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• Annigje de Jager, Sliedrecht
• Adriana van Ewijk, Eck en Wiel (Maurik), Nederland († 1880)
• Adriaan Cornelis Kesteloo, Domburg
• ADRIANA CATHARINA VAN GEEST, 'S-GRAVENZANDE († 1958)
• Annigje Wildeboer, Staphorst, Overijssel, Nederland († 1952)
• Anna Klaver, Hensbroek, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Albert Cremer, Steenwijksmoer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anskje Wijbes Damstra, Driesum, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1954)
• Adriaan Cornelis Kesteloo, Domburg († 1953)
• Anskje Wybes Damstra, Driesum, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1954)

• Dam (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Jans Vledder (70), Ezinge
• Anna Homan (72)
• Annechien HINDERIKUS Knotnerus (90), (GR) Oostwold
• Amarentje Nieuwland (77), Nieuwenhoorn
• Roemer (0), Zuid-en Noord-Schermer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna van der VLIET, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abel Geerts Lanting (69), Bedum
• Annechien Hinderikus Knotnerus (90), Oostwolderpolder, Groningen, Netherlands
• Amarentie Nieuwland (76), Nieuwenhoorn

• 1864 » Edward Higgins, English 3rd General of the Salvation Army († 1947)
• 1869 » Maud of Wales († 1938)
• 1870 » Sir Hari Singh Gour, founder and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sagar († 1949)
• 1873 » Fred Herd, Scottish golfer († 1954)
• 1876 » Willis Carrier, American engineer, invented air conditioning († 1950)
• 1878 » Major Taylor, American cyclist († 1932)
• 1885 » Heinrich Brüning, German lieutenant, economist, and politician, Chancellor of Germany († 1970)
• 1888 » Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter († 1978)
• 1889 » Albert Dieudonné, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1891 » Scott Bradley, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1977)

• 1855 » Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1798)
• 1857 » Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet and author (b. 1788)
• 1860 » Benjamin Greene, English brewer, founded Greene King (b. 1780)
• 1872 » Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian lawyer and politician, Minister President of Prussia (b. 1805)
• 1883 » Sojourner Truth, American activist (b. 1797)
• 1885 » Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1813)
• 1892 » Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal and academic (b. 1825)
• 1895 » George Edward Dobson, Irish zoologist, photographer, and surgeon (b. 1848)
• 1896 » Coventry Patmore, English poet and critic (b. 1823)

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.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
• 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 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on November 26, 1878 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%.