Replaying Friday, August 4, 1978

The August 4, 1978 was a Friday under the star sign of . It was the 215 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.

If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, August 4, 2025, 333 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, in 31 days. You have lived for 17,500 days, or about 420,014 hours, or about 25,200,868 minutes, or about 1,512,052,080 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

  • Barack Obama (community organizer, jurist, lawyer, podcaster, political writer, politician, statesperson, born August 4, 1961)
  • Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (actor, calligrapher, model, television actor, born August 4, 1981)
  • Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (aristocrat, consort, born August 4, 1900)
  • Cole Sprouse (actor, film actor, photographer, television actor, born August 4, 1992)
  • Billy Bob Thornton (actor, film actor, film director, film producer, musician, recording artist, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, television actor, voice actor, born August 4, 1955)
  • Louis Armstrong (actor, bandleader, conductor, film actor, film score composer, jazz musician, musician, radio personality, recording artist, singer, songwriter, street artist, trumpeter, writer, born August 4, 1901)
  • Yasser Arafat (civil engineer, politician, born August 4, 1929)
  • Bobby Shmurda (rapper, songwriter, born August 4, 1994)
  • Dylan Sprouse (actor, entrepreneur, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1992)
  • Daniel Dae Kim (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 4, 1968)
  • Jesse Williams (actor, film actor, model, podcaster, stage actor, teacher, television actor, television producer, born August 4, 1981)
  • Kishore Kumar (composer, film actor, film director, film producer, musician, poet, singer, yodeler, born August 4, 1929)
  • Chet Hanks (film actor, born August 4, 1990)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (linguist, novelist, playwright, poet, translator, writer, born August 4, 1792)
  • Abigail Spencer (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1981)
  • Greta Gerwig (film director, born August 4, 1983)
  • Ibn Arabi (philosopher, poet, writer, born July 28, 1165)
  • Satoshi Hino (seiyū, born August 4, 1978)
  • Ali al-Sistani (Islamic jurist, religious writer, born August 4, 1930)
  • Paul Mooney (film actor, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, born August 4, 1941)
  • Arbaaz Khan (actor, film director, film producer, born August 4, 1967)
  • Rashami Desai (actor, television actor, born August 4, 1986)
  • Antonio Valencia (association football player, born August 4, 1985)
  • Jang Keun-suk (actor, film actor, film director, model, recording artist, singer, television actor, born August 4, 1987)
  • Lee Mack (autobiographer, film actor, stand-up comedian, television actor, born August 4, 1968)
  • Richard Belzer (actor, film actor, screenwriter, television actor, born August 4, 1944)
  • Seishiro Kato (actor, child actor, singer, television actor, born August 4, 2001)
  • Alan Shirahama (actor, dancer, television actor, born August 4, 1993)
  • Maureen Starkey Tigrett (actor, hairdresser, model, singer, born August 4, 1946)
  • Giorgio Parisi (physicist, theoretical physicist, university teacher, born August 4, 1948)
  • Roger Clemens (baseball player, born August 4, 1962)
  • Florian Silbereisen (film actor, recording artist, showman, singer, television presenter, born August 4, 1981)
  • Raoul Wallenberg (architect, banker, businessperson, diplomat, born August 4, 1912)
  • Louis Vuitton (businessperson, designer, dressmaker, entrepreneur, born August 4, 1821)
  • Jeff Gordon (NASCAR team owner, racing automobile driver, sports commentator, born August 4, 1971)
  • Bruna Marquezine (actor, film actor, influencer, stage actor, television actor, born August 4, 1995)
  • Anushka Sen (actor, television actor, born August 4, 2002)
  • Jojo Moyes (journalist, novelist, writer, born August 4, 1969)
  • Giovanni Di Lorenzo (association football player, born August 4, 1993)
  • Knut Hamsun (critic, novelist, playwright, poet, writer, born August 4, 1859)
  • Neil Bhatt (actor, television actor, born August 4, 1987)
  • Sebastian Roché (film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born August 4, 1964)
  • James Tupper (actor, film actor, screenwriter, television actor, born August 4, 1965)
  • Rei Dan (actor, seiyū, tarento, born August 4, 1971)
  • Marques Houston (actor, composer, dancer, film actor, musician, rapper, record producer, singer, television actor, born August 4, 1981)
  • Lauren Tom (film actor, stage actor, voice actor, born August 4, 1961)
  • Max Cavalera (guitarist, musician, singer, songwriter, voice actor, born August 4, 1969)
  • José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (politician, statesperson, born August 4, 1960)
  • Jessica Mauboy (actor, film actor, lyricist, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 4, 1989)
  • Adhir Kalyan (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1983)
  • Katō Kiyomasa (military personnel, samurai, born July 25, 1562)
  • Saido Berahino (association football player, born August 4, 1993)
  • Gala Montes (film actor, model, television actor, born August 4, 2000)
  • Mayuko Fukuda (actor, child actor, screenwriter, seiyū, born August 4, 1994)
  • Seiichi Uchikawa (baseball player, born August 4, 1982)
  • Queen Marie-José of Italy (monarch, born August 4, 1906)
  • Keith Ellison (lawyer, politician, born August 4, 1963)
  • John Newton (abolitionist, cleric, hymnwriter, sailor, slave trader, writer, born August 4, 1725)
  • Nathaniel Buzolic (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1983)
  • Mohamed Elyounoussi (association football player, born August 4, 1994)
  • Dean Malenko (catch trainer, professional wrestler, born August 4, 1960)
  • Yuriko Ono (actor, born August 4, 1989)
  • Sam Underwood (actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 4, 1987)
  • Dennis Lehane (novelist, screenwriter, writer, born August 4, 1965)
  • Tom Parker (singer, born August 4, 1988)
  • Touker Suleyman (businessperson, born August 4, 1953)
  • Marco Bocci (actor, film director, television actor, born August 4, 1978)
  • Carly Foulkes (actor, model, born August 4, 1988)
  • Jen Lilley (actor, film actor, singer, television actor, born August 4, 1984)
  • Anthony Stanislas Radziwill (film director, film producer, television producer, born August 4, 1959)
  • Maurice Richard (ice hockey player, born August 4, 1921)
  • Liam Livingstone (cricketer, born August 4, 1993)
  • Shashikala (film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1932)
  • Hakeem Jeffries (clerk, lawyer, politician, born August 4, 1970)
  • Don S. Davis (actor, film actor, painter, sculptor, television actor, voice actor, born August 4, 1942)
  • Vishal Bhardwaj (composer, film director, film producer, lyricist, music director, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, born August 4, 1965)
  • Robbin Crosby (guitarist, musician, songwriter, born August 4, 1959)
  • Kensuke Sasaki (professional wrestler, tarento, born August 4, 1966)
  • Ron Lester (actor, television actor, born August 4, 1970)
  • David Lama (mountaineer, rock climber, born August 4, 1990)
  • Meg Whitman (business executive, entrepreneur, politician, born August 4, 1956)
  • Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr. (typographer, born August 4, 1914)
  • Kurt Busch (racing automobile driver, born August 4, 1978)
  • Iceberg Slim (novelist, writer, born August 4, 1918)
  • Robert Thurman (curator, exhibition curator, translator, university teacher, writer, born August 4, 1941)
  • Wasabi Mizuta (actor, seiyū, born August 4, 1974)
  • Michael DeLuise (actor, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, television actor, born August 4, 1969)
  • Hitomi Nabatame (actor, seiyū, singer, born August 4, 1976)
  • Werner von Fritsch (Generaloberst, military personnel, resistance fighter, soldier, born August 4, 1880)
  • Alessandro Di Battista (activist, politician, writer, born August 4, 1978)
  • Donald Gibb (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1954)
  • Witold Marian Gombrowicz (author, diarist, essayist, jurist, novelist, playwright, poet lawyer, writer, born August 4, 1904)
  • Arturo Umberto Illia (physician, politician, born August 4, 1900)
  • Kim Reynolds (pharmacy technician, politician, born August 4, 1959)
  • Jun Miho (actor, tarento, born August 4, 1960)
  • François Valéry (singer-songwriter, born August 4, 1954)
  • Antonio Tajani (journalist, jurist, politician, born August 4, 1953)
  • Phil Scott (general contractor, politician, racing automobile driver, born August 4, 1958)
  • Bret Baier (journalist, born August 4, 1970)
  • Kym Karath (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born August 4, 1958)
  • Nordine Oubaali (boxer, born August 4, 1986)
  • Adolf Heusinger (military officer, born August 4, 1897)
  • Klaus Schulze (composer, musician, born August 4, 1947)
  • Marcus Schenkenberg (actor, film actor, model, singer, socialite, born August 4, 1968)
  • William Rowan Hamilton (academic, astronomer, mathematician, physicist, theoretical physicist, university teacher, born August 4, 1805)
  • Kelley O'Hara (association football player, born August 4, 1988)
  • Lu Jun Hong (educator, faith healer, born August 4, 1959)
  • Kate Silverton (journalist, television presenter, born August 4, 1970)
  • Zygmunt Solorz-Żak (entrepreneur, born August 4, 1956)
  • Frankie Kazarian (professional wrestler, born August 4, 1977)
  • Diego Latorre (association football player, born August 4, 1969)
  • Bo Svensson (association football player, born August 4, 1979)
  • John William Friso, Prince of Orange (politician, born August 4, 1687)
  • Fredrik Reinfeldt (economist, politician, born August 4, 1965)
  • Kym Johnson (choreographer, dancer, born August 4, 1976)
  • Kily González (association football player, born August 4, 1974)
  • N. Rangaswamy (politician, born August 4, 1950)
  • Orhan Gencebay (composer, film actor, poet, record producer, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 4, 1944)
  • Shama Sikander (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born August 4, 1981)
  • Lucy Dahl (screenwriter, born August 4, 1965)
  • Tina Cole (actor, film actor, musician, singer, television actor, born August 4, 1943)
  • Princess Elizabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen (politician, born August 4, 1713)
  • Alberto Gonzales (judge, lawyer, politician, born August 4, 1955)
  • Dasha Astafieva (Playboy Playmate, actor, fashion model, model, presenter, singer, television presenter, born August 4, 1985)
  • John Riggins (American football player, born August 4, 1949)
  • Bobby Buntrock (actor, television actor, born August 4, 1952)
  • Mika Doi (actor, narrator, seiyū, voice actor, born August 4, 1954)
  • Anna Sui (artist, businessperson, fashion designer, born August 4, 1964)
  • Sajida Sultan (ruler, born August 4, 1915)
  • Nikhat Khan (film producer, born August 4, 1962)
  • Gerry Cooney (boxer, born August 4, 1956)
  • Carol Arthur (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1935)
  • Lidija Bačić (singer, born August 4, 1985)
  • Helen Kane (actor, film actor, musician, singer, stage actor, voice actor, born August 4, 1904)
  • Andy Hallett (actor, singer, television actor, born August 4, 1975)
  • Hiroshi Shirokuma (seiyū, born August 4, 1979)
  • Scott Van Pelt (sports commentator, talk show host, born August 4, 1966)
  • Marcos (association football player, born August 4, 1973)
  • Toshikazu Fukawa (actor, tarento, born August 4, 1965)
  • Thierry Roland (journalist, sports commentator, sports journalist, born August 4, 1937)
  • Jack McManus (singer-songwriter, born August 4, 1984)
  • Leonard Hamilton (basketball coach, head coach, born August 4, 1948)
  • Kina Grannis (YouTuber, composer, guitarist, recording artist, singer-songwriter, television producer, born August 4, 1985)
  • Daisuke Tsuji (actor, film actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 4, 1982)
  • Bernard Rose (actor, cinematographer, film director, film editor, music video director, screenwriter, born August 4, 1960)
  • Johann Niemann (concentration camp guard, military personnel, born August 4, 1913)
  • Moya Brennan (composer, guitarist, harpist, musician, philanthropist, record producer, singer, songwriter, born August 4, 1952)
  • Mary Decker (athletics competitor, long-distance runner, middle-distance runner, born August 4, 1958)
  • JD Samson (disc jockey, guitarist, musician, singer, born August 4, 1978)
  • Lee Kyu-han (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 4, 1980)

4th of August 1978 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 4, 1978

Argument Over a Forensic Witness Erupts at the Dr. Jascalevich Trial; Question of Degree Raised

Date: 04 August 1978

By DAVID BIRD Special to The New York Times

David Special

Former Sacramento Union reporter John Hammarley appeals jail sentence to Appeal Ct, Sacramento, Calif, arguing that news reporter might withhold unpublished information under Calif law; is charged with contempt for refusing to turn over notes and tapes dealing with Ellen Delia murder trial; Judge John J Boskovich says state's shield law does not permit reporter to withhold unpublished notes or other material if identity of source is not in question (S)

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The Bar's Finest Hours

Date: 05 August 1978

editorial says Bar Assn should recognize importance of televising courtroom proceedings

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No News in Israel's Newspapers As Journalists Strike for a Raise

Date: 05 August 1978

Newspapers in Israel appear without news pages because of strike by journalists for higher salaries; most dailies print feature articles on their front pages; Jerusalem Post carries news agency repts and dispatches from its Washington correspondent (S)

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Lawyers for New Jersey Newspaper Seek a Court Order to Block Petition; 'No Knowledge' of Threats

Date: 04 August 1978

By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ Special to The New York Times

Alfonso NARVAEZ

Attys for wkly newspaper Ind Prospector seek ct order to halt petition drive by group of Clifton residents and merchants trying to curtail commercial and legal ad in paper whose ed content they find objectionable; group demands that paper lose its designation as city's official newspaper and thus lose legal ad (M)

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2 U.S. Reporters Pay Soviet Fines; Court Ruled Against Reporters U.S. Businessman Questioned Again

Date: 05 August 1978

By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times

David SHIPLER

Whitney and Piper pay nearly $3,500 in fines and ct costs (M)

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SOVIET COURT FINES TWO U.S. REPORTERS; Judge in Libel Suit, Acting on Lack of Published Retraction, Says 'Other' Steps May Follow

Date: 04 August 1978

By DAVID K. SHIPLER Special to The New York Times

David SHIPLER

Moscow City Ct fines Whitney and Piper equivalent of $72.50 each for failing to publish retractions of articles they had written about convicted dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia; ct chm Lev Y Almazov sets Aug 7 deadline for retractions; Whitney and Piper have said they will not heed order on grounds that Soviet ct has no jurisdiction over US papers and that their articles were fair and balanced (M)

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Text of Marshall's Decision on Farber; White Denied Application

Date: 05 August 1978

text of Marshall's decision (L)

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Times Reporter Jailed as Marshall Refuses to Extend Stay of Penalties; Times Reporter Jailed as Extension of Stay Is Refused

Date: 05 August 1978

By LESLEY OELSNER Special to The New York Times

Lesley Special

Farber jailed and NY Times begins paying $5,000-a-day fine after US Sup Ct Assoc Justice Thurgood Marshall refuses to stay penalties any longer; Marshall suggests that he sides with Farber and Times on some issues; Farber surrenders to Bergen County sheriff; Times exec editor A M Rosenthal and exec vp James C Goodale accompany Farber; illus (L)

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News Summary; International

Date: 04 August 1978

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News Summary; International

Date: 04 August 1978

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