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• Alberic Depuydt, Zwevezele († 1923)
• Adrianus Willijns, Weesp († 1958)
• Anna Margaretha van Haren, Millingen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1969)
• , Brugge († 1938)
• * Lodewijk van Bijsterveld, Woensel († 1957)
• Aaltje Gerbens Santema, Baarderadeel/Britswerd († 1969)
• Adriaan VAN DER WEKKEN, Noordwelle, Zeeland, Nederland († 1949)
• Anna Margaretha van Haren, Millingen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha van Haaren, Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1969)
• Anna Margaretha Braun, Posterholt († 1934)

• Anna Christina Roseboom (50), Epe
• Maria Johanna Zijlmans (0), Geertruidenberg
• Aleydis Pruyn (75), Leiden
• Alexandrine Isabelle ROUSSELLE (80), Vieux Condé,59590,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Aaltje Derks Botter (61), Kampen
• Anna Adriana Maria Pessers (1), Tilburg
• Aan Pieters van der Wey (12), Harkema Opeinde, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Benedictus Josef Maria Mermans (0), Breda
• Aaltje Benjamins Stegenga (76), Gaasterland
• Anne Johannes Wielinga (0), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1862 » Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist († 1956)
• 1863 » Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer († 1918)
• 1865 » Ferdinand I of Romania († 1927)
• 1872 » Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist († 1956)
• 1884 » Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright († 1933)
• 1887 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player († 1974)
• 1888 » Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company († 1942)
• 1890 » Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer († 1968)
• 1890 » Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist († 1979)
• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)

• 1821 » John William Polidori, English writer and physician (b. 1795)
• 1832 » Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
• 1838 » Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (b. 1790)
• 1841 » John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (b. 1778)
• 1841 » Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
• 1888 » Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1895 » Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (b. 1855)
• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)

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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• 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.
• 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 August 24, 1878 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.