About the day » Tuesday July 16, 1878Calender converter

• Aaltje De Jong, Appelscha,Friesland,Nederland († 1905)
• Albertus van Ruitenbeek, Amersfoort
• Anna Sloos, Leiden († 1958)
• Anna STROY, Roermond († 1967)
• Allegonda Meijers, Zeeland († 1937)
• Hendrik Hunze, Hoogeveen († 1910)
• Adriaan Cornelis Tinholt († 1878)
• Aaltje van Wessel, Holk (Nijkerk), Nederland
• Adriana Maria Theresia Mutsaars, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1895)
• Albert Hummel, Terheijl, Roden († 1953)

• Antoine CAZUGUEL (43), Pleyben, 29162, Finistère, Bretagne, France
• Adriana van der Voort (0)
• Adrianus Kuijl (0), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth van Koetsveld (70), Gouda,Gemeente Gouda,South Holland,Netherlands
• Aaltje Graaf (16), Venhuizen
• Alida Gijsberta van Bunnik (0), Utrecht
• Antonie Hatenboer (0), Rotterdam
• Antonius Korterik (73), Raalte
• Anna Maria Wolzak \ Wolsack (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana van der Voort (0), Nieuwe Wetering, Alkemade, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1870 » Lambert McKenna, Irish priest, lexicographer, and scholar († 1956)
• 1871 » John Maxwell, American golfer († 1906)
• 1872 » Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland († 1949)
• 1872 » Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer († 1928)
• 1880 » Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author († 1966)
• 1882 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge († 1937)
• 1883 » Charles Sheeler, American photographer and painter († 1965)
• 1884 » Anna Vyrubova, Russian author († 1964)
• 1887 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1888 » Percy Kilbride, American actor († 1964)

• 1831 » Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1849 » Sarah Allen, African-American missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (b. 1764)
• 1868 » Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (b. 1840)
• 1879 » Edward Deas Thomson, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Chief Secretary of New South Wales (b. 1800)
• 1882 » Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States 1861-1865 (b. 1818)
• 1886 » Ned Buntline, American journalist and author (b. 1823)
• 1896 » Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and publisher, founded Académie Goncourt (b. 1822)
• 1915 » Ellen G. White, American theologian and author (b. 1827)
• 1917 » Philipp Scharwenka, German composer and educator (b. 1847)
• 1939 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)

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.
• 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.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

The temperature on July 16, 1878 was about 19.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.