About the day » Saturday August 3, 1878Calender converter

• * Gijsbert Vroegh, Heukelum († 1973)
• Adriana Lambretta Blatter, 's Hertogenbosch († 1979)
• Albert Perry Hines
• Anna Maria van der Valk, Voorschoten (Z-H), Nederland († 1959)
• Allan HERBERT, Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, England († 1954)
• Adriana Petronella de Visser, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Annie Mary Dye, Gilmore Twp, near Jollytown, Greene County, Pennsylvania († 1904)
• Abigael Wilhelmina Wijling, Leiden († 1969)
• Aagje Bakker, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Anna Margaret Schmidt, Portsmouth Oh Portsmouth OH († 1953)

• Aaltje Nieland (61), Hellendoorn, Nederland
• Aaltje Nielant (61), Hellendoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Joseph BEINNE (77), Bois-de-Lessines, 55002, Hainaut, Belgique
• Adriana Helena de Ronde (0), Kethel en Spaland (Schiedam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jans Huiting (Heuting) (Hoiting) (74), Weende (gem. Westerwolde)
• Adriana Helena de Ronde (0), Kethel en Spaland
• Albert Jans Huiting (74), Weende, Vlagtwedde, Nederland
• Aafje Stam (1), Spanbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Benno Latz (60), Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• Albert Huiting (74), Weende, Groningen, Nederland

• 1860 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer († 1935)
• 1863 » Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist († 1922)
• 1867 » Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1947)
• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)
• 1886 » Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright († 1964)
• 1887 » Rupert Brooke, English poet († 1915)
• 1890 » Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club († 1974)
• 1894 » Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1951)
• 1895 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician († 1942)

• 1839 » Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (b. 1763)
• 1857 » Eugène Sue, French author and politician (b. 1804)
• 1866 » Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1804)
• 1867 » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1877 » William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1879 » Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793)
• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)

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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• 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.
• March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
• 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.
• December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

The temperature on August 3, 1878 was about 13.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%.