On this day

October 28, 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 October 25, 1978, covering October 28, 1978.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Grease by Soundtrack

    Grease

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    24
  2. 2
    Album cover for Who Are You by The Who

    Who Are You

    The Who

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    8
  3. 3
    Album cover for Living In The U.S.A. by Linda Ronstadt

    Living In The U.S.A.

    Linda Ronstadt

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    4
  4. 4
    Album cover for Don't Look Back by Boston

    Don't Look Back

    Boston

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for Live And More by Donna Summer

    Live And More

    Donna Summer

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    7

Notable Births

Gwendoline Christie

1978Gwendoline Christie, English actress[†]

Gwendoline Christie is an English actress. She is known for portraying Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones (2012–2019), and the First Order stormtrooper Captain Phasma in the films Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017). For the former, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019. Christie has since appeared in the Netflix fantasy series The Sandman and Wednesday, and the Apple TV+ series Severance (2025).

Justin Guarini

1978Justin Guarini, American singer-songwriter and actor[†]

Justin Guarini is an American singer, songwriter and actor who in 2002 was the runner-up on the first season of American Idol.

Notable Deaths

Rukmani Devi

1978Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan singer and actress (born 1923)[†]

Daisy Rasammah Daniels, known popularly as Rukmani Devi was a Sri Lankan film actress and singer who was often acclaimed as "The Nightingale of Sri Lanka". She made it to the silver screen via the stage and had acted in close to 100 films at the time of her death. Having an equal passion for singing as well as a melodious voice, she was Sri Lanka's foremost female singer in the gramophone era. After her death, she was awarded the Sarasaviya 'Rana Thisara'- Life Time Achievement Award at the 1979 Sarasaviya Awards Festival.

Historical Context for October 28, 1978

In 1978, the world population was approximately 4,292,097,502 people[†]