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• Adriaan PETRI, Amsterdam (Noord-Holland), Nederland († 1952)
• Alberta Hendrika Groothedde, Teuge, Gelderland, Nederland († 1959)
• Anna Rutteria SCHUURBEQUE BOEYE, Zierikzee († 1975)
• Adriana Eckhardt, Nisse, Borsele, Zeeland, Nederland († 1898)
• Anna Rutteria Schuurbecque Boeije, Zierikzee († 1929)
• Anna Catharina Reith, Menomonee Falls, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1907)
• Alberta Hendrika Groothedde, Teuge († 1959)
• Anna Rutheria Schuurbeque Boeye, Zierikzee,Schouwen-Duiveland,Zeeland,Netherlands († 1975)
• Antje Cornelia Bakker, Den Helder († 1937)
• Alberta Hendrika Groothedde, Teuge,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1959)

• Catharina Heidanus (26), Opsterland
• Anne Booij (1), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arend Tammes van Broek (4), Hempens
• arij de jong (79), rotterdam (zuid holland)
• Anna Magaretha Dijken van (64), Joure
• Arijaantje van Vliet (65), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Nederland
• Alexander Johannes Theodorus Heijman (53), Amsterdam
• Bertha Tans (3), Kepno, Wlkp., Poland
• Alida Rodenburg (26), Moerkapelle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnolda van Dortmont (0), Dussen

• 1870 » Sophia of Prussia († 1932)
• 1871 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower († 1936)
• 1871 » Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer († 1946)
• 1872 » János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and author († 1936)
• 1877 » Ida MacLean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society († 1944)
• 1877 » Jane Bathori, French soprano († 1970)
• 1878 » Léon Thiébaut, French fencer († 1943)
• 1879 » Arthur Duffey, American sprinter and coach († 1955)
• 1884 » Georg Zacharias, German swimmer († 1953)
• 1884 » John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor († 1945)

• 1837 » Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1798)
• 1864 » Leonidas Polk, American general and bishop (b. 1806)
• 1883 » Edward FitzGerald, English poet and author (b. 1809)
• 1886 » Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian director and playwright (b. 1823)
• 1887 » Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (b. 1807)
• 1907 » Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (b. 1830)
• 1907 » William Le Baron Jenney, American architect and engineer, designed the Home Insurance Building (b. 1832)
• 1908 » Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1914 » Adlai Stevenson I, American lawyer and politician, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
• 1916 » João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian author (b. 1865)

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.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 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.
• September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

The temperature on June 14, 1878 was about 15.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%.