About the day » Friday April 26, 1878Calender converter

• Adam Muller, Rotterdam
• Adrianus van Zuilen, Jutphaas
• Adolf Pick, Obornik, Wlkp., Poland († 1943)
• Albert Bijlsma, Boijl (Weststellingwerf) († 1936)
• Annie Maria Platell, Veresdale, Queensland, Australia († 1948)
• Antje Kuit, Noord Burem
• Andries KOEHOORN, Delfstrahuizen
• Amandus Alfridus Vermeulen, Belsele
• Adrianus Johannes Konincks, Delft († 1898)
• Adrianus Strooper, Bergen († 1944)

• Anna Sidonia Angelina Christiaens (66), Brustem, België
• Anna Catharina Buskens (32), Stein, Limburg, Netherlands
• Anthonius Kok, Vinkeveen en Waverveen
• Anna Catharina Buskens (32), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Van Hees (2), Soest
• Berendina Catharina Nienhuis (2), Groningen
• Annigje Vendrig (50), Montfoort
• Anthonius Kok (0), Vinkeveen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alberdina Heijnen (0), Erica (Emmen)
• Ann Mary Oliphant (92), Middleton, Columbiana, Ohio, United States

• 1862 » Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator († 1938)
• 1876 » Ernst Felle, German rower († 1959)
• 1877 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales († 1950)
• 1878 » Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint († 1938)
• 1879 » Eric Campbell, British actor († 1917)
• 1879 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1886 » Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist († 1913)
• 1886 » Ma Rainey, American singer († 1939)
• 1889 » Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1889 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic († 1951)

• 1865 » John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 » Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1895 » Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 » John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 » Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
• 1932 » William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1934 » Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
• 1940 » Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)

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.
• February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 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.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

The temperature on April 26, 1878 was about 12.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.