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• Adriaantje Blok, Charlois (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Aalbert Cornelis van Leersum, Baarn(UT) († 1946)
• Aaltje Paulina Hendrika Oskam, Nieuw Lekkerland († 1944)
• Albertha Gerarda Fak Brouwer, Nieuwland († 1962)
• Schot, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• Adriaantje REEDIJK, Strijen († 1935)
• Aafke Ensing, Peize, Groningen, Nederland († 1953)
• Alberta Gerarda Fak Brouwer, Nw &, St.Joosland († 1962)
• Aafke Ensing, Peize, Drenthe, Nederland († 1953)
• Anthonius Hubertus van Steenderen, Rotterdam

• ANGELINA Verdonck (60)
• Adriana Peek, Odijk
• Schot (0), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Poldervaart (0), Vierpolders
• August Hermann Niemöller (0), Buiksloot, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van Hoek (58), Velsen, Noord-Holland, NL
• Alberta(twin) Kramer (2), Rotterdam
• Albert Douwes van der Meer (53), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Annetje van Leuveren (46), Hoevelaken
• Antonetta Dolieslager, Emmikhoven en Waardhuizen

• 1865 » Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator († 1914)
• 1865 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor († 1931)
• 1868 » Jane Avril, French model and dancer († 1943)
• 1874 » Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler († 1930)
• 1875 » Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1879 » Harry DeBaecke, American rower († 1961)
• 1882 » Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach († 1963)
• 1885 » Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland († 1962)
• 1890 » Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer († 1952)
• 1891 » Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter († 1964)

• 1834 » William Carey, English minister and missionary (b. 1761)
• 1870 » Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (b. 1812)
• 1875 » Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (b. 1795)
• 1889 » Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854)
• 1892 » William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863)
• 1901 » Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (b. 1842)
• 1923 » Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (b. 1846)
• 1927 » Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (b. 1838)
• 1929 » Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (b. 1884)
• 1929 » Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (b. 1889)

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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
• June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
• September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

The temperature on June 9, 1878 was about 13.6 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.