In the year 1978, Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France (Feb 1), San Francisco city council signs a most comprehensive homosexual rights bills (Mar 28), Dallas debuts on CBS (Apr 2), “Son of Sam” is sentenced to 365 years in prison (Jun 12), Garfield makes its debut (Jun 19), Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, is born (Jul 25), the Soviet Union launches a major russification campaign in all its republics (Oct 13), Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope John Paul II for the next 26 years (Oct 16), Jonestown incident in Guyana claims 918 lives (Nov 18) - and all these fine people were born:
1978-0101 Yohann Diniz* race walker - Épernay, France
1978-0102 Krista Lee Kinsman* volleyball player - Canada
1978-0105 January Jones* model/actress - Sioux Falls, SD USA
1978-0110 Brent Smith* singer (Shinedown) - Knoxville, TN USA
1978-0112 Björn Thors* actor/producer - Reykjavik, Iceland
1978-0115 Eddie Cahill* actor - New York, NY USA
1978-0120 Krista Bobo* (b Davey) football player - Missoula, MT USA
1978-0121 Rachael Bland* journalist/radio presenter - Cardiff, Wales (2018/40)
1978-0125 Princess Charlene* of Monaco/swimmer - Bulawayo, Rhodesia
1978-0125 Volodymyr Zelensky* screenwriter/actor/politician/P - Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1978-0126 Mira Kasslin* cyclist/real estate agent - Helsinki, Finland
1978-0127
1978-0128 Gianluigi Buffon* football goalie - Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
1978-0128 Papa Bouba Diop* football player - Dakar, Senegal (2020/42)
1978-0128 Jamie Carragher* football player - Bootle, Merseyside, England
1978-0129 Martin Schmitt* ski jumper - Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany
1978-0130 Jussi Vatanen* actor - Sonkajärvi, Finland
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1978-0202 Carly Binding* singer/ songwriter - Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
1978-0203 Amal Clooney* (b Alamuddin) barrister - Beirut, Lebanon
1978-0207 Ashton Kutcher* actor - Cedar Rapids, IA USA
1978-0210
1978-0213 Niklas Bäckström* hockey goalie/WJC - Helsinki, Finland
1978-0213 Cory Murphy* hockey player/coach- Kanata, ON Canada
1978-0214 Danai Gurira* Zimbabwean-American actress - Grinnell, IA USA
1978-0216 Tia Hellebaut* athlete/high jump/OG/chemist - Antwerp, Belgium
1978-0219 Malin Arvidsson* Swedish actress/dancer - San Salvador, El Salvador
1978-0220
1978-0228
1978-0301 Jensen Ackles* actor /producer/director - Dallas, TX USA
1978-0302 Tomás Kaberle* hockey player/WG - Rakovnik, Czechoslovakia
1978-0309 Katherine Parkinson* actress - Hounslow, London, England
1978-0309 Hannu Rajaniemi* Finnish-American author of science fiction and fantasy - Ylivieska, Finland
1978-0311 Didier Drogba* football player - Abidjan, Ivory Coast
1978-0314 Giorgio A. Tsoukalos* TV personality/ufologist - Lucerne, Switzerland
1978-0320
1978-0321 Charmaine Dragun* broadcasting journalist - Perth, Western Australia (2007/29)
1978-0321 Kevin Federline* musician - Fresno, CA USA
1978-0324 Amir Arison* actor - St. Louis, MO USA
1978-0324 Amanda Brugel* actress - Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
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1978-0401 Suliane Brahim* French actress - Chartres, France
1978-0403 Matthew Goode* actor - Exter, Devon, England
1978-0404 Irene Skliva* Miss World 1996/model - Athens, Greece
1978-0406 Suzanne Lyall* student who disappeared - Saratoga Springs, NY USA (d 1998/19)
1978-0406 Lauren Ridloff* actress (The Walking Dead) - Chicago, IL USA
1978-0408 Paola Núñez Rivas* actress/ producer - Tecate, Baja California, Mexico
1978-0410
1978-0414 Toni Söderholm* hockey player/coach - Kauniainen, Finland
1978-0415 Chris Stapleton* country singer/songwriter/producer - Lexington, KY USA
1978-0417 Hannu Manninen* athlete/Nordic combined - Rovaniemi, Finland
1978-0418 Baran bo Odar* German film director/screenwriter (Dark) - Olten, Switzerland
1978-0419 James Franco* actor/ filmmaker - Palo Alto, CA USA
1978-0420 Jeremy Collins* firefighter/Survivor S31 Contestant - Foxborough, MA USA
1978-0421 Molly Bloom* skier/entrepreneur - Loveland, CO USA
1978-0421 Jukka Nevalainen* drummer (Nightwish) - Kitee, Finland
1978-0423 Ian Brennan* screenwriter/ director/actor - Mount Prospect, IL USA
1978-0426 Pablo Schreiber* actor/ brother of Liev Schreiber - Ymir, BC Canada
1978-0428 Drew Scott* real-estate broker/actor/co-host on Property Brothers - Vancouver, BC Canada
1978-0428 Jonathan Scott* contractor/ illusionist/producer/co-host on Property Brothers - Vancouver, BC Canada
1978-0429 Niko Kapanen* hockey player/WG - Hattula, Finland
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1978-0505 Santiago Cabrera* actor - Caracas, Venezuela
1978-0506 Riitta-Liisa Roponen* (b Lassila) cross-country skier - Haukipudas, Finland
1978-0509 Anna König Jerlmyr* politician/mayor - Stockholm, Sweden
1978-0510 Kenan Thompson* actor/comedian - Atlanta, GA USA
1978-0511 Kati Ahokas* ultrarunner - Helsinki, Finland
1978-0512 Jason Biggs* actor/comedian - Pompton Plains, NJ USA
1978-0512 Malin Åkerman* Swedish-Canadian actress - Stockholm, Sweden
1978-0515
1978-0516 Vappu Pimiä* radio personality/television hostess - Helsinki, Finland
1978-0516 Olga Zaitseva* biathlete/OG/coach - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union
1978-0517 Lisa Brennan-Jobs* writer/daughter of Steve Jobs - Portland, OR USA
1978-0522 Ginnifer Goodwin* actress - Memphis, TN USA
1978-0529 Lorenzo Odone* adrenoleukodystrophy patient - Washington D.C. USA (2008/30)
1978-0601
1978-0602 Dominic Cooper* actor - Greenwich, London, England
1978-0602 Justin Long* actor - Fairfield, CT USA
1978-0604 Josh McDermitt* actor/comedian - Phoenix, AZ USA
1978-0606
1978-0607 Bill Hader* actor/ comedian - Tulsa, OK USA
1978-0609 Miroslav Klose* German football player - Opole, Poland
1978-0610
1978-0611 Joshua Jackson* actor - Vancouver, BC Canada
1978-0612 Timothy Simons* actor/ comedian - Readfield, ME USA
1978-0616 Daniel Brühl* German-Spanish actor - Barcelona, Spain
1978-0620 Frank Lampard* football player - Romford, London, England
1978-0621 Erica Durance* actress - Calgary, AB Canada
1978-0624 Emppu Vuorinen* guitarist/songwriter (Nightwish) - Kitee, Finland
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1978-0629 Luke Kirby* actor - Hamilton, ON Canada
1978-0629 Nicole Scherzinger* singer-songwriter/ dancer/actress - Honolulu, HI USA
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1978-0701
1978-0702 Amirah Vann* actress - Queens, New York, NY USA
1978-0702 Owain Yeoman* actor - Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
1978-0703 Ian Anthony Dale* actor/w Japanese mother - Saint Paul, MN USA
1978-0705 Antti Ketonen* singer - Lohja, Finland
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1978-0709 Lauri Salovaara* entrepreneur/ speaker/brother of Pertti Salovaara - Oulu, Finland
1978-0711 Jonjo O’Neill* actor - Belfast, Northern Ireland
1978-0712 Topher Grace* actor (That ’70s Show) - New York, NY USA
1978-0712 Michelle Rodriguez* actress - San Antonio, TX USA
1978-0720 Pavel Datsyuk* hockey player (NHL 100) - Sverdlovsk, Russia, Soviet Union
1978-0725 Louise Brown* test tube baby - Oldham, Manchester, England
1978-0728 Nexar Antonio Flores* barber - Ecuador
1978-0801 Rafael Pires Vieira* football player - Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
1978-0803 Tommy Dewey* actor/producer/writer - Birmingham, AL USA
1978-0807 Alexandre Aja* film director - Paris, France
1978-0810 Karen Zoid* South African rock singer/guitarist - Brussels, Belgium
1978-0811 Hannes Kaasik* football player/referee - Estonia, Soviet Union
1978-0811 Amber Mariano* Survivor S8 Contestant - Beaver, PA USA
1978-0812 Hayley Wickenheiser* hockey player - Shaunavon, SK Canada
1978-0815 Anne-Mari Hyryläinen* runner/ mountaineer - Tampere, Finland
1978-0818 Steve Chen* entrepreneur/ co-founder of YouTube - Taipei, Taiwan
1978-0823 Kobe Bryant* basketball player - Philadelphia, PA USA (2020/41)
1978-0823 Andrew Rannells* actor - Omaha, NE USA
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1978-0825 Kel Mitchell* actor/stand-up comedian/singer - Chicago, IL USA
1978-0827 Suranne Jones* actress - Chadderton, Oldham, England
1978-0831 Hannah Graaf* model/singer - Gothenburg, Sweden
1978-0901 Jessie Hoffman Jr.* carpark valet/convicted killer - Louisiana, USA (2025/46)
1978-0903 Mikko Esko* volleyball player - Vammala, Finland
1978-0903 Nick Wechsler* actor - Albuquerque, NM, USA
1978-0905 Chris Hipkins* politician/PM - Hutt Valley, New Zealand
1978-0907 Devon Sawa* actor - Vancouver, BC Canada
1978-0908 Marco Sturm* hockey player - Dingolfing, West Germany
1978-0910
1978-0912 Sverrir Gudnason* actor/w Icelandic background - Lund, Sweden
1978-0912 Stacey Roca* actress - Southport, Merseyside, England
1978-0913
1978-0914 Ron DeSantis* attorney/ politician//Governor of Florida - Jacksonville, FL USA
1978-0914 Carmen Kass* fashion model/chess player - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union
1978-0916 Michael Mosley* actor - Cedar Falls, IA USA
1978-0917 Nick Cordero* actor - Hamilton, ON Canada (2020/41)
1978-0920 Charlie Weber* model/actor - Jefferson City, MO USA
1978-0922 Mikko Leppilampi* actor/musician/TV-host - Pälkäne, Finland
1978-0923 Anthony Mackie* actor - New Orleans, LA USA
1978-0925 Joe Minoso* actor - The Bronx, NY USA
1978-0925 Roffit Sutherland* actor/ son of Donald Sutherland - Vancouver, BC Canada
1978-0928 Lucas Bryant* actor - Elmira, ON Canada
1978-0930 Ari Shapiro* radio journalist - Fargo, ND USA
1978-1001 Katie Aselton* actress/film director/producer - Milbridge, ME USA
1978-1003 Shannyn Sossamon* actress/director/musician - Honolulu, Hawaii
1978-1007 Alesha Dixon* singer/ dancer/talent-show judge - Welwyn Garden City, England
1978-1007 Omar Benson Miller* actor - Anaheim, CA USA
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1978-1024 Seth Moulton* politician - Salem, MA USA
1978-1027 Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn* musician - Singapore
1978-1027 David Walton* actor - Boston, MA USA
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1978-1102 Christian Gyan* football player - Tema, Ghana (2021/43)
1978-1102 Christopher Wagelin* actor -Stockholm, Sweden
1978-1105
1978-1106 Taryn Manning* actress/singer-songwriter - Falls Church, VA USA
1978-1107 Marcello Fonte* actor - Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italy
1978-1110
1978-1111 Wen Xiaoyan* Paralympic athlete (sprinter/long jump)/OG - China
1978-1113 Claudiney Batista* Paralympic athlete (discus)/OG - Brazil
1978-1114 Michala Banas* actress/singer - Welington, New Zealand
1978-1117 Rachel McAdams* actress - London, ON Canada
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1978-1124 Katherine Heigl* child model/actress - Washington D.C. USA
1978-1124 Susanna Majuri* fine art photographer - Järvenpää, Finland (2020/41)
1978-1128 Jodie Resther* actress/voice actress/ singer - Montreal, QC, Canada
1978-1130 Robert Kirkman* comic book writer/editor - Lexington, KY USA
1978-1201 Jen Psaki* political advisor/White House Press secretary - Stamford, CT USA
1978-1205 Olli Jokinen* hockey player - Kuopio, Finland
1978-1207 Shiri Appleby* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1978-1207 Kristofer Hivju* actor - Oslo, Norway
1978-1207 Jussi Vatanen* actor - Sonkajärvi, Finland
1978-1208 Ian Somerhalder* actor - Covington, LA USA
1978-1210
1978-1211 Amy Mihaljevic* student/ homicide victim - Little Rock, AR USA (1989/10)
1978-1212 Gbenga Akinnagbe* actor/ writer - Washington, D.C. USA
1978-1213 Cameron Douglas* actor/son of Michael Douglas - Santa Barbara, CA USA
1978-1214 Patty Schnyder* tennis player - Basel, Switzerland
1978-1216 Joe Absolom* actor - Lewisham. London, England
1978-1218 Josh Dallas* actor - Louisville, KY USA
1978-1218 Katie Holmes* actress - Toledo, OH USA
1978-1219
1978-1220 Alec Rayme* actor - Akron, OH USA
1978-1220 Jacqueline Saburido* activist against drunk driving - Caracas, Venezuela (2019/40)
1978-1223 Jodie Marsh* media personality/ bodybuilder/columnist - Brentwood, Essex, England
1978-1225 Jeremy Strong* actor - Boston, MA USA
1978-1230 Tyrese Gibson* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1978-1230 Phillips Idowu* athlete (triple jump) - Hackney, London England
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