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• Anna Maria Cornelisd de Graaff, Egmond Binnen († 1945)
• Anna Henriette Trompetter, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Anthonie Velis, Zevenhoven
• Anna Maria Engelina Grol, TerApel († 1932)
• Anna Maria - Marie Sandker, Horsten, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1937)
• Oosterloo, Delft († 1878)
• Anna Maria de Graaff, Egmond Binnen († 1945)
• Albertus Arents Worst, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1881)
• Aagje van den Hamer, Ouwerkerk
• Aalbertje van Bokhorst, Nijkerk

• Adrianus Post (0), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Godefridus Papenhoven (58), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Everdink (90), Zevenbergen
• Anna Helena Korte (58), Altenberge, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albert Alberda (0), Oostwold, Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anthonia Boef (0), Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alle Klazes Van der Meulen (56), Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antje Heeren (0), Nieuwer-Amstel
• Aron Gompers (1), Gouda
• Alexandrina Constantia VAN DER HEYDEN (71), Pollinkhove,8647,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE

• 1864 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak priest, botanist, and painter († 1929)
• 1874 » Thomas J. Watson, American businessman († 1956)
• 1877 » André Maginot, French sergeant and politician († 1932)
• 1877 » Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and author († 1904)
• 1881 » Mary Carson Breckinridge, American nurse midwife, founded Frontier Nursing Service († 1965)
• 1887 » Joseph Bech, Luxembourgian lawyer and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg († 1975)
• 1887 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic († 1947)
• 1888 » Otto Stern, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1969)
• 1890 » Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist († 1962)
• 1891 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1965)

• 1841 » Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
• 1849 » María de las Mercedes Barbudo, Puerto Rican political activist, the first woman Independentista in the island (b. 1773)
• 1854 » John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
• 1856 » Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
• 1874 » Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist (b. 1796)
• 1890 » Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)

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.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
• December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

The temperature on February 17, 1878 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%.