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• Adriana Catharina Maria Petronella van der Spek, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Aleida van Duren, Lent
• Aagje Sytses Koopmans, Jorwerd, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1910)
• adrianus REEDIJK, oud-beijerland († 1965)
• Adriaan van Ballegooij, Oss
• Alida Maria van Dijk, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands († 1931)
• Allie Tadlock Ward, Bertie, North Carolina, United States († 1953)
• Adrianus REEDIJK, Oud-Beijerland († 1965)
• Aleida van Duren, Lent (gemeente Elst)
• Adriana Roefs, Tiel († 1948)

• Arend Bults (65), weerdingerveen
• Anna Maria Groenendaal, Sint-Michielsgestel
• Anna Catharina Meermans (75), Neerglabbeek, Provincie Limburg, België
• Adriana van der BLIEK (67), Heinkenszand
• Amélie Jacqueline de Lestré (48), Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
• Adrianus Blom (27), Warmond
• Antoon Joseph Beckers (78), Gulpen
• Anna Louisa Plage (71), Helmond
• Angelica Adelheid Valeria von Hohenthal (36), Kőszeg, Vas, Ungarn
• Adrianus Koppenol (0), De Lier, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1871 » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach († 1921)
• 1872 » Anna Held, Polish singer († 1918)
• 1873 » Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1916)
• 1875 » Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord († 1928)
• 1876 » Felix Jacoby, German philologist († 1959)
• 1880 » Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate († 1961)
• 1881 » Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician († 1960)
• 1882 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor († 1935)
• 1883 » Joseph Stilwell, American general († 1946)
• 1883 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)

• 1816 » Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (b. 1730)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1897 » Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 » Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)
• 1900 » John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)

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.
• 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.
• May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 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 March 19, 1878 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%.