only.

Three previous state constitutions — those of 1954, 1975, and 1978 — were superseded in turn.

* Endless Jigsaw ( Toronto, ON, Canada: Three Trees, 1978 ) ISBN 0-88823-015-X

The screenplay is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward E. Paramore Jr., and was adapted from the novel Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque ( also considered the loose basis for The Deer Hunter in 1978 ).

* 1978: Muddy Waters, Three concerts

Three of the TV movies have the two paramedic characters traveling to Seattle ( April 1978 ) and San Francisco ( both in mid-1979 ) for EMS conventions.

With advice from Emerson Fittipaldi, Piquet went to Europe to further success by taking the record number of wins in Formula Three in 1978, defeating Jackie Stewart's all-time record.

Three years later in 1978, 14 members of Stortinget, the Norwegian Parliament, visited PLU.

Three Bikini families returned in 1974 but were evacuated again in 1978 because of radioactivity in their bodies from four years of eating contaminated food.

* Valentin Smirnitskiy, in D ' Artagnan and Three Musketeers ( 1978 ) and its sequels ( 1992, 1993 )