About the day » Tuesday August 20, 1878Calender converter

• Adrianus van Woerkom, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Elferink, Lochem
• Alice Meeboer, Holland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1963)
• Adriana van der Wijck, Haarlem, N.H († 1945)
• Albertha Geelen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1950)
• Aaltje van der Meijden, Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agatha Maria de Wit, Zoeterwoude
• DEKKER, Musselkanaal (Onstwedde), Groningen, Nederland († 1878)
• Adrianus Bernardus Costermans, Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1878)
• Adriana Cornelia Heijden van Der, Roosendaal

• Anna Harmannus Muda (60)
• Anje KLOK (0), Ommelanderwijk (Veendam) Groningen Netherlands
• Christoffel Jacobus van Weesenbeek (72), Dongen
• Christoffel Jacobus van Weesenbeek (72), Dongen, Nederland
• Antje Kok (0), Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Herbert (75), De Lier, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Dinter (0), Stratum (Eindhoven)
• Allan Donald Mackintosh (25), Jamaica
• Abram Hasness (75)
• Barta van Hulten (51), Baardwijk

• 1868 » Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player († 1954)
• 1873 » Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect and academic, co-designed the National Museum of Finland († 1950)
• 1881 » Aleksander Hellat, Estonian politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1943)
• 1881 » Edgar Guest, English-American poet and author († 1959)
• 1884 » Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament at the University of Marburg († 1976)
• 1885 » Dino Campana, Italian poet and author († 1932)
• 1886 » Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher and theologian († 1965)
• 1887 » Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar († 1959)
• 1888 » Tôn Đức Thắng, Vietnamese politician, 2nd President of Vietnam († 1980)
• 1890 » H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist († 1937)

• 1854 » Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (b. 1801)
• 1859 » Juan Bautista Ceballos, President of Mexico (1853) (b. 1811)
• 1882 » James Whyte, Scottish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1820)
• 1887 » Jules Laforgue, French poet and author (b. 1860)
• 1893 » Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1897 » Charles Lilley, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Queensland (b. 1827)
• 1912 » William Booth, English preacher, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 » Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)

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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on August 20, 1878 was about 18.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%.