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• Anna Hubertina Heunen, Kerkrade (L († 1933)
• Alberta Schreuder, Grafhorst (gem. Kampen) († 1879)
• Albert Faber, Een, Norg, Drenthe, Nederland († 1951)
• Adriaan Prins, Zundert († 1899)
• Adrianus,Johannes Boelen, Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1938)
• Ada Alvina Collins, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia († 1952)
• Abraham Doove, Leiden, Nederland († 1965)
• Adriaan Ree van der, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1879)
• Adrianus Rietveld (t), oudshoorn (zuid holland) († 1953)
• Ana Maria Kosstede, steenderen († 1924)

• Angelina Hubertina Demandt (38), Buchten, Born, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Westrenen (35), Beesd, Geldermalsen
• Nelletje van Veen (78), Gouda
• Aaltje van Beem (20), Bunschoten,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Plaggert (0), Gorssel (Lochem), Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Vromans (77), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Jaspers (40), Rotterdam
• Amatus Josephus Gryson, Geluwe, West Flanders, Belgium
• Aaltje Noordwijk (76)
• Adriana Zoeter (0), Oosterland

• 1859 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico († 1920)
• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)
• 1879 » Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot († 1936)
• 1881 » Jess Willard, American boxer († 1968)
• 1885 » Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general († 1921)
• 1886 » Norman Hallows, English runner and captain († 1968)
• 1895 » Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author († 1939)
• 1896 » David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter († 1974)

• 1887 » Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805)
• 1890 » Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
• 1894 » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
• 1897 » William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)

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 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 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.

The temperature on December 29, 1878 was about 6.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.