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• Adriaan Van Rossem, Rotterdam
• Aart van 't Hoff, Zaandam († 1950)
• Anna Maria Josephina Schrijen, Merkelbeek,, Limburg, Nederland
• van Scherpenzeel, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 1878)
• Adriaan van Rossem, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands
• Adrianus den Ouden, Boxtel
• VERMANDEL, Philippine(ZE) († 1878)
• Anna Berdina Mina de Bruijn, Arnhem
• Aart Adrianus van der Heiden, Jaarsveld († 1902)
• Alfred Eugene Combs, Missouri († 1902)

• Adriana (Adriaantje) van Oost (53), Serooskerke
• Adrianus Meers (9), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Louisa Catharina (Anna Maria Loucriza) Nelle (69), Utrecht
• Antje Vis (0), Ransdorp
• van Scherpenzeel (0), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anje Jans Oudman (27), Zevenhuizen, Leek
• Adrianus van Osch (16), Rosmalen
• Antonius Ferdinandus Poeck (49), Tielrode
• Antoon Cörvers (44), Obbicht en Papenhoven, Sittard-Geleen
• VERMANDEL (0), Philippine(ZE)

• 1868 » Nicholas II of Russia († 1918)
• 1869 » Lucy Beaumont, English-American actress († 1937)
• 1871 » Denis Horgan, Irish shot putter and weight thrower († 1922)
• 1872 » Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1876 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany († 1931)
• 1878 » Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower († 1977)
• 1882 » Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist († 1968)
• 1883 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil († 1974)
• 1883 » Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building († 1969)
• 1886 » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter († 1946)

• 1853 » Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (b. 1806)
• 1867 » Clarkson Stanfield, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1889 » Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 » Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)

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.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• 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 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on May 18, 1878 was about 12.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%.