Year '1978' ('
MCMLXXVIII') was a
common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978
Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1978
January
★
January 1 - The Copyright Act of
1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to
United States copyright law.
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January 1 -
Air India Flight 855, a
Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near
Bombay, killing 213.
★
January 4 - A
referendum in
Chile supports the policies of
Augusto Pinochet.
★
January 6 - The Hungarian
Holy Crown (also known as
Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to
Hungary from the
United States, where it was held since
World War II.
★
January 7 -
Emilio Palma is born in
Antarctica, making his birth the southernmost in history.
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January 10 -
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the
Nicaraguan government, is assassinated. Riots erupt against
Somoza's government.
★
January 14 -
January 15 - The body of former U.S. Vice President
Hubert Humphrey lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, following his death from cancer.
★
January 18 - The
European Court of Human Rights finds the
United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in
Northern Ireland, but not guilty of
torture.
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January 19 - Federal Appeals Court Judge
William H. Webster is appointed
FBI Director.
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January 22 -
Ethiopia declares the ambassador of
West Germany Persona non grata.
★
January 23 -
Sweden becomes the first nation to ban
aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective
ozone layer.
★
January 24 -
Soviet satellite
Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over
Canada's Northwest Territories.
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January 28 -
Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.
★
January 30 -
Blizzards in the USA kill 90.
February
★
February 1 -
Hollywood film director
Roman Polanski skips
bail and flees to
France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in
sex with a 13-year-old girl.
★
February 6 -
Akyab,
Arakan, The
King Dragon operation in Arakan begins in the village of Sakkipara.
★
February 8 -
United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on
radio for the first time.
★
February 11 -
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a
Boeing 737-200, crashes in
Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people onboard.
★
February 11 - Sixteen
Unification Church couples wed in
New York, New York.
★
February 11 -
Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent
Ethiopian attack.
★
February 11 - The
People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by
Aristotle,
William Shakespeare and
Charles Dickens.
★
February 13 - A bomb explodes outside the
Hilton Hotel in
Sydney,
Australia, killing two garbagemen, a policeman and several others. Many believe that
ASIO is responsible.
★
February 15 -
Rhodesia's prime minister
Ian Smith and 3 black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule.
★
February 15 - Serial killer
Ted Bundy is captured in
Pensacola, Florida.
★
February 16 - The first
computer bulletin board system (
CBBS) is created in
Chicago.
★
February 21 - Electrical workers in
Mexico City find the remains of the
Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city.
March
★
March 1 -
Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey,
Switzerland.
★
March 2 - ''
Soyuz 28'' (
Aleksei Gubarev,
Vladimir Remek) is launched on a rendezvous with ''
Salyut 6'', with the first cosmonaut from a Soviet satellite (Remek).
★
March 3 -
Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of
Cuban soldiers against
Somalian troops in
Ogaden.
★
March 3 -
Rhodesia attacks
Zambia.
★
March 3 - The ''
New York Post'' publishes an article about
David Rorvik's book ''The Cloning of Man'', about a supposed
cloning of a human being.
★
March 4 - In a feat unmatched before or since,
The Bee Gees claim 5 spots in the Billboard Hot 100 as writers. Their own ''
Stayin' Alive'', ''
Night Fever'' and ''
How Deep Is Your Love'',
Samantha Sang's ''Emotion'' and
Andy Gibb's ''(Love Is) Thicker Than Water''.
★
March 4 - P.v. Maltzahn is born in Essen, Germany.
★
March 6 - American
porn publisher
Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in
Lawrenceville, Georgia.
★
March 10 - ''
Soyuz 28'' lands.
★
March 11 -
Coastal Road Massacre:
Palestinian terrorists kill 34
Israelis.
★
March 14 -
Israeli forces invade
Lebanon in
Operation Litani.
★
March 16 - Former
Italian Premier
Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the
Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed.
★
March 17 - The oil tanker
Amoco Cadiz runs aground on the coast of
Brittany.
★
March 18 -
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the
assassination of a political opponent.
★
March 22 -
Karl Wallenda of the
Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
★
March 24 - The tanker
Amoco Cadiz splits in two off
Brittany, spilling 50,000 metric tons of crude oil.
★
March 28 - ''
Stump v. Sparkman'' (435 U.S. 349}: The
Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5-3 decision in a controversial case involving involuntary
sterilization and judicial
immunity.
April
★
April 1 -
Dick Smith of
Dick Smith Foods tows a fake
iceberg to
Sydney Harbour.
★
April 1 - Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, was converted to
Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
★
April 7 - U.S. President
Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb - a weapon which kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact. The World Health Organization was formed.
★
April 8 - Regular radio broadcasts of
British Parliament proceedings start.
★
April 10 -
Volkswagen becomes the first non-American
automobile manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North American version of the
Volkswagen Golf, in
New Stanton, Pennsylvania with a unionized (
UAW) workforce. (The plant will close in 1992.)
★
April 14 -
1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: thousands of Georgians demonstrate against the attempt by the
Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the
Georgian language.
★
April 16 - In
Cologne, 15,000 former members of the resistance movement demonstrate against
Nazism.
★
April 18 - The U.S. Senate votes 68-32 to turn the
Panama Canal over to
Panamanian control on
December 31,
1999.
★
April 22 - Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the
Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for
Israel with their song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi".
★
April 22 - The
One Love Peace Concert is held at National Heroes Stadium in
Kingston, Jamaica.
Bob Marley unites 2 opposing political leaders at this concert, bringing peace to the civil war ridden streets of the city.
★
April 27 -
Afghanistan President
Daoud Khan is killed during a military coup;
Nur Mohammed Taraki succeeds him.
★
April 30 - The Democratic Republic of
Afghanistan is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader
Nur Mohammed Taraki.
May
★
May 4 -
Communist activist
Henri Curiel is murdered in
Paris.
★
May 5 -
Pete Rose of the
Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
★
May 8 -
Norway opens a
natural gas field in the
Polar Sea.
★
May 9 - In
Rome, the body of
Aldo Moro, the Italian president of the Christian Democrats, is found in a parked car.
★
May 12-
May 13 - A group of
mercenaries lead by
Bob Denard oust
Ali Soilih in the
Comoros; 10 local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government.
★
May 12 - In
Zaire, rebels occupy the city of
Kolwezi, the mining centre of the province of
Shaba. The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
★
May 15 - Students of the
University of Teheran riot in
Tabriz; the army stops the riot.
★
May 17 -
Charles Chaplin's coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
★
May 18 - Soviet dissident
Yuri Orlov is sentenced to 7 years hard labor for distributing counterrevolutionary material.
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May 18-
May 19 - Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire to aid the fight against the rebels.
★
May 20 -
Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.
★
May 22 - Exiled leaders
Ahmed Abdallah and
Mohammed Ahmed return to the
Comoros.
★
May 25 - A bomb explodes in the security section of
Northwestern University, wounding a security guard (the first
Unabomber attack).
★
May 26 - In
Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal
casino in the eastern
United States, opens.
★
May 28 -
Indianapolis 500:
Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner
Jim Hall.
★
May 29 -
Ali Soilih is found dead in the
Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.
June
★
June 1 - The
1978 FIFA World Cup starts in
Argentina.
★
June 6 -
California voters approve
Proposition 13, which slashes property taxes nearly 60%.
★
June 9 -
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extends the priesthood and temple blessings to "all worthy males," ending a general policy of excluding blacks from the priesthood and temples since 1849 (''see
Blacks and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'') but continuing the policy of excluding women.
★
June 12 - Serial killer
David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
★
June 15 - King
Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old
Lisa Halaby.
★
June 19 - Cricketer
Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.
★
June 20 - A magnitude 6.5
earthquake hits
Thessaloniki,
Greece's second largest city, killing 45 people, injuring hundreds and damaging some of the city's Byzantine landmarks.
★
June 21 - A shootout between
Provisional IRA members and the
British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.
★
June 22 -
Charon, a satellite of
Pluto, is discovered.
★
June 23 -
Josip Broz Tito is named
Yugoslav president for life.
★
June 24 -
Yemen Arab Republic President
Ahmad al-Ghashmi is killed.
★
June 24 - Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March held in
Sydney,
Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the
Stonewall Riots; Which would become known as the
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras the following year and be held annually; later incorporating a festival.
★
June 25 -
Argentina defeats
the Netherlands 3-1 after
extra time to win the
1978 FIFA World Cup.
★
June 26 - The bombing by
Breton nationalists causes destruction in
Versailles.
★
June 28 - U.S. scientific satellite
Seasat is launched.
★
June 28 - ''
University of California Regents v. Bakke'': The
Supreme Court of the United States bars
quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of programs which give advantages to minorities.
★
June 30 -
Ethiopia begins a massive offensive in
Eritrea.
July
★
July 7 - The
Solomon Islands become independent from the
United Kingdom.
★
July 11 - More than 200 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in
Costa Daurada,
Spain.
★
July 25 -
Louise Brown becomes the first human born from
in vitro fertilization, in the
United Kingdom.
★
July 25 -
Cerro Maravilla Incident: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.
August
★
August 3 - The
Commonwealth Games open in
Edmonton,
Alberta,
Canada.
★
August 6 -
Pope Paul VI dies at age 80.
★
August 7 - United States President
Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at
Love Canal.
★
August 12 -
Sino-Japanese relations: The
Treaty of Peace and Friendship is signed between
Japan and the
People's Republic of China.
★
August 15 -
Mirapuri, the City of Peace and Future Man in Europe, is founded in Italy.
★
August 17 - ''
Double Eagle II'' (
Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman), becomes the first
balloon to cross the
Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey near
Paris, 137 hours after leaving
Presque Isle, Maine.
★
August 19 - The
Cinema Rex catches fire in
Tehran (477 dead).
★
August 20 - Gunmen open fire on an Israeli
El Al airline bus in
London.
★
August 20 - In
Abadan,
Iran, nearly 400 are killed when
Muslim extremist arsonists set fire to a crowded theater.
★
August 25 - The
Shroud of Turin goes on public display for the first time in 45 years.
★
August 25 - U.S. Army Sergeant Walter Robinson "walks" across the
English Channel in 11 hours 30 minutes, using homemade water shoes.
★
August 26 -
Pope John Paul I (Albino Cardinal Luciani) succeeds
Pope Paul VI as the 263rd
pope.
September
★
September 5 -
Camp David Accords:
Menachem Begin and
Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
★
September 7 - In
London, England, the tip of an umbrella poisons
Bulgarian
defector Georgi Markov, probably on orders of Bulgarian intelligence; he dies 4 days later.
★
September 8 - Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in
Teheran - 122 dead, 4,000 wounded.
★
September 16 - General
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of
President of Pakistan.
★
September 17 - The
Camp David Accords are signed between
Israel and
Egypt.
★
September 19 - Police in the
West Midlands of
England launch a massive
murder hunt, when 13 year old newspaper boy
Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a
burglary.
★
September 20 - General
Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of
Martial Law Governor of
Balochistan.
★
September 25 -
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in
San Diego,
California; 144 are killed.
★
September 27 - The last
Forest Brother guerilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in
Estonia.
★
September 28 -
Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
October
★
October 1 -
Vietnam attacks
Cambodia.
★
October 2 - The
New York Yankees defeat the
Boston Red Sox 5-4 at
Fenway Park to clinch the
AL East after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier. The Yankees would eventually go on to defeat the
Kansas City Royals and
Los Angeles Dodgers and win the
World Series.
★
October 7 - ''Wranslide'' in
New South Wales: the Wran government is re-elected with an increased majority.
★
October 8 -
Australia's
Ken Warby sets the current world
water speed record of 317.60
mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
★
October 10 - A massive short circuit in
Seasat's electrical system ends the satellite's scientific mission.
★
October 10 - U.S. President
Jimmy Carter signs a bill that authorizes the minting of the
Susan B. Anthony dollar.
★
October 14 -
Daniel arap Moi becomes president of
Kenya.
★
October 16 -
Pope John Paul II (
Cardinal Karol Wojtyła) succeeds
Pope John Paul I as the 264th
pope. He is the first
Polish pope in history.
★
October 17 - The
New York Yankees clinch their 22nd
World Series championship, defeating the
Dodgers 7-2 in
Los Angeles and winning the
Series 4 games to 2.
★
October 22 - Smallpox Eradicated
★
October 27 - Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin win the
Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
November
★
November 3 -
Dominica gains its independence from the
United Kingdom.
★
November 5 - Rioters sack the British Embassy in
Tehran.
★
November 7 -
Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
★
November 18 -
Jonestown incident: In
Guyana,
Jim Jones leads his
Peoples Temple cult in a mass
murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at
Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
★
November 19 - The first U.S.
Take Back the Night march occurs in
San Francisco.
★
November 27 - In
San Francisco, California, Mayor
George Moscone and City Supervisor
Harvey Milk are
assassinated by former Supervisor
Dan White.
★
November 30 - Publication of ''
The Times'' is suspended due to labor problems until
November 13,
1979.
December
★
December 3 - The
Southern Crescent passenger train derails at Shipman, Virginia, killing six, injuring 60.
★
December 4 -
Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered
George Moscone as
San Francisco, California's first woman mayor (she serves until
January 8,
1988).
★
December 6 - The
Spanish Constitution officially restores the country's democratic government.
★
December 11 -
Lufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in
New York City's
Kennedy airport.
★
December 11 - Two million demonstrate against the Shah in
Iran.
★
December 13 - The first
Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation.
★
December 15 -
Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to go into default since the
Great Depression, under Mayor
Dennis Kucinich.
★
December 22 - 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.
★
December 22 - Serial killer
John Wayne Gacy finally confesses to his lawyers that he raped and killed 33 boys/men after months of denial to authorities. The confession surprised the entire city of
Chicago, as Gacy was a family man that was adored by people all over town.
★
December 25 -
Vietnam launches a major offensive against the
Khmer Rouge of
Cambodia.
★
December 27 - The
Spanish Constitution is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military
dictatorship.
Undated
★ The
Hillside Strangler, a stealthy serial killer, is on the prowl in
Los Angeles.
★ Artificial
insulin is invented.
★
David Rorvik claims he has participated in a creation of a
human clone in his book ''In His Image''.
★
Abortion legalized in
Italy for first time.
★
Seoul, Korea begins construction on Subway
Line 2
Ongoing
★
Cold War
Fictional
Computer and video games
★ '' (2006): The first half of the game is set in 1978; the second half is set in 2006.
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
★
January 2 -
Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
★
January 3 -
Alex Leigh, British model
★
January 3 -
Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
★
January 5 -
Franck Montagny, French
Formula One driver
★
January 9 -
Chad Johnson, American football player
★
January 9 -
AJ McLean, member of the
Backstreet Boys
★
January 12 -
Kris Roe, American guitarist and singer (
The Ataris)
★
January 12 -
Jeremy Camp, American guitarist and Christian singer
★
January 14 -
Eddie Berlin, American football player
★
January 14 -
Shawn Crawford, American runner
★
January 15 -
Eddie Cahill, American actor
★
January 15 -
Franco Pellizotti, Italian professional road racing cyclist
★
January 26 -
Kelly Stables, American actress
★
January 28 -
Gianluigi Buffon, Italian goalkeeper (football)
★
February 2 -
Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer
★
February 3 -
Adrian R'Mante, American actor
★
February 5 -
Shawn Reaves, American actor
★
February 7 -
Christopher Ashton Kutcher, American actor
★
February 12 -
Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
★
February 14 -
Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
★
February 14 -
Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
★
February 15 -
Tuan Le, American poker player
★
February 16 -
John Tartaglia, Broadway actor and Muppeteer
★
February 17 -
Jacob Wetterling, child kidnapping victim (missing since
1989)
★
February 19 -
Kenyatta Wright,
American football linebacker
★
February 20 -
Jakki Degg, British model
★
February 20 -
Julia Jentsch, German actress
★
February 23 -
Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d.
2003)
★
February 24 -
Janine Machin, English radio presenter
★
February 24 -
John Nolan, lead singer of
Straylight Run
★
February 28 -
Benjamin Raich, Austrian Olympic skier
March-April
★
March 1 -
Jensen Ackles, American actor
★
March 1 -
Donovan Patton, American actor
★
March 2 -
Tomas Kaberle, Czech hockey player
★
March 4 -
Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
★
March 4 -
Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
★
March 10 -
Benjamin Burnley, American musician
★
March 11 -
Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast footballer
★
March 11 -
Christopher Khayman Lee, American actor
★
March 12 -
Claudio Sanchez, lead singer and guitarist (Coheed and Cambria)
★
March 13 -
Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
★
March 14 -
Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
★
March 14 -
Carl Johan Bergman, Swedish biathlete
★
March 21 -
Kevin Federline, American dancer
★
March 22 -
Josh Heupel, American football player
★
March 23 -
Nicholle Tom, American actress
★
March 25 -
Brian Urlacher, American football player
★
March 31 -
Stephen Clemence, English footballer
★
March 31 -
Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
★
March 31 -
Tony Yayo, American rapper
★
April 3 -
Matthew Goode, British actor
★
April 3 -
John Smit, South African rugby player
★
April 4 -
Jason Ellison, American baseball player
★
April 5 -
Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
★
April 6 -
Tim Hasselbeck, American NFL quarterback.
★
April 7 -
Duncan James, English musician
★
April 9 -
Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
★
April 9 -
Rachel Stevens, English singer
★
April 11 -
Thomas Thacker, Canadian singer
★
April 13 -
Kyle Howard, American television and movie actor
★
April 16 -
Lara Dutta, Indian actress
★
April 17 -
Lindsay Hartley, American actress
★
April 17 -
Jason White, Scottish rugby player
★
April 20 -
Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
★
April 20 -
Matt Austin, Canadian actor
★
April 21 -
Jukka Nevalainen, drummer of the Finnish band
Nightwish
★
April 21 -
Branden Steineckert, American drummer (The Used)
★
April 22 -
Jason Stollsteimer, lead singer and guitarist (The Von Bondies)
★
April 23 -
Princess Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon, Spanish athlete
May-June
★
May 4 -
Erin Andrews, American sports anouncer
★
May 6 -
Alexander Fedorov, Russian bodybuilder
★
May 7 -
Brian Clevinger, American author
★
May 8 -
Josie Maran, American supermodel and actress
★
May 9 -
Marwan al-Shehhi, United Arab Emirates hijacker (d.
2001)
★
May 11 -
Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
★
May 12 -
Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter
★
May 12 -
Jason Biggs, American actor
★
May 12 -
Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer
★
May 13 -
Mike Bibby, American basketball player
★
May 13 -
Barry Zito, baseball player
★
May 15 -
Caroline Dhavernas, French Canadian actress
★
May 15 -
Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian footballer
★
May 15 -
David Krumholtz, American actor
★
May 18 -
Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
★
May 21 -
Briana Banks, German actress
★
May 21 -
Adam Gontier, Canadian-born musician (
Three Days Grace)
★
May 22 -
Jordan, English model
★
May 23 -
Carolyn Moos, American model and professional basketball player
★
May 23 -
Scott Raynor, musician (
blink 182)
★
May 29 -
Lorenzo Odone, patient who had
Adrenoleukodystrophy
★
June 1 -
Danielle Harris, American voice actress
★
June 6 -
Carl Barât, English singer and guitarist (
The Libertines and
Dirty Pretty Things)
★
June 8 -
Maria Menounos, American actress, journalist, and television presenter
★
June 9 -
Matthew Bellamy, British musician (
Muse)
★
June 9 -
Miroslav Klose, German football player
★
June 10 -
Shane West, American actor
★
June 13 -
Jason Michael Carroll, country musician
★
June 19 -
Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
★
June 20 -
Mark Powell, Australian politician
★
June 21 -
Erica Durance, Canadian actress
★
June 22 -
Pinny Grylls, British filmmaker
★
June 22 -
Champ Bailey, American football player
★
June 22 -
Dan Wheldon, English race car driver
★
June 24 -
Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish musician (
Nightwish)
★
June 24 -
Juan Roman Riquelme, Argentine football player
★
June 25 -
Marcus Stroud, American football player
★
June 25 -
Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search Winner
★
June 25 -
Aramis Ramírez, Latin baseball player
★
June 27 -
Anna Kumble, English pop singer Lolly and TV presenter
★
June 29 -
Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of the
Pussycat Dolls
July-August
★
July 1 -
Hillary Tuck, American actress
★
July 4 -
Tony Reali,
ESPN personality
★
July 6 -
Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby union footballer
★
July 9 -
Linda Park, Korean-born actress
★
July 9 -
Mark Medlock, German singer and winner of
''Deutschland sucht den Superstar's season four
★
July 12 -
Topher Grace, American actor
★
July 18 -
Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
★
July 18 -
Ben Sheets, American baseball player
★
July 20 -
Elliott Yamin, American singer
★
July 21 -
Francine Dee, import car
model
★
July 23 -
Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
★
July 23 -
Stefanie Sun, Singapore singer
★
July 25 -
Gerard Warren, American football player
★
August 1 -
Edgerrin James, American football player
★
August 1 -
Jonathan Wilkes, TV presenter
★
August 3 -
Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
★
August 4 -
Kurt Busch, American Race car driver
★
August 6 -
Marisa Miller, American supermodel
★
August 7 -
Alexandre Aja, French director
★
August 7 -
Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
★
August 7 -
Linsey Dawn McKenzie, English model and porn star
★
August 7 -
Cirroc Lofton, American actor
★
August 7 -
Jamey Jasta, American singer (
Hatebreed)
★
August 9 -
Audrey Tautou, French actress
★
August 15 -
Tim Foreman, American bassist (
Switchfoot)
★
August 17 -
Vibeke Stene, former Norwegian singer (
Tristania)
★
August 19 -
Callum Blue, English actor
★
August 21 -
Reuben Droughns, American football player
★
August 21 -
Alan Lee, Irish footballer
★
August 23 -
Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
★
August 23 -
Julian Casablancas, American musician (
The Strokes)
★
August 24 -
Rafael Furcal, Dominican
Major League Baseball player
★
August 25 -
Kel Mitchell, American actor
★
August 28 -
Albina Digaeva, Chechen-American human rights activist
★
August 28 -
Jess Margera, American drummer
CKY
★
August 29 -
Danielle Hampton, Canadian actress
September-October
★
September 4 -
Wes Bentley, American actor
★
September 7 -
Devon Sawa, Canadian actor,
Stephanie-Xiani Andrea Sperandio, Mixed Heritage Model
★
September 11 -
Ed Reed, American football player
★
September 11 -
Ben Lee, Australian singer
★
September 12 -
Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
★
September 12 -
Ruben Studdard, American singer
★
September 14 -
Ben Cohen, English rugby union footballer
★
September 20 -
Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
★
September 20 -
Sarit Hadad, Israeli pop music singer
★
September 22 -
Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
★
September 23 -
Worm Miller, American screenwriter, director, actor
★
September 24 -
Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
★
September 25 -
Jodie Kidd, English model
★
September 29 -
Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
★
September 30 -
Candice Michelle, American professional wrestler and model
★
October 2 -
Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
★
October 3 -
Jake Shears, American singer
★
October 3 -
Shannyn Sossamon, American actress
★
October 4 -
Kei Horie, Japanese actor
★
October 5 -
Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
★
October 7 - Possibly
Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
★
October 9 -
Nicky Byrne, musician (
Westlife)
★
October 13 -
Marie Ferdinand, American basketball player
★
October 13 -
Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player
★
October 14 -
Usher Raymond, American musician
★
October 14 -
Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d.
2006)
★
October 15 -
Haven Riney, American radio host and actor
★
October 18 -
Wesley Jonathan, American actor
★
October 20 -
Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
★
October 21 -
Joey Harrington, American football player
★
October 25 -
Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
★
October 26 -
Antonio Pierce, American football player
★
October 26 -
Phil "CM Punk" Brooks, American professional wrestler
★
October 26 -
Jimmy Aggrey, English footballer
★
October 27 -
Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean musician
★
October 28 -
Justin Guarini, American singer
★
October 29 -
Travis Henry, American football player
November-December
★
November 1 -
Manju Warriar, Indian actress
★
November 6 -
Taryn Manning, American actress
★
November 6 -
Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
★
November 8 -
Ali Karimi, Iranian football player
★
November 9 -
Sisqó, American actor and singer (
Dru Hill)
★
November 10 -
Eve, American rapper
★
November 10 -
Kyla Cole, Czech adult model
★
November 11 -
Jyothika, Indian actress
★
November 13 -
Nikolai Fraiture, American musician. Bassist for the rock band
The Strokes
★
November 13 -
Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (d.
2007)
★
November 14 -
Mersing Nguyen, American actress
★
November 14 -
Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
★
November 14 -
Xavier Nady, American baseball player
★
November 17 -
Reggie Wayne, American football player
★
November 18 -
Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
★
November 19 -
Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician & singer
★
November 21 -
Annie, Norwegian singer
★
November 21 -
Chantel Shafie, British actress, model and TV presenter
★
November 22 -
Karen O, American singer (
Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
★
November 23 -
Kayvan Novak, English actor
★
November 24 -
Katherine Heigl, American actress
★
November 25 -
Shina Ringo, Japanese singer and musician
★
November 27 -
Shy Love, Puerto Rican porn actress
★
November 29 -
Ludwika Paleta, Polish Mexican actress
★
November 30 -
Emil Steiner, American author
★
November 30 -
Clay Aiken, American singer
★
November 30 -
Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican actor
★
December 1 -
Brad Delson, American guitarist (
Linkin Park)
★
December 2 -
Nelly Furtado, Canadian-born singer and songwriter
★
December 2 -
Chris Wolstenholme, English baseplayer (
Muse)
★
December 5 -
Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
★
December 7 -
Shiri Appleby, American actress
★
December 8 -
Ian Somerhalder, American actor
★
December 8 -
Vernon Wells, baseball player
★
December 9 -
Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
★
December 10 -
Brandon Novak, freestyle skateboarder and TV/radio personality
★
December 10 -
Donna Williams, Cofounder of
Neopets
★
December 12 -
Evren Genis, Turkish composer
★
December 12 -
Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
★
December 15 -
Jerome McDougle, professional football player (
Philadelphia Eagles)
★
December 16 -
Scott Bailey, American actor
★
December 16 -
Joe Absolom, British actor
★
December 17 -
Chase Utley, American baseball player
★
December 18 -
Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
★
December 18 -
Katie Holmes, American actress
★
December 19 -
Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
★
December 20 -
Geremi, Cameroon footballer
★
December 20 -
Jacqueline Saburido, a drunk driving accident survivor and a promoter of non-drunk driving
★
December 22 -
Edo Maajka, Bosnian rapper
★
December 23 -
Andra Davis, American football player
★
December 23 -
Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
★
December 23 -
Estella Warren, Canadian swimmer, model, and actress
★
December 24 -
Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
★
December 26 -
Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
★
December 29 -
Alexis Amore, Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
★
December 29 -
LaToya London, American singer
Unknown Date
Eve Myles
Deaths
January - March
★
January 5 -
Wyatt Emory Cooper, screenwriter and author (b.
1927)
★
January 13 -
Hubert Humphrey, U.S Vice President and Senator (b.
1911)
★
January 13 -
Joe McCarthy, baseball manager (b.
1887)
★
January 14 -
Harold Abrahams, English athlete (b.
1899)
★
January 14 -
Kurt Gödel, Austrian-born mathematician (b.
1906)
★
January 22 -
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b.
1894)
★
January 23 -
Terry Kath, American musician (
Chicago) (b.
1946)
★
January 23 -
Jack Oakie, American actor (b.
1903)
★
February 11 -
James B Conant, American chemist and headmaster of Harvard University (b.
1893)
★
February 11 -
Harry Martinson, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1904)
★
February 27 -
Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b.
1912)
★
March 18 -
Leigh Brackett, American author (b.
1915)
★
March 19 -
Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b.
1893)
★
March 21 -
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, fifth
President of Ireland (b.
1911)
★
March 31 -
Charles Best, American-born medical scientist (b.
1899)
April - June
★
April 21 -
Sandy Denny, English singer (b.
1947)
★
May 1 -
Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b.
1903)
★
May 9 -
Aldo Moro, former
Prime Minister of Italy (b.
1916)
★
May 14 -
Robert Menzies, twelfth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1894)
★
May 20 -
Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist, composer and teacher (b.
1895)
★
May 22 -
Joe Colombo, American gangster (b.
1914)
★
June 7 -
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
★
June 24 -
Robert Charroux, French writer (b.
1909)
★
June 25 -
Barry Brown, American actor and writer (b.
1951)
July - September
★
July 8 -
Osman Lins, Brazilian novelist (b.
1924)
★
July 10 -
Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (b.
1901)
★
July 30 -
Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator (b.
1885)
★
August 2 -
Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b.
1899)
★
August 6 -
Pope Paul VI (heart attack) (b.
1897)
★
August 7 -
Eddie Calvert (heart failure), Musician (b.
1922)
★
August 11 -
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b.
1892)
★
August 14 -
Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (b.
1907)
★
August 21 -
Charles Eames, American architect and designer (b.
1907)
★
August 22 -
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan statesman
★
August 26 -
Charles Boyer, French actor (b.
1899)
★
August 28 -
Robert Shaw, English actor (b.
1927)
★
September 7 -
Keith Moon, English drummer (
The Who) (drug overdose) (b.
1946)
★
September 9 -
Jack Warner, Canadian film studio founder (b.
1892)
★
September 10 -
Ronnie Peterson, Swedish race car driver (racing accident) (b.
1944)
★
September 11 -
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b.
1929)
★
September 15 -
Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft engineer (b.
1898)
★
September 23 -
Lyman Bostock, baseball player (murdered) (b.
1950)
★
September 25 -
Bret Morrison, actor, voice of
The Shadow (b.
1912)
★
September 26 -
Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1886)
★
September 28 -
Pope John Paul I (b.
1912)
October - December
★
October 6 -
Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (b.
1935)
★
October 9 -
Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (b.
1929)
★
October 10 -
Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b.
1910)
★
October 12 -
Nancy Spungen, American groupie and girlfriend of
Sid Vicious (b.
1958)
★
October 23 -
Maybelle Carter, American singer (b.
1909)
★
November 6 -
Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b.
1915)
★
November 8 -
Norman Rockwell, American artist and illustrator (b.
1894)
★
November 15 -
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b.
1901)
★
December 8 -
Golda Meir,
Prime Minister of Israel (b.
1898)
★
December 10 -
Ed Wood, American filmmaker (b.
1924)
★
December 11 -
Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
★
December 27 -
Houari Boumédiènne,
President of Algeria (b.
1932),
Unknown dates
★
Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b.
1884)
★
Pankaj Mullick, Bengali composer and singer (b.
1904)
★
Mark A. Shaw, American
temperance movement leader and
Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president in 1964 (b. ?)
Ship events
★
List of ship launches in 1978
★
List of ship commissionings in 1978
★
List of ship decommissionings in 1978
★
List of shipwrecks in 1978
Fields Medalists
★
Pierre Deligne,
Charles Fefferman,
Grigory Margulis,
Daniel Quillen
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa,
Arno Allan Penzias,
Robert Woodrow Wilson
★
Chemistry -
Peter D. Mitchell
★
Medicine -
Werner Arber,
Daniel Nathans,
Hamilton O. Smith
★
Literature -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
★
Peace -
Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat and
Menachem Begin
★
Economics -
Herbert Simon
Templeton Prize
★
Professor Thomas F. Torrance
See also
★
20th century
Notes
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