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• Adrianus Lindenburg, Hazerswoude, Rijnwoude († 1953)
• Adrianus Martinus Schellekens, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaffien Winden, van der, Groningen
• Aafien van der Winden, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1956)
• Albert Schoonbeek, Weerdingerveen, gem. Emmen († 1939)
• Adriaan van Hese, Goes († 1952)
• Adriana Wilhemina van den Assem, Delft († 1961)
• Aaron Andry, Wasmes, Colfontaine, Hainaut, Belgique († 1932)
• Ana Martins de Toledo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adriana van de Laak, Vlijmen († 1969)

• Adriana Zonderwijk (74), Maassluis
• Anthonia Kleinpenning (37), IJsselmuiden
• Catrina Elizabeth van Der Wippen (70), , Rotterdam,, South Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Voet (30), Zwolle, Ov., Nederland
• Antonia Kleinpenning (37), IJsselmuiden
• Barbara Spijker (69), Breukelen-Nijenrode,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Verhoeven (26), Herpt
• Hollen (21), Horsten gem. Onstwedde
• Antonij Ebben (60), Erp
• Antonia Dissel (67), Reutum

• 1875 » Alfred P. Sloan, American businessman and philanthropist († 1966)
• 1882 » William Halpenny, Canadian pole vaulter († 1960)
• 1883 » Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1939)
• 1884 » Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist and demographer († 1965)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian-Russian sailor and captain († 1951)
• 1887 » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and theorist († 1963)
• 1888 » Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer († 1976)
• 1888 » Zack Wheat, American baseball player and police officer († 1972)
• 1889 » Ernst Niekisch, German educator and politician († 1967)
• 1890 » Herbert Marshall, English-American actor and singer († 1966)

• 1841 » Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1765)
• 1855 » Charles Robert Malden, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1797)
• 1857 » Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1789)
• 1868 » Kit Carson, American general (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Leopold von Ranke, German historian and academic (b. 1795)
• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)

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 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• 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 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
• 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 May 23, 1878 was about 10.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.