1978 (people)


 * 20 January - Actor Jami Reid-Quarrell was born.
 * 21 January - Writer Geoffrey Orme died.
 * 25 January - Actor Fred Ferris died.
 * 17 February - Actor Rory Kinnear was born.
 * 24 February - Actor Blake Ritson was born.
 * 9 March - Actor Katherine Parkinson was born.
 * 13 March - Actor Joanna Page was born.
 * 19 March - Actor John Cummins was born.
 * 31 March - Actor Daniel Mays was born.
 * 1 April - Actor JJ Feild was born.
 * 7 April - Actor Duncan James was born.
 * 14 April - Actor Michelle Duncan was born.
 * 24 April - Actor Matt Steer was born.
 * May - Actor Barry Ashton died.
 * 11 May - Actor Warren Brown was born.
 * 11 May - Actor Philip Ray died.
 * 9 June - Actor Youssef Kerkour was born.
 * 29 June - Actor Bart Allison died.
 * 30 June - Writer David Ellis died.
 * 9 July - Actor Olivia Poulet was born.
 * 10 July - Actor Bryan Dick was born.
 * 14 July - Actor Jack Woolgar died.
 * 26 July - Actor Kenneth Benda died.
 * 26 July - Actor Eve Myles was born.
 * 5 August - Script editor Brian Minchin was born.
 * 9 August - Actor Daniela Denby-Ashe was born.
 * 22 August - Actor James Corden was born.
 * 27 August - Actor Suranne Jones was born.
 * 3 October - Actor Christian Coulson was born.
 * 4 October - Actor Catherine Fleming died.
 * 5 October - Actor May Warden died.
 * 7 October - Actor Hattie Morahan was born.
 * 7 October - Actor Tony Way was born.
 * 30 October - Writer Brian Hayles died.
 * 11 November - Actor Vivienne Bennett died.
 * 23 November - Actor Kayvan Novak was born.
 * 28 November - Actor André Morell died.
 * 19 December - Actor Duncan Lamont died.
 * 20 December - Writer Eddie Robson was born.
 * 22 December - Writer George Mann was born.
 * 24 December - Actor Bethany Black was born.
 * Unknown - Actor Aubrey Danvers Walker died.