1978Zach Filkins, American guitarist[†]
Zachary Douglas Filkins is an American musician, actor and songwriter. He is a guitarist for the pop rock band OneRepublic.
On this day
September 15, 1978
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 13, 1978, covering September 15, 1978.
- 1
Don't Look Back
Boston
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- 4
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- 1
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- 3
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Some Girls
The Rolling Stones
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- 2
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- 1
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- 13
- 3
Double Vision
Foreigner
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- 3
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- 3
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- 11
- 4
Grease
Soundtrack
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- 1
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- 18
- 5
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Soundtrack
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- 5
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- 5
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- 6
Notable Births
1978Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer[†]
Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen is an Icelandic professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. Eiður saw his greatest success in England and Spain with Chelsea and Barcelona respectively, where he won the UEFA Champions League and La Liga with the latter and the League Cup and Premiership twice with the former. Along with two spells at Bolton Wanderers fourteen years apart, he also played in Iceland, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Belgium, China, Norway and India in a club career lasting 23 years. He is regarded by many to be the greatest Icelandic footballer of all time.
Notable Deaths
1978Robert Cliche, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1921)[†]
Robert Cliche was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
1978Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (born 1921)[†]
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.
1978Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and academic, designed the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (born 1898)[†]
Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed a number of prominent aircraft for the Luftwaffe and civil aviation.
Historical Events
1978At the Superdome in New Orleans, Muhammad Ali outpoints Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times.[†]
Caesars Superdome, commonly known as the Superdome, is a domed multi-purpose stadium in the southern United States, located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the home stadium of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).
Historical Context for September 15, 1978
In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]