Christmas 1978

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
The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law.
Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near Bombay, killing 213.[1]
Edward 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 due west Germany persona non grata.
January 24
Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns upward in Earth’s atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Rose 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
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people on board.
Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopian attack.
The 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
Rhodesia, one of only two remaining white-ruled African nations (the other being South Africa), announces that it will accept multiracial democracy within 2 years.
Serial killer Ted Bundy is recaptured in Pensacola, Florida.[5]
February 16
The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.
The 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
Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers against Somalian troops in the Ogaden.
Rhodesia attacks Zambia.
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 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
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.
California 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 upwardly 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
San Francisco’s city council signs the United States’s most comprehensive gay rights bank note.
Stump 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 sterilization and judicial immunity.
Apr[edit]
Apr 1
New Zealand National Airways Corporation (the domestic airline of New Zealand) is merged with New Zealand’s international airline, Air New Zealand.
Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.
The 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 upwardly 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
Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for Israel with their song A-Ba-Ni-Bi.
The 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
The Battle of Cassinga occurs in southern Republic of Angola.
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
Kingdom of Norway opens a natural gas land in the Polar Sea.
Reinhold 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
Australia’s longest serving prime minister Sir Robert Menzies dies.
Students 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
Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov is sentenced to seven years hard labor for distributing ‘counterrevolutionary material’.
Sarajevo 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
A bomb explodes in the security section of Northwestern University, wounding a security guard (the first Unabomber attack).
In 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 Online Casino in the eastern United States, opens.
May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for auto 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
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.
Garfield, 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
A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead.
1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: Iranian helicopters stray into Soviet airspace and are shot down.
June 22 – Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered.
June 24
Yemen Arab Republic President Ahmad al-Ghashmi is killed.
The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to grade 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
The U.S. scientific satellite Seasat is launched.
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.
The 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
Cerro Maravilla murders: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.
Louise 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
In London, England, a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov; he dies iv days later.
Keith 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 upwardly 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
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan.
The 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
Police in the due west Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.
The 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
PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
Giuseppe 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
Vietnam attacks Cambodia.
Tuvalu 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
Daniel arap Moi becomes president of Kenya.
John Vorster becomes State President of South Africa.[11]
A massive short circuit in Seasat’s electrical system ends the satellite’s scientific mission.
United 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
Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
California 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 bell plunges 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
Lufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Two million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran.
December 13 – The first Susan B. Anthony dollars were struck at the Philadelphia Mint.
December 15
Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major Worldwide city to go into default since the Great Depression, under Democrat Mayor Dennis Kucinich.
Superman is released in theaters in the United States.
December 16
Train 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi’an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.
The 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
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.
Chicago 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.
Argentina 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.
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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

grade Hildreth

Kristen Schaal

Sheamus
January 1 – Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
January 2
Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress
Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-Worldwide dancer
January 3
Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model, wearable designer and actress
Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
January 4 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (d. 2009)
January 5
Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
January Jones, Worldwide actress
January 7 – Emilio Palma, Argentine citizen, first human born in Antarctica
January 9
Chad Ocho Cinco, Worldwide football player
AJ McLean, Worldwide singer
Gennaro Gattuso, Italian football player
January 10 – Kanako Mitsuhashi, Japanese voice actress
January 11 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
January 12
Jeremy Camp, Worldwide singer and songwriter
Hannah Gadsby, Australian comedian
January 13
Ashmit Patel, Indian actor
Nate Silver, Worldwide statistician, psephologist and writer
January 14 – Shawn Crawford, Worldwide runner
January 15
Eddie Cahill, Worldwide actor
Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
January 18
Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
Katja Kipping, German politician
January 20 – Omar Sy, French actor and comedian
January 23 – Josh Thompson, Worldwide singer
January 24
grade Hildreth, Canadian actor and voice actor
Nami Miyahara, Japanese voice actress and singer
Kristen Schaal, Worldwide actress
January 25 – Gordie Dwyer, Worldwide hockey player and coach
January 26 – Kelly Stables, Worldwide actress
January 28
Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
Jamie 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
Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwean politician
Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer
Guido Kaczka, Argentine television show host and actor
February 3
Adrian R’Mante, Worldwide actor
Eliza Schneider, Worldwide actress
Kelly Sullniaganis, Worldwide actress
February 4 – Aleksey Rozin, Russian actor
February 5
Brian Russell, Worldwide football player
Samuel Sánchez, Spanish road bicycle racer
February 7
Ashton Kutcher, Worldwide actor
Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nigerian actress, singer, philanthropist and former model
February 10
Isabella Eklöf, Swedish screenwriter and film director
Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer and actor
February 12
Gethin Jones, Welsh television presenter
Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
February 13 – Niklas Bäckström, Finnish hockey player
February 14
Richard Hamilton, Worldwide basketball player
Danai Gurira, Worldwide actress and playwright
Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
February 15 – Gil Seong-joon, Korean hip-hop musician
February 16
John Tartaglia, Worldwide actor
Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete
February 18 – Oliver Pocher, German actor, stand-upward comedian and television host
February 19
Kenyatta Wright, Worldwide football player
Immortal Technique, Peruvian-Worldwide rapper
February 20
Julia Jentsch, German actress
Ken Takeuchi, Japanese voice actor
February 21
Kim Ha-neul, South Korean actress
Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistani-Worldwide actor and comedian
Miki Sakai, Japanese actress
February 22 – Jenny Frost, English singer
February 23 – Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003)
February 24
Leon Constantine, British footballer
Gary, South Korean musician, entertainer
February 27 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
February 28
Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter
Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer
Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier
March[edit]

Jensen Ackles

Claudio Sanchez

Fernandão

Rani Mukerji
March 1
Jensen Ackles, Worldwide actor
Donovan Patton, Guamanian television star
Sakura Nogawa, Japanese voice actress
March 2
Tomáš Kaberle, Czech hockey player
Sebastian Janikowski, Worldwide football player
March 4 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
March 6
Sage Rosenfels, Worldwide football player
Mike Jackson, Worldwide politician
March 7 – Jaqueline Jesus, Brazilian psychologist and activist
March 10 – Benjamin Burnley, Worldwide musician
March 11
Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
Ha Jung-woo, South Korean actor and director
March 12
Neal Obermeyer, Worldwide editorial cartoonist
Claudio Sanchez, Worldwide writer and musician
March 13
Tom Danielson, Worldwide cyclist
Kenny Watson, Worldwide football player
March 14
Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
Carl Johan Bergman, Swedish biathlete
Moon Hee-joon, Korean singer
March 15 – Flavio Furtado, Cape Verdean boxer
March 16 – Brooke Burns, Worldwide fashion model and actress
March 17
Jason M. Burns, Worldwide writer
Patrick Seitz, Worldwide voice actor
March 18 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
March 21
Rani Mukerji, Indian actress
Mohammad Rezaei, Iranian wrestler
March 22 – Josh Heupel, Worldwide football player
March 23
Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish cartoonist and radio host
Nicholle Tom, Worldwide actress
March 29 – Igor Rakočević, Serbian basketball player
March 30 – Simon Webbe, English singer
March 31
Stephen Clemence, English footballer
Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
Apr[edit]

John Smit

Lauren Ridloff

Duncan James

James Franco

Stana Katic
Apr 1
Nahshon Dion Anderson, Writer
Vitor Belfort, Brazilian martial artist
Jason Bell, former NFL player and TV pundit
Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
Apr 2 – Nick Berg, Worldwide man of affairs (d. 2004)
Apr 3
Matthew Goode, English actor
John Smit, South African rugby union player
Apr 4
Jason Ellison, Worldwide baseball player
Sam Moran, Australian singer
Apr 5 – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
Apr 6
Tim Hasselbeck, Worldwide football player
Martín Méndez, Uruguayan musician and songwriter
Lauren Ridloff, African-Worldwide actress
Apr 7
Duncan James, English singer
Adrienne Haan, German-Luxembourgish actress, singer, writer and producer
Apr 9
Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
Takashi Ohara, Japanese voice actor
Rachel Stevens, English singer
Apr 12
Guy Berryman, Scottish musician
Cheeming Boey, Malaysian artist
Apr 13 – Kyle Howard, Worldwide television and movie actor
Apr 15 – Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter
Apr 16
Lara Dutta, Indian actress and beauty queen
Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
Apr 17
Juan Guillermo Castillo, Uruguayan goalkeeper
Jason 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
Stana Katic, Canadian-Worldwide actress
Shinnosuke Tachibana, Japanese voice actor
Apr 28 – Robert Oliveri, Worldwide former actor
Apr 29
Bob and Mike Bryan, Worldwide doubles tennis team
Tyler 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
Erin Andrews, Worldwide television host and personality
Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
May 6 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
May 7
Brian Clevinger, Worldwide author
Shawn Marion, Worldwide basketball player
May 8 – Matthew Davis, Worldwide actor
May 9 – Daniel Franzese, Worldwide actor
May 10
Kenan Thompson, African-Worldwide actor and comedian
Marcelo Moretto, Brazilian footballer
May 11
Scott Matzka, Worldwide ice hockey player (d. 2018)
Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
Judy Ann Santos, Filipino actress
May 12
Hossein Rezazadeh, Iranian weightlifter
Jason Biggs, Worldwide actor
Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer
Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian Actress
May 13
Mike Bibby, Worldwide basketball player
Barry Zito, Worldwide baseball player
May 15
Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian footballer
Caroline Dhavernas, French-Canadian actress
Krzysztof Ignaczak, Polish volleyball player
David Krumholtz, Worldwide actor
Krissy 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
Adam Gontier, Canadian singer
Briana Banks, German-Worldwide porn star
May 22
Katie toll (Jordan), English model and television personality
Ginnifer Goodwin, Worldwide actress
May 23
Scott Raynor, Worldwide drummer
Carolyn 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
Jake Johnson, Worldwide actor and comedian
Tomohiko Ito, Japanese footballer
May 29
Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
Lorenzo Odone, Worldwide adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
June[edit]

Nikki Cox

Justin Long

bank note Hader

Shane due west

Joshua Jackson

Daniel Brühl

Tara Platt

Mía Maestro

Zoe Saldana

Frank Lampard

Erica Durance

Nicole Scherzinger
June 1
Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high-jumper
Link Neal, Worldwide musician, comedian and internet personality
June 2
Nikki Cox, Worldwide actress
Justin Long, Worldwide actor
June 4
Simone Maludrottu, Italian boxer
Robin Lord Taylor, Worldwide actor
June 5 – Nick Kroll, Worldwide actor and comedian
June 6
Konstantīns Konstantinovs, Latvian powerlifter (d. 2018)
Carl Barât, English musician
Nadia Nascimento, Canadian actress
Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
June 7
Jesse Ball, Worldwide novelist and poet
bank note Hader, Worldwide actor and comedian
June 8 – Maria Menounos, Worldwide actress, journalist, and television presenter
June 9
Michaela Conlin, Worldwide actress
Shandi Finnessey, Worldwide beauty queen and actress
Miroslav Klose, German footballer
Matthew Bellamy, British musician and singer
June 10
Han Hee-won, South Korean golfer
Karl Scully, Irish tenor
Shane due west, Worldwide actor
June 11 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
June 12
Shiloh Strong, Worldwide actor
Timothy Simons, Worldwide actor
Jeremy Rowley, Worldwide character actor and comedian
June 13 – Faizal Yusof, Malaysian actor (d. 2011)
June 15
Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
June 16 – Daniel Brühl, German actor
June 18 – Tara Platt, Worldwide voice actress and actress
June 19
Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
Zoe Saldana, Worldwide actress
June 20
Mike Birbiglia, Worldwide actor, comedian, and writer
Quinton Jackson, Worldwide mixed martial arts fighter
Frank Lampard, English footballer
June 21
Erica Durance, Canadian actress
Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and television host
Tom Lister, English actor
Ignacio Corleto, Argentine rugby union player
June 22
Champ Bailey, Worldwide football player
Tim Driesen, Belgian actor and singer-songwriter
Dan Wheldon, English race auto driver (d. 2011)
June 23
Gladys Reyes, Filipino actress
Memphis Bleek, Worldwide rapper
Leandro Firmino, Brazilian actor
Jeremy Horn, Worldwide musician and songwriter
Frédéric Leclercq, French musician
June 24
Ariel Pink, Worldwide musician
Adam Pearce, Worldwide wrestler
Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish musician
Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
June 25
Chuckie, Surinamese DJ and producer
Aramis Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
Marcus Stroud, Worldwide football player
June 26
Daniel Constantin, Romanian politician
Cristian Lucchetti, Argentine footballer
June 27
Marc Terenzi, Worldwide pop singer
Anna Kumble, English pop singer and television presenter
June 28
Baiano, Brazilian footballer
Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
June 29
Luke Kirby, Canadian actor
Nicole Scherzinger, Worldwide singer
Steve Savidan, French footballer
June 30
Ben Cousins, Australian rules footballer
Pat Dennis, Worldwide football player
Jason Schimmel, Worldwide musician and producer
Nate Winkel, Worldwide soccer player
July[edit]

Jüri Ratas

Tia Mowry

Topher Grace

Michelle Rodriguez

Pavel Datsyuk

Josh Hartnett

Justin Wilson
July 1
Hillary Tuck, Worldwide actress
Aleki Lutui, Tongan rugby player
Liu Kwok Man, Chinese footballer
grade Hunter, British rower
July 2
Paul Danan, British actor
Ganesh, Indian actor and television presenter
Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Estonia
Owain Yeoman, Welsh actor
July 3
Ian Anthony Dale, Worldwide actor
Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
Alex Scales, Worldwide basketball player
July 4
Becki Newton, Worldwide actress
Marcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player
July 5
Andreas Baum, German politician
Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, Indian actor and film producer
July 6
Daphne Iking, Malaysian television personality and actress
Danil Khalimov, Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler
Tia and Tamera Mowry, African-Worldwide actresses
Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby union footballer
July 7
Chris Andersen, Worldwide basketball player
DJ Manian, German music producer and DJ
Marino Franchitti, British racing driver
Benjamin Mitchell, New Zealand actor
grade Sloan, British professional wrestler
July 8
Rachael Lillis, Worldwide actress
Erin Morgenstern, Worldwide artist and author
Garth Mulroy, South African golfer
July 9
Kyle Davis, Worldwide actor
Dmitri Dyuzhev, Russian actor and singer
grade Medlock, German singer
Linda Park, Korean-born actress
July 10
Ray Kay, Norwegian director and photographer
Jesse Lacey, Worldwide singer-songwriter
July 11
Kim Kang-woo, South Korean actor
Mattias Gustafsson, Swedish handball player
July 12
Bradley Eustace, Australian composer
Topher Grace, Worldwide actor
Michelle Rodriguez, Worldwide actress
July 13
Gary David, Filipino professional basketball player
Jessica Barth, Worldwide actress
July 15
Matt Mitrione, Worldwide mixed martial artist
Greg Sestero, French-Worldwide actor and model
July 16 – Ahmede Hussain, Bangladeshi writer
July 17
Ricardo Arona, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Panda Bear, Worldwide musician
Justine Triet, French actress
July 18
Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
Crystal Mangum, Worldwide murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case
Virginia Raggi, Italian lawyer, politician
Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor
Ben Sheets, Worldwide baseball player
Vladimir Tintor, Serbian film actor
July 19 – Atsushi Harada, Japanese actor
July 20
André Bankoff, Brazilian actor
Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
Tamsyn Manou, Australian athlete
Chris Sligh, Worldwide singer-songwriter and producer
Will Solomon, Worldwide basketball player
Elliott Yamin, Worldwide singer
July 21
Justin Bartha, Worldwide actor
Josh Hartnett, Worldwide actor
Brandon Heath, Worldwide singer and songwriter
Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer
July 22
A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
Ryan Eigenmann, Filipino actor
Kyōko Hasegawa, Japanese model and actress
Candace Kroslak, Worldwide actress
July 23
Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
Stefanie Sun, Singapore singer
July 25
Louise Brown, British citizen, first human born through in vitro fertilisation
Gerard Warren, Worldwide football player
July 26
Jehad Muntasser, Libyan footballer
Eve Myles, Welsh actress
July 28 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer
July 31
Will Champion, English musician
Justin 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
Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
Shanelle Workman, Worldwide actress
August 4 – Kurt Busch, Worldwide race auto driver
August 5 – Carolina Duer, Argentine boxer
August 6
Marisa Miller, Worldwide supermodel
Freeway, Worldwide rapper
Peng Cheng-min, Taiwanese baseball player
August 7
Alexandre Aja, French director
Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
August 8
Countess Vaughn, Worldwide actress
Natsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress
August 9 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress
August 10 – Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician and former military officer
August 17
Vibeke Stene, Norwegian rock singer
Jelena Karleuša, Serbian pop singer
August 18 – Andy Samberg, Worldwide actor and comedian
August 19
Chris Capuano, Worldwide baseball player
Qais Al Khonji, Omani entrepreneur
August 20 – Noah Bean, Worldwide actor
August 21
Reuben Droughns, Worldwide football player
Alan Lee, Irish footballer
August 22
Vitaliy Balytskyi, Ukrainian football player and manager (d. 2018)
James 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
August 26 – Amanda Schull, Worldwide actress
August 27 – Suranne Jones, English actress
August 28
Kelly Overton, Worldwide actress
Rachel Kimsey, Worldwide actress
Sam 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
Wes Bentley, Worldwide actor
Frederik Veuchelen, Belgian cyclist
September 6
Mathew Horne, English actor
Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
September 7 – Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
September 9 – Gina Gogean, Romania artistic gymnast
September 11
Ed Reed, Worldwide football player
Ben Lee, Australian singer
Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Norwegian handball player
September 12
Ruben Studdard, Worldwide singer
Ben McKenzie, Worldwide actor
September 13 – Megan Henning, Worldwide actress
September 14
Ben Cohen, English rugby union player
Ron DeSantis, Worldwide politician
Carmen Kass, Estonian supermodel
September 15
Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic football player
David Sneddon, Scottish singer-songwriter
September 18 – Billy Eichner, Worldwide actor and comedian
September 20
Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer
Sarit Hadad, Israeli pop singer
September 21
Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union player
Josh Thomson, Worldwide mixed martial artist
September 22 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
September 23
Anthony Mackie, Worldwide actor
Worm Miller, Worldwide screenwriter, director and actor
Keri Lynn Pratt, Worldwide actress
September 24 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
September 25
Jodie Kidd, English model
Ani Lorak, Ukrainian singer
Rossif 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
Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
Ricardo Rocha, Portuguese footballer
Christian Coulson, English actor
Shannyn Sossamon, Worldwide actress
October 4
Dana Davis, Worldwide actress
grade Day, Canadian actor
Phillip Glasser, Worldwide actor and producer
Kei Horie, Japanese actor
October 5
Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
James Valentine, Worldwide musician
Morgan Webb, television personality
October 7 – Omar Benson Miller, Worldwide actor
October 9 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
October 14
Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
Usher, Worldwide singer and actor
October 17 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
October 18 – Wesley Jonathan, Worldwide actor
October 20
Michael Johns, Australian singer (d. 2014)
Kira, German singer
Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
Tomohiko 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
Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
Zachary Knighton, Worldwide actor
David T. Little, Worldwide composer and drummer
October 26
CM Punk, Worldwide professional wrestler
Antonio Pierce, Worldwide football player
October 27
David Walton, Worldwide actor
Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean violinist
October 28
Justin Guarini, Worldwide singer
Gwendoline Christie, English actress and model
October 29
Travis Henry, Worldwide football player
Matt 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
Jessica Valenti, Worldwide blogger and writer
Manju Warrier, Indian actress
Mary Kate Schellhardt, Worldwide actress
November 3 – Tim McIlrath, Worldwide singer
November 5
Bubba Watson, Worldwide golfer
Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
November 6
Taryn Manning, Worldwide actress
Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
November 7
Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
grade Read, English singer (A1)
November 8 – Ali Karimi, Iranian football player
November 9
Sisqó, Worldwide actor and singer
Irwin Daayán, Mexican voice actor
November 10
Nadine Angerer, German footballer
Kyla Cole, Czech model
Diplo, Worldwide DJ and music producer
Eve, African-Worldwide rapper
Akemi Kanda, Japanese voice actress
Drew McConnell, English musician
November 12 – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistani journalist, activist and filmmaker
November 13 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (d. 2007)
November 14
Bobby Allen, Worldwide ice hockey player
Xavier Nady, Worldwide baseball player
November 17
Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
Reggie Wayne, Worldwide football player
November 18
Daniel Chong, Worldwide animator
Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
Aldo 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
Clay Aiken, Worldwide singer-songwriter and author
Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
Robert Kirkman, Worldwide comic book writer
December[edit]

Stefan Kapičić

Shiri Appleby

Ian Somerhalder

Manny Pacquiao

Josh Dallas

Katie Holmes

John Legend

Yulia Barsukova
December 1
Mat Kearney, Worldwide singer-songwriter and musician
Stefan Kapičić, Serbian actor
December 2
Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
Alo Kõrve, Estonian actor
Christopher Wolstenholme, British musician
December 4 – Lars Bystøl, Norwegian ski jumper
December 5
Neil Druckmann, Worldwide video game writer and programmer
Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
December 6
Greg Tadman, Brozher of some other Mother December 7
Shiri Appleby, Worldwide actress
Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian
December 8
Ian Somerhalder, Worldwide actor
Vernon Wells, Worldwide baseball player
December 9
Gastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
Jesse 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
Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
Chase Utley, Worldwide baseball player
December 18
Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
Josh Dallas, Worldwide actor
Katie Holmes, Worldwide actress
December 19 – Patrick Casey, Worldwide screenwriter and actor
December 20
Geremi, Cameroon footballer
Jacqueline Saburido, Venezuelan-Worldwide social activist (d. 2019)
December 21 – Shaun Morgan, South African musician and singer-songwriter
December 22
Edo Maajka, Bosnian rapper
Joanne Kelly, Canadian actress
December 23
Andra Davis, Worldwide football player
Jodie Marsh, British model
Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
Estella 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
Tyrese Gibson, African-Worldwide singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, model, and screenwriter
Inferno, Polish musician
December 31
Yulia Barsukova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
Craig 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
Wyatt Emory Cooper, Worldwide screenwriter and author (b. 1927)
Sally Eilers, Worldwide actress (b. 1908)
January 6 – John D. MacArthur, Worldwide philanthropist (b. 1897)
January 13
Hubert Humphrey, Worldwide politician, 38th Vice President of the United States and Senator (b. 1911)
Joe 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
Bijon Bhattacharya, Bengali actor (b. 1915)
Józef Smoleński, Polish general (b. 1894)
Živko Stojsavljević, Yugoslav painter (b. 1900)
January 22
Stefan Czmil, Soviet Eastern Catholic bishop and reverend (b. 1914)
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
Paolo Violi, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1931)
January 25 – Fred Ferris, British actor (b. 1905)
January 27
Clarence Norman Brunsdale, 24th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1891)
Marguerite 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
Angela Greene, Worldwide actress (b. 1924)
Warren King, Worldwide cartoonist (b. 1916)
Daniel 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
Léon Azéma, French architect (b. 1888)
Kiyoshi Oka, Japanese mathematician (b. 1901)
Paul 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
Eddie Aikau, Worldwide lifeguard and surfer (b. 1946)
Giacomo 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
André Lallemand, French astronomer (b. 1904)
Park 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
Ford Frick, 3rd commissioner of Major League Baseball (b. 1894)
Lon L. Fuller, Worldwide legal philosopher (b. 1902)
Apr 13 – Wojciech Łukaszewski, Polish composer (b. 1897)
Apr 16
Thomas Cahill, Australian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1913)
Lucius D. Clay, Worldwide military governor of Germany after World War II (b. 1897)
Philibert Tsiranana, Malagasy leader and politician, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
Apr 18
Alex Brinchmann, Norwegian physician and pediatrician (b. 1888)
Katherine 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
József Bozsik, Hungarian Olympic Gold Medal football player (b. 1925)
José 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 – grade 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
Tadaoto Kainosho, Japanese actor and designer (b. 1894)
Felicia 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 – grade Robson, Canadian film director (b. 1913)
June 21
Vladimir Aleksi-Meskhishvili, Soviet architect (b. 1915)
Stephen 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
Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna, Mexican artist and historian (b. 1887)
Michele 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
Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
Edward 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
Olivier Hussenot, French actor (b. 1913)
George E. Jonas, Worldwide philanthropist (b. 1897)
August 26
Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
José Manuel Moreno, Argentine football player (b. 1916)
August 28
Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanese nationalist leader, 2nd Prime Minister of Ghana (b. 1913)
Robert 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
Maria Conesa, Spanish-born Mexican actress (b. 1892)
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
Jack L. Warner, Canadian film producer (b. 1892)
September 11
Mike Gazella, Worldwide baseball player (b. 1895)
Valerian Gracias, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1911)
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian playwright and writer (b. 1929)
Ronnie 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
Edgar Bergen, Worldwide actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
Lavrentis 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
Ralph Metcalfe, Worldwide Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
Hermes 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 19 – Gig Young, Worldwide actor (b. 1913)
October 23 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896)
October 24
Francisco Luis Bernárdez, Argentine poet (b. 1900)
Gloria Castillo, Worldwide actress (b. 1933)
October 28
Rúaidhrí de Valera, Irish archaeologists (b. 1916)
Geoffrey 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
Jim Jones, Worldwide cult leader (b. 1931)
Leo Ryan, Worldwide politician (b. 1925)
November 20
Robert Alan Aurthur, Worldwide screenwriter (b. 1922)
Giorgio 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
Harvey Milk, Worldwide politician and activist (b. 1930)
George 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
Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
Golda 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
Chris Bell, Worldwide guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1951)
Houari 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]
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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
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 due west 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.[11]
23 Apr – Nottingham Forest win the Football League First Division title for the first time in their history. Their manager Brian Clough, who guided their East Midlands rivals Derby County to the title six years ago, becomes only the third manager in history to lead two different clubs to top division title glory; the others were Tom Watson with Sunderland and Liverpool before WWI, and Herbert Chapman with Huddersfield Town and Arsenal during the interwar years.[12]
May[edit]
4 May – Altab Ali is murdered in East London in a racially motivated attack which mobilises the British Bangladeshi community to protest.
6 May – Ipswich Town win the FA Cup for the first time by beating Arsenal 1–0 in the Wembley final.
10 May – Liverpool F.C. retain the European Cup with a 1–0 win over Club Brugge K.V., the Belgian champions, at Wembley Stadium.
16 May – 40-year-old prostitute Vera Millward is found stabbed to death in the grounds of the Manchester Royal Infirmary Hospital; she is believed to have been the tenth woman to die at the hands of the Yorkshire Ripper. Both of the victims killed outside Yorkshire have been killed in Manchester.[13]
17 May – Charlie Chaplin’s coffin, stolen 11 weeks previously, is found in a land about a mile away from the Chaplin house in Corsier near Lausanne, Switzerland.[14]
25 May – Liberal Party leader David Steel announces that the Lib-Lab pact will be dissolved at the end of the current Parliamentary session by mutual consent, leaving Britain with a minority Labour government.[10]
31 May – Labour wins the Hamilton by-election, retaining it in the human face of a strong challenge from the Scottish National Party in that seat.
June[edit]
1 June – William Stern is declared bankrupt with debts of £118 million, the largest bankruptcy in British history at the time.[15][16]
3 June – Freddie Laker is knighted.
8 June – Naomi James becomes the first woman to sail around the world single-handedly.[17]
13–16 June – The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena pay a state visit to the United Kingdom. He is made a Knight of the Order of the Bath, and she an honorary professor of the Polytechnic of Central London.[18]
17 June – Media reports suggest that a general election will be held this autumn as the minority government led by James Callaghan and Labour appears to be nearing the end of its duration. Callaghan’s chances of an election win are now looking brighter than they were iv months ago, as the 11-point Conservative lead has evaporated.[19]
19 June – 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.[20]
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