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• Age Idses Bouma, Witmarsum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Knook, Willemstad (N.B.)
• Kerstens, Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• Aaltje Ebbink, Harfsen († 1951)
• Adriana Kolmans, Drunen († 1879)
• Adriana van Vaalen, Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• van Essen, Apeldoorn († 1955)
• Ada Hogan, Pocahantas, Randolph, Arkansas, United States
• Adolf Willem Snijder, Renkum(Oosterbeek) († 1955)
• Adriana Planken, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1926)

• Alida Maria van der Post (82), Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertdina Visscher (80), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antje Meijer (0), Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltjen Tiemens (77), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• * Anna (2) Baars (1), Vleuten, Gem. Vleuten-de Meern, Utrecht, NL
• Anna Baars (1), Vleuten, Vleuten-de Meern, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriana Wilhelmina Ketelaar (30), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Akke Jans OPPEDIJK (54), IJlst
• Aaltje Jans Tiemens (76), Dedemsvaart
• Akke Oppedijk (54), IJlst gem. Wymbritseradeel Fr. Nederland

• 1867 » Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece († 1922)
• 1871 » Frederick Converse, American composer and academic († 1940)
• 1874 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1876 » Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany († 1967)
• 1879 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic († 1946)
• 1880 » Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer († 1951)
• 1881 » Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter († 1934)
• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)
• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)

• 1845 » Robert Smirke, English painter and illustrator (b. 1753)
• 1846 » Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)

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.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

The temperature on January 5, 1878 was about 3.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.