October 15, 1978

1978Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter^[†]

My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It aired on ABC from August 25, 1994 to January 26, 1995. Set at the fictional Liberty High School in a fictional suburb near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called Three Rivers, it follows the emotional travails of several teenagers in the social circle of main character Angela Chase, played by Claire Danes.

1978Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland^[†]

Westley Watende Omari Moore is an American politician, businessman, author, and former U.S. Army officer serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023.

1978Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler^[†]

Takeshi Morishima is a Japanese former professional wrestler.

1978W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)^[†]

William Eugene Smith was an American photojournalist. He has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the visual stories of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. His 1948 series, Country Doctor, photographed for Life, is now recognized as "the first extended editorial photo story".

1978Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (born 1899)^[†]

Rolf Kristian Eckersberg Stenersen was a Norwegian businessman, non-fiction writer, essayist, novelist, playwright and biographer. He was also a track and field athlete and art collector.