* 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 – 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 ).

He was succeeded in 1978 by Tom Davis of the Democratic Party.

* Clark, Tom ( 1978 ).

* Wheeler, Tom ( 1978 ).

* 1931 – Tom Wilson, American record producer ( d. 1978 )

Artist Marghe McMahon was inspired in 1978 to create a bronze statue of Tom playing the musical saw which sits in downtown Santa Cruz.

* Out ( miniseries ), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell

* Tom Paxton released the song " The Death of Stephen Biko " on his 1978 album Heroes.

In 1978, dentist and yo-yo celebrity Tom Kuhn patented the “ No Jive 3-in-1 ” yo-yo, creating the world's first " take-apart " yo-yo, which enabled yo-yo players to change the axle.

* Tom Danielson ( 1978 -), is a professional road bicycle racer.

Metrinko also was the hero ( and dedicatee ) of the book Razi Crossing, by Tom Burchill, when he saved a number of westerners ' lives during a revolutionary uprising in Tabriz, Iran in 1978.

The music critic Tom Sutcliffe later wrote that Doráti and his successors, Colin Davis ( 1967 – 71 ), Pierre Boulez ( 1971 – 75 ) and Gennady Rozhdestvensky ( 1978 – 81 ) had been partly successful in improving playing standards, but had not the brought the orchestra up to its original level of distinction.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

The band's third album, Heaven Tonight, released in 1978 and again produced by Tom Werman, combined elements of the first two albums.

In 1978, Ferd's son, Tom Johnson, signed on as his assistant.

A member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1972 to 1975, Rigg took leading roles in premiere productions of two Tom Stoppard plays, Dorothy Moore in Jumpers ( National Theatre, 1972 ) and Ruth Carson in Night and Day ( Phoenix Theatre, 1978 ).

* Tom Hamilton Jr. ( born 1978 ), American singer / songwriter / guitarist

Tom DeLay began his career as a politician in 1978 when he was elected to the Texas House of Representatives.

Ribot's son His Majesty sired the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Pleasant Colony, and his great grandson Alleged, by Tom Rolfe's son Hoist The Flag, emulated him by winning the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe in succssive years ( 1977 and 1978 ).

* Night and Day ( play ), a 1978 play by Tom Stoppard

The concept began in 1978 when Tom Braden and Pat Buchanan cohosted a radio show on WRC in Washington.

* 1984 Review of Tom Haydon's documentary " The Last Tasmanian " ( 1978 )

New York Yippie Tom Forcade was the producer of one of the first movies about punk rock, D. O. A., featuring footage of the Sex Pistols ' 1978 tour of America.

Following the 1978 season, Mendoza's request for a trade was granted as he, Odell Jones and Rafael Vasquez were sent to the Seattle Mariners for Rick Jones, Tom McMillan and Enrique Romo on December 5, 1978.