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• Aaltjen Kreijenvelt, Bentelo, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1939)
• Adrianus van Dam, Ter Aar (Papenveer)
• Adriaan de Borst, Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Adrianus Agterdenbos, Fijnaart en Heijnigen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands († 1970)
• Adriana van Vaalen, Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Age Idses Bouma, Witmarsum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Hamelink, Hoek († 1937)
• Abraham Wolff, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1938)
• Adriaan Jobse, Meliskerke, Nederland
• Adriana Knook, Willemstad (N.B.)

• Aaltje Jans Tiemens (76), Dedemsvaart
• Alida M. MIDDELKOOP (58), Hekendorp
• Anna Theresia Cool (89), Eernegem, West Vlaanderen, Belgie
• Aaltje Jans (81), Spijk
• Akke Jans OPPEDIJK (54), IJlst
• Adolphine Elise Lenglant, Lille, 59000, France
• Alida Maria van der Post (82), Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jannes Oosterkamp (48), Steggerda (Weststellingwerf)
• Allegonda Reijnen (30), Goirle, Gemeente Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Theodora Wamelink (0), Lichtenvoorde

• 1867 » Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece († 1922)
• 1871 » Frederick Converse, American composer and academic († 1940)
• 1874 » Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1876 » Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany († 1967)
• 1879 » Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic († 1946)
• 1880 » Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer († 1951)
• 1881 » Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter († 1934)
• 1882 » Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist († 1958)
• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)

• 1845 » Robert Smirke, English painter and illustrator (b. 1753)
• 1846 » Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1858 » Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 » John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
• 1883 » Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
• 1885 » Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
• 1888 » Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• 1899 » Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
• 1904 » Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 » Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)

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 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 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 January 5, 1878 was about 3.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.