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• Adriana Brouwer, Wilnis, Utrecht, Nederland († 1937)
• Ankelina Sipkes SENNEMA, Musselkanaal, Onstwedde, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland († 1950)
• Adrianus Gijsbertus de Pijper, Ouder-Amstel († 1878)
• Alma Wilhelmina Doris Hoehne († 1921)
• Anna Maria Goyvaerts, Herenthout, België
• Ankelina Sipkes SENNEMA, Onstwedde Groningen Netherlands
• Alphons Willem Matraij, Cheribon, Ned. Indie
• Adrianus Cornelis van den Berg, Overschie († 1946)
• Aleida van Hebel, Vlagtwedde(Gr) († 1965)
• Anna Cornelia van Tetering, Hoeven († 1948)

• Achillus Carolus Allacker (0), Alveringem, West Vlaanderen, België
• Andrew Yates pootman│Putman (56), Verenigde Statn
• Adriaantje Naaktgeboren (53), Brielle, Nederland
• Aloise SCHIETTECATTE (0), Sint-Maria-Horebeke,9667,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Aalbert Verhagen (55)
• Albert van de Linde (83), Westendorp (Wisch)
• Antonius Verdult, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Verdult (76), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Aalbert van de Linde (83), Westendorp (Wisch)
• Anna Maria Deliën (0), Goirle, Gemeente Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Djemal Pasha, Ottoman general († 1922)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)
• 1879 » Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist († 1952)
• 1879 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer († 1929)
• 1880 » Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German-Swiss painter († 1938)
• 1880 » Winifred Brunton, English-South African painter and illustrator († 1959)
• 1883 » Alberto Collo, Italian actor († 1955)

• 1840 » Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of the New Granada (b. 1792)
• 1859 » Alexander von Humboldt, German geographer and explorer (b. 1769)
• 1862 » Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1877 » Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish-Finnish poet and hymn-writer (b. 1804)
• 1882 » Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (b. 1836)
• 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Gerardus
16. Klaas

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Jacoba
15. Antje
16. Geertruida

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
• January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on May 6, 1878 was about 22.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.