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Year '''1978''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXXVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (link displays the 1978 [[Gregorian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1978==
===January===
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* [[January 1]] - The Copyright Act of [[1976]] takes effect, making sweeping changes to [[United States copyright law]].
* [[January 1]] - [[Air India Flight 855]], a [[Boeing 747]] passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near [[Bombay]], killing 213.
* [[January 4]] - A [[referendum]] in [[Chile]] supports the policies of [[Augusto Pinochet]].
* [[January 6]] - The Hungarian [[Holy Crown of Hungary|Holy Crown]] (also known as [[Stephen of Hungary]] Crown) is returned to [[Hungary]] from the [[United States]], where it was held since [[World War II]].
* [[January 7]] - [[Emilio Palma]] is born in [[Antarctica]], making his birth the southernmost in history.
* [[January 10]] - [[Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal]], a critic of the [[Nicaragua]]n government, is assassinated. Riots erupt against [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle|Somoza]]'s government.
* [[January 14]] - [[January 15]] - The body of former U.S. Vice President [[Hubert Humphrey]] lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda, following his death from cancer.
* [[January 18]] - The [[European Court of Human Rights]] finds the [[United Kingdom]] government guilty of mistreating prisoners in [[Northern Ireland]], but not guilty of [[torture]].
* [[January 19]] - Federal Appeals Court Judge [[William H. Webster]] is appointed [[FBI]] Director.
* [[January 22]] - [[Ethiopia]] declares the ambassador of [[West Germany]] [[Persona non grata]].
* [[January 24]] - [[Soviet]] satellite [[Cosmos 954]] burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over [[Canada's]] [[Northwest Territories]].
* [[January 24]] - [[Rose Dugdale]] and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the [[Republic of Ireland]].
* [[January 28]] - [[Richard Chase]], the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.
* [[January 30]] - [[Blizzard]]s in the USA kill 90.
===February===
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* [[February 1]] - A bomb explodes outside the [[Hilton Hotel]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], killing two garbagemen, a policeman and several others.
* [[February 1]] - [[Hollywood]] film director [[Roman Polanski]] skips [[bail]] and flees to [[France]], after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in [[Statutory rape|sex]] with a 13-year-old girl.
* [[February 6]] - [[Sittwe|Akyab]], [[Rakhine State|Arakan]], The [[King Dragon operation in Arakan]] begins in the village of Sakkipara.
* [[February 8]] - [[United States Senate]] proceedings are broadcast on [[radio]] for the first time.
* [[February 11]] - [[Pacific Western Airlines]] Flight 314, a [[Boeing 737]]-200, crashes in [[Cranbrook, British Columbia]], killing 44 of the 50 people onboard.
* [[February 11]] - Sixteen [[Unification Church]] couples wed in [[New York, New York]].
* [[February 11]] - [[Somalia]] mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent [[Ethiopia]]n attack.
* [[February 11]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] lifts a ban on works by [[Aristotle]], [[William Shakespeare]] and [[Charles Dickens]].
* [[February 15]] - [[Rhodesia]]'s prime minister [[Ian Smith]] and 3 black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule.
* [[February 15]] - Serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] is captured in [[Pensacola, Florida]].
* [[February 16]] - The [[Hillside Strangler]], a serial killer prowling [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], claims a tenth and final victim.
* [[February 16]] - The first [[computer]] [[bulletin board system]] ([[CBBS]]) is created in [[Chicago]].
* [[February 21]] - Electrical workers in [[Mexico City]] find the remains of the [[Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan]] in the middle of the city.
===March===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, [[Switzerland]].
* [[March 2]] - ''[[Soyuz 28]]'' ([[Aleksei Gubarev]], [[Vladimir Remek]]) is launched on a rendezvous with ''[[Salyut 6]]'', with the first cosmonaut from a Soviet satellite (Remek).
* [[March 3]] - [[Ethiopia]] admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of [[Cuba]]n soldiers against [[Somalia]]n troops in [[Ogaden]].
* [[March 3]] - [[Rhodesia]] attacks [[Zambia]].
* [[March 3]] - The ''[[New York Post]]'' publishes an article about [[David Rorvik]]'s book ''The Cloning of Man'', about a supposed [[human cloning|cloning of a human being]].
* [[March 6]] - American [[porn]] publisher [[Larry Flynt]] is shot and paralyzed in [[Lawrenceville, Georgia]].
* [[March 10]] - ''[[Soyuz 28]]'' lands.
* [[March 11]] - [[Coastal Road Massacre]]: [[Palestinian]] [[terrorism|terrorists]] kill 34 [[Israel]]is.
* [[March 14]] - [[Israel]]i forces invade [[Lebanon]] in [[Operation Litani]].
* [[March 16]] - Former [[Italy|Italian]] Premier [[Aldo Moro]] is kidnapped by the [[Red Brigades]]; 5 bodyguards are killed.
* [[March 17]] - The oil tanker [[Amoco Cadiz]] runs aground on the coast of [[Brittany]].
* [[March 18]] - [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the [[assassination]] of a political opponent.
* [[March 22]] - [[Karl Wallenda]] of the [[Flying Wallendas]] dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]].
* [[March 24]] - The tanker [[Amoco Cadiz]] splits in two off [[Brittany]], spilling 50,000 metric tons of crude oil.
* [[March 28]] - ''[[Stump v. Sparkman]]'' (435 U.S. 349}: The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] hands down a 5-3 decision in a controversial case involving involuntary [[sterilization (surgical procedure)|sterilization]] and judicial [[immunity (legal)|immunity]].
===April===
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* [[April 1]] - [[Dick Smith]] of [[Dick Smith Foods]] tows a fake [[iceberg]] to [[Port Jackson|Sydney Harbour]].
* [[April 1]] - Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, was converted to [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines]].
* [[April 3]] - The [[50th Academy Awards]] are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in [[Los Angeles, California]] with ''[[Annie Hall]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
* [[April 7]] - U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] decides to postpone production of the [[neutron bomb]] - a weapon which kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact.
* [[April 8]] - Regular radio broadcasts of [[British Parliament]] proceedings start.
* [[April 10]] - [[Volkswagen]] becomes the first non-American [[automobile]] manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North American version of the [[Volkswagen Golf]], in [[New Stanton, Pennsylvania]] with a unionized ([[UAW]]) workforce. (The plant will close in 1992.)
* [[April 14]] - [[1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations]]: thousands of Georgians demonstrate against the attempt by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] authorities to change the constitutional status of the [[Georgian language]].
* [[April 16]] - In [[Cologne]], 15,000 former members of the resistance movement demonstrate against [[Nazism]].
* [[April 18]] - The U.S. Senate votes 68-32 to turn the [[Panama Canal]] over to [[Panama]]nian control on [[December 31]], [[1999]].
* [[April 22]] - Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1978]] for [[Israel]] with their song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi".
* [[April 22]] - The [[One Love Peace Concert]] is held at National Heroes Stadium in [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. [[Bob Marley]] unites 2 opposing political leaders at this concert, bringing peace to the civil war ridden streets of the city.
* [[April 25]] - [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] becomes 2nd US city to repeal its gay rights ordinance after [[Anita Bryant]]'s successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, [[Florida]].
* [[April 27]] - [[Afghanistan]] President [[Daoud Khan]] is killed during a military coup; [[Nur Mohammed Taraki]] succeeds him.
* [[April 30]] - The Democratic Republic of [[Afghanistan]] is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader [[Nur Mohammed Taraki]].
===May===
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* [[May 4]] - [[Battle of Cassinga]] occurs in southern [[Angola]].
* May 4 - [[Communist]] activist [[Henri Curiel]] is murdered in [[Paris]].
* [[May 5]] - [[Pete Rose]] of the [[Cincinnati Reds]] gets his 3,000th major league hit.
* [[May 8]] - [[Norway]] opens a [[natural gas]] field in the [[Polar Sea]].
* [[May 9]] - In [[Rome]], the body of [[Aldo Moro]], the Italian president of the Christian Democrats, is found in a parked car.
* [[May 12]]-[[May 13]] - A group of [[mercenary|mercenaries]] lead by [[Bob Denard]] oust [[Ali Soilih]] in the [[Comoros]]; 10 local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government.
* [[May 12]] - In [[Zaire]], rebels occupy the city of [[Kolwezi]], the mining centre of the province of [[Shaba]]. The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
* [[May 15]] - Students of the [[University of Teheran]] riot in [[Tabriz]]; the army stops the riot.
* [[May 17]] - [[Charles Chaplin]]'s coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
* [[May 18]] - Soviet dissident [[Yuri Feodorovich Orlov|Yuri Orlov]] is sentenced to 7 years hard labor for distributing counterrevolutionary material.
* [[May 18]]-[[May 19]] - Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire to aid the fight against the rebels.
* [[May 20]] - [[Mavis Hutchinson]], 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.
* [[May 22]] - Exiled leaders [[Ahmed Abdallah]] and [[Mohammed Ahmed]] return to the [[Comoros]].
* [[May 25]] - A bomb explodes in the security section of [[Northwestern University]], wounding a security guard (the first [[Unabomber]] attack).
* [[May 26]] - In [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], Resorts International, the first legal [[casino]] in the eastern [[United States]], opens.
* [[May 28]] - [[Indianapolis 500]]: [[Al Unser]] wins his third race, and the first for car owner [[Jim Hall (race car driver)|Jim Hall]].
* [[May 29]] - [[Ali Soilih]] is found dead in the [[Comoros]], allegedly shot when trying to escape.
===June===
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* [[June 1]] - The [[1978 FIFA World Cup]] starts in [[Argentina]].
* [[June 6]] - [[California]] voters approve [[California Proposition 13 (1978)|Proposition 13]], which slashes property taxes nearly 60%.
* [[June 8]] - [[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 (''see [[Blacks and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]'').
* [[June 12]] - Serial killer [[David Berkowitz]], the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
* [[June 15]] - King [[Hussein of Jordan]] marries 26-year-old [[Lisa Halaby]].
* [[June 19]] - Cricketer [[Ian Botham]] becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.
* [[June 20]] - A magnitude 6.5 [[earthquake]] hits [[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]]'s second largest city, killing 45 people, injuring hundreds and damaging some of the city's Byzantine landmarks.
* [[June 21]] - A shootout between [[Provisional IRA]] members and the [[British Army]] leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.
* [[June 22]] - [[Charon (moon)|Charon]], a satellite of [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]], is discovered.
* [[June 23]] - [[Josip Broz Tito]] is named [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] [[president for life]].
* [[June 24]] - [[Yemen Arab Republic]] President [[Ahmad al-Ghashmi]] is killed.
* [[June 24]] - Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March held in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] to mark 10th Anniversary of the [[Stonewall Riots]]; Which would become known as the [[Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras]] the following year and be held annually; later incorporating a festival.
* [[June 25]] - [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] defeats [[Netherlands national football team|the Netherlands]] 3-1 after [[extra time]] to win the [[1978 FIFA World Cup]].
* [[June 26]] - The bombing by [[Brittany|Breton]] nationalists causes destruction in [[Versailles]].
* [[June 28]] - U.S. scientific satellite [[Seasat]] is launched.
* [[June 28]] - ''[[University of California Regents v. Bakke]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] bars [[quota system]]s in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of programs which give advantages to minorities.
* [[June 30]] - [[Ethiopia]] begins a massive offensive in [[Eritrea]].
===July===
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* [[July 7]] - The [[Solomon Islands]] become independent from the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[July 11]] - More than 200 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in [[Costa Daurada]], [[Spain]].
* [[July 25]] - [[Louise Brown]] becomes the first human born from [[in vitro fertilization]], in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[July 25]] - [[Cerro Maravilla Incident]]: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.
===August===
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* [[August 3]] - The [[Commonwealth Games]] open in [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]], [[Canada]].
* [[August 6]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] dies at age 80.
* [[August 7]] - United States President [[Jimmy Carter]] declares a federal emergency at [[Love Canal]].
* [[August 12]] - [[Sino-Japanese relations]]: The [[Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China|Treaty of Peace and Friendship]] is signed between [[Japan]] and the [[People's Republic of China]].
* [[August 17]] - ''[[Double Eagle II]]'' ([[Ben Abruzzo]], Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman), becomes the first [[balloon]] to cross the [[Atlantic Ocean]] when it lands in Miserey near [[Paris]], 137 hours after leaving [[Presque Isle, Maine]].
* [[August 19]] - The [[Cinema Rex Fire|Cinema Rex catches fire]] in [[Tehran]] (477 dead).
* [[August 20]] - Gunmen open fire on an Israeli [[El Al]] airline bus in [[London]].
* [[August 20]] - In [[Abadan]], [[Iran]], nearly 400 are killed when [[Islamist|Muslim extremist]] arsonists set fire to a crowded theater.
* [[August 25]] - The [[Shroud of Turin]] goes on public display for the first time in 45 years.
* [[August 25]] - U.S. Army Sergeant Walter Robinson "walks" across the [[English Channel]] in 11 hours 30 minutes, using homemade water shoes.
* [[August 26]] - [[Pope John Paul I]] (Albino Cardinal Luciani) succeeds [[Pope Paul VI]] as the 263rd [[pope]].
===September===
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[[Image:Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978.gif||thumb|right|250px|[[Anwar Sadat]], [[Jimmy Carter]], and [[Menachem Begin]] meet on the Aspen Lodge patio on September 6, 1978.]]
* [[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, poisons [[Bulgaria]]n [[defector]] [[Georgi Markov]], probably on orders of Bulgarian intelligence; he dies 4 days later.
* [[September 8]] - Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in [[Teheran]] - 122 dead, 4,000 wounded.
* [[September 16]] - General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] officially assumes the post of [[President of Pakistan]].
* [[September 17]] - The [[Camp David Accords]] are signed between [[Israel]] and [[Egypt]].
* [[September 19]] - Police in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] of [[England]] launch a massive [[murder]] hunt, when 13 year old newspaper boy [[Carl Bridgewater]] is shot dead after disturbing a [[burglary]].
* [[September 20]] - General [[Rahimuddin Khan]] assumes the post of [[Martial Law]] Governor of [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Balochistan]].
* September 20 - [[Patrizio Buanne]] is born
* [[September 25]] - [[PSA Flight 182]], a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in [[San Diego]], [[California]]; 144 are killed.
* [[September 25]] - [[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 Brothers|Forest Brother]] [[Guerilla warfare|guerilla]] movement fighter is discovered and killed in [[Estonia]].
* [[September 28]] - [[Pope John Paul I]] dies after only 33 days of papacy.
===October===
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* [[October 1]] - [[Vietnam]] attacks [[Cambodia]].
* [[October 1]] - [[Tuvalu]] become independent from the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[October 2]] - The [[New York Yankees]] defeat the [[Boston Red Sox]] 5-4 at [[Fenway Park]] to clinch the [[AL East]] after being 14 games out of first place only two months earlier. The Yankees would eventually go on to defeat the [[Kansas City Royals]] and [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] and win the [[World Series]].
* [[October 7]] - ''Wranslide'' in [[New South Wales]]: the [[Neville Wran|Wran]] government is re-elected with an increased majority.
* [[October 8]] - [[Australia]]'s [[Ken Warby]] sets the current world [[water speed record]] of 317.60 [[Miles per hour|mph]] at Blowering Dam, Australia.
* [[October 10]] - A massive short circuit in [[Seasat]]'s electrical system ends the satellite's scientific mission.
* [[October 10]] - U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] signs a bill that authorizes the minting of the [[Susan B. Anthony dollar]].
* [[October 14]] - [[Daniel arap Moi]] becomes president of [[Kenya]].
* [[October 16]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] ([[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] [[Karol Wojtyła]]) succeeds [[Pope John Paul I]] as the 264th [[pope]]. He is the first [[Poland|Polish]] pope in history.
* [[October 17]] - The [[New York Yankees]] clinch their 22nd [[World Series]] championship, defeating the [[Dodgers]] 7-2 in [[Los Angeles]] and winning the [[1978 World Series|Series]] 4 games to 2.
* [[October 27]] - Egyptian President [[Anwar Sadat]] and Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]] win the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
===November===
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* [[November 3]] - [[Dominica]] gains its independence from the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[November 5]] - Rioters sack the British Embassy in [[Tehran]].
* [[November 7]] - [[Indira Gandhi]] is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
* [[November 7]] - California voters defeat the [[Briggs Initiative]] that would have prohibitted gay school teachers.
* [[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. [[Leo Ryan|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 27]] - In [[San Francisco, California]], Mayor [[George Moscone]] and City Supervisor [[Harvey Milk]] are [[Moscone-Milk assassinations|assassinated]] by former Supervisor [[Dan White]].
* [[November 30]] - Publication of ''[[The Times]]'' is suspended due to labor problems until [[November 13]], [[1979]].
===December===
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* [[December 3]] - The Southern Crescent passenger train derails at Shipman, Virginia, killing six, injuring 60.
* [[December 4]] - [[Dianne Feinstein]] succeeds the murdered [[George Moscone]] as [[San Francisco, California]]'s first woman mayor (she serves until [[January 8]], [[1988]]).
* [[December 6]] - The [[Spanish Constitution]] officially restores the country's democratic government.
* [[December 11]] - [[Lufthansa heist]]: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in [[New York City]]'s [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|Kennedy airport]].
* [[December 11]] - Two million demonstrate against the Shah in [[Iran]].
* [[December 13]] - The first [[Susan B. Anthony dollar]] enters circulation.
* [[December 15]] - [[Cleveland, Ohio]] becomes the first major American city to go into default since the [[Great Depression]], under Mayor [[Dennis Kucinich]].
* [[December 16]] - Train 87 from [[Nanjing]] to [[Xining]] collision into train 368 from [[Xi'an]] to [[Xuzhou]] near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.
* [[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]].
* [[December 22]] - Serial killer [[John Wayne Gacy]] finally confesses to his lawyers that he raped and killed 33 boys/men after months of denial to authorities. The confession surprised the entire city of [[Chicago]], as Gacy was a family man that was adored by people all over town.
* [[December 25]] - [[Vietnam]] launches a major offensive against the [[Khmer Rouge]] of [[Cambodia]].
* [[December 27]] - The [[Spain|Spanish]] Constitution is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military [[dictatorship]].
===Undated===
*Artificial [[insulin]] is invented.
*[[David Rorvik]] claims he has participated in a creation of a [[human clone]] in his book ''In His Image''.
*[[Abortion]] legalized in [[Italy]] for first time.
*[[Seoul, Korea]] begins construction on Subway [[Seoul Subway Line 2|Line 2]]
*[[Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year|The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year]] is first awarded. The winner is ''Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice''.
===Ongoing===
* [[Cold War]]
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Alex Leigh]], British model
* [[January 1]] - [[Phillip Mulryne]], Northern Irish footballer
* [[January 2]] - [[Toyoguchi Megumi]], Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
* [[January 3]] - [[Kimberley Locke]], American singer and model
* [[January 3]] - [[Park Sol-mi]], South Korean actress
* [[January 5]] - [[Franck Montagny]], French [[Formula One]] driver
* [[January 9]] - [[Chad Johnson]], American football player
* [[January 9]] - [[AJ McLean]], member of the [[Backstreet Boys]]
* [[January 12]] - [[Kris Roe]], American guitarist and singer ([[The Ataris]])
* [[January 12]] - [[Jeremy Camp]], American guitarist and Christian singer
* [[January 14]] - [[Eddie Berlin]], American football player
* [[January 14]] - [[Shawn Crawford]], American runner
* [[January 15]] - [[Franco Pellizotti]], Italian professional road racing cyclist
* [[January 20]] - [[Sid Wilson]], American turntablist ([[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]], [[DJ Starscream]])
* [[January 26]] - [[Kelly Stables]], American actress
* [[January 28]] - [[Gianluigi Buffon]], Italian goalkeeper (football)
* [[February 2]] - [[Barry Ferguson]], Scottish footballer
* [[February 5]] - [[Brian Russell (football player)|Brian Russell]], American football player
* [[February 7]] - [[Christopher Ashton Kutcher]], American actor
* [[February 12]] - [[Gethin Jones]], British (Welsh) television presenter
* [[February 12]] - [[Silver Meikar]], Estonian politician
* [[February 13]] - [[Niklas Bäckström]], Finnish hockey player ([[Minnesota Wild]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Richard Hamilton (basketball)|Richard Hamilton]], American basketball player
* [[February 14]] - [[Darius Songaila]], Lithuanian basketball player
* [[February 15]] - [[Tuan Le]], American poker player
* [[February 16]] - [[John Tartaglia]], Broadway actor and Muppeteer
* [[February 17]] - [[Jacob Wetterling]], child kidnapping victim (missing since [[1989]])
* [[February 19]] - [[Kenyatta Wright]], [[American football]] [[linebacker]]
* [[February 20]] - [[Julia Jentsch]], German actress
* [[February 23]] - [[Dan Snyder]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[2003]])
* [[February 24]] - [[John Nolan]], lead singer of [[Straylight Run]]
* [[February 24]] - [[Leon Constantine]], [[Leeds United]] [[footballer]]
* [[February 27]] - [[Kakha Kaladze]], Georgian and [[AC Milan]] [[football]]er
* [[February 28]] - [[Benjamin Raich]], Austrian Olympic skier
===March-April===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Jensen Ackles]], American actor
* [[March 2]] - [[Tomas Kaberle]], Czech hockey player
* [[March 4]] - [[Denis Dallan]], Italian rugby union footballer
* [[March 6]] - [[Sage Rosenfels]], American Football Player
* [[March 10]] - [[Benjamin Burnley]], American musician
* [[March 11]] - [[Didier Drogba]], Ivory Coast footballer
* [[March 12]] - [[Claudio Sanchez]], Singer/Songwriter, Coheed & Cambria
* [[March 13]] - [[Karina Smirnoff]], Ukrainian dancer
* [[March 14]] - [[Pieter van den Hoogenband]], Dutch swimmer
* [[March 14]] - [[Carl Johan Bergman]], Swedish biathlete
* [[March 21]] - [[Kevin Federline]], Ex-husband of Britney Spears
* [[March 21]] - [[Rani Mukherji]], Indian actress
* [[March 22]] - [[Josh Heupel]], American football player
* [[March 31]] - [[Stephen Clemence]], English footballer
* [[March 31]] - [[Jérôme Rothen]], French footballer
* [[March 31]] - [[Tony Yayo]], American rapper
* [[April 1]] - [[Vitor Belfort]], Brazilian martial artist
* [[April 3]] - [[John Smit]], South African rugby player
* [[April 4]] - [[Jason Ellison]], American baseball player
* [[April 5]] - [[Franziska van Almsick]], German swimmer
* [[April 6]] - [[Tim Hasselbeck]], American NFL quarterback.
* [[April 7]] - [[Duncan James]], English musician
* [[April 9]] - [[Jorge Andrade]], Portuguese footballer
* [[April 9]] - [[Rachel Stevens]], English singer
* [[April 11]] - [[Thomas Thacker]], Canadian singer
* [[April 13]] - [[Kyle Howard]], American television and movie actor
* [[April 16]] - [[Lara Dutta]], Indian actress
* [[April 17]] - [[Jason White (rugby player)|Jason White]], Scottish rugby player
* [[April 20]] - [[Mirei Kuroda]], Japanese gravure idol
* [[April 20]] - [[Matt Austin]], Canadian actor
* [[April 21]] - [[Jukka Nevalainen]], drummer of the Finnish band [[Nightwish]]
* [[April 22]] - [[Jason Stollsteimer]], lead singer and guitarist (The Von Bondies)
* [[April 23]] - [[Princess Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon]], Spanish athlete
===May-June===
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* [[May 3]] - [[Paul Banks]], Frontman of US band [[Interpol (band)]]
* [[May 6]] - [[Alexander Fedorov]], Russian bodybuilder
* [[May 7]] - [[Brian Clevinger]], American author
* [[May 8]] - [[Josie Maran]], American supermodel and actress
* [[May 9]] - [[Marwan al-Shehhi]], United Arab Emirates hijacker (d. [[2001]])
* [[May 10]] - [[Kenan Thompson]], American actor
* [[May 10]] - [[Marcelo Moretto]], Brazilian footballer
* [[May 11]] - [[Laetitia Casta]], French supermodel and actress
* [[May 12]] - [[Hossein Reza Zadeh]], Iranian weightlifter
* [[May 12]] - [[Jason Biggs]], American actor
* [[May 12]] - [[Aya Ishiguro]], Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer
* [[May 13]] - [[Mike Bibby]], American basketball player
* [[May 13]] - [[Barry Zito]], baseball player
* [[May 15]] - [[Caroline Dhavernas]], French Canadian actress
* [[May 15]] - [[Dwayne De Rosario]], Canadian footballer
* [[May 15]] - [[David Krumholtz]], American actor
* [[May 15]] - [[Krissy Taylor]], American model (d. [[1995]])
* [[May 18]] - [[Ricardo Carvalho]], Portuguese footballer
* [[May 21]] - [[Briana Banks]], German-American porn star
* [[May 21]] - [[Adam Gontier]], Canadian-born musician ([[Three Days Grace]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Jordan (Katie Price)|Jordan]], English model
* [[May 23]] - [[Carolyn Moos]], American model and professional basketball player
* [[May 23]] - [[Scott Raynor]], musician ([[blink 182]])
* [[May 25]] - [[Brian Urlacher]], American football player
* [[May 29]] - [[Lorenzo Odone]], patient who had [[adrenoleukodystrophy]] (d. [[2008]])
* [[June 1]] - [[Danielle Harris]], American voice actress
* [[June 6]] - [[Carl Barât]], English singer and guitarist ([[The Libertines]] and [[Dirty Pretty Things (band)|Dirty Pretty Things]])
* [[June 8]] - [[Maria Menounos]], American actress, journalist, and television presenter
* [[June 9]] - [[Matthew Bellamy]], British musician ([[Muse]])
* [[June 9]] - [[Miroslav Klose]], German football player
* [[June 10]] - [[Shane West]], American actor
* [[June 11]] - [[Joshua Jackson]], Canadian actor
* [[June 13]] - [[Jason Michael Carroll]], country musician
* [[June 19]] - [[Dirk Nowitzki]], German basketball player
* [[June 20]] - [[Mark Powell]], Australian politician
* [[June 21]] - [[Erica Durance]], Canadian actress
* [[June 22]] - [[Champ Bailey]], American football player
* [[June 22]] - [[Dan Wheldon]], English race car driver
* [[June 24]] - [[Emppu Vuorinen]], Finnish musician ([[Nightwish]])
* [[June 24]] - [[Juan Roman Riquelme]], Argentine football player
* [[June 25]] - [[Aftab Shivdasani]], Bollywood actor
* [[June 25]] - [[Marcus Stroud]], American football player
* [[June 25]] - [[Layla El]], 2006 WWE Diva Search Winner
* [[June 25]] - [[Aramis Ramírez]], Latin baseball player
* [[June 27]] - [[Anna Kumble]], English pop singer Lolly and TV presenter
* [[June 29]] - [[Nicole Scherzinger]], lead singer of the [[Pussycat Dolls]]
* [[June 30]] - [[Ben Cousins]], Australian rules footballer
===July-August===
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* [[July 1]] - [[Hillary Tuck]], American actress
* [[July 4]] - [[Tony Reali]], [[ESPN]] personality
* [[July 4]] - [[Becki Newton]], American actress
* [[July 6]] - [[Kevin Senio]], New Zealand rugby union footballer
* [[July 9]] - [[Linda Park]], Korean-born actress
* [[July 9]] - [[Mark Medlock]], German singer and winner of [[Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Season 4)|''Deutschland sucht den Superstar'''s season four]]
* [[July 12]] - [[Topher Grace]], American actor
* [[July 18]] - [[Shane Horgan]], Irish rugby player
* [[July 18]] - [[Ben Sheets]], American baseball player
* [[July 20]] - [[Elliott Yamin]], American singer
* [[July 21]] - [[Josh Hartnett]], American actor
* [[July 21]] - [[Francine Dee]], import car [[model (person)|model]]
* [[July 23]] - [[Stuart Elliott (footballer born 1978)|Stuart Elliott]], Northern Irish footballer
* [[July 23]] - [[Stefanie Sun]], Singapore singer
* [[July 25]] - [[Gerard Warren]], American football player
* [[July 26]] - [[Jehad Muntasser]], Libyan footballer
* [[August 1]] - [[Jonathan Wilkes]], TV presenter
* [[August 3]] - [[Mariusz Jop]], Polish footballer
* [[August 4]] - [[Kurt Busch]], NASCAR driver
* [[August 6]] - [[Marisa Miller]], American supermodel
* [[August 7]] - [[Alexandre Aja]], French director
* [[August 7]] - [[Vanness Wu]], Taiwanese singer
* [[August 7]] - [[Linsey Dawn McKenzie]], English model and porn star
* [[August 7]] - [[Cirroc Lofton]], American actor
* [[August 7]] - [[Jamey Jasta]], American singer ([[Hatebreed]])
* [[August 9]] - [[Audrey Tautou]], French actress
* [[August 15]] - [[Tim Foreman]], American bassist ([[Switchfoot]])
* [[August 17]] - [[Vibeke Stene]], former Norwegian singer ([[Tristania (band)|Tristania]])
* [[August 21]] - [[Reuben Droughns]], American football player
* [[August 21]] - [[Alan Lee (footballer)|Alan Lee]], Irish footballer
* [[August 23]] - [[Kobe Bryant]], American basketball player
* [[August 23]] - [[Julian Casablancas]], American musician ([[The Strokes]])
* [[August 24]] - [[Rafael Furcal]], Dominican [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[August 25]] - [[Kel Mitchell]], American actor
* [[August 28]] - [[Albina Digaeva]], Chechen-American human rights activist
* [[August 29]] - [[Danielle Hampton]], Canadian actress
===September-October===
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* [[September 4]] - [[Wes Bentley]], American actor
* [[September 6]] - [[Cisco Adler]], American musician
* [[September 7]] - [[Devon Sawa]], Canadian actor
* [[September 7]] - [[Stephanie-Xiani Andrea Sperandio]], Mixed Heritage Model
* [[September 11]] - [[Ed Reed]], American football player
* [[September 11]] - [[Ben Lee]], Australian singer
* [[September 12]] - [[Ruben Studdard]], American singer
* [[September 14]] - [[Ben Cohen (rugby player)|Ben Cohen]], English rugby union footballer
* [[September 15]] - [[Eiður Guðjohnsen]], Icelandic football player
* [[September 20]] - [[Jason Bay]], Canadian baseball player
* [[September 20]] - [[Patrizio Buanne]], Italian singer
* [[September 20]] - [[Sarit Hadad]], Israeli pop music singer
* [[September 22]] - [[Harry Kewell]], Australian footballer
* [[September 23]] - [[Worm Miller]], American screenwriter, director, actor
* [[September 24]] - [[Wietse van Alten]], Dutch archer
* [[September 25]] - [[Jodie Kidd]], English model
* [[September 29]] - [[Kurt Nilsen]], Norwegian singer
* [[September 30]] - [[Candice Michelle]], American professional wrestler and model
* [[October 2]] - [[Ayumi Hamasaki]], Japanese singer
* [[October 3]] - [[Jake Shears]], American singer
* [[October 3]] - [[Shannyn Sossamon]], American actress
* [[October 4]] - [[Kei Horie]], Japanese actor
* [[October 5]] - [[Shane Ryan]], Irish Gaelic footballer
* [[October 9]] - [[Nicky Byrne]], musician ([[Westlife]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Francis Escudero]]("Chiz" ), Filipino Congressman, Senator
* [[October 13]] - [[Jermaine O'Neal]], American basketball player
* [[October 14]] - [[Usher (entertainer)|Usher Raymond]], American musician
* [[October 14]] - [[Paul Hunter]], English snooker player (d. [[2006]])
* [[October 18]] - [[Wesley Jonathan]], American actor
* [[October 20]] - [[Kira (German singer)|Kira]], German singer
* [[October 20]] - [[Virender Sehwag]], Indian cricketer
* [[October 21]] - [[Joey Harrington]], American football player
* [[October 24]] - [[Carlos Edwards]], Trinidadian footballer
* [[October 25]] - [[Russell Anderson]], Scottish footballer
* [[October 26]] - [[Antonio Pierce]], American football player
* [[October 26]] - [[CM Punk|Phil "CM Punk" Brooks]], American professional wrestler
* [[October 26]] - [[Jimmy Aggrey]], English footballer
* [[October 27]] - [[Vanessa-Mae]], Singaporean musician
* [[October 28]] - [[Justin Guarini]], American singer
* [[October 29]] - [[Travis Henry]], American football player
===November-December===
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* [[November 1]] - [[Manju Warriar]], Indian actress
* [[November 6]] - [[Paul O'Grady]], Australian Footballer (Central Coast Mariners)
* [[November 6]] - [[Taryn Manning]], American actress
* [[November 6]] - [[Sandrine Blancke]], Belgian actress
* [[November 8]] - [[Ali Karimi]], Iranian football player
* [[November 9]] - [[Sisqó]], American actor and singer ([[Dru Hill]])
* [[November 10]] - [[Eve (rapper)|Eve]], American rapper
* [[November 10]] - [[Kyla Cole]], Czech adult model
* [[November 11]] - [[Jyothika]], Indian actress
* [[November 13]] - [[Nikolai Fraiture]], American musician. Bassist for the rock band [[The Strokes]]
* [[November 13]] - [[Hsu Wei Lun]], Taiwanese actress (d. [[2007]])
* [[November 14]] - [[Bobby Allen]], American ice hockey player
* [[November 14]] - [[Xavier Nady]], American baseball player
* [[November 17]] - [[Reggie Wayne]], American football player
* [[November 18]] - [[Damien Johnson]], Northern Irish footballer
* [[November 19]] - [[Matt Dusk]], Canadian jazz musician & singer
* [[November 21]] - [[Anne Lilia Berge Strand|Annie]], Norwegian singer
* [[November 22]] - [[Karen O]], American singer ([[Yeah Yeah Yeahs]])
* [[November 24]] - [[Katherine Heigl]], American actress
* [[November 25]] - [[Shina Ringo]], Japanese singer and musician
* [[November 29]] - [[Ludwika Paleta]], Polish Mexican actress
* [[November 30]] - [[Emil Steiner]], American author
* [[November 30]] - [[Clay Aiken]], American singer
* [[November 30]] - [[Gael Garcia Bernal]], Mexican actor
* [[December 2]] - [[Nelly Furtado]], Canadian-born singer and songwriter
* [[December 2]] - [[Chris Wolstenholme]], English baseplayer ([[Muse]])
* [[December 5]] - [[Olli Jokinen]], Finnish ice hockey player
* [[December 7]] - [[Shiri Appleby]], American actress
* [[December 8]] - [[Ian Somerhalder]], American actor
* [[December 8]] - [[Vernon Wells (baseball player)|Vernon Wells]], baseball player
* [[December 9]] - [[Jesse Metcalfe]], American actor
* [[December 10]] - [[Brandon Novak]], freestyle skateboarder and TV/radio personality
* [[December 10]] - [[Donna Williams]], Cofounder of [[Neopets]]
* [[December 12]] - [[Evren Genis]], Turkish composer
* [[December 12]] - [[Monica Barladeanu]], Romanian actress
* [[December 15]] - [[Jerome McDougle]], professional football player ([[Philadelphia Eagles]])
* [[December 16]] - [[Joe Absolom]], British actor
* [[December 17]] - [[Chase Utley]], American baseball player
* [[December 18]] - [[Daniel Cleary]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[December 18]] - [[Katie Holmes]], American actress
* [[December 19]] - [[Patrick Casey]], American screenwriter and actor
* [[December 20]] - [[Geremi]], Cameroon footballer
* [[December 20]] - [[Jacqueline Saburido]], a drunk driving accident survivor and a promoter of non-drunk driving
* [[December 22]] - [[Edo Maajka]], Bosnian rapper
* [[December 23]] - [[Andra Davis]], American football player
* [[December 23]] - [[Víctor Martínez (baseball)|Víctor Martínez]], Venezuelan [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[December 23]] - [[Estella Warren]], Canadian swimmer, model, and actress
* [[December 24]] - [[Yıldıray Baştürk]], Turkish footballer
* [[December 26]] - [[Kaoru Sugayama]], Japanese volleyball player
* [[December 29]] - [[Alexis Amore]], Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
* [[December 29]] - [[LaToya London]], American singer
* [[December 30]] - [[Heath Evans]], National Football League fullback
===Unknown date===
*[[Laurence Fox]], English actor
*[[Eve Myles]], Welsh actress
==Deaths==
=== January - March ===
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* [[January 5]] - [[Wyatt Emory Cooper]], screenwriter and author (b. [[1927]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Hubert Humphrey]], U.S Vice President and Senator (b. [[1911]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Joe McCarthy (baseball)|Joe McCarthy]], baseball manager (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 14]] - [[Harold Abrahams]], English athlete (b. [[1899]])
* [[January 14]] - [[Kurt Gödel]], Austrian-born mathematician (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 18]] - [[Walter H. Thompson]], English [[Scotland Yard]] detective, bodyguard of [[Winston Churchill]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 22]] - [[Herbert Sutcliffe]], English cricketer (b. [[1894]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Terry Kath]], American musician ([[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]) (b. [[1946]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Jack Oakie]], American actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[February 11]] - [[James B Conant]], American chemist and headmaster of Harvard University (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 11]] - [[Harry Martinson]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Vadim Salmanov]], Russian composer (b. [[1912]])
* [[February 28]] - [[Zara Cully]], American actress (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 18]] - [[Leigh Brackett]], American author (b. [[1915]])
* [[March 19]] - [[Gaston Julia]], French mathematician (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 21]] - [[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]] (Carroll Daly), fifth [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Charles Best]], American-born medical scientist (b. [[1899]])
=== April - June ===
* [[April 14]] - [[F.R. Leavis]], British Literary Critic (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 21]] - [[Sandy Denny]], English singer (b. [[1947]])
* [[April 25]] - [[Leo Najo]], baseball player (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 1]] - [[Aram Khachaturian]], Armenian composer (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 9]] - [[Aldo Moro]], former [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 14]] - [[Robert Menzies]], twelfth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Joseph Colombo|Joe Colombo]], American gangster (b. [[1914]])
* [[June 7]] - [[Ronald George Wreyford Norrish]], British chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1897]])
* [[June 24]] - [[Robert Charroux]], French writer (b. [[1909]])
* [[June 25]] - [[Barry Brown]], American actor and writer (b. [[1951]])
=== July - September ===
* [[July 8]] - [[Osman Lins]], Brazilian novelist (b. [[1924]])
* [[July 10]] - [[Joe Davis]], English snooker and billiards player (b. [[1901]])
* [[July 30]] - [[Umberto Nobile]], Italian aviator (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Carlos Chávez]], Mexican composer (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 6]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] (heart attack) (b. [[1897]])
* [[August 7]] - [[Eddie Calvert]] (heart failure), musician (b. [[1922]])
* [[August 11]] - [[Hugh MacDiarmid]], Scottish poet (b. [[1892]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Nicolas Bentley]], British writer and illustrator (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 21]] - [[Charles Eames]], American architect and designer (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 22]] - [[Jomo Kenyatta]], Kenyan statesman
* [[August 26]] - [[Charles Boyer]], French actor (b. [[1899]])
* [[August 28]] - [[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]], English actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[September 7]] - [[Keith Moon]], English drummer ([[The Who]]) (drug overdose) (b. [[1946]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Jack Warner]], Canadian film studio founder (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 10]] - [[Ronnie Peterson]], Swedish race car driver (racing accident) (b. [[1944]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Mike Gazella]], American baseball player (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 11]] - [[Georgi Markov]], Bulgarian dissident (assassinated) (b. [[1929]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Willy Messerschmitt]], German aircraft engineer (b. [[1898]])
* [[September 23]] - [[Lyman Bostock]], baseball player (murdered) (b. [[1950]])
* [[September 25]] - [[Bret Morrison]], actor, voice of [[The Shadow]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[September 26]] - [[Manne Siegbahn]], Swedish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1886]])
* [[September 28]] - [[Pope John Paul I]] (b. [[1912]])
=== October - December ===
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* [[October 6]] - [[Johnny O'Keefe]], Australian singer (b. [[1935]])
* [[October 9]] - [[Jacques Brel]], Belgian singer (b. [[1929]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Ralph Metcalfe]], American athlete (b. [[1910]])
* [[October 12]] - [[Nancy Spungen]], American groupie and girlfriend of [[Sid Vicious]] (b. [[1958]])
* [[October 20]] - [[Gunnar Nilsson]], Swedish race car driver (cancer) (b. [[1948]])
* [[October 23]] - [[Maybelle Carter]], American singer (b. [[1909]])
* [[November 6]] - [[Harry Bertoia]], Italian artist and designer (b. [[1915]])
* [[November 8]] - [[Norman Rockwell]], American artist and illustrator (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 15]] - [[Margaret Mead]], American anthropologist (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Golda Meir]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 10]] - [[Edward D. Wood, Jr.|Ed Wood]], American filmmaker (b. [[1924]])
* [[December 11]] - [[Vincent du Vigneaud]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 27]] - [[Houari Boumédiènne]], [[President of Algeria]] (b. [[1932]]),
===Unknown dates===
* [[Walter C. Alvarez]], American physician (b. [[1884]])
* [[Pankaj Mullick]], Bengali composer and singer (b. [[1904]])
* [[Mark A. Shaw]], American [[temperance movement]] leader and [[Prohibition Party]] candidate for vice-president in 1964 (b. ?)
== Ship events ==
* [[List of ship launches in 1978]]
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1978]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1978]]
* [[List of shipwrecks in 1978]]
==Fields Medalists==
*[[Pierre Deligne]], [[Charles Fefferman]], [[Grigory Margulis]], [[Daniel Quillen]]
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa]], [[Arno Allan Penzias]], [[Robert Woodrow Wilson]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Peter D. Mitchell]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Werner Arber]], [[Daniel Nathans]], [[Hamilton O. Smith]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Anwar Sadat|Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat]] and [[Menachem Begin]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Herbert Simon]]
==Templeton Prize==
* [[Thomas Torrance|Professor Thomas F. Torrance]]
==Notes==
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{{commonscat}}
==External links==
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1978-pictures.html 1978 Coin Pictures]
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