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• Andreas van Eijsden, MAASTRICHT, Limburg, Nederland († 1878)
• Adrianus Janssens, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant) († 1956)
• Alfons Christiaens, Ingelmunster, België
• Anna Antonia Maria Goossens, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1947)
• Albert Henri ChAVATTE, Houplines,59 († 1949)
• Adriana Sprengers, Beverwijk († 1958)
• Albert Roelfs Bouwes, Leek († 1952)
• Adriana Klopmeijer, Domburg, Walcheren, NL († 1949)
• Aaltjen Scholten, Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Abraham Frankfoorder, Zaandam († 1943)

• Apolonia van der Veldt (74), Bloemendaal
• Angenieta Treffers, Eethen Genderen Heesbeen
• Bastiaantje Pieters Groeneweg (74), Nieuw-Beijerland
• Antonia Veldhuis (1), Raalte
• Antonia Meester (0), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Angenieta II Treffers (8), Genderen
• Arie de Kruif (73), Odijk, Nederland
• Angenita Treffers, Eethen, Genderen en Heesbeen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van Dam (33), Wilnis
• Aleida (Aaltje) van Dam (32), Wilnis

• 1869 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist († 1946)
• 1871 » Jakob Mändmets, Estonian writer and journalist († 1930)
• 1872 » Eric Alfred Knudsen, American author, lawyer, and politician († 1957)
• 1874 » J. S. Woodsworth, Canadian minister and politician († 1942)
• 1876 » Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-American actress and acting teacher († 1949)
• 1878 » Don Marquis, American author, poet, and playwright († 1937)
• 1883 » Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist revolutionary and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy († 1945)
• 1883 » Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author († 1942)
• 1884 » Ralph Austin Bard, American financier and politician, 2nd Under Secretary of the Navy († 1975)
• 1885 » Theda Bara, American actress († 1955)

• 1839 » Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755)
• 1844 » Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1791)
• 1856 » Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (b. 1810)
• 1857 » Thomas Dick, Scottish minister, astronomer, and author (b. 1774)
• 1887 » Agostino Depretis, Italian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Italy († 1813)
• 1890 » Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1853)
• 1895 » Floriano Peixoto, Brazilian general and politician, 2nd President of Brazil (b. 1839)
• 1900 » Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
• 1908 » Marie Adam-Doerrer (b. 1838)
• 1913 » Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1838)

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.
• June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
• 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 July 29, 1878 was about 16.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%.