* 1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian politician and magistrate ( d. 1978 )

* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor ( d. 1978 )

* 1978 – Robert Mohr, German rugby player

* 1909 – Robert Charroux, French writer ( d. 1978 )

The CMB's serendipitous discovery in 1964 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson was the culmination of work initiated in the 1940s, and earned them the 1978 Nobel Prize.

* 1978 – Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Polish drummer

* 1894 – Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1978 )

* Burnham, Robert ( 1978 ).

* A 1978 miniseries entitled The Greatest Heroes of the Bible starred Victoria Principal as Esther, Robert Mandan as Xerxes, and Michael Ansara as Haman.

In 1978, Greenpeace launched the original Rainbow Warrior, a, former fishing trawler named for the Cree legend that inspired early activist Robert Hunter on the first voyage to Amchitka.

* Hunter, Robert and McTaggart, David, Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb ( London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1978 ).

* Robert L. Gale, John Hay ( Boston, 1978 )

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Loglan was mentioned in a couple of science fiction works: Robert A. Heinlein ’ s well-known books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Number of the Beast, and Robert Rimmer ’ s utopian book Love Me Tomorrow ( 1978 ).

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

* The Great Ideas Today ( 1961 – 1977, 17 volumes ), with Robert Hutchins, 1978 – 1999, 20 volumes

* 1978 – Robert Coogan, American actor ( b. 1924 )

* Robert Goldenberg The Sabbath-Law of Rabbi Meir ( Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1978 )

Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello, S. J., London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1978.

* " We Have to Deal With It: Punk England Report ", by Robert Christgau, Village Voice, January 9, 1978

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, ( 20 December 189415 May 1978 ) was an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia.

Sir Robert Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FAA, FRS, QC ( 1976 – 15 May 1978 )

" My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants ," wrote Capp in 1978.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote in November 1978, " Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called The Dead Kennedys, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination.

In the unclassified summary of their findings, published in 1978, the Committee wrote:

Thomas Turner wrote in the late 1990s that .. ' ajor acts of violence, such as the killings that followed the ' Kasongo uprising ' in Bandundu Region in 1978, the killings of diamond miners in Kasai-Oriental Region in 1979, and, more recently, the massacre of students in Lubumbashi in 1990, continued to intimidate the population.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

Jomo Kenyatta ( c. 1894 – 1978 ), who became Kenya's first prime minister in 1963, wrote in 1930:

In 1978 he wrote to The Times that he had ' not been able to find a single person even in much maligned Chile who did not agree that personal freedom was much greater under Pinochet than it had been under Allende.

* The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.

Ratebzad wrote the famous New Kabul Times editorial ( May 28, 1978 ) which declared: " Privileges which women, by right, must have are equal education, job security, health services, and free time to rear a healthy generation for building the future of the country ...

John Lahr wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title * Orton himself had considered using, in 1978.

In 1978, around the same time Roy Trubshaw wrote MUD, Alan E. Klietz wrote a game called Milieu using Multi-Pascal on a CDC Cyber 6600 series mainframe which was operated by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium.

Susan Haak ( 1978 ) wrote, " A set of axioms is sometimes said to give an implicit definition of its primitive terms.

On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, in which he related that he had been influenced by Joyce's words: " The allusion to three quarks seemed perfect.

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

Simon Reynolds wrote in his book Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 – 1984 that " The Residents and their ' representatives ' were one and the same ", elaborating on one of his blogs that " this was something that anybody who had any direct dealings with Ralph figured out sooner rather than later.

He founded MicroPro International Corporation in September 1978 and hired John Robbins Barnaby as programmer, who wrote a word processor, WordMaster, and a sorting program, SuperSort, both in Intel 8080 assembly language.

Prinze's mother wrote a book about her son, The Freddie Prinze Story, which was published in 1978.

Collins wrote the 1978 death of Moon Maid, and removed other Gould creations of the 1960s and 1970s ( including Groovy Grove, who was gravely wounded in the line of duty and later died in the hospital ; Lizz married him before his death ).

In jazz, Ornette Coleman and Chick Corea wrote different compositions, both incidentally titled Humpty Dumpty ( in Corea's case, however, it is a part of a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll, called " The Mad Hatter " ( 1978 )).

* In 1972, Swedish composer Thorstein Bergman wrote " Om du någonsin kommer fram till Samarkand " (" If you ever reach Samarkand ") made notable by Swedish singer Lill Lindfors in 1978.

Rodgers wrote the music for musicals and revues including Once Upon a Mattress ( 1959 ), From A to Z ( 1960 ), Hot Spot ( 1963 ), The Mad Show ( 1966 ), Working ( 1978 ), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show The Madwoman of Central Park West ( 1979 ).

Fischer also wrote " The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser ", published in 1978.

A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila ( who wrote " I Married a Best-Seller " published in 1978 ).

The US Air Force Historical Division wrote a report in response to the international concern about the bombing, which was classified until December 1978.