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• Adrianus Cornelis Petrus Tholens, Gouda
• Aldert Schoon, Medemblik,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Adriana Antonia Francisca Brokx, Delft († 1879)
• aaltje groenewoud, amsterdam († 1880)
• Adriana Broek, Egmond aan Zee
• Aaltje Hesselman, Edam († 1960)
• Alida Helena Kruijer, Arnhem († 1936)
• Abraham VanAkkeren, Oostburg, Wisconsin († 1966)
• Aaltje Hesselman, Volendam († 1960)
• Adriana Broek, Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)

• Goossen, Stadskanaal-Gem. Onstwedde
• Cornelis Altena (71), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aapko Nap (1), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriaen Maes (33), Beerse, België
• Catharina Cecilia ( Roose ) Rose (72), Leke
• Adriana Timmermans (54), Zevenbergen (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Abram Goff (74), Jasper, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Bartholomeus Schutt (82), Voorst (Ge), Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Bel (66), Gorinchem
• Johanna Maria Pennings (1), 's-Hertogenbosch

• 1870 » Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian († 1952)
• 1876 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer († 1934)
• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)
• 1881 » Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general († 1918)
• 1884 » Harold Geiger, American lieutenant and pilot († 1927)
• 1885 » Claud Ashton Jones, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient († 1948)
• 1885 » Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)
• 1887 » Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach († 1961)
• 1888 » Edna Meade Colson, African American educator and activist († 1985)
• 1888 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States († 1965)

• 1849 » Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (b. 1809)
• 1884 » Bernard Petitjean, French Roman Catholic missionary to Japan (b. 1829)
• 1894 » Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet (b. 1809)
• 1903 » Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
• 1904 » Isabella Bird, English historian and explorer (b. 1831)
• 1906 » Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)

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 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• 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.
• July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

The temperature on October 7, 1878 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.