About the day » Thursday November 21, 1878Calender converter

• Planken, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Aldegonda Hubertina Maria Sibilla (Gonda) Truyens, Venlo, Gemeente Venlo, Limburg, Nederland († 1952)
• Andre Adolphe Jean Camiel Joannes Baekeroodt, Brugge West-Vlaanderen
• Albertus Josephus Wagemans, Den Haag († 1882)
• Aalt van Veen, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Hooft, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1879)
• Adrianus Gerardus van Bijsterveld, den haag († 1895)
• Adriana Klara Deege, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Andries De GEUS, 's-Gravendeel († 1931)
• Adriana Klara DEEGE, Rotterdam († 1970)

• Adrianus Bleecke (0), Schiedam
• Adrianus van de Rassel (85), Scheveningen, Nederland
• Albert Roebersen (43), Sloten, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Kolthof (68), Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Agnes Graham (73), Michigan, United States
• ADRIANUS VAN DER RASSEL (85), SCHEVENINGEN (GEMEENTE 'S-GRAVENHAGE)
• Aldegonda Driessen (64), Horst, Limburg, Netherlands
• Alida Donker (91), Weesperkarspel
• Adriaan van LOON (47), Oisterwijk, 4060, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Robbe (34)

• 1866 » Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna († 1914)
• 1866 » Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Norwegian poet and author († 1900)
• 1870 » Alexander Berkman, Lithuanian-American activist and author († 1936)
• 1870 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician († 1946)
• 1870 » Stanley Jackson, English cricketer and politician († 1947)
• 1876 » Olav Duun, Norwegian author and educator († 1939)
• 1877 » Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer and educator († 1933)
• 1878 » Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of Justice († 1949)
• 1886 » Harold Nicolson, English author and politician († 1968)
• 1894 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician († 1984)

• 1859 » Yoshida Shōin, Japanese academic and politician (b. 1830)
• 1861 » Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, French priest and activist (b. 1802)
• 1870 » Karel Jaromír Erben, Czech historian and poet (b. 1811)
• 1874 » Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ami Boué, German-Austrian geologist and ethnographer (b. 1794)
• 1899 » Garret Hobart, American lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Harry Boyle, Australian cricketer (b. 1847)
• 1907 » Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
• 1908 » Carl Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832)
• 1909 » Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-Danish painter (b. 1851)

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.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• 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.

The temperature on November 21, 1878 was about -1.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%.