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• Adrianus Cornelis Hennekam, Rucphen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• aletta CATS, rotterdam († 1959)
• Agnesia Vester, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Mulders, Tiel († 1939)
• Alexander Ferdind Neervoort, Hellevoetsluis
• Anje Knot, Kantens, Groningen, Nederland († 1938)
• Adrianus Jacobus van Dijk, Monster
• Albert Taekele Miedema, Brantgum
• Abraham Dood, Nieuwe Pekela († 1943)
• Albert Ekkels, Wateren,diever, Drenthe, Nederland († 1967)

• Caroline Delaborde (79), Châtellerault, 86066, France
• Alida Rijn, van (89), Rijnsburg, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Helsdingen (62), Utrecht
• Anna Catharina Illert (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida 'Aaltje' Dirksdr van Rijn (89), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dirksdr van Rijn (89), Rijnsburg
• Adriana HELSDINGEN (62), Utrecht
• Aaltje Hendriks Otter (56), Slagharen, Ambt Hardenberg
• Arnoldus ACHTEN (43), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Anne Therese Rosalie WINTEIN (74), Oostkerke-Bij-Brugge,West Vlaanderen,BELGIE

• 1869 » Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher († 1948)
• 1871 » Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1871 » Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscaper and author († 1959)
• 1873 » Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager († 1963)
• 1873 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician († 1924)
• 1875 » Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist († 1935)
• 1879 » Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator († 1955)
• 1882 » Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel († 1945)
• 1883 » Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer († 1963)
• 1883 » Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler († 1950)

• 1803 » Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
• 1804 » Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
• 1850 » Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 » François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)

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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 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 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
• November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on October 2, 1878 was about 9.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.