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• Aloysius ANTHONISSEN, Loenhout, Wuustwezel, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 1967)
• Aart van Dijk, Willige Langerak († 1958)
• Adrianna van Iterson, Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1934)
• Adriana Hamelink, Terneuzen
• Anna Margaretha Weel, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Anna Teuling, gorinchem
• Anna Margaretha Weel, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Allie Idumea Packrus, LA († 1915)
• Anna Teuling, Gorinchem († 1963)
• Anna Koning, Zijpe († 1978)

• Adolph De Wolf (50), Leiden
• Adriana Cornelia VAN GESTEL (57), Teteringen,North-Brabant,Netherlands
• Alberdina Willems Veldman (1), Zwartsluis
• Alberdina Veldman (1), Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Aernouts (81), Zundert, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anna-Catharina Antonij Arnouts (81), Gemeente Zundert, NL
• Aaltje Huiden (35), Zuilen, Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaantje van der Spek (70), Delft
• Adriaan Oomens (73), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Anthonius van Nooij (0), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1870 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician († 1933)
• 1870 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian († 1958)
• 1870 » Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet († 1925)
• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)
• 1882 » Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1950)
• 1883 » Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician († 1968)
• 1885 » Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic († 1973)
• 1885 » Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor († 1967)
• 1886 » Victor McLaglen, English-American actor († 1959)

• 1850 » François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
• 1850 » Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (b. 1794)
• 1865 » Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
• 1867 » Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 » Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
• 1909 » Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
• 1911 » Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
• 1917 » Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
• 1920 » Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852)

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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.

The temperature on December 10, 1878 was about -5.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%.