* 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 ).

* 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player

* John F. Kasson, Amusing The Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century ( Hill and Wang, New York, 1978 ; Distributed in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre Ltd .)

After Deng was rehabilitated later that year, Chen led the attack on the Maoist era at the November – December 1978 CPC CC Work Conference, raising the sensitive " six issues ": the purges of Bo Yibo, Tao Zhu, Wang Heshou and Peng Dehuai ; the 1976 Tiananmen Incident ; and, Kang Sheng's errors.

* Wei-Noon Wang ( 1978 – 1980 )

* Wang Zhaojun by Cao Yu ( 1978 )

* Wang Nan ( table tennis ) ( born 1978 ), Chinese table tennis player

Important players and teachers in the 20th century include Wang Xunzhi ( 王巽之, 1899 – 1972 ) who popularized the Wulin zheng school based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang ; Lou Shuhua, who rearranged a traditional guzheng piece and named it Yu zhou chang wan ; Liang Tsai-Ping ( 1911 – 2000 ), who edited the first guzheng teaching manual, Nizheng pu in 1938 ; Cao Dongfu ( 1898 – 1970 ), from Henan ; Gao Zicheng ( b. 1918 ) and Zhao Yuzhai ( b. 1924 ), both from Shandong ; Su Wenxian ( 1907 – 1971 ); Guo Ying ( b. 1914 ) and Lin Maogen ( b. 1929 ), both from Chaozhou ; the Hakka Luo Jiuxiang ( 1902 – 1978 ); and Cao Guifen and Cao Zheng ( 1920 – 1998 ), both of whom trained in the Henan school.

Wang Bing (, born January 2, 1978 in Liaoning ) is a Chinese sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s.

The three synonyms are Dzungariotherium orgosensis Chiu, 1973 and ( each of the following named after a separate skull ) Dzungariotherium turfanensis Xu & Wang, 1978 and Paraceratherium lipidus Xu & Wang, 1978.

Its founder, James Wang ( 王中元 ), started the studio in 1978 as an overseas facility for the U. S. animation outlet Hanna-Barbera.

* 1978 – Yu Nan, Chinese actress

* Yu Nan ( born 1978 ), Chinese actress

Releases include The Harp Key-Crann Nan Teud, by Alison Kinnaird on Scottish harp ( 1978 ).

* 1978 – Fu Mingxia, Chinese diver

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

The legacies of the modernist school, such as historian Lo Hsiang-lin ( 1906 – 1978 ) and the traditionalist school, as represented by historian Chien Mu ( 1895 – 1990 ) remain strong in Chinese circles.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

China cut off aid in 1978 when Albania attacked its policies after the death of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

* 1978 – Guo Moruo, Chinese writer ( b. 1892 )

* 1978 – Jasmine Leong, Chinese singer

Later Mohist Logic, Ethics and Science by A. C. Graham, ( 1978, reprinted 2004 ) The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong.

* 1892 – Guo Moruo, Chinese writer ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Zhang Zhong, Chinese chess player

* November 12 – Guo Moruo, Chinese author and poet ( d. 1978 )

At the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Communist Party Congress in 1978, the Chinese leadership initiated a series of economic and political reforms, which led to the gradual implementation of a market economy and some political liberalization that relaxed the system set up by Mao Zedong.

Deng Xiaoping was Chinese Paramount Leader from 1978 to 1992.

While it continues to be lauded to be the major force that defeated " imperialism and feudalism " and created a " New China " by the Communist Party of China, the ideology survives only in name on the Communist Party's Constitution ; Deng Xiaoping abolished most Maoist practices in 1978, advancing a guiding ideology called " Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Inner Mongolia has seen considerable development since Deng Xiaoping instituted Chinese economic reform in 1978.

With the opening of the mainland Chinese economy in 1978, a dual-track currency system was instituted, with renminbi usable only domestically, and with foreigners forced to use foreign exchange certificates.

It is also postulated to work for Hamito-Semitic ( Fleming 1973 ), Chinese ( Munro 1978 ) and Amerind ( Stark 1973 ; Baumhoff and Olmsted 1963 ).

Perhaps the most bizarre hybrid form of neoliberalism is neoliberal communism, as practised in China and introduced in 1978 under the Chinese Economic Reforms of Deng Xiaoping.

Asahara graduated in 1977 and turned to the study of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, which are traditional careers for the blind in Japan, and married in 1978.

This argument was decisively resolved in Deng's favor in late 1978, which is generally taken as the start of the era of Chinese economic reform.

After ousting Hua Guofeng as China's " paramount leader " in 1978, Deng Xiaoping recognized the " Sichuan Experience " as a model for Chinese economic reform.

Li in 1978 for the Chinese species Musella lasiocarpa, which was originally described in Musa, transferred to Ensete by Cheesman and subsequently back to Musa.