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• Adrianus Cornelius Aloysius Jongbloets, Tilburg († 1963)
• Aloisa Nicolasina Baaten BAETEN, Alphen en Riel, Alphen, 3281, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1961)
• Albert Jan Bli(ck)de, Emmen,Drenthe,Netherlands
• Adriana Rijnberg, Sint-Annaland († 1883)
• Anne Hendriks Bosje, St Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Albertus van Stee, Sint Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland († 1954)
• Antje Vegelien, Haulerwijk (gem. Ooststellingwerf) († 1924)
• Anna Clara Frosch, Kerkrade (L) Geb Akte († 1879)
• Alta Anna See, Lone Oak, Hunt County, Texas, United States of America († 1942)
• Adriana Maria van Zwienen, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• Clementina Mary Sophie Annesley
• Christiaan van Asselt (52), Putten-Hoef, I34
• Anne Seraphine Landuyt (68), Roubaix, Nord, France
• Aldert Hendriks Kuipers (46), Nijega (Hemelumer Oldeferd) Friesland
• Catharina Maria Nieboer (4), Bergen op Zoom
• Catharina Elisabeth van Thoor (85), Roosteren (NL)
• Alois Verslype (0), Woumen
• Arnoldina van der Weijden (65), Zeelst (Veldhoven)
• Alida Thomassen (72), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Christoffel Gustavus (81), Veenhuizen, 9341, Nederland

• 1876 » Swami Kalyan Dev, philosopher [year disputed] († 2004)
• 1876 » Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic († 1956)
• 1880 » Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician († 1961)
• 1880 » Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant († 1941)
• 1881 » (O.S.) Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator († 1962)
• 1882 » Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer and soldier († 1966)
• 1882 » Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia († 1940)
• 1882 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator († 1971)
• 1883 » Feodor Gladkov, Russian author and educator († 1958)
• 1884 » Claude Auchinleck, English field marshal († 1981)

• 1824 » Étienne Aignan, French playwright and translator (b. 1773)
• 1865 » Frances Adeline Seward, American wife of William H. Seward (b. 1824)
• 1874 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer (b. 1814)
• 1876 » Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexican general and politician 8th President of Mexico (b. 1794)
• 1880 » Theophilus H. Holmes, American general (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, 8th Governor of California (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1844)
• 1914 » Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1929 » Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, English sociologist, journalist, and academic (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Thorne Smith, American author (b. 1892)

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.
• 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.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• 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 June 21, 1878 was about 22.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 41%.