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• Aaltje Termaat, Elburg
• Albert Nijnuis, Peize († 1944)
• Adriaan BLANSJAAR, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Aaltje Hendriks Buis, Kuinre, Nederland
• Aaltje Buis, Kuinre († 1961)
• Aaltje Jasink, Deventer († 1949)
• Albertje Sanders, Exloo (Odoorn) († 1924)
• Albert Hindriks Nijhuis, Peize († 1944)
• Alberdina Hendrika Verhagen, Hellevoetsluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Zuijlen, Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1878)

• Annegien Smit (41), Beilen
• Anna Achenbach (69), Leeuwarden
• Bernard Antoine VAN ZUYLEN (98), Liège,4000,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Arianus Cornelis van Leeuwen (68)
• Anna Catharina Schröer (43), Meppen Emsland
• Arie VAN DE RHEE (1)
• Adam Dingemann van der Made (74), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adriaan-jan-dominicu de Louw (14), Oss
• Alida Kok (53), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina Agterkamp (35), Rijssen

• 1868 » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic († 1908)
• 1868 » Lucy Booth, English composer († 1953)
• 1874 » Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author († 1936)
• 1874 » Sidney Toler, American actor and director († 1947)
• 1876 » Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and businessman († 1938)
• 1878 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director († 1954)
• 1886 » Art Shaw, American hurdler († 1955)
• 1886 » Erich Salomon, German-born news photographer († 1944)
• 1888 » Walter Tull, English footballer and soldier († 1918)
• 1889 » António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal († 1970)

• 1841 » Peter Chanel, French priest, missionary, and martyr (b. 1803)
• 1853 » Ludwig Tieck, German author and poet (b. 1773)
• 1858 » Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist and anatomist (b. 1801)
• 1865 » Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English businessman, founded Cunard Line (b. 1787)
• 1881 » Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
• 1883 » John Russell, English hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
• 1902 » Cyprien Tanguay, Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)
• 1903 » Josiah Willard Gibbs, American scientist (b. 1839)
• 1905 » Fitzhugh Lee, American general and politician, 40th Governor of Virginia (b. 1835)
• 1925 » Richard Butler, English-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on April 28, 1878 was about 11.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%.