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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1978th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 978th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.
•January 1
oThe Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law.
oAir India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near Bombay, killing 213.[1]
oEdward M. Davis retires from the Los Angeles Police Department after 30 years on the force and more than eight years as its police chief.
•January 2 – On the orders of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
•January 4 – The Chilean government wins a referendum on the legitimacy of Augusto Pinochet’s rule
•January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government).
•January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II.
•January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza’s government.
•January 16 – Robert F. Rock succeeds Edward M. Davis as LAPD’s interim chief.
•January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
•January 19 – Federal Appeals Court jurist William H. Webster is appointed FBI Director.
•January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of W Germany persona non grata.
•January 24
oSoviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns upwardly in Earth’s atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada’s Northwest Territories.
oRose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison since the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
•January 25–27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70.
•January 28 – Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.
February[edit]
•February 1 – 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 5–7 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100 and causing over US$520 million in damage.
•February 6 – King Dragon operation in Arakan: Burmese General Ne Win targets Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara.
•February 8 – United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time.[2]
•February 9 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3]
•February 11
oPacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people on board.
oSomalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopian attack.
oThe People’s Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.[4]
•February 13 – Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing a police officer and two civilians, and injuring several other people.
•February 15
oRhodesia, one of only two remaining white-ruled African nations (the other being South Africa), announces that it will accept multiracial democracy within 2 years.
oSerial killer Ted Bundy is recaptured in Pensacola, Florida.[5]
•February 16
oThe Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.
oThe first computer bulletin board system (CBBS) is created in Chicago.
•February 19 – Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport
•February 21 – Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city.
•February 24 – Five men with mild mental-health issues from Yuba City, California disappear in the snow on their way house from a basketball game. In June, iv of the bodies are discovered in the Sierra. The fifth, Gary Mathias, is never found. The circumstances surrounding their deaths remains a mystery.
•February 25 – The first Legislative Assembly election is held in Arunachal Pradesh.
•February 27 – The first global positioning satellite, the Rockwell International-built Navstar 1, is launched by the United States.[6]
March[edit]
•March 1 – Charlie Chaplin’s remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.[7]
•March 2 – Soyuz 28 (Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimír Remek) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Worldwide or USSR (Czechoslovakian Vladimír Remek).
•March 3
oEthiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers against Somalian troops in the Ogaden.
oRhodesia attacks Zambia.
oThe New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik’s book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.
•March 5 – Wuthering Heights, the debut single by Kate Bush, charts at #1 in the United Kingdom, making her the first woman to have a self-penned number one single.
•March 6 – Worldwide porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
•March 8 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
•March 10 – Soyuz 28 lands.
•March 11 – Coastal Road massacre: Palestinian terrorists kill 34 Israelis.
•March 14 – Operation Litani: Israeli forces invade Lebanon.
•March 15 – Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
•March 16 – Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; five bodyguards are killed.
•March 17 – An oil tanker, Amoco Cadiz, runs aground on the coast of Brittany.
•March 18
oZulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.
oCalifornia Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting more than 300,000 fans.
•March 22 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
•March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport, which were scheduled to open upward on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by New Left activists, forcing a rescheduling of its opening day of the month to May 20.
•March 28
oSan Francisco’s city council signs the United States’s most comprehensive gay rights bank note.
oStump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 determination in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilizationand judicial immunity.
Apr[edit]
•Apr 1
oNew Zealand National Airways Corporation (the domestic airline of New Zealand) is merged with New Zealand’s international airline, Air New Zealand.
oDick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.
oThe Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, is converted to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
•Apr 2 – Dallas debuted on CBS and gave birth to the modern day primetime soap opera.
•Apr 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Annie Hall winning Best Picture.
•Apr 7 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb, a weapon that kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact.
•Apr 8 – Regular radio broadcasts of British Parliament proceedings start.
•Apr 9 – Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.
•Apr 10 – Volkswagen becomes the second (after Rolls-Royce in 1921-1931) non-Worldwide automobile manufacturer to open upward a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North Worldwide version of the Volkswagen Golf, at the Volkswagen Westmoreland Assembly Plant near New Stanton, Pennsylvania with a unionized (UAW) workforce (the plant closes in 1992).
•Apr 14 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against an attempt by Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
•Apr 18 – The U.S. Senate votes 68–32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.
•Apr 20 – Soviet air defense shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 902. The plane made an emergency landing on a frozen lake.
•Apr 22
oIzhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for Israel with their song A-Ba-Ni-Bi.
oThe One Love Peace Concert is held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley unites two opposing political leaders at this concert, bringing peace to the civil war-ridden streets of the city.
•Apr 25 – St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance after Anita Bryant’s successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida.
•Apr 27 – Afghanistan’s president Daoud Khan is killed and his family murdered during a Marxist military coup d’état; Nur Muhammad Taraki succeeds him beginning the Afghan Civil War which as of 2019 has not yet ended.[8]
•Apr 30 – The Marxist "Democratic Republic of Afghanistan" is proclaimed under pro-communist leader Nur Muhammad Taraki.
May[edit]
•May 4
oThe Battle of Cassinga occurs in southern Republic of Angola.
oCommunist activist Henri Curiel is murdered in Paris.
•May 5 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
•May 8
oNorway opens a natural gas acre in the Polar Sea.
oReinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) create the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.
•May 9 – In Rome, the corpse of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is found in a red Renault 4.
•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 12–13 – A group of mercenaries led by Bob Denard oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros; ten local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government.
•May 15
oAustralia’s longest serving prime minister Sir Robert Menzies dies.
oStudents of the University of Tehran riot in Tabriz; the army stops the riot.
•May 17 – Charlie Chaplin’s coffin is found some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.[7]
•May 18
oSoviet dissident Yuri Orlov is sentenced to seven years hard labor for distributing ‘counterrevolutionary material’.
oSarajevo is selected to host the 1984 Winter Olympics and Los Angeles is selected to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
•May 18–19 – Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire to aid the fight against the rebels.
•May 19–20 – French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.
•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 Muhammad Ahmad return to the Comoros.
•May 25
oA bomb explodes in the security section of Northwestern University, wounding a security guard (the first Unabomber attack).
oIn a rematch of the previous season, the Montreal Canadiens again defeat the Boston Bruins, this time iv games to two, to win the Stanley Cup.
•May 26 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal Canadian Casino in the eastern United States, opens.
•May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for machine owner Jim Hall.
•May 29 – Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.
June[edit]
•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 "Canaanites" from priesthood ordination and temple ordinances.
•June 10 – Affirmed holds off Alydar to win the Belmont Stakes and becomes the last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing until 2015.
•June 12 – Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 365 years in prison.
•June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
•June 16 – Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John is released.
•June 19
oCricketer 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.
oGarfield, which eventually becomes the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut nationwide.
•June 20 – The 6.2 Mw Thessaloniki earthquake shakes Northern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Fifty people were killed.
•June 21
oA shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead.
o1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: Iranian helicopters stray into Soviet airspace and are shot down.
•June 22 – Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered.
•June 24
oYemen Arab Republic President Ahmad al-Ghashmi is killed.
oThe Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to score the 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; later incorporating a festival).
•June 25 – Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
•June 26 – A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in Palace of Versailles.
•June 28
oThe U.S. scientific satellite Seasat is launched.
oUniversity 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.
oThe rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
•June 29 – Actor Bob Crane is found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment. The crime is never solved.
•June 30 – Ethiopia begins a massive offensive in Eritrea.
July[edit]
•July 3 – The Amazon Co-operation Treaty (ACT) is signed.
•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 24 – In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe.
•July 25
oCerro Maravilla murders: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.
oLouise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK.[9]
•July 28 – Animal House was released in movie theaters.
August[edit]
•August 6 – Pope Paul VI dies in Castel Gandolfo.
•August 12 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Nippon and the People’s Republic of China is concluded
•August 17 – Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France.
•August 22 – Sandinistas seize the Nicaraguan National Palace.
•August 26 – Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.
September[edit]

September 6: Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Cabin patio at Camp David.
•September 5 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
•September 7
oIn London, England, a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons Bulgarian defectorGeorgi Markov; he dies iv days later.
oKeith Moon, wild man drummer of the British rock band The Who, dies from an accidental overdose at age 32 in London, England.
•September 8 – Iranian Army troops open upward fire on rioters in Tehran, killing 122, wounding 4,000.
•September 12 – The Declaration of Alma Ata signed & released in the Capital City of Kazakh, USSR. Known as the core document on Primary Health Care Practices and Equity in Healthcare, it paved the way for the modern day State-sponsored Healthcare System.
•September 16
oGeneral Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan.
oThe 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.
•September 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.
•September 18 – WKRP in Cincinnati premieres on CBS.
•September 19
oPolice in the W Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.
oThe Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
•September 20 – General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan
•September 23 – California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in Gary, Indiana during an Angels’ road trip in Chicago, Illinois.
•September 24
oPSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
oGiuseppe Verdi’s opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.
•September 27 – The last Forest Brother guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia.
•September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
•September – The African National Congress attempts to kill about 500 of its own cadres by poisoning their food because an infiltrated enemy agent cannot be identified.[10]
October[edit]
•October 1
oVietnam attacks Cambodia.
oTuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
•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 317.6 mph (511.13 km/h) at Blowering Dam, Australia.
•October 9 – P.W. Botha succeeds John Vorster as Prime Minister of South Africa.[11][12]
•October 10
oDaniel arap Moi becomes president of Kenya.
oJohn Vorster becomes State President of South Africa.[11]
oA massive short circuit in Seasat’s electrical system ends the satellite’s scientific mission.
oUnited States President Jimmy Carter signs a bank note that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
•October 13 – The Soviet Union launches a major Russification campaign throughout all union republics.
•October 14 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bank note into law which allows homebrewing of beer in the United States.
•October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523).
•October 18 – Thorbjörn Fälldin steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden, and is succeeded by Ola Ullsten, the Leader of the liberal People’s Party ("Folkpartiet").
•October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall riots.
•October 21 – Australian civilian airplane pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
•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.
•October 31 – The South African Railways sets a still unbeaten world rail speed record on Cape gauge.[13]
November[edit]
•November 2: 8:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland’s second television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988; RTÉ Network Two, 1995; N2, 1997; and RTÉ Two in 2004).
•November 3 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
•November 7
oIndira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
oCalifornia voters defeat the Briggs Initiative, which was intended to bar LGBT people from working as school teachers.
•November 17 – The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS; this is its first and only airing.
•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. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.
•November 19 – The first U.S. Take Back the Night march occurs in San Francisco.
•November 26 – Two British commercial divers, Michael Ward and Tony Prangley, die of hypothermia and drowning in the East Shetland Basin after their diving bellplunges to the seabed at a depth of over 100 metres (330 ft).[14][15]
•November 30 – Publication of The Times is suspended due to labor problems for almost a year, until November 13, 1979.
December[edit]
•December 4 – Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone, to become the first woman mayor of San Francisco and remains in office until January 8, 1988.
•December 6 – The Spanish Constitution officially restores the country’s democratic government.
•December 11
oLufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
oTwo million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran.
•December 13 – The first Susan B. Anthony dollars were struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
•December 15
oCleveland, Ohio becomes the first major Worldwide city to go into default since the Great Depression, under Democrat Mayor Dennis Kucinich.
oSuperman is released in theaters in the United States.
•December 16
oTrain 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi’an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.
oThe Mystery of Mamo is released in cinemas in Nippon.
•December 19 – Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.
•December 22
oThe 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.
oChicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men and boys committed between 1972 and 1978, is arrested.
oArgentina begins Operation Soberanía against Chile.
•December 25 – Vietnam launches a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
•December 27 – The Constitution of Spain is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship.
day of the month unknown[edit]
•Artificial insulin is invented.
•David Rorvik claims he has participated in a creation of a human clone in his book In His Image.
•Abortion is legalized in Italy for the first time.
•In Seoul, South Korea, construction begins on Seoul Subway Line 2.
•Ford initiates a recall for the Pinto because of a public outcry resulting from deaths associated with gas tank explosions.
•The New York International Bible Society’s New International Version of the complete Bible translated into modern Worldwide English is published.
•The Soviet Union nuclear weapons stockpile exceeds the United States nuclear weapons stockpile.
•The interplanetary space Invaders arcade video game is released by Taito Corporation.
Births[edit]
Births
January · February · March · Apr · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January[edit]

Karina Smirnoff

January Jones

AJ McLean

score Hildreth

Kristen Schaal

Sheamus
•January 1 – Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
•January 2
oMegumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress
oKarina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-Worldwide dancer
•January 3
oLiya Kebede, Ethiopian model, article of clothing designer and actress
oPark Sol-mi, South Korean actress
•January 4 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (d. 2009)
•January 5
oFranck Montagny, French Formula One driver
oJanuary Jones, Worldwide actress
•January 7 – Emilio Palma, Argentine citizen, first human born in Antarctica
•January 9
oChad Ocho Cinco, Worldwide football player
oAJ McLean, Worldwide singer
oGennaro Gattuso, Italian football player
•January 10 – Kanako Mitsuhashi, Japanese voice actress
•January 11 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
•January 12
oJeremy Camp, Worldwide singer and songwriter
oHannah Gadsby, Australian comedian
•January 13
oAshmit Patel, Indian actor
oNate Silver, Worldwide statistician, psephologist and writer
•January 14 – Shawn Crawford, Worldwide runner
•January 15
oEddie Cahill, Worldwide actor
oFranco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
•January 18
oThor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
oKatja Kipping, German politician
•January 20 – Omar Sy, French actor and comedian
•January 23 – Josh Thompson, Worldwide singer
•January 24
oMark Hildreth, Canadian actor and voice actor
oNami Miyahara, Japanese voice actress and singer
oKristen Schaal, Worldwide actress
•January 25 – Gordie Dwyer, Worldwide hockey player and coach
•January 26 – Kelly Stables, Worldwide actress
•January 28
oGianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
oJamie Carragher, English footballer
•January 29 – Joice Hasselmann, Brazilian journalist, writer, activist and conservative political commentator
•January 31 – Brad Rutter, Worldwide game show champion (Jeopardy!)
February[edit]

Kelly Sullniaganis

Ashton Kutcher

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Danai Gurira
Kim Ha-neul
•February 2
oNelson Chamisa, Zimbabwean politician
oBarry Ferguson, Scottish footballer
oGuido Kaczka, Argentine television show host and actor
•February 3
oMico Palanca, Filipino actor (d. 2019)
oAdrian R’Mante, Worldwide actor
oEliza Schneider, Worldwide actress
oKelly Sullniaganis, Worldwide actress
•February 4 – Aleksey Rozin, Russian actor
•February 5
oBrian Russell, Worldwide football player
oSamuel Sánchez, Spanish road bicycle racer
•February 6 – Yael Naim, Israeli-French singer and songwriter
•February 7
oAshton Kutcher, Worldwide actor
oOmotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nigerian actress, singer, philanthropist and former model
•February 10
oIsabella Eklöf, Swedish screenwriter and film director
oDon Omar, Puerto Rican singer and actor
•February 12
oGethin Jones, Welsh television presenter
oSilver Meikar, Estonian politician
•February 13 – Niklas Bäckström, Finnish hockey player
•February 14
oRichard Hamilton, Worldwide basketball player
oDanai Gurira, Worldwide actress and playwright
oDarius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
•February 15 – Gil Seong-joon, Korean hip-hop musician
•February 16
oJohn Tartaglia, Worldwide actor
oTia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete
•February 18 – Oliver Pocher, German actor, stand-upwardly comedian and television host
•February 19
oKenyatta Wright, Worldwide football player
oImmortal Technique, Peruvian-Worldwide rapper
•February 20
oJulia Jentsch, German actress
oKen Takeuchi, Japanese voice actor
•February 21
oKim Ha-neul, South Korean actress
oKumail Nanjiani, Pakistani-Worldwide actor and comedian
oMiki Sakai, Japanese actress
•February 22 – Jenny Frost, English singer
•February 23 – Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003)
•February 24
oLeon Constantine, British footballer
oGary, South Korean musician, entertainer
•February 27 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
•February 28
oJeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter
oYasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer
oBenjamin Raich, Austrian skier
March[edit]

Jensen Ackles

Claudio Sanchez

Fernandão

Rani Mukerji
•March 1
oJensen Ackles, Worldwide actor
oDonovan Patton, Guamanian television star
oSakura Nogawa, Japanese voice actress
•March 2
oTomáš Kaberle, Czech hockey player
oSebastian Janikowski, Worldwide football player
•March 4 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
•March 6
oSage Rosenfels, Worldwide football player
oMike Jackson, Worldwide politician
•March 7 – Jaqueline Jesus, Brazilian psychologist and activist
•March 10 – Benjamin Burnley, Worldwide musician
•March 11
oDidier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
oHa Jung-woo, South Korean actor and director
•March 12
oNeal Obermeyer, Worldwide editorial cartoonist
oClaudio Sanchez, Worldwide writer and musician
•March 13
oTom Danielson, Worldwide cyclist
oKenny Watson, Worldwide football player
•March 14
oPieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
oCarl Johan Bergman, Swedish biathlete
oMoon Hee-joon, Korean singer
•March 15 – Flavio Furtado, Cape Verdean boxer
•March 16 – Brooke Burns, Worldwide fashion model and actress
•March 17
oJason M. Burns, Worldwide writer
oPatrick Seitz, Worldwide voice actor
•March 18 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
•March 21
oRani Mukerji, Indian actress
oMohammad Rezaei, Iranian wrestler
•March 22 – Josh Heupel, Worldwide football player
•March 23
oSimon Gärdenfors, Swedish cartoonist and radio host
oNicholle Tom, Worldwide actress
•March 29 – Igor Rakočević, Serbian basketball player
•March 30 – Simon Webbe, English singer
•March 31
oStephen Clemence, English footballer
oJérôme Rothen, French footballer
Apr[edit]

John Smit

Lauren Ridloff

Duncan James

James Franco

Stana Katic
•Apr 1
oNahshon Dion Anderson, Writer
oVitor Belfort, Brazilian martial artist
oJason Bell, former NFL player and TV pundit
oAntonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
•Apr 2 – Nick Berg, Worldwide man of affairs (d. 2004)
•Apr 3
oMatthew Goode, English actor
oJohn Smit, South African rugby union player
•Apr 4
oJason Ellison, Worldwide baseball player
oSam Moran, Australian singer
•Apr 5 – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
•Apr 6
oTim Hasselbeck, Worldwide football player
oMartín Méndez, Uruguayan musician and songwriter
oLauren Ridloff, African-Worldwide actress
•Apr 7
oDuncan James, English singer
oAdrienne Haan, German-Luxembourgish actress, singer, writer and producer
•Apr 9
oJorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
oTakashi Ohara, Japanese voice actor
oRachel Stevens, English singer
•Apr 12
oGuy Berryman, Scottish musician
oCheeming Boey, Malaysian artist
oRiley Smith, Worldwide actor
•Apr 13 – Kyle Howard, Worldwide television and movie actor
•Apr 15 – Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter
•Apr 16
oLara Dutta, Indian actress and beauty queen
oMatthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
•Apr 17
oJuan Guillermo Castillo, Uruguayan goalkeeper
oJason White, Scottish rugby union player
•Apr 19 – James Franco, Worldwide actor
•Apr 20 – Matt Austin, Canadian actor
•Apr 21 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer
•Apr 22 – Manu Intiraymi, Worldwide actor
•Apr 23 – Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon, Spanish athlete
•Apr 25 – Duncan Kibet, Kenyan long-distance runner
•Apr 26
oStana Katic, Canadian-Worldwide actress
oShinnosuke Tachibana, Japanese voice actor
•Apr 28 – Robert Oliveri, Worldwide former actor
•Apr 29
oBob and Mike Bryan, Worldwide doubles tennis team
oTyler Labine, Canadian actor
May[edit]

Kenan Thompson

Judy Ann Santos

Jason Biggs

David Krumholtz

Ricardo Carvalho

Jake Johnson
•May 1 – James Badge Dale, Worldwide actor
•May 3 – Lawrence Tynes, Worldwide football player
•May 4
oErin Andrews, Worldwide television host and personality
oDaisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
•May 6 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
•May 7
oBrian Clevinger, Worldwide author
oShawn Marion, Worldwide basketball player
•May 8 – Matthew Davis, Worldwide actor
•May 9 – Daniel Franzese, Worldwide actor
•May 10
oKenan Thompson, African-Worldwide actor and comedian
oMarcelo Moretto, Brazilian footballer
•May 11
oScott Matzka, Worldwide ice hockey player (d. 2018)
oLaetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
oJudy Ann Santos, Filipino actress
•May 12
oHossein Rezazadeh, Iranian weightlifter
oJason Biggs, Worldwide actor
oAya Ishiguro, Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer
oMalin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian Actress
•May 13
oMike Bibby, Worldwide basketball player
oBarry Zito, Worldwide baseball player
•May 15
oDwayne De Rosario, Canadian footballer
oCaroline Dhavernas, French-Canadian actress
oKrzysztof Ignaczak, Polish volleyball player
oDavid Krumholtz, Worldwide actor
oKrissy Taylor, Worldwide model (d. 1995)
•May 17 – Kat Foster, Worldwide actress
•May 18 – Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
•May 19 – Marcus Bent, English footballer
•May 21
oAdam Gontier, Canadian singer
oBriana Banks, German-Worldwide porn star
•May 22
oKatie cost (Jordan), English model and television personality
oGinnifer Goodwin, Worldwide actress
•May 23
oScott Raynor, Worldwide drummer
oCarolyn Moos, Worldwide model and basketball player
•May 24 – Bryan Greenberg, Worldwide actor
•May 25 – Brian Urlacher, Worldwide football player
•May 26 – Benji Gregory, Worldwide actor
•May 28
oJake Johnson, Worldwide actor and comedian
oTomohiko Ito, Japanese footballer
•May 29
oPelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
oLorenzo Odone, Worldwide adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
June[edit]

Nikki Cox

Justin Long

bank note Hader

Shane W

Joshua Jackson

Daniel Brühl

Tara Platt

Mía Maestro

Zoe Saldana

Frank Lampard

Erica Durance

Nicole Scherzinger
•June 1
oAntonietta Di Martino, Italian high-jumper
oLink Neal, Worldwide musician, comedian and internet personality
•June 2
oNikki Cox, Worldwide actress
oJustin Long, Worldwide actor
•June 4
oSimone Maludrottu, Italian boxer
oRobin Lord Taylor, Worldwide actor
•June 5 – Nick Kroll, Worldwide actor and comedian
•June 6
oKonstantīns Konstantinovs, Latvian powerlifter (d. 2018)
oCarl Barât, English musician
oNadia Nascimento, Canadian actress
oMariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
•June 7
oJesse Ball, Worldwide novelist and poet
oBill Hader, Worldwide actor and comedian
•June 8 – Maria Menounos, Worldwide actress, journalist, and television presenter
•June 9
oMichaela Conlin, Worldwide actress
oShandi Finnessey, Worldwide beauty queen and actress
oMiroslav Klose, German footballer
oMatthew Bellamy, British musician and singer
•June 10
oHan Hee-won, South Korean golfer
oKarl Scully, Irish tenor
oShane W, Worldwide actor
•June 11 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
•June 12
oShiloh Strong, Worldwide actor
oTimothy Simons, Worldwide actor
oJeremy Rowley, Worldwide character actor and comedian
•June 13 – Faizal Yusof, Malaysian actor (d. 2011)
•June 15
oWilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
•June 16 – Daniel Brühl, German actor
•June 18 – Tara Platt, Worldwide voice actress and actress
•June 19
oMía Maestro, Argentine actress
oDirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
oZoe Saldana, Worldwide actress
•June 20
oMike Birbiglia, Worldwide actor, comedian, and writer
oQuinton Jackson, Worldwide mixed martial arts fighter
oFrank Lampard, English footballer
•June 21
oErica Durance, Canadian actress
oJean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and television host
oTom Lister, English actor
oIgnacio Corleto, Argentine rugby union player
•June 22
oChamp Bailey, Worldwide football player
oTim Driesen, Belgian actor and singer-songwriter
oDan Wheldon, English race machine driver (d. 2011)
•June 23
oGladys Reyes, Filipino actress
oMemphis Bleek, Worldwide rapper
oLeandro Firmino, Brazilian actor
oJeremy Horn, Worldwide musician and songwriter
oFrédéric Leclercq, French musician
•June 24
oAriel Pink, Worldwide musician
oAdam Pearce, Worldwide wrestler
oEmppu Vuorinen, Finnish musician
oJuan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
oShunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
•June 25
oChuckie, Surinamese DJ and producer
oAramis Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
oAftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
oMarcus Stroud, Worldwide football player
•June 26
oDaniel Constantin, Romanian politician
oCristian Lucchetti, Argentine footballer
•June 27
oMarc Terenzi, Worldwide pop singer
oAnna Kumble, English pop singer and television presenter
•June 28
oBaiano, Brazilian footballer
oHa Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
•June 29
oLuke Kirby, Canadian actor
oNicole Scherzinger, Worldwide singer
oSteve Savidan, French footballer
•June 30
oBen Cousins, Australian rules footballer
oPat Dennis, Worldwide football player
oJason Schimmel, Worldwide musician and producer
oNate Winkel, Worldwide soccer player
July[edit]

Jüri Ratas

Tia Mowry

Topher Grace

Michelle Rodriguez

Pavel Datsyuk

Josh Hartnett

Justin Wilson
•July 1
oHillary Tuck, Worldwide actress
oAleki Lutui, Tongan rugby player
oLiu Kwok Man, Chinese footballer
oMark Hunter, British rower
•July 2
oPaul Danan, British actor
oGanesh, Indian actor and television presenter
oDiana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
oJüri Ratas, Estonian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Estonia
oOwain Yeoman, Welsh actor
•July 3
oIan Anthony Dale, Worldwide actor
oMizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
oAlex Scales, Worldwide basketball player
•July 4
oBecki Newton, Worldwide actress
oMarcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player
•July 5
oAndreas Baum, German politician
oNandamuri Kalyan Ram, Indian actor and film producer
•July 6
oDaphne Iking, Malaysian television personality and actress
oDanil Khalimov, Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler
oTia and Tamera Mowry, African-Worldwide actresses
oKevin Senio, New Zealand rugby union footballer
•July 7
oChris Andersen, Worldwide basketball player
oDJ Manian, German music producer and DJ
oMarino Franchitti, British racing driver
oBenjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor
oMark Sloan, British professional wrestler
•July 8
oRachael Lillis, Worldwide actress
oErin Morgenstern, Worldwide artist and author
oGarth Mulroy, South African golfer
•July 9
oKyle Davis, Worldwide actor
oDmitri Dyuzhev, Russian actor and singer
oMark Medlock, German singer
oLinda Park, Korean-born actress
•July 10
oRay Kay, Norwegian director and photographer
oJesse Lacey, Worldwide singer-songwriter
•July 11
oKim Kang-woo, South Korean actor
oMattias Gustafsson, Swedish handball player
•July 12
oBradley Eustace, Australian composer
oTopher Grace, Worldwide actor
oMichelle Rodriguez, Worldwide actress
•July 13
oGary David, Filipino professional basketball player
oJessica Barth, Worldwide actress
•July 15
oMatt Mitrione, Worldwide mixed martial artist
oGreg Sestero, French-Worldwide actor and model
•July 16 – Ahmede Hussain, Bangladeshi writer
•July 17
oRicardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
oPanda Bear, Worldwide musician
oJustine Triet, French actress
•July 18
oShane Horgan, Irish rugby player
oCrystal Mangum, Worldwide murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case
oVirginia Raggi, Italian lawyer, politician
oJoo Sang-wook, South Korean actor
oBen Sheets, Worldwide baseball player
oVladimir Tintor, Serbian film actor
•July 19 – Atsushi Harada, Japanese actor
•July 20
oAndré Bankoff, Brazilian actor
oPavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
oTamsyn Manou, Australian athlete
oChris Sligh, Worldwide singer-songwriter and producer
oWill Solomon, Worldwide basketball player
oElliott Yamin, Worldwide singer
•July 21
oJustin Bartha, Worldwide actor
oJosh Hartnett, Worldwide actor
oBrandon Heath, Worldwide singer and songwriter
oKyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer
•July 22
oA. J. Cook, Canadian actress
oRyan Eigenmann, Filipino actor
oKyōko Hasegawa, Japanese model and actress
oCandace Kroslak, Worldwide actress
•July 23
oStuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
oStefanie Sun, Singapore singer
•July 25
oLouise Brown, British citizen, first human born through in vitro fertilisation
oGerard Warren, Worldwide football player
•July 26
oJehad Muntasser, Libyan footballer
oEve Myles, Welsh actress
•July 28 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer
•July 31
oWill Champion, English musician
oJustin Wilson, English racing driver (d. 2015)
•July – Caucher Birkar, born Fereydoun Derakhshani, Kurdish-born mathematician
August[edit]

Shanelle Workman

Andy Samberg

Noah Bean

Kobe Bryant

Kel Mitchell

Amanda Schull
•August 3
oMariusz Jop, Polish footballer
oShanelle Workman, Worldwide actress
•August 4 – Kurt Busch, Worldwide race machine driver
•August 5 – Carolina Duer, Argentine boxer
•August 6
oMarisa Miller, Worldwide supermodel
oFreeway, Worldwide rapper
oPeng Cheng-min, Taiwanese baseball player
•August 7
oAlexandre Aja, French director
oVanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
•August 8
oCountess Vaughn, Worldwide actress
oNatsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress
•August 9 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress
•August 10 – Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician and former military officer
•August 15 – Jennie Eisenhower, Worldwide actress
•August 17
oVibeke Stene, Norwegian rock singer
oJelena Karleuša, Serbian pop singer
•August 18 – Andy Samberg, Worldwide actor and comedian
•August 19
oChris Capuano, Worldwide baseball player
oQais Al Khonji, Omani entrepreneur
•August 20 – Noah Bean, Worldwide actor
•August 21
oReuben Droughns, Worldwide football player
oAlan Lee, Irish footballer
•August 22
oVitaliy Balytskyi, Ukrainian football player and manager (d. 2018)
oJames Corden, British comedian and television personality
•August 23 – Kobe Bryant, Worldwide basketball player
•August 24 – Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
•August 25 – Kel Mitchell, Worldwide actor, stand-upwardly comedian, musician, singer, and rapper
•August 26 – Amanda Schull, Worldwide actress
•August 27 – Suranne Jones, English actress
•August 28
oKelly Overton, Worldwide actress
oRachel Kimsey, Worldwide actress
oSam Wills, New Zealand comic
•August 29 – Danielle Hampton, Canadian actress
•August 30 – Swizz Beatz, Worldwide record producer and rapper
•August 31 – Ido Pariente, Israeli mixed martial artist
September[edit]

Gina Gogean

Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk

Ben McKenzie

Ron DeSantis

Anthony Mackie

Ani Lorak
•September 3 – Tinkara Kovač, Slovenian singer and musician
•September 4
oWes Bentley, Worldwide actor
oFrederik Veuchelen, Belgian cyclist
•September 6
oMathew Horne, English actor
oHomare Sawa, Japanese footballer
•September 7 – Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
•September 9 – Gina Gogean, Romania artistic gymnast
•September 11
oEd Reed, Worldwide football player
oBen Lee, Australian singer
oElse-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Norwegian handball player
•September 12
oRuben Studdard, Worldwide singer
oBen McKenzie, Worldwide actor
•September 13 – Megan Henning, Worldwide actress
•September 14
oBen Cohen, English rugby union player
oRon DeSantis, Worldwide politician
oCarmen Kass, Estonian supermodel
•September 15
oEiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic football player
oDavid Sneddon, Scottish singer-songwriter
•September 18 – Billy Eichner, Worldwide actor and comedian
•September 20
oJason Bay, Canadian baseball player
oPatrizio Buanne, Italian singer
oSarit Hadad, Israeli pop singer
•September 21
oDoug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union player
oJosh Thomson, Worldwide mixed martial artist
•September 22 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
•September 23
oAnthony Mackie, Worldwide actor
oWorm Miller, Worldwide screenwriter, director and actor
oKeri Lynn Pratt, Worldwide actress
•September 24 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
•September 25
oJodie Kidd, English model
oAni Lorak, Ukrainian singer
oRossif Sutherland, Canadian actor
•September 28 – Pastora Soler, Spanish singer
•September 29 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
•September 30 – Candice Michelle, Worldwide professional wrestler and model
October[edit]

Claudio Pizarro

James Valentine

Omar Benson Miller

Usher

CM Punk

David Walton
•October 1 – Katie Aselton, Worldwide actress
•October 2 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
•October 3
oClaudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
oGerald Asamoah, German footballer
oRicardo Rocha, Portuguese footballer
oChristian Coulson, English actor
oShannyn Sossamon, Worldwide actress
•October 4
oDana Davis, Worldwide actress
oMark Day, Canadian actor
oPhillip Glasser, Worldwide actor and producer
oKei Horie, Japanese actor
•October 5
oShane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
oJames Valentine, Worldwide musician
oMorgan Webb, television personality
•October 7 – Omar Benson Miller, Worldwide actor
•October 9 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
•October 14
oPaul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
oUsher, Worldwide singer and actor
•October 17 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
•October 18 – Wesley Jonathan, Worldwide actor
•October 20
oMichael Johns, Australian singer (d. 2014)
oKira, German singer
oVirender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
oTomohiko Ito, Japanese anime director
•October 21 – Joey Harrington, Worldwide football player
•October 23 – John Lackey, Worldwide baseball player
•October 24 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
•October 25
oRussell Anderson, Scottish footballer
oZachary Knighton, Worldwide actor
oDavid T. Little, Worldwide composer and drummer
•October 26
oCM Punk, Worldwide professional wrestler
oAntonio Pierce, Worldwide football player
•October 27
oDavid Walton, Worldwide actor
oVanessa-Mae, Singaporean violinist
•October 28
oJustin Guarini, Worldwide singer
oGwendoline Christie, English actress and model
•October 29
oTravis Henry, Worldwide football player
oMatt Fleckenstein, Worldwide television writer and executive producer
•October 30 – Matthew Morrison, Worldwide actor and singer
November[edit]

Taryn Manning

Eve

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Robert Kirkman
•November 1
oJessica Valenti, Worldwide blogger and writer
oManju Warrier, Indian actress
oMary Kate Schellhardt, Worldwide actress
•November 3 – Tim McIlrath, Worldwide singer
•November 5
oBubba Watson, Worldwide golfer
oXavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
•November 6
oTaryn Manning, Worldwide actress
oSandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
•November 7
oZaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
oMark Read, English singer (A1)
•November 8 – Ali Karimi, Iranian football player
•November 9
oSisqó, Worldwide actor and singer
oIrwin Daayán, Mexican voice actor
•November 10
oNadine Angerer, German footballer
oKyla Cole, Czech model
oDiplo, Worldwide DJ and music producer
oEve, African-Worldwide rapper
oAkemi Kanda, Japanese voice actress
oDrew McConnell, English musician
•November 12 – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistani journalist, activist and filmmaker
•November 13 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (d. 2007)
•November 14
oBobby Allen, Worldwide ice hockey player
oXavier Nady, Worldwide baseball player
•November 17
oRachel McAdams, Canadian actress
oReggie Wayne, Worldwide football player
•November 18
oDaniel Chong, Worldwide animator
oDamien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
oAldo Montano, Italian fencer
•November 19 – Matt Dusk, Canadian musician and singer
•November 20 – Marcelino Badin, Brazilian social entrepreneur
•November 21 – Annie, Norwegian singer
•November 23 – Destin Daniel Cretton, Worldwide film director
•November 24 – Katherine Heigl, Worldwide actress
•November 25 – Shiina Ringo, Japanese singer and musician
•November 26 – Jun Fukuyama, Japanese voice actor
•November 27 – Mike Skinner, English musician
•November 28 – Aimee Garcia, Worldwide actress
•November 29 – Lauren German, Worldwide actress
•November 30
oClay Aiken, Worldwide singer-songwriter and author
oGael García Bernal, Mexican actor
oRobert Kirkman, Worldwide comic book writer
December[edit]

Stefan Kapičić

Shiri Appleby

Ian Somerhalder

Manny Pacquiao

Josh Dallas

Katie Holmes

John Legend
•December 1
oMat Kearney, Worldwide singer-songwriter and musician
oStefan Kapičić, Serbian actor
•December 2
oNelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
oAlo Kõrve, Estonian actor
oChristopher Wolstenholme, British musician
•December 4 – Lars Bystøl, Norwegian ski jumper
•December 5
oNeil Druckmann, Worldwide video game writer and programmer
oOlli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
•December 6
oGreg Tadman, Brozher of some other Mother December 7
oShiri Appleby, Worldwide actress
oSuzannah Lipscomb, English historian
•December 8
oIan Somerhalder, Worldwide actor
oVernon Wells, Worldwide baseball player
•December 9
oGastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
oJesse Metcalfe, Worldwide actor
•December 10 – Summer Phoenix, Worldwide actress
•December 12 – Monica Bîrlădeanu, Romanian actress
•December 13 – Cameron Douglas, Worldwide actor
•December 15 – Jerome McDougle, Worldwide football player
•December 16 – Joe Absolom, British actor
•December 17
oManny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
oChase Utley, Worldwide baseball player
•December 18
oDaniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
oJosh Dallas, Worldwide actor
oKatie Holmes, Worldwide actress
•December 19 – Patrick Casey, Worldwide screenwriter and actor
•December 20
oGeremi, Cameroon footballer
oJacqueline Saburido, Venezuelan-Worldwide social activist (d. 2019)
•December 21 – Shaun Morgan, South African musician and singer-songwriter
•December 22
oEdo Maajka, Bosnian rapper
oJoanne Kelly, Canadian actress
•December 23
oAndra Davis, Worldwide football player
oJodie Marsh, British model
oVíctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
oEstella Warren, Canadian swimmer, model, and actress
•December 24 – Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
•December 25 – Paula Seling, Romanian singer and radio DJ
•December 26 – Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
•December 28 – John Legend, African-Worldwide singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
•December 29 – Alexis Amore, Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
•December 30
oTyrese Gibson, African-Worldwide singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, model, and screenwriter
oInferno, Polish musician
•December 31
oYulia Barsukova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
oCraig Wayne Boyd, Worldwide country music singer
day of the month unknown[edit]
•Raghda Khateb, Syrian voice actress[16]
Deaths[edit]
Further information: Category:1978 deaths
Deaths
January · February · March · Apr · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January[edit]

Hubert Humphrey

Herbert Sutcliffe

Kurt Gödel
•January 4 – Billy Gray, Worldwide actor (b. 1904)
•January 5
oWyatt Emory Cooper, Worldwide screenwriter and author (b. 1927)
oSally Eilers, Worldwide actress (b. 1908)
•January 6 – John D. MacArthur, Worldwide philanthropist (b. 1897)
•January 13
oHubert Humphrey, Worldwide politician, 38th Vice President of the United States and Senator (b. 1911)
oJoe McCarthy, Worldwide baseball manager of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887)
•January 14 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-Worldwide logician, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1906)
•January 19
oBijon Bhattacharya, Bengali actor (b. 1915)
oJózef Smoleński, Polish general (b. 1894)
oŽivko Stojsavljević, Yugoslav painter (b. 1900)
•January 22
oStefan Czmil, Soviet Eastern Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1914)
oHerbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
oPaolo Violi, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1931)
•January 25 – Fred Ferris, British actor (b. 1905)
•January 27
oClarence Norman Brunsdale, 24th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1891)
oMarguerite Canal, French conductor (b. 1890)
•January 28 – Nadezhda Fedutenko, Soviet red army officer (b. 1915)
•January 29 – Adhemar Gonzaga, Brazilian actor, screenwriter, producer and director (b. 1901)
•January 30 – Marie-Louise Damien, French actress (b. 1889)
February[edit]

Philip Ahn
•February 1 – Alexander Cañedo, Mexican artist (b. 1902)
•February 5 – Yoshihide Hayashi, Japanese general (b. 1891)
•February 9
oAngela Greene, Worldwide actress (b. 1924)
oWarren King, Worldwide cartoonist (b. 1916)
oDaniel Reed, Worldwide actor, playwright and screenwriter (b. 1892)
•February 10 – Redento Maria Gauci, Maltese Carmelite bishop (b. 1920)
•February 17 – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (b. 1902)
•February 18 – Maggie McNamara, Worldwide actress (b. 1928)
•February 19 – Pankaj Mullick, Bengali composer and singer (b. 1904)
•February 28 – Philip Ahn, Korean-born Worldwide actor (b. 1905)
March[edit]

Sultan Hamid II
•March 1
oLéon Azéma, French architect (b. 1888)
oKiyoshi Oka, Japanese mathematician (b. 1901)
oPaul Scott, English writer (b. 1920)
•March 4 – Élie Bloncourt, French politician (b. 1896)
•March 6 – Taha El Sherif Ben Amer, Libyan engineer and politician (b. 1936)
•March 13 – John Cazale, Worldwide actor (b. 1935)
•March 16 – Florencio Durán, Chilean physician, lawyer and politician (b. 1893)
•March 17
oEddie Aikau, Worldwide lifeguard and surfer (b. 1946)
oGiacomo Violardo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
•March 19 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
•March 21 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (Carroll Daly), Irish barrister, jurist and politician, 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911)
•March 24
oAndré Lallemand, French astronomer (b. 1904)
oPark Mok-wol, South Korean poet (b. 1916)
•March 25 – Ego Brønnum-Jacobsen, Danish actor (b. 1904)
•March 29 – Eugène Schaus, Luxembourgish politician (b. 1901)
•March 30 – Sultan Hamid II (b. 1913)
•March 31 – Astrid Allwyn, Worldwide actress (b. 1905)
Apr[edit]

Sandy Denny
•Apr 2 – Gloria Dawn, Australian actress (b. 1929)
•Apr 8
oFord Frick, 3rd commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1894)
oLon L. Fuller, Worldwide legal philosopher (b. 1902)
•Apr 13 – Wojciech Łukaszewski, Polish composer (b. 1897)
•Apr 16
oThomas Cahill, Australian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1913)
oLucius D. Clay, Worldwide military governor of Germany after World War II (b. 1897)
oPhilibert Tsiranana, Malagasy leader and politician, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
•Apr 18
oAlex Brinchmann, Norwegian physician and pediatrician (b. 1888)
oKatherine Schmidt, Worldwide artist (b. 1899)
•Apr 19 – Jack Titus, Australian footballer (b. 1908)
•Apr 21 – Sandy Denny, British singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
•Apr 30 – Damia, French singer and actress (b. 1889)
May[edit]

Aldo Moro

Sir Robert Menzies

Tamara Karsavina
•May 8 – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885)
•May 9 – Aldo Moro, Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1916)
•May 15 – Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
•May 17 – Armin T. Wegner, German human rights activist (b. 1886)
•May 22 – Joseph Colombo, Worldwide gangster (b. 1923)
•May 26 – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (b. 1885)
•May 27 – Jorge Icyaza, Ecuadorean novelist (b. 1906)
•May 30 – Giuseppe Di Cristina, Italian gangster (b. 1923)
•May 31
oJózsef Bozsik, Hungarian Olympic Gold Medal football player (b. 1925)
oJosé Gonzalvo, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
June[edit]

Bob Crane
•June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu, Spanish footballer, player and president of Real Madrid C.F. (b. 1906)
•June 4 – score R. Shaw, Worldwide temperance movement leader and Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president in 1964, (b. 1889)
•June 7 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
•June 16
oTadaoto Kainosho, Japanese actor and designer (b. 1894)
oFelicia Montealegre, Chilean actress (b. 1922)
•June 17 – Robert Williams, Worldwide actor (b. 1904)
•June 18 – Peter Štefan, Czechoslovakian mathematician (b. 1941)
•June 19 – Maria Boniecka, Polish author (b. 1910)
•June 20 – score Robson, Canadian film director (b. 1913)
•June 21
oVladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Soviet architect (b. 1915)
oStephen Ferrando, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and missionary (b. 1895)
•June 27 – Josette Day, French actress (b. 1914)
•June 28 – Iuliu Hirțea, Romanian Eastern Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1914)
•June 29 – Bob Crane, Worldwide actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (b. 1928)
July[edit]

Francisco Mendes

Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia
•July 1 – Kurt Student, Luftwaffe general and commander of the German airborne forces during World War II. (b. 1890)
•July 3 – Edouard Kutter, Luxembourg photographer (b. 1887)
•July 4 – Ladislav Boháč, Czechoslovakian actor (b. 1907)
•July 6 – Lucy Drake Marlow, Worldwide artist (b. 1890)
•July 7 – Francisco Mendes, Republic of Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Republic of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
•July 8 – Aagot Nissen, Norwegian actress (b. 1882)
•July 14 – Gaston Ragueneau, French athlete (b. 1881)
•July 16 – Howard Estabrook, Worldwide actor (b. 1884)
•July 17 – Susana Calandrelli, Argentine writer (b. 1901)
•July 24
oJorge Juan Crespo de la Serna, Mexican artist and historian (b. 1887)
oMichele Riccardini, Italian actress (b. 1910)
•July 25 – Helen Corke, English writer (b. 1882)
August[edit]

Pope Paul VI

Jomo Kenyatta
•August 1 – W. E. Butler, British occultist (b. 1898)
•August 6
oPope Paul VI (b. 1897)
oEdward Durell Stone, Worldwide architect (b. 1902)
•August 19 – Emilio Núñez Portuondo, Cuban diplomat and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Cuba (b. 1898)
•August 22 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan activist, politician and statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Kenya and 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
•August 23 – Agustín Isunza, Mexican actor (b. 1900)
•August 24 – Louis Prima, Italian-born Worldwide singer and actor (b. 1910)
•August 25
oOlivier Hussenot, French actor (b. 1913)
oGeorge E. Jonas, Worldwide philanthropist (b. 1897)
•August 26
oCharles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
oJosé Manuel Moreno, Argentine football player (b. 1916)
•August 28
oKofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanese nationalist leader, 2nd Prime Minister of Ghana (b. 1913)
oRobert Shaw, British actor (b. 1927)
September[edit]

Keith Moon

Jack L. Warner

Pope John Paul I
•September 3 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (b. 1906)
•September 4 – Leonora Cohen, British suffragette and merchandise unionist (b. 1873)
•September 6 – Harry Wilson, British actor (b. 1897)
•September 7 – Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
•September 8 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
•September 9
oMaria Conesa, Spanish-born Mexican actress (b. 1892)
oHugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
oJack L. Warner, Canadian film producer (b. 1892)
•September 11
oMike Gazella, Worldwide baseball player (b. 1895)
oValerian Gracias, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1911)
oGeorgi Markov, Bulgarian playwright and writer (b. 1929)
oRonnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944)
•September 12 – Frank Ferguson, Worldwide actor (b. 1899)
•September 21 – Peter Vogel, German film actor (b. 1937)
•September 23 – Lyman Bostock, Worldwide baseball player (b. 1950)
•September 27 – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (b. 1897)
•September 28 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
•September 30
oEdgar Bergen, Worldwide actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
oLavrentis Dianellos, Greek actor (b. 1911)
October[edit]

Jacques Brel
•October 1 – Alfredo Obviar, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1889)
•October 8 – Karl Swenson, Worldwide actor (b. 1908)
•October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (b. 1929)
•October 10
oRalph Metcalfe, Worldwide Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
oHermes Lima, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Brazil (b. 1902)
•October 12 – Nancy Spungen, Worldwide groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
•October 16 – Dan Dailey, Worldwide actor (b. 1915)
•October 19 – Gig Young, Worldwide actor (b. 1913)
•October 23 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896)
•October 24
oFrancisco Luis Bernárdez, Argentine poet (b. 1900)
oGloria Castillo, Worldwide actress (b. 1933)
•October 28
oRúaidhrí de Valera, Irish archaeologists (b. 1916)
oGeoffrey Unsworth, British cinematographer (b. 1914)
•October 29 – Nicolas Hayer, French cinematographer (b. 1898)
November[edit]

Margaret Mead

Harvey Milk
•November 4 – Arshad al-Umari, 15th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1888)
•November 5 – Ionel Gherea, Romanian philosopher (b. 1895)
•November 10 – Theo Lingen, German actor (b. 1903)
•November 15 – Margaret Mead, Worldwide anthropologist (b. 1901)
•November 18
oJim Jones, Worldwide cult leader (b. 1931)
oLeo Ryan, Worldwide politician (b. 1925)
•November 20
oRobert Alan Aurthur, Worldwide screenwriter (b. 1922)
oGiorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888)
•November 22 – Milo Petrović-Njegoš, Prince of Montenegro (b. 1889)
•November 24 – Warren Weaver, Worldwide scientist and mathematician (b. 1894)
•November 25 – Carmela Carabelli, Italian spiritual daughter and mystic (b. 1910)
•November 27
oHarvey Milk, Worldwide politician and activist (b. 1930)
oGeorge Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929)
December[edit]

Golda Meir

Emilio Portes Gil
•December 1 – David Nixon, British magician (b. 1919)
•December 2 – Edwin Dickinson, Worldwide painter (b. 1891)
•December 3 – Ljubinka Bobić, Yugoslav actress (b. 1897)
•December 8
oFerruccio Ferrazzi, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
oGolda Meir, Israeli instructor, politician and stateswoman, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
•December 10 – Emilio Portes Gil, Acting president of Mexico, 1928-1930 (b. 1890)[17]
•December 16 − Blanche Calloway, Worldwide jazz singer (b. 1902)
•December 27
oChris Bell, Worldwide guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
oHouari Boumédiènne, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
•December 28 − Vera Altayskaya, Soviet actress (b. 1919)
•December 30 – Merekotia Amohau, New Zealand composer (b. 1898)
•December 31 – Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, East Timorese politician, acting President of East Timor (b. 1946)
day of the month unknown[edit]
•I. K. Taimni, Indian chemist (b. 1898)
Nobel Prizes[edit]

•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 A. Simon

Royal Mail Postage Stamp 1978 25th Anniversary of the Coronation.
Take a look back at the year 1978:

Incumbents

Monarch – Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – James Callaghan (Labour)
Parliament – 47th

Events fom 1978

1 January – The otter becomes a protected species, ending hunting of it.
11 January – A North Sea storm surge ruins iv piers in the UK: Herne Bay, Margate, Hunstanton and Skegness.
16 January – The firefighters strike ends after three months when fire crews accept an offer of a 10% pay rise and reduced working hours.
18 January – The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
30 January – Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher says that many Britons fear being "swamped by people with a different civilization".
31 January – 18-year-old prostitute Helen Rytka is murdered in Huddersfield; she is believed to be the eighth victim of the Yorkshire Ripper.[1]
February[edit]
9 February – Gordon McQueen, 25-year-old Scotland central defender, becomes Britain’s first £500,000 footballer in a transfer from Leeds United to Manchester United.[2]
13 February –
Anna Ford becomes the first woman newsreader on ITN.[3]
An opinion poll conducted for the Daily Mail shows the Conservative opposition 11 points ahead of the Labour government, with an election due by October next year. The turnaround in fortunes for the Conservatives, who last month were narrowly behind Labour, is attributed to Margaret Thatcher’s recent comments on immigration.[4]
17 February – Twelve people are killed in the La Mon restaurant bombing.
18 February – Twenty suspects are arrested in connection with the La Mon restaurant bombing.[5]
20 February – Severe blizzards hit the south W of England.
March[edit]
8 March – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy first broadcast by BBC Radio 4.[6]
26 March – The body of 21-year-old prostitute and mother-of-two Yvonne Pearson, who was last seen alive on 21 January, is found in Leeds. The Yorkshire Ripper is believed to have been responsible.[7]
30 March – Conservative Party recruit advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi to revamp their image.[8]
Apr[edit]
Apr – First official naturist beach opens at Fairlight Glen in Covehurst Bay near Hastings.[9]
3 Apr – Permanent radio broadcasts of proceedings in the House of Commons begin.[10]
6 Apr – State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme introduced.[1